Comments on: Grand Theft Auto

By: Kevin Arbouet

Kevin Arbouet — Fri, 02 May 2008 04:19:00 +0000

I made it into Manhattan!!!

By: Kevin Arbouet

Kevin Arbouet — Thu, 01 May 2008 09:31:10 +0000

John:

There are a gazillion other cars in the game! Just steal another one!!

By the way, I love how you REALLY have to look two ways before you cross the street. I've been subsequently mowed down a total of 5 times.

By: John August

John August — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:58:34 +0000

It's really effin' good. I'm only a tiny ways in -- I went on the same bowling date.

I kind of hate Roman's car. But otherwise, it's really impressive.

By: mike prince

mike prince — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:03:14 +0000

I played it last night for a few hours. The braking controls are obnoxious (for Xbox 360, anyway), and being that I started the game, and had a date and took her bowling (in the game) all with $7 in my pocket, whilst obeying traffic laws so as not to freak her out… well, it feels a little too close to real life.

By: Matthew Dessem

Matthew Dessem — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:52:28 +0000

@Samuel Axon:

I'm with you, man, great writing for a video game â‰ The Godfather. I'd be down for some multiplayer with other writers, though I'm still getting the hang of single player (the physics of walking feels very different than the last GTA). My PSN name is Joe_Gillis.

By: Kevin Arbouet

Kevin Arbouet — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:30:50 +0000

Played GTA IV all day today.

I've already wasted enough time on this post. Talk to you in about a month.

By: Samuel Axon

Samuel Axon — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:27:07 +0000

I played a few hours of GTA4 today, and I'm pretty impressed. The scale and attention to detail are really amazing. If any PS3 GTA4 players (including our host) want to challenge me to some writer on writer violence, my PSN id is Whither. C'mon ya'll!

I'd be interested to see a post and discussion in comments on the merits of the narrative. One critic I read said it's The Godfather of video games. I think that's outrageous. It doesn't hold a candle to The Godfather in my opinion, but so far there have been a couple scenes where the writing and voice acting have been, well... really exceptional as far as video games go. Much better than the tell-don't-show, heavy-handed, and over-acclaimed BioShock, at least.

There's a scene relatively early on where the protagonist and a woman are talking about how their pasts altered their views of God that surprised me with its subtlety and poignancy -- for a video game. And the protagonist is fully three dimensional (and not just in the graphical sense)! That might be a first in video game history, excepting a small number of RPGs.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:11:38 +0000

So John, how’s the game? I know asking you to break away is probably not realistic right now. lol

By: Ralph

Ralph — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:32:01 +0000

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By: Kareem jordan

Kareem jordan — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:36:59 +0000

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By: Hector

Hector — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:22:20 +0000

I too can't wait for GTA IV. It's going to be amazing.

IGN.com gave it a 10/10 !!