GTA IV Thread **Spoilers**

[Spart]

I hope to have a copy this week. Also FYI theres no way they could give such an expansive environment the same graphics as Motostorm or any other PS3/360 title simply because all the activity and textures needed to be rendered at any given time would make the FPS chug like a fat kid with chocolate milk. (No offense to fat kids. I'm one so I can say that.)

[Leeo D]

Picked up a copy yesterday for $99AUD. Could not play cause little fella was home and I am on nightshift. Wanted to chuck a sickie.

[Hellisforheroes]

got the game in the post this morning. played the first level so far (had to go out) but now I've booked the night off work so that I can play it for 12 hours (with breaks )

[scottb75]

I ordered mine from Gamestop yesterday at around 11:00am EST, I got it delivered to me today at work at 12:15pm EST. Very impressive service I must say.

[mrselfdestruct]

Picked up a copy this morning - played it for about 4 hours so far. Really enjoying the games - loads of free reign as expected and fun stuff to do. Really great attention to detail also, like flying through car windscreens when hitting solid objects going really fast! I'll agree with an earlier poster that the graphics blurring is a bit annoying - I'd really like it to be a lot sharper, but I guess you can't have everything - the gameplay is great and that's what matters. Still, I'd love to see the PC version when/if it comes out.

[csm11]

I'm still unsure what is going to be so special about the PC version over the console versions. I can understand wanting to play with mouse and keyboard but with the new gameplay improvements, I would expect very little improvement. I just couldn't justify buying the game for console and later on for PC.

[psun786]

Originally Posted by gtarmanrob

to be honest, graphics are the least of my worries.

how did it run in terms of FPS? was there much stuttering or laggy areas?

The framerate is very consistent for PS3, even in the multiplayer mode. I would say that I haven't experienced single stuttering in my 6 hrs play.

First thing I noticed is the driving physic. Its more refined and also harder to control. You just can't go full speed on corners, pull handbrake and drift through anymore.

The wanting system is great. You can reduce wanted level by drive out from sight radius of the police. It make much easier to loose <2 star wanted level.

The best thing is the multiplayer mode. strategy and tactic make the most difference (even in free mode where everyone against everyone). Then, it comes to cars and weapons. You can be the best driver and deadliest shooter in the city. But there is no way you can Glock against AK47 on a scooter.

Also, the pedestrian will chase into your house if you piss them off.

[Jskeezy84]

anyone upset there isnt a mulitplayer lobby so you can join games instead of relying on your friends list for ps3, i dont know how 360 is. I want to do multi player but i know noone with a ps3.

We should start trading freind names for ps3 so we could play multiplayer

[PiratesRule]

GTA IV Freezing Problems

GTA IV Nega-review - collection of some negatives about the game.

[gr1mo]

I have it, Great game so far. Some of the dialogue is a little.... cheesy. Other than that I'm enjoying it alot. It does have frame drops in major collisions, and police chases from what I've noticed. But not enough to prevent you from playing . The game has frozen on me twice, for about 15-30 seconds each.