GTA IV

[Davey_Pitch]

I finished off Packie's missions last night, the last one was really enjoyable and very profitable. Opened up the last island too now, though I've not been over for a look yet

[Joe 90]

Originally Posted by Goose

Just finished the main story line, still tons of stuff to do though!

think i'm getting close to finishing the main story line. i think then i'll get better at maintaining these relationships!

[petemc]

I've just made it to the 2nd island. Oooh its nice. Really long roads. Stole a helimocopter and went to date Michelle. She used her magic and made it disappear!

[Haly]

I love that this game is so easy to just drop into for a little while at a time.
I'm probably not progressing as fast as others due to lack of time but really enjoying what I've played so far.

[Desmo]

Same here Jen. I just pop on before work, do a couple of missions then turn it off again. My progress isn't rapid and I keep reading about things that I want to do. But I'll get there eventually and the game is going to last a long long time

[Wossi]

I loved driving around Manhattan, kept driving around going "ooooh I remember that, I've been there!"

[Daz]

Some of these ads are great:

On the weekend I like taking off my PVC underwear and just relaxing, away from any crude euphemisms. I also enjoy gardening, I just find that getting down on my knees and really going at it til I'm all dirty and sweaty is so satisfying.

[Veteran Tyke]

Almost escaped a 4 star rating, well almost got out of the highlighted area, till some silly women reversed her car into the side of another, just as I ran past... and crushed me against it, instant death

[Wossi]

The game crashed on me last night was doing a mission for Dwayne at the strip club, when I got there the door was funked up and I couldn't go through, the message "The disc is not readable" came up on screen followed by it crashing

[Belmit]

Whilst no-one can deny the game is awesome, does anyone else find minor things getting on their nerves? Just little things that they probably could have ironed out quite easily? For example, I love the fact that you can hit a button and slide into cover, and move around whilst in cover, but the targeting needs to be tweaked a fair bit. After you've killed a bad guy sometimes you can't switch to the next target, you have to come out of target mode and go back in again which is a real pain when there's lots of enemies. Also, in crowd situations, civilians get targeted just as easily as enemies. The mission where you take back the strip club took me three goes simply because I couldn't target enemies for all the civilians running about, and both times I failed were because I got hit point-blank by someone standing next to me whom I couldn't target at all.

As well as that, I find I get stuck a hell of a lot on tiny things when running, which again can make all the difference in a life or death situation. The worst was the first safehouse, which for some reason they decided to give a couple of steps up to the door. A few times I got stuck next to the steps, tried to back out and got stuck on the other side. It really shouldn't be easier to score a 180 in darts than it is to aim the character through a door!

Finally, the camera when you're travelling always lines up behind you the second you take your thumb off the movement stick. This has to be the most annoying thing of all. When I turn left or right I want to be able to move the camera first then turn into the field of vision I open up. Instead I look left or right with the camera and have to somehow hold the movement stick in place whilst turning the character with the other. I can't find an option to turn this off. There's a similar issue when in a vehicle that they haven't changed since the previous games; the camera always angles quite shallowly so that the car is in the way of what's coming up ahead. It's particularly noticeable when going up a steep hill that's about to level out - you can't see what's over the crest of the hill because the car blocks the view. None of the set camera angles seem to improve on this so I'm constantly having to raise the camera angle above the car. Again, as soon as you release the movement stick it defaults back to the pre-set view.

Of course these are all minor things that I've learnt to adapt to, and it takes little enjoyment away from the game, but it does tend to remove some of the immersement (is that a word?!) for me.

It still makes me laugh lots though - some guy was giving me grief for driving into him so I fired my gun. He started to run... straight under an oncoming truck! Also, is it just me that can't drive past a motorbike without flipping the rider over the top of my car?