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So I spent the last few weeks all, "fuck the hype, I'll pick it up on the Friday after release," but woke up yesterday and had an attack of I want now, so ran to Game after work. They were doing great guns but still had plenty copies left.

Played a couple of hours, and so far, so GTA really. They still haven't implemented a checkpoint or restart system for the missions, cars still disappear, and there are still almost no interiors. I didn't actually get any weapons last night, but I have high hopes for the overhauled shooting, even though the fistfights I got into, sweet disarm move notwithstanding, were wooly and unresponsive -- worse than in Manhunt, for instance. It looks lovely (brightness and contrast +2 for me though, too), it's still not as funny or well-written as people say it is (AHAHATHEBOWLINGSIGNLOOKSLIKEACOCKANDBALLS!), the handling is good as ever, the pedestrians are sliiightlyl more convincing (I accidentally jumped off a roof and some woman went, "Only in Liberty City!"), and the date I went on actually contained some nice character stuff and an awesome beach view. Cool.

I'm currently playing like a wuss and stopping at lights/using pedestrain crossings properly, and I hate killing civilians -- I only put my foot down when I need to get out of dodge, fast. As such, I'm finding the analogue acceleration, which makes things feel much more natural for us careful drivers, lovely.

Looking forward to getting stuck into the story and causing some proper chaos tonight.

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Previous GTAs have been mostly all about the body count for me, but GTA IV has actually made me stop and think a couple of times. Firing a shotty into a car's front windscreen is awesomely gruesome, the way it just becomes a mass of starred glass and blood. First time I did that it actually gave me a moment of "oh, fuck...I did that...".

Same as when some gang-banger was walking towards me, mouthing off about me being on his turf. I pulled my shotty out, levelled it at him and he goes "Don't you be bringing that shit to my hoo-" BLAM. His whole chest turns red and he goes down hard. Again, I was "Shit, almost feel bad about that one..."

But then I was brought back into the GAME, as I watched the Benny Hill ambulance crew arrive and a paramedic spend 30 seconds running into the side of his own ambulance, before reaching the gang-banger's corpse, doing a half-hearted attempt at a resuscitation, legging it back to the ambulance, jumping in, screaming off up the road, running someone over, crashing into a fire-hydrant and then spending FIVE minutes doing an "Austin Powers trying to turn a vehicle in a tight corridor" routine...all whilst just leaving the now cold corpse in the middle of the road.

Normal GTA service resumed, and I walked into the medical centre and shotgunned a nurse in the flange.

(Being drunk is indeed awesome. The kerb, the actual kerb defeated Nico for a good couple of minutes last night)

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robdood

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Yes.

I kept my remote to hand yesterday, so I could alter the brightness at will. They should have made the dark bits a bit less dark.

Also, add reply option in the next one please.

There's in-game picture settings, save you using the remote: I recommend brightness/contrast up by a couple of notches each.

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Which bits are these?

Most of the first 10 minutes of the game, to be honest. And then a few times when moving around at night, I stumbled into dark areas and couldn't find the way out without turning the brightness up.

Maybe it's TV specific.

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Most of the first 10 minutes of the game, to be honest. And then a few times when moving around at night, I stumbled into dark areas and couldn't find the way out without turning the brightness up.

Maybe it's TV specific.

You did realise there are full beam head lights on the cars, yeah? Hold X to switch them on/off while driving.

Oh, and it's supposed ot be dark. It's called night time. :huh:

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I recommend brightness/contrast up by a couple of notches each.

Er, surely it would depend on what the intial settings on your tv were to start off with?

I recommend adjusting the settings on both untill the game looks how you want it to look.

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Previous GTAs have been mostly all about the body count for me, but GTA IV has actually made me stop and think a couple of times. Firing a shotty into a car's front windscreen is awesomely gruesome, the way it just becomes a mass of starred glass and blood. First time I did that it actually gave me a moment of "oh, fuck...I did that...".

Same as when some gang-banger was walking towards me, mouthing off about me being on his turf. I pulled my shotty out, levelled it at him and he goes "Don't you be bringing that shit to my hoo-" BLAM. His whole chest turns red and he goes down hard. Again, I was "Shit, almost feel bad about that one..."

But then I was brought back into the GAME, as I watched the Benny Hill ambulance crew arrive and a paramedic spend 30 seconds running into the side of his own ambulance, before reaching the gang-banger's corpse, doing a half-hearted attempt at a resuscitation, legging it back to the ambulance, jumping in, screaming off up the road, running someone over, crashing into a fire-hydrant and then spending FIVE minutes doing an "Austin Powers trying to turn a vehicle in a tight corridor" routine...all whilst just leaving the now cold corpse in the middle of the road.

Normal GTA service resumed, and I walked into the medical centre and shotgunned a nurse in the flange.

(Being drunk is indeed awesome. The kerb, the actual kerb defeated Nico for a good couple of minutes last night)

:huh:

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For anyone having trouble with the car handling - just use the scooter!! :huh: I did about 5 or 6 missions using the Faggio (I think it's called that), slow enough for me to corner properly. Watching Niko throw away his helmut looks cool.

Also I don't really get all this talk of the game being so 'real' that people can't bring themselves to shoot ped's etc

It's GTA in HD, nothing more and nothing less but that is in no way a bad thing.

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Smitty

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it's still not as funny or well-written as people say it is

Oh, come on, listen to the radio stations and watch the tv - the quality of the material is very high.

I'm Rich! (a spoof of those awful rich-people gawp shows) had me in stitches, along with the perfectly vacous, celebrity-obsessed, entertainment radio show Fizz, with requisite babbling hyper woman, camp bitchy gay guy and cool edgy prick.

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For me it's nothing to do with the game looking more realistic, I've always tried to avoid the needless slaughter of innocent people. I like the idea of trying to stay in the underworld while the city carries on as normal.

That said in the mission where you have to get away from the poker game I mowed down four pedestrians after only driving about 50 yards.

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Oh, come on, listen to the radio stations and watch the tv - the quality of the material is very high.

I'm Rich! (a spoof of those awful rich-people gawp shoes) had me in stitches, along with the perfectly vacous, celebrity-obsessed, entertainment radio show Fizz, with requisite babbling hyper woman, camp bitchy gay guy and cool edgy prick.

WKTT is 100% LOL.

"I think I see a terrorist!"

"What makes you say that, caller?"

"Well, He's reading some religeous shit!"

:huh:

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robdood

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:huh: I failed the very first proper mission and didn't get one...

Still, that's awesome. Excitement for hometime +3%

Well you are just special then :( I think that's probably an exception, since you get given the mobile during that missions, don't you?

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My tv is D65 calibrated and I found the 360 version to be very dark by default, I had to up the brightness a few notches.

I'm sure. But my point was that you can't say ''bump it up by 2'' because everyone's tv is going to have different intial levels.

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Or you could have paid attention the first time you had to climb a ladder when it was explained to you how to do so.

The trouble with is that loads of those instructons flash by whilst you're doing something else - the exact samething happened to me - I was diving out of a car when that message popped up. Of course, later on you remember to check the Brief, but maybe the devs could have made it less counter-intuitve by using the Climb button rather than the one that makes you get in a car - or even better, no button at all. It's 2008 for fuck's sake.

There is so much of Nico's on foot movement that's old, he glitches around objects like nobody's business. It doesn't spoil the game of course, but it's a real shame that Nico handles on foot like glue, especially when the developers' have made so many polishes in other areas, and when most of us are probably expecting the Assassin's Creed standard.

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The trouble with is that loads of those instructons flash by whilst you're doing something else - the exact samething happened to me - I was diving out of a car when that message popped up. Of course, later on you remember to check the Brief, but maybe the devs could have made it less counter-intuitve by using the Climb button rather than the one that makes you get in a car - or even better, no button at all. It's 2008 for fuck's sake.

There is so much of Nico's on foot movement that's old, he glitches around objects like nobody's business. It doesn't spoil the game of course, but it's a real shame that Nico handles on foot like glue, especially when the developers' have made so many polishes in other areas, and when most of us are probably expecting the Assassin's Creed standard.

Drama, drama.

The game is hardly based around ladder-climbing dude. I've done it three times so far, I think. When you do it, you have to press one button - it's hardly conducting a light opera, is it?

Niko does not hanlde like ''glue'' on foot. You can walk, job, and run fast. What's the problem there? I've noticed very little gliching with Niko and objects, in fact I was very pleased to see that he actually walks over bodies, one foot up one down on kerbs, that sort of thing.

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So... now the crying has stopped, is it worth me paying £25 for an adaptor just to play this online?

I hook my 360 up to my PC and share its wireless connection. Dead easy to do its just plug it in then change your internet icon to share connections and then thats it. There's loads of walkthroughs online on how to do it.

This is all academic if you dont have your 360 near your PC though.

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I only needed to adjust the default settings when hooked up to a plasma through HDMI, notched up to 8 on brightness/contrast leaving the default 5 for saturation seemed to suit best. Switching to LCD monitor through component looks fine on default. PS3 btw.

Sound through an X-fi soundcard is very classy, AK47 gunfire crack has this sweet metallic resonance to it. Could have been the surrounding scaffolding in the area though.

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Drama, drama.

The game is hardly based around ladder-climbing dude. I've done it three times so far, I think. When you do it, you have to press one button - it's hardly conducting a light opera, is it?

Niko does not hanlde like ''glue'' on foot. You can walk, job, and run fast. What's the problem there? I've noticed very little gliching with Niko and objects, in fact I was very pleased to see that he actually walks over bodies, one foot up one down on kerbs, that sort of thing.

lol

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