GTA IV (2008)
I'm not really sure where to start with this. Maybe I'll just start by saying that I've been playing this game ever since it arrived which, coincidently, arrived just after I reviewed The Godfather. So that is a fair wee while I've been playing it. The game is highly addictive, but I'm guessing most of you know that because at this moment your staring at porn and looking up cheats so you can become the most kickass Niko Bellic to ever exist. The story starts with our protagonist, Niko Bellic, arriving in Liberty City, from God-knows-where, on a really crappy boat. He came to this glorious city to get a new start and because his fat asshole cousin said he was incredibly rich. If you know anything about the GTA series, or any game for that matter, you never start out rich, so that is a dead giveaway as to your wealth at the start of the game. As usual you have the missions that you must do for several billion people, but also you have social skills now which putting it simply is a phone which can chose to use or not use depending on your hatred for other members of humanity. You go on dates with the Liberty City whores, you hang out with your friends, you browse the internet...wait a minute. I think I've seen this before. Yeah, it's called REAL LIFE! Everything you do in the game is stuff that you probably do in real life, and now I'm hoping that doesn't entail killing all foreign people. Now to say that these additions to the game are bad, it's just it seems like we're just playing a game based on our lives. It's like playing Nintendogs instead of actually buying a dog. Maybe they'll add that in to the next game: buy yourself a pet.
Lets get back to the good parts. The AI is amazing, the graphics are amazing, the story is amazing, the combat is amazing and the driving is...erm...realistic, which is a step in another direction for GTA. It was usually simple handling, turn left, turn right, that sort of thing. Now it's take care otherwise you shall total your car. And the whole thing where you must escape your capsized car before it explodes has been removed, thank God, but now that it's gone there is less urgency to escape the vehicle. Why, I'm sure you could just sit there and listen to the radio for a few hours or more.
8.9/10
Friday, May 23, 2008
Friday, May 2, 2008
Becoming your godfather...
The Godfather (2006)
I usually find that games that follow the whole GTA aspect of gaming often turn out to be as good, or better than what GTA has taken years to accomplish. The same can be said about this game. Following the basic plot from the movie, which means you play as some stupid kid and help out "the family" when a problem arises. The idea of running around doing errands for someone else is what games are all about. Essentially it's like real life except you get to shoot every blue, red, green, and brown jacketed man who makes an offensive gesture towards you. That means just about anyone who isn't you, so when you go to take over a business (oh! Did I forget to mention that you can take over businesses?) you're basically entering a gun fight with meanest bastards to ever walk the streets of the...1940's? 1950's? Ah well, who cares? Unlike some of the games that fall into this genre, the missions are almost too easy, you can make a couple of thousand dollars in a matter of half an hour maximum, and you don't have absolutely retarded police. So many times in GTA have I driven my car straight into a police vehicle and yet nothing happens. This game on the other hand has moderately intelligent police A.I. which means they will try to stop you when you rob a bank (by the way, you can rob banks!). My only issues with the game are that transport is really lacking. Fair enough, it is set in the 19-somethingoranothers and transport would be considered limited compared to now. But, it is no excuse to have only 5 or 6 different cars and then have train tracks that you can't even use. Also, the majority of the vehicles are incredibly slow or incredibly weak. I mean, the first time I hijacked a taxi and realised it's speed didn't reach double figures, I started to consider the irony of the matter: a New York City taxi that cannot go fast. Poppycock! Can't happen! Unfortunately it has and continues to do so. Sometimes I wonder if developers intentionally put these flaws in their games just to annoy us. Like if they didn't get Al Pacino to play the part of Michael. By the way, they didn't! Oh well! But that doesn't make it a bad game, just flawed. Without Al Pacino it probably doesn't reach the level of awesome it should, but it is still worth getting if you feel your current games are all too samey - like the Final Fantasy series!
7.6/10
I usually find that games that follow the whole GTA aspect of gaming often turn out to be as good, or better than what GTA has taken years to accomplish. The same can be said about this game. Following the basic plot from the movie, which means you play as some stupid kid and help out "the family" when a problem arises. The idea of running around doing errands for someone else is what games are all about. Essentially it's like real life except you get to shoot every blue, red, green, and brown jacketed man who makes an offensive gesture towards you. That means just about anyone who isn't you, so when you go to take over a business (oh! Did I forget to mention that you can take over businesses?) you're basically entering a gun fight with meanest bastards to ever walk the streets of the...1940's? 1950's? Ah well, who cares? Unlike some of the games that fall into this genre, the missions are almost too easy, you can make a couple of thousand dollars in a matter of half an hour maximum, and you don't have absolutely retarded police. So many times in GTA have I driven my car straight into a police vehicle and yet nothing happens. This game on the other hand has moderately intelligent police A.I. which means they will try to stop you when you rob a bank (by the way, you can rob banks!). My only issues with the game are that transport is really lacking. Fair enough, it is set in the 19-somethingoranothers and transport would be considered limited compared to now. But, it is no excuse to have only 5 or 6 different cars and then have train tracks that you can't even use. Also, the majority of the vehicles are incredibly slow or incredibly weak. I mean, the first time I hijacked a taxi and realised it's speed didn't reach double figures, I started to consider the irony of the matter: a New York City taxi that cannot go fast. Poppycock! Can't happen! Unfortunately it has and continues to do so. Sometimes I wonder if developers intentionally put these flaws in their games just to annoy us. Like if they didn't get Al Pacino to play the part of Michael. By the way, they didn't! Oh well! But that doesn't make it a bad game, just flawed. Without Al Pacino it probably doesn't reach the level of awesome it should, but it is still worth getting if you feel your current games are all too samey - like the Final Fantasy series!
7.6/10
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