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GTA IV Trailer Released, Slows Sites
Mr_Congeniality writes "The much-anticipated trailer for the next chapter in the Grand Theft Auto series has been released. Rockstar's servers, including the one that hosts Rockstar's homepage, was completely overloaded with traffic last night as a result. Users desperately flocking to other websites like GTANet and GTA4.net, but even these websites were overloaded by the interest level. If these sites are still slow, try GameTrailers or GameVideos as an alternative. For analysis of the video, CVG has ten things you may have missed, while 1up's editors offer their opinions on what they saw."
I've seen games that take more than 10GB to install, I'm sure it's not beyond the imagination of the developers what could be put on the extra 15gb.
and yes the XBOX360 is crap, especially when compared to a PC or even the PS3, fortunately GTA 3/ SA for the PC had better graphics etc... than the console versions so hopefully the same will be true for this version.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Look, just because 3rd party support is eroding and previously exclusive titles are going multi-platform (or becoming 360 exclusives), doesn't mean the PS3 was a poor investment, right?
So move to procedural textures. Or, better yet, shaded polygons. Why put a texture of a belt on a character when you can just model the belt?
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I particularly enjoyed the desert missions just outside of las venturas in the last third of the game. I actually wished there was more of them, the desert was my favorite setting. If you keep playing, you leave the las angeles-ish ghetto and go on to a san fransisco-ish and las vegas-ish city each with a very particulary feel to them. Then there's the desert surrounding vegas and the coutry surrounding the other cities. You actually become a sort of fish out of water at that point and converse with a diverse cast of pot-heads, gov spies, and various types really. The only real thugs were your peers in your hood, and it is there where the story is anchored but the game is so much bigger than that. You should really play it through.