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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."
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Hopefully this game will be similar to Vice City and not like San Andreas...being a thug/gangsta riding a bicycle just isn't my style.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
Where's the PC game release on this one? The GTA series was originally for the PC. Oh well.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
Looks like the PR boffins have been doing their homework lately.
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One thing many people missed is the reference to the movie Koyaanisqatsi. The music was taken from the original movie score, by Philip Glass, and the 'fast-motion' scenes are a direct reference to scenes from the movie.
Also, much of the movie was shot in, you guessed it, New York.
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I, for one, welcome our new.. server overload.. erm.. system..
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What kind of a game is Greater Toronto Area?
So what exactly do you want them to stick on the BluRay disc? I'm sure that they can stick multiple copies of the game on the disc to compensate for the slow loading time (like Bethesda did with Oblivion).
If you're in the mood for hours of FMV's, then I'm sure FFXIII will satisfy your needs.
The bottom line is - developers don't know *what* to do with all that disc space. Blaming MS for that is idiotic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoB01yi_6Ys
I haven't played this series since Vice City and I'm glad that we finally get a modern, more stylized version of it. The voiceover seems to point at some Russian/Eastern European immigrant moving up the ranks in American crime. It's reminiscent of the beginning in movies like The Godfather or Scarface where you see the world through the eyes of a newcomer.
Here's the direct download link for the 720P WMV file. Or, you can see it on YouTube as well.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
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?
You're almost there. Go ahead, do it. Invoke Godwin's Law ftw.
how about radio stations that never repeat? :-)
If 360 is 'dead' with 10 million+ units sold what does that make the PS3? A first trimester abortion? Mommy and Daddy used a condom?
- "Scientia non habet inimicum nisp ignorantem"
How fast can you read/write data on a Blu-ray disc?
According to the Blu-ray Disc specification, 1x speed is defined as 36Mbps. However, as BD-ROM movies will require a 54Mbps data transfer rate the minimum speed we're expecting to see is 2x (72Mbps). Blu-ray also has the potential for much higher speeds, as a result of the larger numerical aperture (NA) adopted by Blu-ray Disc. The large NA value effectively means that Blu-ray will require less recording power and lower disc rotation speed than DVD and HD-DVD to achieve the same data transfer rate. While the media itself limited the recording speed in the past, the only limiting factor for Blu-ray is the capacity of the hardware. If we assume a maximum disc rotation speed of 10,000 RPM, then 12x at the outer diameter should be possible (about 400Mbps). This is why the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) already has plans to raise the speed to 8x (288Mbps) or more in the future.
The Blueray drive in the PS3 is faster than the DVD drive in the XBox360 so load times should be faster.
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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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Philip Glass.
Your brain is not a computer.
No. Of course one game is never actually going to be worth the cost of an entire video game system, and appropriate accessories. However, couple it with some Gears of War, Assassin's Creed, Blue Dragon, etc. and I believe you have a strong argument for the system.
On one hand you can't justify a system for a single game, but, on the other hand you have so much more to consider with the 360 than just this little rehash.
I read the script, and I think it would help my character's motivation if he was on fire. -Bender
Please God let them have a better camera system for this one. The one in SA on the PC was terrible. I cannot believe they let that crap out, and people still loved the game.