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Five Days Locked in a Room With GTA IV

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the looking-forwrad-to-this-one dept.

bippy writes "Five days, one game. The Rocky Mountain News has a write up of five days spent playing Grand Theft Auto IV recently in a San Francisco hotel. It ends: 'In Grand Theft Auto IV the story isn't just an amalgam of cut scenes and cleverly written dialogue, it's the experiences I create, too. It's now, watching Niko stand, his shoulders slumped, that the depth of this game finally hits me. Niko's journey, the one crafted by Rockstar, may have ended, but Niko's adventures in the story I am creating have just begun.'" The most anticipated game in a while, to be sure. I'm certainly looking forward to busting some heads and jumping ramps.

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  1. Re:What next? by ChowRiit · · Score: 5, Funny

    So they've done Miami Vice, mobsters, LA street gangs, and now Russian mobsters. What's next? Uh, Cowboy Neal?
  2. Cut scenes eh? by Mastadex · · Score: 1, Funny

    I give it a month before someone finds a secret cut scene of Cowboy Neal getting frisky with some Ho. We can call it the "Fat Coffee" scandal. Alright, I'm going back to my cage.

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  3. Re:What next? by Freaky+Spook · · Score: 4, Funny
    What's next?

    They go 60's camp. You are a super villains side kick, dressed in fluro spandex you have to try to dominate your city before the other super villain gangs do, all the while evading police and the occasional vigilante dressed in a leotard with a really cool utility belt.

  4. Re:What next? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...

    Profit!

  5. Gotta Say It... by FurtiveGlancer · · Score: 3, Funny
    Get a Life!

    No you can't download one. Second Life does not count.

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  6. Re:What next? by Lillesvin · · Score: 2, Funny

    MA Lobsters? :-p

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  7. Re:What next? by billcopc · · Score: 2, Funny

    GTA V: Bush vs the World.

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  8. Re:What next? by the+grace+of+R'hllor · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think I've already seen that on CNN. It starts out strong, but the story has no ending to speak of, and just degenerates into random nonsense the longer the administrati^Wgame continues.

  9. Re:What next? by WK2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciubx6RijLo

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  10. Re:What next? by DAldredge · · Score: 2, Funny

    True. Because when one thinks of GTA the first thing that pops into mind is realism.

  11. Solution by JamesRose · · Score: 3, Funny

    Pirate the games, if you like the game, go out and buy a hard copy, if it was crap either don't go out and buy it, or spend the money on something more worthy, I.e, fork out the same money to a charity.

  12. Re:What next? by neomunk · · Score: 2, Funny

    Soccer hooligans. And ruffians, with the occasional scallywag.

  13. Re:My Impressions by saunabad · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... the police act intelligently ....

    So they didn't much care about the game being realistic then...