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Alright all of us know GTA:4 is the most highly anticpated game, in a long time. After they released GTA:SA in 2005, three years is a long wait. Minus the PSP games, later PS2 games Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories, which both were "Meh" quality. But after all this hype, all this waiting, will it be as good as people say it will be.


My close friend pre ordered it, me and him are both loyal fans of the GTA games, and now i read an article on gamesradar.com a couple weeks ago that it MAY be getting a "t" in australia and it talked about specualtions about it happening in north america so I thought, so many things might get cut out. The swearing, the prostitutes, the drugs, the blood gushing out of people heads when you snipe them. I mean those are the things that make Grand Theft Auto, Grand Theft Auto. Plus the more "realistic" game play.


My friend, and I did our reasearch about GTA:4. So far we know there's no more "Ammunation"... More lenghty, pro longing missions... and I can hint a coming of a much, much smaller health bar to acompany these other attributes. First off the lengthy missions. I read there is a mission (most likely one of your first) where you must kill a guy, who works in an office. Sounds easy? Nope, you must first get clothing for an interview. Get a job at the office. Go to the bar with the "Target". Then somehow kill him without any witnesses, cameras, and etc. I mean, in Vice City you'd just run into the office with a chain saw and cut the guy in half.

Second the no more "Ammunation" stores around, where you can go in and buy and AK-47, a SMG, some body armour, and maybe some grenades for fireworks. But now there are gun dealers, which you must meet and go to the bar, play some pool have a few drinks, and earn their trust after a pro longed period of time. Which could be a drag. Then my views of a much smaller health bar. In SA there was a small health bar to start out with, then it got bigger over the game. But due to GTA:4's more "realistic" game play, and enviroments will your health be of a normal person's (when wearing no armour)?. Like a Rainbow 6 style where you get shot once or if you have luck twice, and die instanly. Which would make GTA's famous feeling of being almost invincable gone. The more "realistic" aspects of the game, for the good, or the worse? You tell me.

hope you liked my rant.

feel free to let me know what you think

The more realistic aspect of the game is FTW!

Theres no Ammo stores anymore, but you can go to a Gun dealer, who is located on your map, and kill him and take his guns, or buy them off him.

Thats AWESOME!

Harder Missions = Better Game

AND we could just use cheats <_<

Getting a Job, interviewing, and all of that just to kill someone, gives more gametime, and much more fun.

I wouldn't get too worked up until you play the game. It's not justifiable to make judgements about gameplay until you actually experience it. Plus, based on past performance, I would think that Rockstar knows what they're doing.

The only thing that worried me in that post was the possible "T" rating... um, what? source?

Aussie's Game is rated T, so was SA.

gotta remember to pre-order it.

Realism in games can be a bad thing, and any game that forces you to eat or suffer consequences is proof of it.

No more Ammunation? But.... *cries*

I like GTA games, but have always found myself getting a little bored with them, because I rarely find the missions all that interesting and driving around killing people or hookers was always more fun.

The only GTA-esque game I every played and beat many times was The Godfather which I loved, but that also had a solid story which I knew from the movies and really enjoyed. I think if Rockstar started pushing the GTA title to stories we were more familiar with or even movies we knew and loved with GTA game play, this would make for a more satisfying game.

I'd rather buy it off people on the streets.

To keep it straight gangsta.

It continues on the realistic part, by if theres a huge gun shop, they don't sell guns to everybody.

hmm, so i guess from reading you guy's response, im guessing its a mixed reaction to the realism in the game? i guess it all depends on what you like.

i for 1 , am amazed with the realism, it may make the game harder, but it may give it a better gaming experience

I hardly thought of realism when it came to GTA - what's with ruining the tongue-in-cheek formula now?

Saint's Row may be just a knockoff, but at least they'll keep the sim crap out of things and stick to the mindless fun.

Agreed. It's giving a more 'true' aspect of the world here rather than an OTT gaming experience.

One thing I dont like is that, too start up a car, your gonna have to break the window with your hand or something, open the lock, and start it up, and jump start it or something.

Hopefully they will make it fast.

AND I hope the FPS is fast.

isnt this going going to have an exact replica of NYC?

No its Liberty City. Lol

I'm still confused about the rating...

How could this possibly end up T?

^australian government is VERY VEry VERY strict in ratings, its normal for a game to get a muture rating in north america and get a teen rating in australia, it happens many times.

San Andreas ended up on T. And look at that game. Lol

but im pretty sure there are NO wories at all of it happening in the states right?

ahaha obiously not

north america is based on real life grand theft auto, if anothing its gonna be worse