Posts Tagged ‘Grand Theft Auto’
GTA IV – The Final Word
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Games, Reviews
Grand Theft Auto IV is a great game. It’s fun, it’s impressive, and it has plenty to justify the $60 price, well after the 30-40 hour single player campaign. So, taking that into perspective, the fact is that GTA IV is more evolutionary than revolutionary.
The single-player story starts out strong, but loses steam near [...]
GTA IV – Multiplayer
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Games, Reviews
One of the biggest new features of Grand Theft Auto IV was the brand-new multiplayer modes. GTA hasn’t had proper multiplayer since my friends and I got together and had a LAN match playing the original GTA, so it’s been a while. Rockstar jammed a crapload of multiplayer modes into the game to [...]
GTA IV – Problems – Welcome to Glitcherty City
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Games, Reviews
Grand Theft Auto IV is shaping up to be one of the biggest and best games of the year, but it’s still got a few chinks in its armor. One of the biggest drawbacks of the “open world” or “sandbox” genre of game (which the GTA series pretty much pioneered), is the fact that since [...]
GTA IV – Gameplay: All the world is yours
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Games, Reviews
The Grand Theft Auto series popularized the idea of an open-world game, and GTA IV really takes it to the next level. The game is set in Liberty City, a sprawling urban environment so closely based on New York City that the first time I saw the trailer, I thought it was set in [...]
GTA IV – The story: genetically different
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Games, Reviews
When Grand Theft Auto IV launched last Tuesday, I was very curious. I’ve played the series since the original, top-down PC game, and I spent a good chunk of time playing GTA 2. When the series moved to 3D with GTA III, though, I lost interest. I didn’t have a PS2 at the time, [...]