GTA IV Who's gunna get it?

[Q3ark]

I consider the grand theft auto series to be essential gaming for anyone who considers themselves a gamer.

With the game due for release at the end of April (just after my birthday wOOt:cool:) it would seem there is plenty of controversy about it. Loudmouth politicians (Hillery Clinton) are clamoring for it to be banned. The mayor of NY has gon on record saying that the game in no way represents the real crime levels in his fair city. Well of course not, it's just a video game.

What do you think? Is it just an adult themed video game for adults to have fun with, or is it some dangerouse evil thing sent to brainwash the minds of our fair youth?

I have to add, I've played every incarnation of the GTA series and considder them to be great fun. At no point have I murdered, raped or beaten enyone up, I survived the gaming experience with my morals intact:smug:.

[Dowly]

Aye, gonna get it. :up:

[Dowly]

Yeh, San Andreas was great. :up:

[Platapus]

A co-worker of mine has an aunt who is a nun. She loves playing GTA.

She has no problems separating real life from a video game.

Must be a cool nun:up:

[AG124]

I played GTA III and VC, but never played any others after (not because of moral concerns though). My friends who played with me were annoyed because I would stop at red lights when driving (just to annoy them though:arrgh!:). I was actually quite out of control in my GTA driving though - I never once used my signal lights.:cool:

[Sailor Steve]

I looked at the trailers. They look cool, but I won't get it for the same reason I don't play any of the shooters. I'm not really a gamer. I like submarines, airplanes and race cars, but I only play the ones that recreate the reality, at least for me.

Have fun with it, though.

[danlisa]

Umm, currently there are no plans for GTA4 to be a PC game.

It may eventually be ported but with the 360 version pushing 20GB before any DLC is added and the PS3 version hitting nearly 35GB, I'd imagine the PC version will have to be 'scaled' down a little.

Day one purchase for me.

Let the rooftop sniping begin.:arrgh!:

[kiwi_2005]

I consider the grand theft auto series to be essential gaming for anyone who considers themselves a gamer.

With the game due for release at the end of April (just after my birthday wOOt:cool:) it would seem there is plenty of controversy about it. Loudmouth politicians (Hillery Clinton) are clamoring for it to be banned. The mayor of NY has gon on record saying that the game in no way represents the real crime levels in his fair city. Well of course not, it's just a video game.

What do you think? Is it just an adult themed video game for adults to have fun with, or is it some dangerouse evil thing sent to brainwash the minds of our fair youth?

I have to add, I've played every incarnation of the GTA series and considder them to be great fun. At no point have I murdered, raped or beaten enyone up, I survived the gaming experience with my morals intact:smug:.
Yea i liked San Adreas but these type of games need to be R rated I played the uncut version of San Adreas for the PC dont know if the xbox version was the same but the game clearly wasn't for young gamers. Really the parents are at fault not the developers i see often in the local video store mums hiring out R16 to R18 games for their 10yr olds. Because the mother is buying it the shop owner wasn't doing anything illegal yet we all knew who the game was for. I see it happen all the time mums hiring out R16 to R18 games for their kids who dont look older than 10:roll:

[flakmonkey]

I`ll definatly buy it but im still a little dubious about the UK release, still no certificate only 1month before release date!
I have a bad feeling its going to go the way of manhunt2 and get banned in the uk:cry:

[danlisa]

I`ll definatly buy it but im still a little dubious about the UK release, still no certificate only 1month before release date!
I have a bad feeling its going to go the way of manhunt2 and get banned in the uk:cry:

If it comes to that, I'll import it.;) After all the PS3 is region free and it'll be cheaper from the US.

Nothing will prevent my enjoyment of gratuitously murdering innocents.

[Jimbuna]

I'm lucky.....It'll probably be a day of release purchase. My son will buy it ;)

[SUBMAN1]

Running around and stealing cars, beating up people, and making a wreck of things was fun - for about 5 minutes. Maybe I'm jaded, but GTA has got to be the most boring games on the planet. :down: After you've had a large vehicle and gone tearling around the game world, well, not much else is there.

-S

[antikristuseke]

I'll probably get it when its released on the PC.

[Tchocky]

GTA games are fun as long as you don't play for too long.

Some games, you stop playing them because you haven't eaten in a few days (SH3, OFP, Red Baron II I'm looking at you)
Others you stop playing because you're sick of the goddamn sight of them (GTA, Red Alert). You come back a few weeks later and everything's fine.

[HunterICX]

I wont be getting it,
TBH I havent got another GTA game after 3

GTA the very first one is still my favorite
then comes Number 2

it was New back then, now its perhaps fancy graphics and you can go anywhere you like but back then the 2dish view from above had something special:yep:
3 was nice , but it didnt beat 1 & 2, ''Elvis has left the building!!!''

HunterICX

[danlisa]

Gotta to agree with you Hunter, at least with the previous versions.

However, with Online Multiplayer coming with GTA4, that's too good to miss.

I'd get GTA4 just for the Free Roam MP functionality.

[Dowly]

Gotta to agree with you Hunter, at least with the previous versions.

However, with Online Multiplayer coming with GTA4, that's too good to miss.

I'd get GTA4 just for the Free Roam MP functionality.

GTA:SA has (i think) modded MP to it in the PC version. Was a blast playing it on a server with over 100 ppl. :p IIRC, the whole SA city was accessable. :up:

[CaptHawkeye]

I looked at the trailers. They look cool, but I won't get it for the same reason I don't play any of the shooters. I'm not really a gamer. I like submarines, airplanes and race cars, but I only play the ones that recreate the reality, at least for me.

Have fun with it, though.

Funny thing is, GTA4 is really going out of its way to create "reality" in a sense. If you read a list of features, you'd be surprised as some of the thing you will see. Things I would normally expect in a sim.

I'm looking forward to GTA4. Which is saying a lot because I despised all of the previous games with the exception of 3. (Hey lets make the same exact game over and over again and pretend its totally new!)

What's this, a popular frat dude demographic game series that i'm actually looking forward too? It can't be!

[kiwi_2005]

Running around and stealing cars, beating up people, and making a wreck of things was fun - for about 5 minutes. Maybe I'm jaded, but GTA has got to be the most boring games on the planet. :down: After you've had a large vehicle and gone tearling around the game world, well, not much else is there.

-S
You said it in your post. Thats what makes the game fun - you can be a bad dude and get away with it. :lol: Man i was soo good at stealing cars and getting away from the cops sometimes stopping and taking them out, until they sent in the helicopters then i just headed for my Homies crack house to get the brothers to back me up! :lol: Yeah i was one mean badass:rotfl:

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Am I the only one who sometimes follows traffic regulations? :-?

I once drove from one side of San Andreas to the other whilst doing that and it took me almost an hour :lol:

[Dowly]

Am I the only one who sometimes follows traffic regulations? :-?

I once drove from one side of San Andreas to the other whilst doing that and it took me almost an hour :lol:

Yeh, I do that at times... then I go into roadrage and blow up half the city. :smug:

[Q3ark]

Am I the only one who sometimes follows traffic regulations? :-?

I once drove from one side of San Andreas to the other whilst doing that and it took me almost an hour :lol:

Yeah I did that a couple of times. I tried to drive from san fierro to san andreas without damaging my car or killing anyone.... nah only lasted a couple of minutes guess i'm just impatient:lol:

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Well when some idiot in a taxi plowed into the side of my customised hearse, I got out and smashed him in the face with a bat. Does that count as roadrage? :hmm:

[Dowly]

Well when some idiot in a taxi plowed into the side of my customised hearse, I got out and smashed him in the face with a bat. Does that count as roadrage? :hmm:

:rotfl::rotfl:

[danlisa]

.....I got out and smashed him in the face with a bat. Does that count as roadrage? :hmm:

Na, that's just GTA etiquette.

To be classed as road rage in GTA, you need to kill the Taxi driver and the destroy/kill anything/anyone with in the same block radius, preferably using the RPG or Minigun.:D

Hmm, I wonder if you can do a Vinnie Jones from Lock Stock in GTA4. Car doors make wonderful weapons.

[Q3ark]

I`ll definatly buy it but im still a little dubious about the UK release, still no certificate only 1month before release date!
I have a bad feeling its going to go the way of manhunt2 and get banned in the uk:cry:

Nah this one is on it's way. According to this site http://www.gtagaming.com/ (http://www.gtagaming.com/) the BBFC has awarded GTA IV an 18 certificate without making any cuts whatsoever :smug:.

It's comming :rock:

[Steel_Tomb]

It looks cool, but I got a bit bored of the same style gameplay after VC! The series has come a long way since its 2D ancestors!

[Spoon 11th]

I am possibly getting it if it gets ported to PC.
San Andreas (I call it the gang ****** city violence simulator) is in my top3 of all time best PC games. The other two are MS flight simulator 2004 and SH3. I just recently completed it 100%, again. Took me five months this time.

[mr chris]

Have it on pre-order. Thought i will not get my hands on it till a week before im due to deploy, So i will have to wait 6 months to really play the game.:cry: