GTA 4 released!
 

Finally it came to life. Heard rockstar spent 200 k for its protection against piracy. Can't discuss cracks here: RDP

Meh.

Nicely spent. I think it appeared to "certain sites" two days ago and seems to be "fully playable" by now. :rotfl:

Yep, but I'm sure it will sell well regardless. I'll have to check and see if my poor old rig can run it or not before I pick it up.

Poor Old rig? I heard that if you run the game on Medium settings on your PC, it'll be more or less equal to the Xbox360 and PS3 versions. Also, the game was optimized for Quad-Cores, so when I finally get the game.. I'll be able to put my PC to the test.

Apparently, Rockstar says to wait until more powerful PC hardware comes out that could enable us to run the game properly in all it's glory :o . At present though, only medium/high settings are feasible, playing maxed out isn't advisable unless you like slow frame rates.

Regarding the cracks for GTA4 , it appears that Rockstar has put several trapdoors into the game. For instance, car handling is ridiculously poor, camera is SHAKY..e.t.c , or so I've heard if you use a cracked EXE. Pretty neat way to protect the game, but I also heard someone figured out a way around those safeguards as well.

IIRC, the game Godfather had a similar system which prevented you from exiting the car if you used a cracked exe.

Anyway, these new types of protection methods seem to be the way to go. Operation Flashpoint's FADE protection was an interesting attempt but ultimately futile (For those of you who don't know, FADE automatically degrades the performance of the game to a point where it's no longer playable)

I hope I don't get banned for just speaking about Rockstar's anti-cracking safeguards -_-

Well in my case its a question of if the game will even run, the major components of my computer are over 5 years old...

Ouch.... I do hope you have some HD space at least. The game occupies 13 GB I believe. I'll have to clear a tonne of movies and games just to have it on my poor HD :( . But, like the rest of these newly released games.. I'll wait for a while until it's properly patched (Fallout 3 being the rare exception, it's relatively bug free). Rockstar did a lousy job of porting the game to the PC.

It needs a patch and Rockstar confirmed a patch because here in Germany 80% of the customers who bought it yesterday don't get it to run.

read more here
http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=58000
and here
http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,6...atch_en-route/

Yawn. GTA has always been boring. What else is there after you have taken a bus on a joy ride? I guess some people like dark games. It fits their personality.

-S

I skipped all of GTA and bought Mafia instead. i loved its storyline.

GTA 1 - 2 where Fun with the sillyness the game was included, loved to play those back then.
GTA 3 was nice due the 3D world.

but the rest of the GTA is overdone, its the same thing but your character and surrounding is changing.

HunterICX

Except the #4, that's actually darn good. :yep:

Couldn't agree more, actually (Even though I haven't played 4)

I'm waiting for Mafia 2 to come out next year, hope it's as good as the first one

Mafia is a classic, way better than any GTA. (Havent played number four, probably wont)

I heard on the grapevine that the famed 200k copy protection scheme of GTA IV has been sent to Davy Jones' locker by a 26kb crack file. Well done, Rockstar! Now if you'd only spent that money on giving us a better port, because from what I've read.. people are crying foul over the poor job you guys did porting the game.

Mafia 2 is what I'm waiting for.

I dont know when they gonna get it. They can make a copy protection that sends your PC flying to Mars, and it's cracked. If it's man made, another man can crack it. Simple as that. I've seen tons of "new" and "uncrackable" CP's get cracked in matter of 24hrs. Only way to be sure is something like Steel Beast Pro has, a hardware. Software is ALWAYS crackable, no matter what.

And as for those who say GTA still is the same, well, I see you havent even played the 4th one. How about judging when you actually have played the game?`I can forsee what Mafia 2 will be, GTA copy (just like Mafia 1) with another story line. You cant say that Mafia wasnt a copy of GTA. If you say "Oh, GTA 1, 2 & 3 were nice, then it got repeative", you also have to accept that Mafia 2 will follow the same exact thing. Free roam, with a storyline.

Dont get me wrong, I absolutely loved Mafia! I still reinstall it occasionally, but that's because of the story. But when it comes to gameplay and the area, GTA beats it hands down. And whoever denies that, is a) blind b) has never played c) lies to himself d) all of above.

All I'm asking is, dont judge the game if you havent played it.

Dongles can be broken too, after all there still is the software side to it. It hasn't been done to steel beasts pro as no one can be bothered to for such a niche game.

Anyhow I like the GTA series and ill probably like this one too. I also like mafia but it was hardly the perfect game, and was way to linear (though a very good story)

This sums it up as how I see it. Mafia was very very very very very good game, but too linear. One thing I liked about it was the wounded enemies that tried to crawl away, shooting them with the Colt 1911 had that real Mafia style to it, it's the cruelness of it "being just business".

My adventure with GTA4 will have to wait, since my pc is too weak for it to handle :(
Damn this financial crysis and pc hardware prizes :x