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    Gta IV Hands On

    Well it's hands on time!!!!!!!!!
    The Playstation Magazine guys have gotten their hands on a copy of GTA IV and they have played through 7 missions in 4 hours.

    The PS3's version seems to be exactly the same visually as it's 360 counterpart
    - The frame rate on the ps3 version is extremely smooth
    - Niko's clothes get bloodier after you take more and more damage
    - You can ring 911 to get the police, ambulance or fire brigade
    to create a diversion or simply steal their car and anything else you can foster up
    - When you fail a mission, you receive a text message asking whether you want to replay the mission, even a 'skip trip' feature is included
    - Multiplayer will be accessed from the phone
    - The phone can also be used for messageing, photos, reminders and music.
    - R1 will be the 'into cover' button for the ps3, many variations of getting into cover apply
    - You can dangle from Helicopters, just like vans and trucks
    - When your about to die it fades into black and white, just like in gears of war and uncharted.
    - Ne-Yo and R Kelly were heard on the radio
    - 18 radio stations available
    - Niko is able to ask the cab driver to change the radio station
    - Niko pays the cabbie double (which adds up to $39) to speed up
    - Bums on the street ask for money, you have the ability to give them money
    - Niko raises his arms when cops try to 'bust him' out of say a car, but he can move freely and can run or retaliate
    - The first hands-on minutes of the game are enough to understand how the game is gonna kick ass.
    - The city have a lot of streets of any genre.
    - You cannot enter in all the buildings, but you can interact with most of them.
    - No property gestion, neither gang gestion nor trade gestion.
    - Instead of that, we'll have bowling, dart games, drinking spree in pub, strip-club and night club.
    - The core of GTA IV is all about the human relationship.
    - Sometimes, your contacts may call you during hard mission to ask you a service, you choose between the mission or your contact.
    - If you do sh*t with your contact, you may assume the consequences.
    - The impression of a breathing city is, again, absolutely stunning.
    - The density of the population (peds) change between the place/borough you are.
    - If you walk around the street with a gun in your hand, peds who have a cellphone can call the police.
    - While we tried to high-jack a car, the scared bastard go so fast that he hit 2 cars.
    - During the first mission, we tried to high jack a car without gun, then the driver beat up niko, who finished at the hospital.
    - Peds react in a very realistic way, like they lead their own life.
    - We played seven missions during four hours, the devs tell us that it's a very very small portion of the game.
    - 15 minutes necessary to go through 2/3 of manhattan with a boat, and 10 minutes by car to do brooklyn/central park.
    - The cars can be destroyed very realisticly, every parts can fold, it's stunning !
    - More variety of missions, and hard.
    - The game is done, clipping has gone, and the game is super smooth.
    - Forget about every other gta-like that tried to compete GTA IV, that game kick ass.
    - If you press the jump bouton, niko can climb everywhere, you can also move straft left or right while you're hung at something (assassin's creed style).
    - There is swimming club.
    - If you have 5 stars, it's very difficult to escape from the cops, they are everywhere and they don't joke with you and this time, they are really clever.
    - While boat trip, the sfx are awsome, you can hear the sound of the waves that beat the cockle of the boat, wonderful !
    - With powerful weapons, you can shoot through the walls.
    - The weather : we've seen fog, rain, sun, clouds, variety of colours depend of what time it is, soo beautiful.
    - This time around, for the first time in a gta, if you die you go to the hospital and you paye $100, but you keep all of your weapons.
    - But if we go to jail, we must pay a lot more and we no more have our weapons .
    - While you are drunk, it's very difficult to control niko, the drunk sensation is perfectly done.
    - When we steal a car to a ped, he can hung his car and they are gliding on the road (like a sh*t lol).
    - When we make a crime, choppers arrive with searchlights to follow you through the city.
    - We've seen some strip tease in a prositute club, by paying the chicks.
    - after a big crash on the freeway, niko get ejected through the window and he lost some health.
    - Depend on wich bourogh you are, peds speak different language if they are italian, chinese, or bronx dude.
    - Healthkits are available only in the buildings.
    - Grenades and cocktail molotov's sfx and effects are really stunning!
    If you can understand some of that then it's really does look like it's gonna live up to the hype.

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    Re: Gta IV Hands On

    sounds awesome! is there an estimated release sector yet?

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    Re: Gta IV Hands On

    Quote Originally Posted by Prime View Post
    sounds awesome! is there an estimated release sector yet?
    End of April I thought....

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    Re: Gta IV Hands On

    For me this is THE game I have been waiting for - I for one cannot wait till the 29th April

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    Re: Gta IV Hands On

    Is that article written by the UK people?

    The language used is atrocious:
    - When we steal a car to a ped, he can hung his car and they are gliding on the road (like a sh*t lol).
    - When we make a crime, choppers arrive with searchlights to follow you through the city.
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    Re: Gta IV Hands On

    I want to get it, but I'll wait for the PC release.
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    Japanese businessmen leave New York happy...
    - We've seen some strip tease in a prositute club, by paying the chicks.

    Hahahahhahahaaa, awesome. I really hope this wasn't from their UK office!

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    Re: Gta IV Hands On

    I think Niko himself wrote the article. LOLingly bad English.

    Still, GTA IV is going to be bigger than oxygen, light and water. Well, Halo 3 anyway. Drooling in anticipation.
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    Re: Gta IV Hands On

    Can't wait for this, Absolutely loved all the GTA games. One of the Greatest series ever created IMO.
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    Re: Gta IV Hands On

    GTA list of features:
    *in Soviet Russia, Car Drives You!

    bring on the pain!!! GOOOORANGA!!!!!

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