GTA IV reviews #1: UK Official Xbox 360 Magazine gives it 10/10
Hmm, well, it doesn't come as that much of a surprise to see an official magazine giving a Triple-A Very Important Video Game 10/10 these days, especially when it's a World Exclusive, but it's still good to see a 10/10 attached to GTA IV in some way.
The OXM review says GTA IV's new storyline is ace, the game looks brilliant, it's huge and the multiplayer rocks. it is all intact and as good as we've been hoping, basically. Thank god for that.
The only criticisms OXM made were to do with the Gears of War-inspired cover system - which apparently gets a bit confused when there are too many bins, burning cars and dead bodies around, plus it says the weapon lock-on system's perhaps a bit too generous. We can live with that.
Also, OXM says the Xbox 360 exclusive downloadable missions will last for about 10 hours - which is a damn huge extra chunk of GTA. All we need now is to see GTA IV get, say, 7/10 from a PlayStation magazine. That's the ULTIMATE DREAM!
The latest issue of OXM with the GTA IV review goes on sale this week. Probably on Thursday. It's usually Thursdays.
(Via NeoGAF)
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your a fag dude, why dis the PS3 version. the game was made for ps2, M$ had to pay billions to get it released on your 1 in 3 fail rate shit-box, you gonna cry when PS3 & their blu-ray games start running over your crappy out-dated old dvd format that holds like 4 gig compared to Blu rays 50 gig. what a fag m$ fanboy you are. please
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Posted by: Campbell | April 14, 2008 8:35 PM
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Posted by: Campbell | April 14, 2008 8:37 PM
your a fucking cunt mate, lik my 9 u prick, ure a total fag, why cus the PS3 version of gta iv. the game was made for ps1 and ps2, Micro$oft had to pay bout 150 billion to get it released on your 1 in 3 fail rate shit-box, you gonna cry when PS3 & their blu-ray games start runningover your crappy out-dated old shitty dvd format that holds like 1 byte compared to Blu rays 50 gig. what a fag. cunt of a micro$oft fanboy you are. ps3 will get like 1,000,000 out of 10. so lik my shitty ring u scabby fag go home anf fuck ureself. GTA iv is made for PS3 so fuck ure mum
Posted by: XBOX360 CAN LIK MY 9 | April 14, 2008 9:13 PM
Well... seing how nobody backed you up on this story i figured i would write an agreement. Sure the xbox 360 does have a huge failure rate but that really has nothing to do with the games you play so anyone of you dumbasses who come on here trash talking the system can just shut up. Anyways just cause the PS3 doesn't have as high of a failure rate doesn't mean the games play better on it, it's basically been like 1/2 of the games released on both systems play better on the 360. SO TAKE THAT YOU EQUATION LOVING JACKASSES!
Posted by: kyle | April 14, 2008 10:25 PM
Ok short and sweet in order ;)
1) Dont bash the ps3, why cant people learn bashing a console is just asking your comments board to be flooded with fanboy rants, so either dont do it again or give up your day job.
2) To the sony fans STFU, you come here complaining about his article which i can understand yet you all go as low as him and start coming out with shit about the 360.
3) the 360 can handle 9gbs of data, with a faster reading speed, vs the ps3. The ps3 needs that extra space becouse it stores multiple copies of the game to improve reading times (first gen blueray = shitty reading speed)
3 again before sony fans moan im jsut pointing out facts, maybe in the near future we will see games taking proper advantage of the ps3s extra storage.
4) Kyle, is kinda right but also kinda wrong majority of the multi platform games up until the end of LAST year were generally better made for the 360, but with a year advantage and with a easy architect that advantage is dropping with every multi release.
5) Sony fans what can you claim sony has actually accomplished with the ps3 (other than blueray) over the ps2?
It will never see the sells numbers hit 100 million and both wii and 360 have gained ground, so to speak sony is loosing in the next gen for games battle, but then again they are gaining in the entertainment thanks to blueray.
6) Enougher point to shut sony fans up and i hate pointing this out as i have all 3 consoles and play each of them equally.
Xbox 360 attachment rate is better than wii and ps3 combined, and when you consider both ps3 and wii total number of consoles sold is what 14 million more than 360? you have to give the 360 a applause for that.
and to be fair on the sony fans i will say 360 fanboys stfu aswell, the ps3 is here to stay and after the first 2 years it is now playing catchup!
Posted by: Ben | April 15, 2008 1:12 AM
Ok short and sweet in order ;)
1) Dont bash the ps3, why cant people learn bashing a console is just asking your comments board to be flooded with fanboy rants, so either dont do it again or give up your day job.
2) To the sony fans STFU, you come here complaining about his article which i can understand yet you all go as low as him and start coming out with shit about the 360.
3) the 360 can handle 9gbs of data, with a faster reading speed, vs the ps3. The ps3 needs that extra space becouse it stores multiple copies of the game to improve reading times (first gen blueray = shitty reading speed)
3 again before sony fans moan im jsut pointing out facts, maybe in the near future we will see games taking proper advantage of the ps3s extra storage.
4) Kyle, is kinda right but also kinda wrong majority of the multi platform games up until the end of LAST year were generally better made for the 360, but with a year advantage and with a easy architect that advantage is dropping with every multi release.
5) Sony fans what can you claim sony has actually accomplished with the ps3 (other than blueray) over the ps2?
It will never see the sells numbers hit 100 million and both wii and 360 have gained ground, so to speak sony is loosing in the next gen for games battle, but then again they are gaining in the entertainment thanks to blueray.
6) Enougher point to shut sony fans up and i hate pointing this out as i have all 3 consoles and play each of them equally.
Xbox 360 attachment rate is better than wii and ps3 combined, and when you consider both ps3 and wii total number of consoles sold is what 14 million more than 360? you have to give the 360 a applause for that.
and to be fair on the sony fans i will say 360 fanboys stfu aswell, the ps3 is here to stay and after the first 2 years it is now playing catchup!
Posted by: Ben | April 15, 2008 1:13 AM
Strange to see another UK publisher get a world-exclusive on a AAA game. Though the Rockstar games have all been developed in Britain.
Posted by: Jacklee | April 15, 2008 5:02 AM
'XBOX360 CAN LIK MY 9' - you seriously need to get a life.
Why can't people like each console for its uniqueness, rather than become a fanboy? *sigh*
So anyway, it looks like it's gonna be a decision between the 10 hours of extra gameplay for the X360, or the less cartoony colours and slightly better framerate on PS3. It's a PITA to have to make such a choice =(
Posted by: Dave | April 17, 2008 12:39 PM
" 4 gig compared to Blu rays 50 gig. what a fag m$ fanboy you are. please"
I think you will find the DVD9 format which is the 360 format holds a more than sufficient 8.5gb's and no game has yet to use all of that capacity (with the possible exepction of this one[we will see when the torrents are out]). On the contrary this is proof of the white elephant nature of yet another useless disc format from sony. GTAIV is bigger on the 360 because it combines stellar software compression on the DVD9 with downloadble extras. Soon all games will be delivered entirely through broadband not through yet another itteration of the obselete comapct disc.
Posted by: Tony Richards | April 20, 2008 9:39 PM







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