The big VR game review

OhIsee.

I just found one with assorted games in amongst the rubble my old college sent me.

It's not mine, but since they lost half my stuff, I'm keeping it.

How'd you use it/is it any good/should I just eBay it instead?

IT'SNOTMYFAULTTECHNOLOGYDOESN'TLIKEME.

after buying Army of Two for PS3, can I just say..

EA sucks

playing online with other companies games normally involves selecting Play Online and pressing X. With nearly every EA game i try to play online, i have to change settings on my router or turn of the firewall. I've still never been able to play Fifa08 or Skate online, now i'm having trouble with Army of Two. I tried setting up that port forwarding stuff like how I got Team Fortress 2 to work, now its telling me I cant because its too similar to the numbers i used for TF2. So why wont it work

I know its probably because EA have so many games that they may need to do this in order to facilitate as many games and people as possible, but seriously, f*cking sort it out EgAy

it wasnt overly great (finished it in just over a day) so thats why i'm trying to see what the online is like. If its cack i'll probably just trade it in

I quite enjoy it when theres only a small squad on your side and loads of the enemy, makes it more tense and really makes you need to react quickly. CoD3s the best for that specially as a sniper.

b*gger im not getting gta till wednesday, bah amazon

Early first impressions of;

Title: Grand Theft Auto IV
Format: PS3
Genre: 3rd Person Crime Sandbox
Basic plot: Inspired by his cousin Roman's tales, former soldier Niko Bellic arrives in Liberty city primarily to follow the American dream. At least that's what he tells his cousin Roman, but it soon becomes evident that there could be more to Niko's motives than first meets the eye.

Niko is a troubled soul who seems genuinally tormented by his murky past. His dreams of starting afresh on the unforgiving streets of Liberty City are to be dashed the minute his cousin Roman pulls up in a clapped out old black cab and takes him back to the rather small and dingy 'mansion'. A decrepid hovel where the rats and roaches are almost as big as Roman's bullsh*t. And this is all before his cousin's loan shark debts inevitably draws our anti-hero back towards a life of violence and organised crime.

Hows it play: Everything's had an overhaul since SA. The Cars are heavier and more realistic. You can no londer hand break tun around every corner at 80 miles an hour and have to take them a lot more sensibly. The new cover system, well not perfect, is a great addition to the game, making for some pretty cool shoot outs between you and the filth/other criminals.

You can run and leap small fences in one fluid motion which is pretty cool and the targetting system is much improved from previous incarnations. The fighting takes a bit of getting used to but it's more realistic, you do miss punches just like in a real fight. Driving when p*ssed is not good if you suffer from sea sickness.

It's pretty easy to avoid the cops till you get 3 stars and then it becomes tricky. The europhia engine behind the physics is just as good as it has been made out When you spin the camera around quickly there's blur just like if you were to physically spin your head around.

I don't want to give away to much. If you got it or getting, you will definitely enjoy it.

Graphics: True next gen. Not the best looking next gen game there is, but I haven't got an HDTV and the detail of the city is immense.

Fun factor: Everything you'd expect from a GTA game.

length: No idea yet. It depends on the pace you take it really, but there's just over 90 missions and that's only just over 60% of the game.

Deaths: The sky is the limit.
Soundtrack: Too much to mention, but it is very good.
Highlight: Building relationships with people and there's still so much I haven't experience. Hitting people in the car or just shooting someone in the head to see euphoria at work is rewarding.
Lowlight: very slight and rare frame rate issues when things get a bit hectic, but it's hardly even noticeable when it does happen and it happened twice for fractions of a second in 6 hours of gameplay.

My Score: 9.6/10

It is a nice bit of kit, I definitely am really impressed with the fan, especially living in a small flat with thin walls and the sound travels badly at night so I won't be so paranoid playing it in the wee small hours. I still prefer the look and feel of the 360 though and wish some of the titles on that machine were avaliable on the PS3. Mainly GOW, Halo 3, Dead Rising, The Darkness, Saints Row, Bioshock and Crackdown.

Will have to invest in COD4 in the next few days as well as MGS4 and Haze when they come out. I must admit I'm a big fan of free radical so Haze I'm looking forward to, as well as the fact they've announced Time Splitters 4 which I loved. The online multiplayer on Timesplitters 3 was very addictive.

[highlight]That Michelle bird is blatantly an undercover copper.[/highlight]

In sharing play with someone for about 3-4 hours, that became obvious. I'll be very surprised if she's not.

It does get pretty damn dark, but I think it adds to the overall realism and atmosphere of the city. Michelle was pretty easy to please at first, I just changed my clothes and car everytime I popped around there, but then on the way to a bar after niko had already nailed the sl*t, I made the mistake of slipping on the controller and firing off a couple shots out the window. Severely messed my chances up.

I wish there was an option to shoot her in the face with a shotgun.

I got my copy of gta on release day only to end up with a sodding dodgy disk that makes the graphics go f*cked all the time, i tried every picture setting and option under the sun so its defo the ruddy disk grrr, now ill have to wait two weeks for a replacement

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[highlight]That Michelle bird is blatantly an undercover copper.[/highlight]

In sharing play with someone for about 3-4 hours, that became obvious. I'll be very surprised if she's not.

Nah. [highlight]You're just paranoid, just because she's asking questions about what kind of work you do and any crooks that may be in places you both visit... I just Thinks shes a very wary type. [/highlight]

Im just glad you change mobile phones later on, the lack of a backlight on the starting one really p*ssed me off, I could barely read messages on it.

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Nah that didn't bother me. The bit that made me ears prick up is that she lives in a sh*thouse part of town, but all her stuff is brand new, and her apartment is immaculately clean.[/highlight]

Aye. [highlight]I was thinking, no don't hand over the coke, shoot the b*tch in the face and take off, but alas it wasn't to be.[/highlight]

I'm even more p*ssed off with the friends. Brucie called [highlight]to take a chopper over to buzz one of the buildings[/highlight] and from where I was I literally flew through the streets, precision driving all the way and he still was f*cked off because I was late. To make matters worse I slightly clipped the particular vehicle we were riding in [highlight]on landing, just the tail[/highlight] and it said vehicle is damaged and his liking of me is now down to 57%. I'd rather just execute the prick and not bother with him.