5 Things that i spent too much time on in GTA.

Tuesday 6 May 2008

I hear a "Where's the GTA review, its been over a week DW, where is it!" from a few people, and to those people, i'm sorry. I tried to power through the story mode so i could hammer out a review, but I got distracted.

Distracted by what you say?

Let me tell you.

5: Cubed "The Game You've Played Before"

This is the Puzzle game on Arcade machines around Liberty City. I first gave this a go while going for the Achievement for getting the high score, and expected a poorly constructed cheap minigame not entirely dissimilar to those you could find in every 7-11 in San Andreas.

I was wrong. Its a well thought out game, and it continues to suck me in for hours. The fact its subtley nestled into a bigger game like GTA speaks volumes about the attention to detail here.

4: Street Racing

Now that the cars in Grand Theft Auto handle like you would expect them too, a particular favourite of mine is to tear up the streets in a high performance sports car, taking on all challengers.

A quick call to Brucie after finishing his mission tree rewards you with a Starting location for your next race. A particularly devious trick i developed for harder races, is to call the Fire brigade to your location before the start of the race, and it will knock all the cars off the road, and screw with the AI pathfinding for the crucial first seconds of the race. Yes, I've spent hours racing my Banshee up on down the Strip.

3: Hanging out with my Buddies.

Sometimes, I feel burnt out on missions, and if i'm in the area, i'll call up my buddies on the in game mobile, "Hey Little Jacob, Want to go play some Darts?" Nico will say, and these casual invites quickly progress into valuable downtime from the missions, where you can watch Ricky Gervais perform, Play pool, Darts, or even take your buddy bowling in the aim of strengthening your relationship with that character.

2: Watching TV

I find myself watching the TV for 5-10 minutes at a time whenever i'm back at my safehouse these days, I'm sure when I have seen all there is for it to offer, then i'll stop watching it, but for now, it sure makes me laugh.

1: Blowing shit up

Well, Lets be honest here fella's. It is a GTA game correct? From day one me and a buddy were holing up in the local cluckin bell with a shotgun and a handful of pistol bullets, and it has only got more and more "adventurous" as my firepower and experience with the top notch combat system has increased, I find myself regularly getting into shootouts with the police, and then tearing across town flinging grenades out of my car window, raining explosive fiery death at every junction.


Thats what i've been doing instead of reviewing the game, and i havent even touched on the Time Drain that is the multiplayer yet.

Labels: GTA4, Original, Xbox360

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