GTA IV; Good Game or Just Good Gimmicks?

Today I have mostly been playing my sexy copy of GTA IV. I have been enjoying myself. I went bowling, watched TV, listened to the radio and went on a date. Then I tried playing the game and it all went a bit, well, average.

Please, please don’t just think I am insulting the game. I know I usually sound like I don’t like anything, but I do. I just also seem to notice the negative things more. I’m a passionate gamer and I expect a lot from the games I pay my money for. I will try to keep this brief.

The hand to hand combat is terrible. It feels slow and awkward. Guns are fine, not up to the standard of a game like Crackdown, but alight. Why I need 3 buttons when 1 will do, I still don’t understand.

Corners. As it happens, I would like to go around them sometimes. Don’t give me any bullshit about me not being a good driver. If you have played as many driving games as me, you can not help but notice that GTA’s cars are ‘œdifferent’.

Why can’t I have a start menu? Why, when I want to play multiplayer, do I have to go through so many loading screens. Besides the fact it’s about 2 inches wide, it is totally pointless. At least give me an option to have a proper start menu.

Apart from those specifics, I can’t help but feel I’m just travelling through cut scenes. Very very good cut scenes I must say, but the in-between bits just feel, dull. I keep finding myself just getting bored. Which is a shame.

I do love the game as a whole. All of the extra stuff is awesome, I just really hope the core of the game becomes what I hope it will and what I know it can be.

Hope, I still has it.

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