Grand Theft Auto IV Spoilers

[Sage]

Wow. More stations than any other game, and almost all of the music sucks.

That's a huge disappointment. I thought with their immense budget they could liscense a few good bands.

Other than that, my only qualm is that the camera whilst driving is... wrong. The car is off-set to the right for reasons inexplicable from my point of view, and it's overly cinematic.

Driving has become a lot more realistic, so it's just my fault that I keep overshooting my intersections, since I'm trying to corner at 300 mph like I did in the old games.

Combat has proven somewhat irksome. It seems almost impossible to have an epic police standoff like you could in the last games without getting cut down in ten seconds, but maybe that's deliberate. It also has a lot to do with me sucking at it right now. XD

The game presents itself with a far more polished look than any GTA before it, and when I first starting wandering the city, I realized that Rockstar was really trying to make this thing epic. Everything just looks so cool.

And the cars are so much more lifelike than before. It's soooo easy to tell what their real-life counterpart is now. There's minor variations, but it's obvious when you spot a Grand National or a Prius. You can spot a Corvette a mile away, same with a McLaren F1.

While I'm sure manufacturers are irked with the fact that R* made it brutally obvious what the car was and then tweaked tiny stuff to avoid paying for liscensing fees, I love it. Half of my fun has been going "oh, look! That's a <whatever>! Cool!!"

I've been farting around a lot. Wandering about drunk is pretty darn funny. Cars seem a lot tougher in this game, too. Either that or I'm just not abusing them like I used to.

I'm having a blast. I totally get into this game. It's been a long time since I could get sucked into a game like this. That right there tells me it's better than most. With any luck, it gets better. There's a lot of stuff Waff and Burt have been talking about that I can't do yet, and it sounds pretty cool. Just have to wait and see, I guess.

Just thoughts off the top of my head.