GTA IV First Impressions and *fucking* spammers
First off, GTA IV is… well, it’s bloody amazing. Filmic in its visual quality, hilarious as usual and the gameplay is a completely different beast to the older games. Superb. I’m maybe five or six missions in and loving it. A more detailed impressions post to follow, once I’ve had a good explore. Oh, and once I’ve given multiplayer a try.
In other news, some spamming fucker hacked my old blog, Happy Dave, so I’ve had to nuke it, and my photoblog along with it. Four years of posts gone. Seriously kids, keep those Wordpress installs up to date, even for blogs you don’t work on actively anymore. In a way I’m sort of glad - starting this new site on the main davidgoodman.net domain was meant to be a clean break, and now it really is - all gaming (and the odd bit of politics) all the time. Plus I’ve saved the pieces of writing I’m really proud of from Happy Dave over there in the essays section. Still, very annoying. I spent a lot of time building the 200-odd posts there. I think they’ll still be available in the database, if they haven’t been overwritten with spam. One day when it’s not nearly midnight I’ll have a go at recovering them on a vanilla Wordpress install.
I’m a bit further in to the missions (although haven’t touched multiplayer) and am currently sitting at a rating of “ok”.
The presentation and most other things about the game are excellent, but I still think the controls are awful…but that could just be my incredible malcoordinatedness carried over from all the other games in the series…
Tomorrow I have a day off work and I’ll see how it goes. I suspect I will be ranting in depth about GTA soon.
Billy Abbott
1 May 08 at 2:43 am