Northland last night was pretty crazy . . . couple hundred people in line. It certainly wasn't necessary, but I had a great deal of fun before I went to bed. To me it was well worth it. I just needed to sit down and give it a whirl for a few hours . . . work would have crawled by extra slow today if I hadn't.
So far I'm incredibly impressed by the game. I've only really done the first few missions (which in every gta are mind-blowingly tedious) so I spent an hour driving people around, learning to fight etc.
The little details and physics are what impress me the most so far. Upon finding a locked car door, it's very satisfying to be able to hold down the 'open' button and throw a boot through the window. When running down pedestrians it's nice to see them realistically fly up onto the hood and get kicked off the windshield (or try and hold on).
Before I went to bed I beat up a cop and stole his gun just to see how the shooting went. In the 25 seconds I had to play with it (before 10 cops mowed me down with shotguns) it felt really cool. Looking forward to being able to buy guns. The aiming was so much better than gta games of old.
I liked the driving. At the beginning you generally only drive beaters, so that wasn't as cool. The times I was able to find a motorbike and a sports car were incredible though.
I jumped online before bed and was pleasantly surprised how smooth it all seemed. I realize it was 2:30 in the morning and the server wasn't probably getting hit too hard, but I was still really impressed at how the game didn't seem to change. Played the mode where there are cars stashed with drugs and it's a mad dash to get them to a drop off point. Only played one game but I was laughing pretty hard at the end of it.
Necessary? No. Fun? Hell yes.
Rhettzky: Were you able to get the deal on the system? I noticed last night they had a stack of systems with GT: Prologue at the tills.
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