As of 10 minutes ago I’ve got it in my hot little hands but won’t be able to play for another 5 hours or so. Well maybe 5.5 after the 8 GB install.
Gamespot gave it 90 out of 100 but I haven’t read the review because I don’t want spoilers. Under their “The Bad” summary they put: “Politically muddled and profoundly misogynistic, Character behavior is sometimes inconsistent.” Doesn’t sound like enough to knock off 10 points. Politically muddled I can believe, they have 3 different characters and I don’t doubt the plot will emphasize both liberal and conservative viewpoints during different situations. Misogynistic?? It’s GTA, that sort of goes with the territory.
The escapist gave it a 7.0, but they are definitely the outliers. Not that I’m convinced all those 9’s and 10’s aren’t at least a little bit hyped based.
Been watching some of the gameplay videos, and it looks like the world is very well fleshed out with a tone of varied activities to play with.
I ordered mine via the Microsoft store (they were giving 1600 M$ Fun Bucks as a bonus), and chose the standard free shipping, but pleasantly surprised that it was delivered today. I’m going to start the install 90 seconds after arriving home.
Gangsters aren’t really well known for their liberal stance on equal rights for women.
I picked it up on the way home from work. The last copy that wasn’t preordered. But now I have no idea when I’ll be home when no kids will be around so I can play it.
My copy arrived on time today, but I don’t get tho go home to play it - I have to go to Edmonton for work stuff and won’t be back until Friday night. I’m dyyyyyying over here!
I am so hyped for this game. Something that probably sounds bad: looking forward to letting my daughter play it, too. (She’s four.) Before you call Children’s Services, she loves to play GTA IV, but she plays as a model citizen and just explores the open world. She will be so pleased rust you can actually ride the coaster and ferris wheel in Los Santos’ amusement park.
At least she spent a lot of time critiquing/praising the gameplay, and still giving it a good review. The Escapist gave it a 70(!) because they were shocked and appalled that criminals in a game about criminality aren’t nice people. I don’t try to get worked up over bad reviews of things I like, but this review was just retarded. 4 paragraphs on morals, one on gameplay.
I bought the PSN download version from Australia PSN store, played about 6 hours last night. The first three hours is kind of “meh”, the graphics has a lot more aliasing than I was expecting from the screen shots.
But pulling off the first heist, and then when you unlock the third character in the desert… thats when it kicks you how much work has been put into this game. Flying a plane over the mountains gives you a massive sense of scale, and then you realise you can walk or ATV over every square foot for as far as you can see.
There is a LOT to do, and seems like they’ve learned the lessons and taken the best bits of GTA San Andreas / Vice City and IV, dropped the stuff that didn’t work and then added in switching character mechanics to spice it up. The way it switches characters in the middle of some of the missions with seamless story telling is pretty neat.
It autosaves after every mission. Try another game and see if that saves properly.
Also try using your cell phone to make multiple quicksaves in different slots in between missions, try saving 4 or 5 slots after one mission. Then switch the PS3 off and back on and see if your save slots are there or not.
If you try to save over an existing save file, and then back out, it will warn you that doing so will turn off auto saving (you might have missed the warning). It’s probably possible to turn it back on in the menus somewhere, but I haven’t looked. If that fails you can always save at the safehouses by using the bed, and there is a save option in the phone, though I haven’t tried using it so I don’t know how that works.
I hope I’m not the only one who wasted 15 minutes trying to figure out why the “install” disc had no install option on my Xbox before finally trying “play game” and discovering that the game had its own installer.
I’m only a few minutes into the game and it’s very impressive, but I am a bit disappointed in the graphics— not the look itself, but the “jaggies” that are pretty distracting, particularly when driving. I didn’t expect it to look as good as the previews, but the lack of anti-aliasing is a lot more evident in this game than in Red Dead Redemption or Max Payne 3.
I’m sure I’ll acclimate to it, but so far I just keep thinking how awesome the game would look on a higher-end system.
