** Official Grand Theft Auto 4 (GTA4) ** Thread

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Ramma2

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Originally posted by: herkulease
360 people. All that was in the box was the map and city guide right? There's no 1 month trial card like some european version.

I got the 1 month trial card, but I bought the special edition, not sure if that makes a difference.
 

mugs

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Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: herkulease
360 people. All that was in the box was the map and city guide right? There's no 1 month trial card like some european version.

According to this, you get a one-month free trial of Live Gold. It's likely behind the manual in the case.

Just got an email from Jim who?s hard at work unboxing copious copies of GTAIV and he let me know that each copy of the 360 version is going to include a free month of Xbox Live, not the 48 hours that?s usually standard.

Microsoft is both looking to promote the service, and is no doubt looking for redemption after the outages that plagued the end of April/beginning of May.

Fixed :p
 

Queasy

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Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: herkulease
360 people. All that was in the box was the map and city guide right? There's no 1 month trial card like some european version.

According to this, you get a one-month free trial of Live Gold. It's likely behind the manual in the case.

Just got an email from Jim who?s hard at work unboxing copious copies of GTAIV and he let me know that each copy of the 360 version is going to include a free month of Xbox Live, not the 48 hours that?s usually standard.

Microsoft is both looking to promote the service, and is no doubt looking for redemption after the outages that plagued the end of April/beginning of May.

Fixed :p

Heh...we'll see if the upgrades MS made work by this weekend when everyone is playing heavily.
 

VashHT

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Originally posted by: buck
Originally posted by: fanerman91
Originally posted by: VashHT
Went to Best Buy and picked this up at lunch, they had a ton of them left for both systems and plenty of SE's out. I decided to get the 360 version because it lists 2-4 player co-op and the ps3 version does not, not sure if there is really a difference though.

What co-op features does the game have exactly?

Curious about this as well.

Well I'm not sure, I'm stuck at work for a design review so I haven't played it yet. I was reading the manual at work though and noticed they list all the radio stations and song son them in the manual.

EDIT: Just to add I got the 1 month trial card as well, 360 normal version in the US.
 

nycxandy

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Originally posted by: Ramma2
Originally posted by: herkulease
360 people. All that was in the box was the map and city guide right? There's no 1 month trial card like some european version.

I got the 1 month trial card, but I bought the special edition, not sure if that makes a difference.

I got the regular edition and it came with the 1 month trial card as well.
 

herkulease

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Originally posted by: nycxandy
Originally posted by: Ramma2
Originally posted by: herkulease
360 people. All that was in the box was the map and city guide right? There's no 1 month trial card like some european version.

I got the 1 month trial card, but I bought the special edition, not sure if that makes a difference.

I got the regular edition and it came with the 1 month trial card as well.

what the hell I don't have it. Damn you best buy. I dont' think its even worth it to drive back over to best buy and complain.
 

Ramma2

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Originally posted by: herkulease
Originally posted by: nycxandy
Originally posted by: Ramma2
Originally posted by: herkulease
360 people. All that was in the box was the map and city guide right? There's no 1 month trial card like some european version.

I got the 1 month trial card, but I bought the special edition, not sure if that makes a difference.

I got the regular edition and it came with the 1 month trial card as well.

what the hell I don't have it. Damn you best buy. I dont' think its even worth it to drive back over to best buy and complain.

You can have my code if you want it, PM me.
 

MmmSkyscraper

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Originally posted by: hopeless74
aphex twin, cool. what track, hope its digeredoo. bet its windowlicker

It's 'Z Twig' from Selected Ambient Works II. It's on the playlist for The Journey.

They also used it for Niko's trailer.
 

FP

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Originally posted by: hopeless74
aphex twin, cool. what track, hope its digeredoo. bet its windowlicker

come on dualshock 3 players chime in. how is it. i love the rumble on 360, how do they compare

thanks

Sorry, I have been too busy enjoying the game! :)

The multiplayer is much like Burnout... You pull it up on your cell phone and you can either jump in a random "instant" match with 1 player selecting all the options or you can create your own game for your friends. I am still unable to successfully get online however. I can get into an instant match room with 7-10 people but once the game starts I immediately get booted saying everyone left the game.

The rumble is awesome. It really adds to the game especially when you bump cars and run into things. I really like the weight of the dualshock compared to the sixaxis too. The sixaxis features of the game are pretty lame imho. I have already disabled them in favor of the regular analog stick.

My only minor complaint about the game so far is the way Niko looks when he is running sideways... His entire body is tilted and it just looks funny.

The crappy car handling isn't much of an issue for me but I do with they would let you customize the buttons more. I would rather have brake be X and handbrake be L2.
 

mugs

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Originally posted by: kyzen
I also have a trial key I'll give away to the first person who PMs me for it.

Shame I can't apply the time to my existing subscription :(

You may want to hang onto it in case for some reason you want to create another (temporary) account some day. I did that when a friend first got Halo so I could play ranked games with him (of course I COULD play ranked games with him with my regular account, but I was much higher ranked so my friend didn't enjoy it so much)
 
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I got a 1-month Live code with my regular 360 version also. If somebody needs it, let me know.

The online in this game is fun as hell! It's so fucking hilarious, I have to mute my mic just to laugh my ass off.

Was just in a game of GTA race, and of course, I suck. We were racing supercars, and I guess I banged mine around enough to where it just died and wouldn't start. So I ran up the road a little ways and set up a two-car road block, then hopped on top of one of them with my uzi waiting for someone to come by. When you die in GTA race, it restarts you on a little Vespa-like scooter. I saw a guy round the corner, and he saw my supercar that I left sitting there. So he tried to get in it, and he sat there for a few seconds while I was laughing, because I knew he was going anywhere :). Here comes another guy on a scooter around the corner, and decides to challenge the guy for it, so they get into a gun fight, which the second guy won. Then HE got into the car and was confused. LOL I was cracking up so hard.

So once he finally gave up, he comes up the street on his scooter, and I shoot him dead before he can get by. Someone else eventually comes along and kills me, and I get respawned on a scooter. I drive forwards a little bit, and find a guy running around looking for a car, so I dove off the scooter and challenged him to a fist fight for the scooter. LOL So he we are, throwing punches at each other in the middle of the street, and another guy comes along and pulls out a gun, getting ready to shoot us both when the race ended. HAHAHA OMG I couldn't quit laughing. Us two guys in a fist fight during a multiplayer match where we were supposed to be racing was fucking hilarious.
 

kyzen

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Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: kyzen
I also have a trial key I'll give away to the first person who PMs me for it.

Shame I can't apply the time to my existing subscription :(

You may want to hang onto it in case for some reason you want to create another (temporary) account some day. I did that when a friend first got Halo so I could play ranked games with him (of course I COULD play ranked games with him with my regular account, but I was much higher ranked so my friend didn't enjoy it so much)

Actually, out of curiosity, I went to xboxlive.com, logged in, and clicked the "redeem prepaid code" link, and typed in the code.

It didn't give me any error message when I submitted it.

However, I didn't think to check when my time expired before hand, so I can't confirm for sure that it did extend my time by a month.

Anybody with a card still want to give it a shot, and report back the results?
 

Kabob

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Originally posted by: blurredvision
I got a 1-month Live code with my regular 360 version also. If somebody needs it, let me know.

The online in this game is fun as hell! It's so fucking hilarious, I have to mute my mic just to laugh my ass off.

Was just in a game of GTA race, and of course, I suck. We were racing supercars, and I guess I banged mine around enough to where it just died and wouldn't start. So I ran up the road a little ways and set up a two-car road block, then hopped on top of one of them with my uzi waiting for someone to come by. When you die in GTA race, it restarts you on a little Vespa-like scooter. I saw a guy round the corner, and he saw my supercar that I left sitting there. So he tried to get in it, and he sat there for a few seconds while I was laughing, because I knew he was going anywhere :). Here comes another guy on a scooter around the corner, and decides to challenge the guy for it, so they get into a gun fight, which the second guy won. Then HE got into the car and was confused. LOL I was cracking up so hard.

So once he finally gave up, he comes up the street on his scooter, and I shoot him dead before he can get by. Someone else eventually comes along and kills me, and I get respawned on a scooter. I drive forwards a little bit, and find a guy running around looking for a car, so I dove off the scooter and challenged him to a fist fight for the scooter. LOL So he we are, throwing punches at each other in the middle of the street, and another guy comes along and pulls out a gun, getting ready to shoot us both when the race ended. HAHAHA OMG I couldn't quit laughing. Us two guys in a fist fight during a multiplayer match where we were supposed to be racing was fucking hilarious.

See, now I REALLY want it!
 

Yreka

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Wewt, Gamefly just shipped... I had 1 copy each in my Queue PS3 and XBOX, they shipped the 360 version.

I figured I would be waiting quite awhile for this one.
 

Sniper82

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WoW IGN gave it a 10/10 :D. This is the whole reason for me buying a 360, will be playing it as soon as I get the chance.
 

JDub02

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Originally posted by: nycxandy
Originally posted by: Ramma2
Originally posted by: herkulease
360 people. All that was in the box was the map and city guide right? There's no 1 month trial card like some european version.

I got the 1 month trial card, but I bought the special edition, not sure if that makes a difference.

I got the regular edition and it came with the 1 month trial card as well.

same here.
 

Sinsear

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I picked up my copy this morning before I went to work. Seems like it is living up to the hype. I am eagerly anticipating the end of the day so I can get home and start my virtual crime spree.