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Wot no GTA thread? Well here you go then.

So who will be purchasing this? Has anyone got it on pre-order and where is the bestest place on all the interweb to purchase it from?

I will be, although I need to complete Lost Odyssey then buy and complete Rainbow 6 LV2 first.

I will most definitely be purchasing it (although making myself wait to play it until I've finished LCS and VCS), but I want to wait for comparative reviews of the PS3 and 360 versions. It does sound like the 360 will be the winner, with extra downloadable bits.

I'll be getting this on release day. I just hope it's good.

I've preordered it from hmv.co.uk, as there's 1000 XBLA points free when you do.

Will they deliver for launch day (or the day after)? I'd really like to avoid witnessing the depressing scenes buying San Andreas with queues comiing out of the door of Game, completely made up of fucktard parents buying it for their sub 10 year old ankle biters...I hope they all get the Mendez brothers treatment, that'll learn 'em, learn 'em good.

I dunno. All the coverage I've read makes it sound like some of the gleeful anarchic fun that's made the GTA series worth playing has been knocked out of the game in favour of the misguided pursuit of "realism".

On the other hand it's Grand Theft Auto 4, man. How far wrong can they have gone?

Likewise. Although I did have a £20 voucher for Gamestation given to me by a colleague for fixing her wi-fi (fnarr) so I don't know whether to just get it from Gamestation for £20 instead of £40, and STILL get 500 free points.

Or to just get TDU with the voucher instead.

I'll wait to see which is the better version, and then buy a console accordingly. Damn those system selling apps!

I remember queuing for an hour and a half at Game's midnight launch of San Andreas, then staying up all night to play it.
As for GTA:IV, i've had it preordered for ages.Can't wait.

You WILL BUY a 360 for shooting and racing on live. Mister.

So, what format will this new game be on?

Might be a while before I get it as I don't have a "next-gen" console and I doubt there is going to be an Atari 7800 version.

360. It will have DLC and stuff - 'episodes' even, supposedly - that the PS3 will either never have or will not for a long, long time after. Microsoft paid millions for the added edge to get people buying GTAIV on 360.

The 360 also has TDU, therefore it is the best console.

I rather suspect that you are all correct. Stuff like TDU is so far up my street, it has adopted my home address.

I'm going to wait and see what everyone else says. I'm more than a mite suspicious due to the almost total lack of in-game footage/screenshots amidst all the promotional guff that Rockstar have been churning out. It makes me think they're trying to hide something.

i will probably buy it., but not when it's released,. because after the wii games of this month my time/money for games is a bit up... and i'm a gta-virgin so i'll have to buy it when i have the time to dedicate to it...

this series never did anything for me. These games look crap. All of them!

I'm waiting for it to come out so I can see what it's like first. I loved Vice City (it's my favourite GTA) but San Andreas left me cold to be honest. To much faffing about for my tastes. I much preferred Saint's Row to GTA:SA.

I will of course be getting the funsquare superplus version if I do decide to get it.

I have no intention of getting this game at the moment.

After reading the hundredth gushing post after you all buy it and rejoice in its awesomeness, I might change my mind.

Curiosity speaks for me (In this matter, at least)

GTAIV. Jee-tave?

Queues? I walked into Tesco Extra in Gabalfa on launch day and ON A WHIM remembered it was out and grabbed a copy from the incredibly well-stocked shelf. We then played it until all of Big Smoke's talk of fried chicken prompted me to go back out to get some (fried chicken).

Also, do you mean 'Menendez brothers'?

Also also, the most recent trailer (the fourth one) has made the game look appealing in a way that the previous three haven't - perhaps due to the fact that it seems to contain something other than just cutscene clips.

I'll be buying the PS3 version from Tescos on launch day.

As much as I think the 360 is a fine gaming machine with several games I'd love to own and play, the noise and ongoing hardware issues trump any amount of anti-aliasing it might be capable of, at least for me.

I have had a double-pay month, and am considering getting a PS360 and a smallish (say 19-20") HDTV to play GTAIV on. As such I need to be reading up on HDTV and all thse 81080p/i and whatnot, and checking if you can buy a 360 that doesn't blow up yet.

/edit what, if anything, would be wrong with this, for example:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/118990

I'm looking to use it with the consoles for a couple of years then it can be a monitor when I get a new PC.

19" widescreen LCD monitor = £120ish.
Premium* Xbox = £200
GTA IV = £40ish.

You'll be looking at about £360, but that does include game, console, and screen - I played mine off my monitor for a year, and it was lush.

Playing games online with all your bezzie mates = priceless.

* includes hard drive. The Arcade model is £160, but you'll kick yourself later for the lack of a hard drive - no, really, GTA IV will be utilising it for funky 360-only, non-PS3 downloadable extra missions n' stuff.

Actually-worth-it FTFY

the best deal for a premium 360 surely has to be the amazon deals at the moment.

£190 for the console itself but then they've got loads of add on deductions of games and stuff such as....

GTA 4 for £25
Halo 3 for £10
Assassins Creed or Burnout Paradise or Fifa Street 3 or The Simpsons Game for £20 (you can only get 1 i think) (you need a code aswell but its on the xbox amazon page)
and the wireless pack(forza 2, viva pinata, wireless pad) for £25

total-£270

This.

Owning both a ps3 and an xbox, there is no way I'd recommend getting a ps3 over an xbox.

This.

This console lark all seems jolly expensive. I felt guilty spending 14 quid on a second hand copy of the PS2 F1 game last month!

Perhaps when the Xbox 2 is closer to 100 quid I'll take a look at it.

Chinny is me. Except I have better taste in games.

MrD, if I worked where you were, I'd be feeling quite next-genned-out too, I'm sure.

I was going to get an Elite 360, because they are less likely to blow up. The games I really want are Orange Box, Gears of War, Test Drive, Oblivion Halo 3, CoD4, Rez, Sensi, Space Giraffe, Dead Rising, Crackdown and that sort of thing - mostly cheaper stuff now.

Amazon also do the elite console with those extra deals i posted so it would still be good for halo 3 and GTA4.
Id still recommend the wireless pack just to get a pad, and then trad in the 2 games you get with it.

Otherwise im sure dvd.co.uk sell them for £18.

Also good place to find cheapest games

http://www.paidpeanuts.co.uk/site/

That screen will be just fine.

I'm hoping they don't take more than 6 months to port this to the PC. Piracy is so rampant on the platform these days the publishers don't have much interest in the platform. I don't want to have to buy a 360 for another year or so.

I'm definately looking forward to it. I think the fact that there was so much content in San Andreas meant alot of dull dialogue and badly designed missions got into the mix that weren't in the more focussed VC and GTA3. They had to fill that big gameworld somehow.

Presumably, you own the magical 360 that doesn't sound like a hairdryer and won't experience the RROD within 18 months.

Don't get me wrong, I think that the 360 currently has a far better software lineup than the PS3. And that put side-by-side, a multiplatform game usually runs better on a 360 than a PS3.

So what? The difference is usually marginal, but the PS3 is near-silent and unlikely to break.

I'd be first in the queue for a 360 that matches the hardware characteristics of the PS3, but there's no way I'm going to hold my breath.

Microsoft are a software company and it shows.

My magical 360 isn't overly loud and is a launch machine with a manufacture date of 2005.

It's still trucking, and has no rrod's to speak of.

Of course it's nearing the end of it's 3 year extended warranty so if it's going to do it it had better do it soon.

Yeah, but if there's only a fifth (hypothetical estimate) of the number of decent games, who cares if the PS3's quieter?

I've played pretty much all of the PS3 exclusives so far, and they've all been damned fun, but nothing special, and certainly not on a par with Crackdown or Dead Rising to name but two. And up until recently a lot of the ports were shockingly poor (Rainbow Six Vegas for instance - playing that on the ps3 after playing it on the 360 is truly embarassing).

Okay, so that's changing now, but the machine with far more decent and more outstanding exclusive titles is surely the best games machine regardless of the admittedly dodgy hardware? Especially as it's only a large minority of the machines that break, not all of them as people like to suggest (which is still awful, obviously, but let's keep it in perspective). And I've genuinely never noticed the noise (except when someone's on the phone or whatever and I have to turn the sound off for a few minutes) because as long as the machine's on I'll be playing something.

The PS3 is an impressive bit of hardware design. But my kettle probably is as well - I really don't care as long as it makes nice tea.

I now own a more modern 360, which is much quieter than the launch models. And my first 360 lasted well over 18 months (and I think I have a good idea why it died)

The fact of the matter is that my ps3 rarely gets used. My 360 rarely has a day where it doesn't get used (Indeed, since I got the replacement one, I don't think there has been a day I haven't played something on it)
When the 360 died, I couldn't wait to get another. If my ps3 had died, I don't think I'd bother getting another.

Given that, how could I recommend a ps3?

Im pretty sure all the new 360s are the new reliable ones aren't they? Im sure a HDMI port is a clear sign of a new model.

teh 'p33-c3ss-turd' iz teh lolz0r

Because it's turned off and nobody ever touches it.

Seriously, this is a dealbreaker for me.



And I *absolutely* agree. You've mentioned two games right there I'd LOVE to play, straight off the bat. If you'd have mentioned 'Eternal Sonata' you'd have gotten the hat trick in one swell foop .

I'd love to love the 360 like so many obviously do. But the current hardware is shite, and the older machines are orders-of-magnitude worse.

It's a real shame, but it's just how I feel.

Meh, it's a fair response. If MS hadn't rushed the hardware they may have made up a lot of sales by now (and lost fewer customers who got pissed off with the hardware faults and initially poor support and ended up getting a PS3 or Wii instead), especially as the PS3 took so long to come out.

*badum tish*

I once left my PS3 on for 5 days running Folding@Home. In my living room. I didn't notice. Even though I watched at least one TV programme in said room every day...

Seriously... Love the games, not the hardware.

I'm jealous of the 360's catalogue, but I just can't bring myself to buy one until the hardware problems are sorted out.

That MS don't particularly seem to care doesn't help either.

You won't notice a 360 either if it's not spinning a disc.

You probably would, though. Bigger lights, and all. None of that really irritating fake off button stuff.

I might have to investigate this statement further.

Seriously, my son's 360 is LOUD. It's about a year-to-eighteen months old now, so it's not the latest revision, and it's starting to get flaky (switching it on/off sorts out most problems, although 'incidents' are becoming more frequent).

Then again, we might have different tolerances for Acceptable Noise.

And I'm still inclined to wait for the 45nm GPU.