Since Saints Row 2 is 100% coming to PC Rock* have to bring GTA4 unless they wnat to not make a crap load of money from us PC gamers who will spend it all on SR2 !
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Since Saints Row 2 is 100% coming to PC Rock* have to bring GTA4 unless they wnat to not make a crap load of money from us PC gamers who will spend it all on SR2 !
Also, it has the best game mechanic yet - the handling of the vehicles is perfect, the combat feel more solid and less 'lightweight' than it did in the other games, and other little things like the GPS and the new way of escaping the police make playing it more slick overall.
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IT needs a graphical overhaul, soft shadows turning off option as they are shockingly badly done most obvious when driving under the L-tracks(train tracks) where the checker effect of shadows and all the "soft edges" look ruddy terrible.
THe biggest fix should be doable, more memory, more car models in memory at any time. 360 verison, in a crap car 70% of cars that spawn around are the same with 2-3 equal level quality cars spawning, and almost impossible to find anything good unless at a specific spawn point like the car store just over the bridge. Once you pick up a top end sports car, suddenly every other car is a sports car, its a joke and irritating trying to get good cars. A realistic situation would be keeping your car after missions, so you find a good car and you can keep it unless you blow it up or leave it on purpose.
As for the story, same as what was said above about it being generic dialogue from every samey Mafia flick/tv show in the past 30 years. Boring, cliche'd, awful cut scenes with nothing worthwhile happening in them, nothing memorable and overall the story just didn't even remotely come close to sucking me in. Mostly because the story is just crap, the main theme is stupid, slow and little point behind it. Going around being various peoples *****, murdering anyone for any reason despite hating being in the war and killing people...... makes perfect sense.
Other games, being able to move up basically, buy property and business's makes sense, you have a real goal and a reason for doing what you do. Shame, the detail in design of the city is great, the actual visuals are massively let down by the power available(seeming inefficiency of the engine to a large degree) and certain settings. But really, thats all it has going for it. It is fun to play, in short bursts, it feels like the same mission over and over though, fairly decent aiming/driving systems make it semi-decent to good but will never be better than that due to poo story.
THe biggest fix should be doable, more memory, more car models in memory at any time. 360 verison, in a crap car 70% of cars that spawn around are the same with 2-3 equal level quality cars spawning, and almost impossible to find anything good unless at a specific spawn point like the car store just over the bridge. Once you pick up a top end sports car, suddenly every other car is a sports car, its a joke and irritating trying to get good cars. A realistic situation would be keeping your car after missions, so you find a good car and you can keep it unless you blow it up or leave it on purpose.
As for the story, same as what was said above about it being generic dialogue from every samey Mafia flick/tv show in the past 30 years. Boring, cliche'd, awful cut scenes with nothing worthwhile happening in them, nothing memorable and overall the story just didn't even remotely come close to sucking me in. Mostly because the story is just crap, the main theme is stupid, slow and little point behind it. Going around being various peoples *****, murdering anyone for any reason despite hating being in the war and killing people...... makes perfect sense.
Other games, being able to move up basically, buy property and business's makes sense, you have a real goal and a reason for doing what you do. Shame, the detail in design of the city is great, the actual visuals are massively let down by the power available(seeming inefficiency of the engine to a large degree) and certain settings. But really, thats all it has going for it. It is fun to play, in short bursts, it feels like the same mission over and over though, fairly decent aiming/driving systems make it semi-decent to good but will never be better than that due to poo story.
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It was the same in the others, I think its a design choice.
I liked the story and the cutscenes personally. And I wish people would stop saying that you should be able to move up in the world. Thats not what the story is, Niko isn't trying to become a crime lord or a businessman, he's trying to...well it'd be a spoiler so I probably shouldn't put it here.
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son of a ***** 
Yeah I agree the gameplay badly misses that aspect but that's not the game they wanted to make this time. If you could buy businesses and properties it would ruin the narrative.
i know
cant belive i paid £44 for this POS
hope the pc version aint too far away
my console buddies dont seem to understand why i cant play my ps3 version and am waiting for the pc one
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played the ps3 version briefly, blurry visuals hurt my eyes and the frame rate was pretty poor at times. Also are pedal bikes in this version? bmx's and mountain bikes etc, didnt see any in the 15mins or so that I played
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No they aren't.
I thought the 360/PS3 version were basically identical, can't say I noticed these issues when playing and I haven't heard (m)any complaints about either.
I guess I will have to get it on 360, doesn't look like it'll be on PC any time soon.
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