Grand Theft Auto 3 Comments by Gestalt
Review - Grand Theft Auto comes home to the PC; can it steal our hearts (and wallets) again?
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Sorry guys, we are still doing scores, I just didn't put one on this particular review because there isn't a "one size fits all" score you can give GTA3. The score really depends on what kind of hardware you have and whether you have the PS2 version of the game already, so read the conclusion. :)
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Well I've got both and Gestalt is on the button in the fact that there are practically bugger all differences gameplaywise between the two versions. Hopefully users will mod the funt out of it like previous versions so new missions will turn up.
One thing about the conversion I am really annoyed about though is the replay function. I thought it would have been along the lines of the one in say Carmageddon TDR2000, allowing you to change camera angles etc and save as an AVI. It does none of these things it just replays a script within the engine with no sound that may or may not actually play the same as what really happened! For example one replay had the car I was driving explode on me (which didn't happen in the game!) and when I exited the replay it was still perfectly alright! Very sloppy. |
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I've been putting off getting this for my PS2 for a while now, just in case the PC version offered something new and improved. It seems from Gestalt's review that there's very little difference. My PC is a PIII 700mhz with 256MB RAM and a Geforce3 Ti200, so I think it should run okay - or can anyone tell me otherwise?
The thing I'd really like to know is how the controls for the game have been altered - is the mouse & keyboard combo better than using a Dualshock2? Any views? |
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Oh, and the controls is the one thing I forgot to mention in the review. :) The mouse and keyboard works great for the on-foot bits (probably better than the dual shock), but controlling cars with just the keyboard takes some getting used to. After a couple of hours I got the hang of it though, and I was merrily handbrake turning my way through the streets of Liberty City in a stolen taxi. Some of the cars handle terribly, but get your hands on something like a cab, police car, yakuza stinger or mafia sentinel and you're in heaven.
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Well this Friday you have Morrowind, but personally I'd wait for some reviews on that one before committing to it. SOF2, which is quite cool in the demo once the gore is enabled. The ship level was superb, very MGS2. Bit fast though, an inherent problem of Q3 based games IMO.
Must admit Starfighter has caught my eye, I'll play this before buying. |
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Morrowind is a brilliant game, but sadly its the most bug-ridden peice of software i've played in all my life.
the indoor scenes use about 2/3 times the amount of polygons that the outdoor sections use, so you keep having to change the resolution down when you go into a house, then raising it again when you go outside.. which is very bad game design. Combat is surprisingly fun, and the character creation is fanastic.. i have a short cloaked assasin with a sniper cross-bow atm :P |
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HAving recently seen the new Star Wars movie, I'm really tempted by the Clone Campaigns expansion for Star Wars Battlegrounds this weekend.
It would involve me having to buy the original game though :o( |
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I have both Morrowind and Sof2. My opinion is that Sof2 gets a bit boring (and it's quite difficult compared to sof1) with the time. Besides even with my high end system I sometimes have slowdowns/ have to wait a lot to load the first time a save. For Morrowind, I just started to play, and besides the fact that it looks awesome I liked a lot the generation of my own custom character class. But now I have to explore the village and find out what it goes on around.
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I think your best bet is to leave Morrowind alone for a while until Beth' patch it, which seems to be a normal thing for their stuff.
Play the original first Jeez. I picked it up the other day as I knew the expansion was coming out and I wanted to have a mess about, but oddly I haven't cracked open the box. Still messing about with JK2.....friend and I are linking up on DSL for arena style 1on1 lightsaber fights tonight. Should be a laugh. |
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This game is fantastic!
Controlling the character with the keys and mouse is great, then grab a car and use your joy pad - just like a racing sim. On my system (Athlon 1.4, Geforce 2 64mb, 512 mb) it's beautiful @ 800x600. I was very disappointed with GTA3 on PS2 cos it was soooooo slow, this is wicked! |
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Strange that you have had these problems not only have I and several mates been able to change the camera angles in when playing back
Yes you can move the camera around with the mouse but I meant that there are no fixed camera options that allow you to setup the action very well such as in C:TDR, Driver and a lot of other games that have replay functions. In comparison to other games the replay function is pretty poor. playing these back it did not generate something that had not occured. I've had strange things happen a few times and the replay function is definately bugged here's an easy way to complete fire truck missions : get in fire truck, start the fire truck missions then hit replay. As soon as the replay is finished or you quit it the fire is extinguished instantly with you doing nothing! |
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On my system (Athlon 1.4, Geforce 2 64mb, 512 mb) it's beautiful @ 800x600. I was very disappointed with GTA3 on PS2 cos it was soooooo slow, this is wicked!
See, I prefer it on a 28" widescreen and in Pro Logic. Speaking of which.. I'm about 52% done, having just finished the last Columbian mission and decided to have a faff about with the options... and discovered that there was a widescreen and pad vibrate option. D'oh! I've had this since Christmas and haven't noticed til now ;) |
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GTA3 lubs a GF3 to death. First game I've really *really* felt required one rather than it just being nice.
BTW if anyone's having graphical hitches with a GF3 or d3d8.dll errors in Win98/ME try reinstalling Nvidia 21.83 drivers in the archive section of nvidia.com. The game would not work fullstop with the current 23.82 drivers for me. WinXP users may also have the same d3d8.dll error but it's something different to do with the .dll itself requiring a small update from m$.com. Details on GTA3.com. Lastly, if you've got slow frame rates make sure you turn off 'trails'. |
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"See, I prefer it on a 28" widescreen and in Pro Logic. "
Absolutely - GTA3 is a good example of a game that I prefer to sit on the couch and play on a big screen, rather than hunched over my PC. Glad you found the widescreen option - didn't it look a bit wierd without it?? Personally its the first thing I check for in a new game. |
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ATA-100 means that you'll get burst transfer rates of 100mb/sec
additionally, thats the spec of the bus, not the speed of the hard-drive. high bandwidth busses like this really come into their own when you have a number of devices connecting a communicating simultaneously, such as if you stripe your data accross a raid. |
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