On 08/06/2008, at 7:17 AM, Max Battcher wrote: > Andrew Crystall wrote: >> On 7 Jun 2008 at 2:19, Charlie Bell wrote: >> >>> Not really. Good games are good games. I loved Lemmings and the >>> Lucasarts adventures (Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, Loom, The >>> Dig...) >>> as much as San Andreas and GTA4 (and Half Life, Far Cry, Deus >>> Ex...). >> >> I think GTA4 as a game is fairly meh - I'm not seeing where it's >> taking people that GTA3 didn't. Same for Halo 3 - give me something >> like Gears of War instead (until you hit the silly dark sections...) > > GTA4 tries to up the story-telling of the series, particularly by > having > a protagonist with an actual background and character development. It > succeeds to a certain degree due to the fact that previous GTAs mostly > tacked story on as an after-thought.
Well, San Andreas was pretty good in a plot-development way, and the main story was a little longer. I do think with GTA4 they've really hit a sweet spot, though, and the environment is a lot of fun and really captures behaviours well. I'm really keen to find out what happens. I'm about 2/3 of the way through the main story missions, as far as I can tell, and playing like a git (ie killing whenever I get the choice). I'll then play through again, and savour the side- missions and try to complete the random tasks, jumps and so on. Charlie. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
