Are you serious?  $500 says that there is no way in hell that you were playing the game and suddenly realized gosh this audio is sampled at 128 WTF?!?!?! and that rather you read it on the internet.  Also there is probably not enough space on a 360 disc for audio without lots of compression and probably not even on a Blu-Ray for uncompressed audio.

This is so true.  It's actually a mildly serious design flaw, because if you are just wandering around on foot and tapping X to sprint, you can end up hanging up on phone calls and offending your friends.  Holding X just to jog is a pain in the ass.

I was basicaly saying it sounds like crap.  I said it sounds like "insert shitty sound quality file type".  And the sound really is bad.

How many ranks are there in multiplayer? I'm trying to rack up some of the achievements but I've made a good $6K+ in cash and am only on rank 1.

I like this game alot more than I expected I would. In fact I'd say it's my favorite game in the series (I've noticed I have said that about alot of series this generation). From what I heard on the net I had been led to believe that this game would be vastly different from previous GTAs but really it's not. The mission structure which was suppose to me a dynamic element of the gameplay seems to me so far (I'm I've only gotten past the 2nd Little Jacob mission but I've played around with my cellphone off ALOT) to be basically just the same as always (except with the addition of people calling you when they need you).

Aiming seems way better, kinda reminds me of RE4 which I've beaten hundreds of times so I was right at home there (I should note that I've never played Saint's Row or experienced it's universially thought better aiming system). The half press in targeting thing took some time to get use to but now I actually like it. The cover system seems sorta strange to me. Sometimes it works perfectly (like when you're using a full wall as cover) but usually it doesn't (like when using a car or a smaller brick fence as cover) although I guess using it DOES lead to you taking less damage than in previous games and being shot because your head or leg is still out of cover does make sense, I think most of my problem comes from being use to the nearly completely safe while in cover systems of games like Gears of War. Still I like it and I'm sorta glad it doesn't just completely do away with classic unrealistic GTA run around shooting like Bill Rizer on crack formula since sometimes it's just more useful.

As for driving like almost everyone else I had to get use to the new more realistic physics of the cars. I'll say it took me like an hour of just drving around to get use to the fact that if you drive like a lunatic with the pedal to the metal in this game then you'd better make friends with Mr. Brake over there as well. The e-brake feels different too but I've gotten use to it now as well. I love the new shooting from the car system. Hahaha once while running from the police one of them was coming at me head on so I started firing at him and for some reason (maybe I blew out his tire) his car suddenly flips over and it actually completely flipped over my car and landed right in front of the 2 police cars chasing me and I got away, I felt so badass right then. Speaking of which I love the new police system. They feel less I dunno "omnipresent" than in other games and I'm less scared to do crimes since there's a good chance you won't get no heat on your ass if you don't see them. The new area based chasing system is pretty cool too. Being able to see them on the map makes it feel more like Driver 1 and 2 (never played the others) and because you have to get out of the area with them not seeing you for them to leave you alone it seems to feel like they're actually chasng you (again like Driver 1 and 2) instead of just being everywhere like in previous GTAs. Those damn helicoptors are relentless though aren't they? I actually had to hide under a bridge where they couldn't see and come out at and unexpected place to get away from them.

I also thought it was kinda cool that you don't really have a gun in this game (unless you steal one from a police or something) till you meet Little Jacob. Made Niko feel more believeable since up until that point he really didn't need one.

Ive added some peoples Gamertags and what not but so far no ones posting theirs here, I'm happy to put them in the first post like I have so far.

I WANT to play online but I'm using a bootleg connection (I.E. DSL cable connected to a dial-up connection) so I'm not sure if it'll be fast enough to even play this (oddly enough Crackdown works with little or no lag at all). I also only have a silver account (because as you can guess I don't use Live enough to pay for it, heck at frist I only signed up to buy Castlevania:SoTN) and I'm wondering if you can actually play the game with only that. But I think a Gold trial came with the game so that's not a problem for now. Anyway if this works on my crappy set up I'll probably buy gold. My gamertag is Leric22 (because some asshole is already named Leric), I'll probably be on some time or another if it even works, which I doubt it will... I can't wait till I move to Orlando in a couple of months, I know you can get highspeed internet there.

1. Why do I have to press X to walk? If I wanted to walk I could ever so slightly push on the analog stick, all the way to run.

Yeah Niko feels way slower than CJ was. In fact I think the hold A/X jog speed in this game is the same as CJ's simply push the analog all the way over jog speed in San Andreas.

4. Hand to hand combat sucks ass.

I thought so too at first but I like it now that I can counter like a god. It feels more like you're a guy in the real world where there's a chance you're gonna get your ass kicked depending on how the fight goes instead of a uber badass videogame guy like CJ felt in San Andreas (this was an odd change though when you consider that Niko is S'POSE to be a uber badass trained Seribian soldier or something and CJ actually was just an ordinary guy with no previous martial training). I like to throw a brick or something at the guy I'm gonna fight's head or legs to knock him off balance before I actually approach him. Dirty I know but this is Liberty City, anything goes.

5. Driving controls aren't as bad as I originally thought but the camera while driving is HORRIBLE.

I think it works better if you use the farest out camera. Still alittle weird though.

(Probably spending too much time chilling out playing the most unrealistic pool games ever with Little Jacob fuck knows what that guy is saying.)

I'm half Jamaican and even I don't know what the heck he's saying most of the time. It helps (alittle) if you turn on subtitles, plus you get to actually know what Niko and Roman are saying when they speak their native language (Russian?) since it shows it in english.

when i was driving around i found badman sitting on a bench looking out of sorts so i investigates and get pulled into a mission to kill some russian drug dealers he doesn't like that was pretty cool. i hope there is a lot of that hidden away. i've seen the little blue man icons before but i dismissed them as body armour.

I also knew this and considered posting it but I am being really fucking careful about spoilers so I figured I shouldn't tell anyone but now the cat is out of the closet.

Badman is kinda early tho and easy to find I guess, but there are other "supportive characters" from the main storyline (aka Badman) that pulls the RANDOM PERSON mission shit.


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ALSO ALSO

Do anyone know of any side missions that give ACTUAL IN-GAME BONUSES? I just finished all the MOST WANTED missions and all I got was an achievement


edit: also I got info how to fix my xbox live account

I don't really feel like giving out my gamercard on the forum but ask on IRC and ill give it

aight guys just bought this badboy crits inc soon PEACE


edit.  fuuuuck i lent the power cable to my 360 out because i never use it!!