4 days till GTA 3 :)

KdjaCL · 20-05-2002 9:39pm #1

Im am reduced to checking my PLay account to see if they post it early (they do with some DVDs never bought a new PC game off em B4)
They do this so online buyers ahve it the day of release.
I can my social life taking a turn for the worst over the next few weeks.
Kdja

Makaveli · 20-05-2002 10:06pm

I'd love it if they did send them out now so they get here on Friday. (is it Thursday or Firday?)

KdjaCL · 20-05-2002 10:32pm

Out Friday
Im hoping to see it as POSTED tomorrow.
Might have it by friday then ,other wise its next wednes/thurs.
Kdja

po0k · 20-05-2002 10:33pm

Been looking forward to this.
Bloody clipping distance on the PS2 version killed it.
At last, the chance to play it as it was intended, not the cracker box version that was released to the mob......

spooky donkey · 21-05-2002 6:45am

Yeah it should be better alright!!!!
cant wait till the weekend!

Stephen · 21-05-2002 10:22am

Syxpak - bollocks. GTA3 on the playstation 2 was great, the technical limitations of it did not take away from the game in any way.

"cracker box" my arse.

Shinji · 21-05-2002 10:57am

At last, the chance to play it as it was intended, not the cracker box version that was released to the mob......

ROFL.

That's genuinely funny, plyd. I really hope you're trolling - you can't honestly think that a PC port of the PS2 original version is "how it was intended"?

Heh, clipping distance indeed.

DeadBankClerk · 21-05-2002 11:31am

i have abstained from GTA3 due to lack of 2.5 overhead camera actione

Shinji · 21-05-2002 12:04pm

In that case you should have tried harder to find the camera angle button on your Dual Shock, since you can actually switch into that viewpoint with three easy button presses

DiscoStu · 21-05-2002 12:21pm

its up now

http://www.play.com/Play247.asp?page=title&r=PC&title=102358

must resist using my shiny new credit card..........aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

EvilGeorge · 21-05-2002 12:44pm

Give into the temptation - you shall be rewarded well.

po0k · 21-05-2002 12:47pm

I meant what I said about the clipping distance. The rest was just a piss take.
Fanjbhoys swallowed it though.

suppafly · 21-05-2002 7:38pm

Yeah i ordered it last week. So do u think that they will sent it out early so that we can all have it on friday, or is it going to be sent out friday? does anybody know? Has anybody else ordered a game of Play before it release in the stores?

Lex_Diamonds · 21-05-2002 10:13pm

According to delivery information on play.com it will only be shipped on the day of its release. So we'll probably be playing it sometime next week.

Augmerson · 21-05-2002 10:39pm

Ah, that game Rocks. I just rob Cars and drive about for hours. Then I realised you could work for people. I prefer driving. And Eating chips.

Makaveli · 21-05-2002 10:44pm

Yeah no luck on getting early. My order history page still has it down for the release date, so as Lex said next week. Let's just hope they got in enough stock to cover all of the pre orders.

PHB · 21-05-2002 10:53pm

Well it seems a good few places have realeased it in the US etc.

DeadBankClerk · 21-05-2002 11:17pm

Originally posted by Shinji
In that case you should have tried harder to find the camera angle button on your Dual Shock, since you can actually switch into that viewpoint with three easy button presses

now who is being a smart ass

gta 3 is designed to be played from an over the shoulder / chasecam viewpoint. The overhead camera simply puts the camera up in the air, and it doesnt really feel right.

GTA + GTA2's engines we were designed to be played from the overhead view, which i believe is the essence of GTA. The zoom out when you go faster was classy. The really narrow view fulstrum gave the game a very urban congested feel.

Back on topic what the LAN play going to be like?

While GTA2 was boring in single player mode, I've played it at lans in unnamed internet cafés and it is great fun, especially in frag-tag mode. Grabbing the Instant-Gang powerup and filling a minivan with four thugs with machine guns was great. Even better was tail-ending someone, knocking them off the road, then letting your gang loose. Classic.

Stephen · 21-05-2002 11:25pm

Originally posted by SyxPak
I meant what I said about the clipping distance. The rest was just a piss take.
Fanjbhoys swallowed it though.

Sigh.

I'm no "fanjbhoy", just pointed out the facts. Give me my PC over my PS2 any day

po0k · 22-05-2002 9:58am

Munch, mate, I know you're not a 'fanjbhoy'.

Looking forward to this version mainly for multiplayer. GalwayLAN should be able to give it a good playtest.

DBC, you're right about the first 2 and the top-down view, but if 3 wasn't to be 'same old-same old' it needed something else.
I welcome the extra bit of maueverability.

A CTF mode would be class, or assault, or ram raiding a base or suicide runs or something.

Makaveli · 22-05-2002 10:17am

Anybody know how much gta3 is going to cost in the likes of game or eb?

Stephen · 22-05-2002 3:35pm

Eh, I thought GTA3 (yes, the pc version) had no multiplayer? If it does, great

Dont be at yourself · 22-05-2002 5:49pm

Makaveli: I was told €70 for Game.

Mr E · 22-05-2002 6:24pm

€70 is extortionate.

Jedi Knight was €60 in Game/EB and I thought it was a rip off !!

Best bet is to try Smyths. I bet they are just under €50, maybe less.

KdjaCL · 22-05-2002 7:55pm

Makaveli: I was told €70 for Game

plz tell me your are joking.
its not even a full price £35 game in UK.
thats unreal.
Kdja

22-05-2002 8:10pm

Its £19.99 STG on play.com. I strongly recommend you go there instead.

Swifty · 22-05-2002 8:37pm

Christ, multiplayer GTA3 would be as good as ejaculations.

po0k · 22-05-2002 9:23pm

Don't speak crazytalk.

If only I had a credit card......

Which bank do those temporary cards? AIB, BOI?

Lex_Diamonds · 22-05-2002 10:00pm

Just to clear things up. There is NO multiplayer in GTA3. Yes, I cried too...

Samson · 22-05-2002 10:24pm

Originally posted by Jabba
Its £19.99 STG on play.com. I strongly recommend you go there instead.

It's actually £18.99 sterling on play.com (price includes delivery).
I have just checked my order status and am delighted to report that my copy of GTA3 is already on the way to me

(posted 22/05/02) even though it's not out 'til Friday.

KdjaCL · 22-05-2002 10:58pm

have just checked my order status and am delighted to report that my copy of GTA3 is already on the way to me

Mine too

hehehehhe*childish giggles*
Kdja

Makaveli · 22-05-2002 11:48pm

Asked in Game and the chap reckons it'll be €50. He said it's £30 sterling.
I have mine ordered on play.com aswell, I was just curious about the price in shops.
I just hope it gets delivered quickly, I am still waiting on 5 items to arrive that really should have come last friday.

l3rian · 23-05-2002 12:55am

i havent played the ps2 version, so can you destoy buildings a bit like in red faction?
can you enter the buildings?
do the citizens react to you .. like if you started stalking some guy with an m16, will he $hit his pants?
do cars get damaged? ..explode?
can you shoot as you drive?
will it come on a dvd?
can you hi-jack helicopters?

Makaveli · 23-05-2002 1:57am

It's on a cd not a dvd iirc.
You can shoot from cars, well you can on the PS2 version I think.
I'm sure cars do explode, they did in all the other GTA games.
Dont know the answers to the other questions.

Makaveli · 23-05-2002 1:59am

Minimum requirements
Pentium III 450 CPU
64MB RAM
16MB Direct3D Video Card
Fully DirectX compatible Sound Card
8X CD-Rom
500MB free hard disk space
Win 98/ME/2000/XP/NT
Direct X 8.1
Recomended requirements
700 mhz CPU
128MB RAM
32MB Direct3D Video Card
Fully DirectX compatible Sound Card
8X CD-Rom
500MB free hard disk space
Win 98/ME/2000/XP/NT
Direct X 8.1

Shinji · 23-05-2002 9:41am

Had a play at the PC version last night.

It's, er, not very good really. Well... it's a good game still, in fact a great game, but compared to the PS2 version it's a mediocre bordering on poor port.

There's nothing extra, there are all sorts of horrible graphical glitches.... Draw distance on the world is nicer (although you lose some of the neat fogging effects the PS2 did), but draw distance on people and vehicles is rubbish - they fade into existence in front of you.

No multiplayer. The "use your own music" option is buried somewhere and seems to consist of "edit together your MP3s and shove them into a folder replacing the existing stations to fool the game into playing them" - lame.

Cutscenes have a horrible blur effect on them to mimic the PS2 motion blur effect, only on the PS2 it looked good - on the PC it hurts your eyes, genuinely.

Most annoying thing of all though is the control system. Driving is a pain with digital keyboard controls, and the mouse driving system just plain doesn't work.

It's still a great game. It's just that if you've been sitting around waiting for the PC version, you've waited six months for an inferior game to the one PS2 owners were playing before Christmas.

Kairo · 23-05-2002 12:49pm

That just pisses me off.

I payed well over a grand for my Athlon box, and yet all the decent games being shipped over from the PS2 are inferior to a box costing under €300?

KdjaCL · 23-05-2002 1:14pm

yes but the one thing the PC ahs over the PS2 and other consoles it that dreaded word "THE PATCH" man i hate them (see my old CS posts on 70mb patches)
But if its a shoddy port im sure there will be uproar and a patch released.
Hopefully by tuesday when i get mine hehehhehe *wishful thinkin
Kdja

po0k · 23-05-2002 1:35pm

Shoulda developed it for the PC first, then scaled it abck for the PS2. Harder to do ti the other way while still using the same engine imho.
Won't be buying it.

Any word on Dungeon Siege?

Shinji · 23-05-2002 1:42pm

I payed well over a grand for my Athlon box, and yet all the decent games being shipped over from the PS2 are inferior to a box costing under €300?

Simple. There are console games and there are PC games. Hardware is not the same, control mechanisms are not the same, and the same games do NOT work on both platforms. You're going to see this a lot with the PS2 and Xbox - people trying to do things on those consoles which don't work because of porting issues.

Syxpak - why develop it for the PC first when all the money is to be made on the PS2? DMA did the right thing here, they chose the single best platform for the game economically and technically and focused on that. Ports elsewhere were an afterthought.

Makaveli · 23-05-2002 11:30pm

Shinji the thing about your review of the game is that it's coming from somebody who has played the ps2 version a lot it would seem. I only played it once and I'm sure there are a lot of people that havent played it at all. Taking this into account we wont be comparing it to the ps2 version so we will probably enjoy it more than you did. Of course this is just in realtion to the points you made about it in comparison to the ps2 version.
Sucky controls can be countered by using a control pad I suppose.

amp · 24-05-2002 8:33am

Yes, but Shinji has this really annoying habit of being right a lot of the time.

KdjaCL · 24-05-2002 5:44pm

got it today (wife bought it didnt know i odrered it).
And well um its ok hasnt grabbed my attention yet.
1st thing i felt wrong with it was the mouse cant be used for free look (max payne type unless its in the options and i couldnt see it)
Driving seems a lot better with keyboard .
But it seems to me to be like an emulated PS2 game runnning on a PC i have encountered loads of glitches and other funny things and i only have it 5 hours.
So after all the wait and excitement i would say im a bit let down by it.
When i got a loan of a PS2 and this i couldnt put it down i was addicted killed me to give it back but have to agree with Shinji after playing it does ahve that "emulated " feel to it.
Kdja

po0k · 24-05-2002 6:02pm

If they can't be arsed to implement a decent conrtol system when they have the chance and instead just make a hash job of the conversion (which should have been a remake ihmo) they really shouldn't have even bothered.

4 days till GTA 3 :)

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