I’ve never really played any of the Grand Theft Auto games apart from the first one. We all know I hate sandbox games and I think it took me only a couple of times to fail a mission and have to drive all the way back to the start to get sick of GTA 3. My sandbox hate aside, I just found the games pretty boring. GTA4 was going to pass me by and I couldn’t care less. Then, out of nowhere, the chopper came in….

I had an email newsletter come in linking to an article describing the multiplayer features of GTA4. I skimmed over with slight interest till I hit the line: “Even though the Rockstar team had been instructed to go easy on us during our first game, one of the team members couldn’t resist jumping in a helicopter, chasing us down a street, and using the rotor blades to send us hurtling through the air to our death.”. That, my friends, is fucking awesome. Being a fighting/action game fan, I’m always looking for creativity in the carnage, and that really jumped out at me. Im sure you can do similar things in other games, but my mates arent dying to pre-order other games. The rest of the multiplayer options sound great too, having team based games is always awesome, and team missions would be just great. Another thing that got my interest was the racing mode. Essentially a race, but using the usual array of GTA weaponry. Then it hit me why my heart was racing, blood pumping and adrenaline causing foam to start building in my mouth. The multi-player options arent Grand Theft Auto.

The racing screams of classics like Road Rash and the deathmatches were reminiscent of Twisted Metal. These 2 franchises were the only racing games I really played till I had a PS2, well other than Enduro and Dodge ‘Em. Weapons and crashes always make things more interesting. Luckily, it also reveals that you need to play barely any of the single player game to get access to the multiplayer game. So in theory, I will be buying GTA4, to play old school racing games. Who knows? Maybe I will play through the single player game too. PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT.

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