GTAIV: Unstoppable amounts of fun
Remember what I said about writing about my GTAIV antics? Well, I lied. I planned to write up blog posts about stuff, but this game is too much damn fun.
It’s brilliant. It’s everything people said it would be and more. It’s just so… huge. It’s daunting. It’s downright scary. And it’s absolutely astounding at every turn.
I guess writing a diary about Oblivion is feasible, considering Oblivion is boring at the best of times - and any attempt to liven that up is welcomed. But GTAIV is enough fun on it’s own. I don’t want to play the game ‘properly’ because it’s too much fun.
Euphoria, while being a very advanced animation system, seems entirely designed to be hilarious. I can’t help but giggle as I hit yet another pedestrian or dive out of my 80mph car and barrel roll into a wall, breaking my bones. I managed to run someone over and then dive out of my car, only for him to run at me and trip over me while I was lying down. It was so unbelievable I didn’t believe it happened. I laughed my face off.
Multiplayer is the most fun I’ve had in a long, long time. It’s just so, so fun. Like, driving a forklift truck into a group of baseball bat-wielding players fun. It’s RPG exploding at point blank range fun. I would happily have paid £45 for the multiplayer alone. It’s that good.
GTAIV continues to amaze me. I had my hopes set high, but it’s blown them all away. And I haven’t even scratched the surface of single player.
