Totally doable if you kill all of the workers with the helicopter blades before you even pick up a stick of dynamite, since the timer doesn't start until you pick one up.
Grand Theft Auto IV
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Totally doable if you kill all of the workers with the helicopter blades before you even pick up a stick of dynamite, since the timer doesn't start until you pick one up.
Holy fuck just 2 hours to go!!! 
I just spent minutes watching TV in a video game... awesome.
Holy fuck just 2 hours to go!!!
40 minutes for me...
And i do think the remote controlled plane missions in San Andreas are much worse then the rc-chopper mission in Vice City...
Almost.
There was one later where you had to use a remote controlled plane to drop bombs on some drug dealer's boats. That was impossible on the PC.
Then there was the Mission of Hate, the Mission of Rage - "N.O.E." on San Andreas. Yes, I remember the name of it because I played through it nearly one hundred times. Take a crappy beaten up plane that can barely move, fly all the way from Las Venturas to the woods near the mountain without flying too high to be spotted by the Air Force's radar, fly through a tiny target in the sky surrounded by trees and then fly all the way back and land the plane. Fly too high and you get fighter jets attacking you!
I must have made it all the way back and then crashed or been hit with a missile on the runway twenty times.
I made it a little bit easier on myself by flying out to sea and then flying in a straight line so I didn't have to dodge all the obstacles I'd have to by flying over land but I still ended up ditching in the water a few times. One time I even survived and had to swim all the way back!
That's what I did too.
You know, I remember the flying missions in GTA:SA... wait a pain. It took me so long to even do the stupid flying missions.
I don't know, I didn't think either of those two missions (blowing up the boats and flying the beat up plane while avoiding air defenses) was perticulary hard. And yes, I played them both on the PC.
You know, I wasn't very interested in GTA4. I never got into GTA3 or Vice City, and never played or watched someone else play San Andreas. But after reading a review of GTA4, I'm now suddenly very interested. I think it's mostly because the story seems to actually be much deeper and more important in this one than it has been before. I'll probably pick up a copy later today, now. I'm not worried about not pre-ordering, it'll be easy to find one somewhere around here.
Oh god, yeah. Although, I think San Andreas did have a pretty decent story. A British parody of black culture and the LA riots? Yikes.
I heard that "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley (that British David Caruso look alike from the late 80s) is going to be included in GTA IV's soundtrack, I'm looking forward to that! 
Scottish to be precise.
I prefered Vice City ahead of GTA III and San Andreas, but San Andreas had a strong storyline, it's soundtrack was not as good as Vice City's but superior to GTA III's and I found the countryside more interesting than most urban areas.
Oh dear.....remember all the fuss that was kicked up when H3 was found to be not running a 720p.....well its about to kick up again but this time its the PS3 turn, and the game in question is GTAIV.......seem the 360 version is running as 720p but the PS3 version is running at 630p.......
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=286527
There will be blood....
Who gives a shit? The console obsession with framebuffer resolution is truly bizarre, and driven almost entirely by the marketing departments at Sony and Microsoft. Resolution is but one technical factor amongst many that influences the performance and aesthetic qualities of a game, and it's no more important than any other. One can run Quake III at five or six times the resolution marketroids have decided to call "Full HD", yet it still looks like Quake III. Likewise with a sufficiently powerful system you can crack over 1000fps in World of Warcraft, or fiddle with the settings and run Crysis on the same system at 10fps. It's meaningless. The "thou shalt render at 720p or above" attitude does nothing but impose unneccessary limitations on developers, which from the above they're apparently quite wisely choosing to ignore. Why not "thou shalt use 8x anisotropic filtering"? Maybe because there's no convenient marketing label like "HD" for that.
Given that it's taken this long for someone to notice that PS3 isn't rendering GTAIV at 720p, and that most reviews seem to be giving the PS3 version the graphical edge over the X360 version, I would think those factors taken together provide something of an indication as to how meaningless and contrived this "HD" business actually is.
You obviously do, hence your rather aggressive reply.....
It was posted simply as its news and it concerned GTAIV, no need to shoot the messenger.
Anywho i got the game and i have to say.....WOW....the game is big graphics and textures wise, the games lighting is amazing and Liberty city seems alive......I can see why this game has been getting 10/10 across the board...i bought the 360 version and I'm running it at 1080p(Upscaled0 via VGA, so much eye candy I'm now on insulin shots...I have not had any frame rate problems and pop up wise amounts to the odd street sign or texture appearing, nothing that could be classed anyway as a problem or a hindrance to the game......which is a technical marvel.
R* have done it again..
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Maybe I just got lucky then, 'cause I'm not all that great with these sorts of games either.
This game is just amazing...the undulation roads are like something out of Steve Mcqueen's bullet and Gene Hackman's Car chase for the french connection.......and the game really does have a film quality about it.
You can access your cell phone in game at any point to join online with up to 16 friends (or totally random people through XBL or PSN).
Then there are something like 15 different game modes that take place over the whole city (not one bit of content, city wise, is dropped for online play).
So you and your friends can form a gang and go do a drive by of a rival gang, etc.
There's also a bank robbery scenario where one team is the cops and one is the robbers. the robbers need to make it to an extraction point, and the cops need to stop them (by killing them).
More on multiplayer here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTA_4#Multiplayer
Then there are something like 15 different game modes that take place over the whole city (not one bit of content, city wise, is dropped for online play).
So you and your friends can form a gang and go do a drive by of a rival gang, etc.
There's also a bank robbery scenario where one team is the cops and one is the robbers. the robbers need to make it to an extraction point, and the cops need to stop them (by killing them).
More on multiplayer here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTA_4#Multiplayer
For the PS3 version, found on GameFAQs:Oh dear.....remember all the fuss that was kicked up when H3 was found to be not running a 720p.....well its about to kick up again but this time its the PS3 turn, and the game in question is GTAIV.......seem the 360 version is running as 720p but the PS3 version is running at 630p.......
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=286527
There will be blood....
Who gives a shit? The console obsession with framebuffer resolution is truly bizarre, and driven almost entirely by the marketing departments at Sony and Microsoft. Resolution is but one technical factor amongst many that influences the performance and aesthetic qualities of a game, and it's no more important than any other. One can run Quake III at five or six times the resolution marketroids have decided to call "Full HD", yet it still looks like Quake III. Likewise with a sufficiently powerful system you can crack over 1000fps in World of Warcraft, or fiddle with the settings and run Crysis on the same system at 10fps. It's meaningless. The "thou shalt render at 720p or above" attitude does nothing but impose unneccessary limitations on developers, which from the above they're apparently quite wisely choosing to ignore. Why not "thou shalt use 8x anisotropic filtering"? Maybe because there's no convenient marketing label like "HD" for that.
Given that it's taken this long for someone to notice that PS3 isn't rendering GTAIV at 720p, and that most reviews seem to be giving the PS3 version the graphical edge over the X360 version, I would think those factors taken together provide something of an indication as to how meaningless and contrived this "HD" business actually is.
You obviously do, hence your rather aggressive reply.....
It was posted simply as its news and it concerned GTAIV, no need to shoot the messenger.
Anywho i got the game and i have to say.....WOW....the game is big graphics and textures wise, the games lighting is amazing and Liberty city seems alive......I can see why this game has been getting 10/10 across the board...i bought the 360 version and I'm running it at 1080p(Upscaled0 via VGA, so much eye candy I'm now on insulin shots...I have not had any frame rate problems and pop up wise amounts to the odd street sign or texture appearing, nothing that could be classed anyway as a problem or a hindrance to the game......which is a technical marvel.
R* have done it again..
Same was apparently true for COD4...
