Just like the OP, I was yelling at my monitor before I was done installing (oh but wait! once installed, the first stage of the game is figuring out how to launch it!). Great game, ***horribly ***executed for the PC. I know this is The Game Room, but we should have a one time hybrid-pitting exception for discussion of this game. So be warned: fun game if you actually get to play it. If dating is as much of a PITA in this game as it was in San Andreas… I’m really looking forward to a bunch of bitchy phone calls from my neglected girl who’s all upset because I’m trying to make progress in the game instead of doing stupid dancing contests! FFS! If I wanted DDR I’d buy DDR! To add insult to injury, you get a girlfriend about two missions into the game. It was a hold down the power button until your system shuts off crash. It wasn’t a ctrl-alt-delete and restart the game crash. It was such an epic crash that my monitor lost signal. The game didn’t like that and completely crashed my system to a black screen. When I finally caught up to him I slammed into a pedestrian and was about to run him down as well. And that reminds me: as I was rescuing him yet again, I had to chase some douchebag. I have a feeling I might be able to sell him down the river at some point in time and I sure hope so because I’ll do that with glee. Your stupid cousin keeps phoning because loan sharks won’t leave him alone and you have to keep rescuing him. But you can’t even wander around admiring the scenery. Graphically, the game is very nice and incredibly intricate. And don’t use an ATI video card because that’s not The Way It’s Meant to be Played ™. I’d recommend waiting at least six months and getting a new computer then before even thinking about trying to run this game. I’m running it on a dual core with 4GB of RAM and it still runs like a dead pig.
It requires a major patch and a very new computer to run smoothly. So if anyone out there was excited about this game, don’t be.
You’re forced to use W-A-S-D to move around which I absolutely hate. It’s permanently bound to some stupid camera function which is much less useful than the “walk” feature I used in the other games.
The controls can be remapped except for the most important one, the right mouse button. If you have an XBOX 360 controller for PC you’re set. And then maybe, if you’re lucky, you can start the game and watch in amazement as it becomes a comedy due to the lagging putting the audio out of sync with the character movements.Īlso forget about using your own controller. So once you’ve gone through these procedures, you have to pass a validation check (makes sure you’re not time-traveling to the past) and then type in your special code to activate the game.
Windows Live Game of course requires a patch and you have to exit the game to install it due to a known bug. You then have to sign up for the Rockstar social club (if you don’t you can’t save your game) and a Windows Live Game account (if you don’t you can’t play at all). But getting the game onto your machine is only the beginning of the challenge. It’s two DVDs so you know it’s going to take a while. It has it all: DRM, crapware, random crashes, glitches, et cetera. GTA IV, recently released for PC runs like a one-legged dog with a broken leg. Just a warning to any and all PC gamers out there.