Just time to update you on a couple more eBay bargains. Some guy was listing multiple new sealed (allegedly) copies of both Zak and Wiki Quest for Barbaros Treasure and Grand Theft Auto:Chinatown Wars all starting at 99p and all ending within a minute of each other. At first I smelled some kind of rat but he's got over 600 transactions and a 100% rating so I guess it should be ok.
One would of thought he'd of maximised his profits by selling them one at a time. For sure when I got out bid I just moved down the list. Anyway I ended up paying £12 for the pair including free 1st class postage.
I just need a DS now.
Showing posts with label GTA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GTA. Show all posts
Friday, 3 July 2009
Monday, 27 April 2009
Currently Playing: Saints Row
Regular readers will remember how much I enjoyed last years Saints Row 2. I managed to pick up the original game for £8 on eBay which, with the DLC for the sequel weighing in at 800 Microsoft points, I thought provided good value for money.
So what's it like? Well if Just Cause had been made by people who'd only heard about GTA then Saints Row has been made by people who've played GTA III to death. Then tried to make it less annoying in places.
It's obviously very similar to the second game. Graphically it looks almost identical although the city of Stillwater is less refined. In fact that's pretty much the mantra for the earlier game as you'd maybe expect. There's no motorbikes or planes to fly. There's no cruise control, Almost unforgivably you can't configure the triggers on the pad for accelerate and brake, You can still create your own wanna be gangster but you can't be a female.
Most annoyingly for me there's no mid mission check points either. You can still carry up to four items of food and your health recharges if you can stay out of the action for a bit but die anyway during one of the more complex missions and it's back to the beginning. It's a step above GTA though. You get the option to start the mission again in exactly the same shape as you did originally. You get all your ammo and guns back, Any AI hommies you'd picked up and vehicles are all put back as they where. No annoying trips to the hospital to or reloading which at least keeps frustration to a minimum.
Overall then another enjoyable romp.
So what's it like? Well if Just Cause had been made by people who'd only heard about GTA then Saints Row has been made by people who've played GTA III to death. Then tried to make it less annoying in places.
It's obviously very similar to the second game. Graphically it looks almost identical although the city of Stillwater is less refined. In fact that's pretty much the mantra for the earlier game as you'd maybe expect. There's no motorbikes or planes to fly. There's no cruise control, Almost unforgivably you can't configure the triggers on the pad for accelerate and brake, You can still create your own wanna be gangster but you can't be a female.
Most annoyingly for me there's no mid mission check points either. You can still carry up to four items of food and your health recharges if you can stay out of the action for a bit but die anyway during one of the more complex missions and it's back to the beginning. It's a step above GTA though. You get the option to start the mission again in exactly the same shape as you did originally. You get all your ammo and guns back, Any AI hommies you'd picked up and vehicles are all put back as they where. No annoying trips to the hospital to or reloading which at least keeps frustration to a minimum.
Overall then another enjoyable romp.
Saturday, 11 April 2009
First Look: Just Cause
The credit crunching continues! Despite holding out for the whole of March without buying a game I decided that for April I'd try not to buy anything new. As I have most of the Easter weekend off I picked this up for £7.50 in Game.
First impressions aren't great. You can't move about the menu without using the d-pad. Every time you load or save you have to select the hard drive. The graphics aren't great either. The huge island looks great but the characters and vehicles are poor and there's far more pop up and texture pop in than you'd expect.
It's also just too big and the scale of the mini map too small making it hard to judge where things are and pretty much a trudge to travel anywhere.. Even in a helicopter. When you get your grapple gun it makes things a little easier but not by much. End falling down a valley into a lake and you can wait ages for a boat to appear. It's very sparse out side of the towns.
Basically you end up calling for 'extraction' most of the time which takes you straight to you safe house and straight to get a story mission. Meaning that despite the fact that the world is properly huge you'll hardly see any of it unless you're interested in doing the side missions and collecting packages.
The driving is rubbish too because most of the roads are too narrow meaning you keep having constant collisions. It's like some one described GTA to the developer and they've tried to make an over the top clone without actually playing it too see where the magic really is.
Despite that it's not devoid of fun and check points mid mission keep it from getting to frustrating. Unless you get a checkpoint mid explosion when you'll constantly respawn with very little health.
First impressions aren't great. You can't move about the menu without using the d-pad. Every time you load or save you have to select the hard drive. The graphics aren't great either. The huge island looks great but the characters and vehicles are poor and there's far more pop up and texture pop in than you'd expect.
It's also just too big and the scale of the mini map too small making it hard to judge where things are and pretty much a trudge to travel anywhere.. Even in a helicopter. When you get your grapple gun it makes things a little easier but not by much. End falling down a valley into a lake and you can wait ages for a boat to appear. It's very sparse out side of the towns.
Basically you end up calling for 'extraction' most of the time which takes you straight to you safe house and straight to get a story mission. Meaning that despite the fact that the world is properly huge you'll hardly see any of it unless you're interested in doing the side missions and collecting packages.
The driving is rubbish too because most of the roads are too narrow meaning you keep having constant collisions. It's like some one described GTA to the developer and they've tried to make an over the top clone without actually playing it too see where the magic really is.
Despite that it's not devoid of fun and check points mid mission keep it from getting to frustrating. Unless you get a checkpoint mid explosion when you'll constantly respawn with very little health.
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