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Grand Theft Auto IV: Stories from Liberty City
Two nights.
It's taken just two nights of playing Grand Theft Auto IV's innovative multiplayer modes, and I already have great stories to tell. And that, in my opinion, is the mark of a great game. When you have vivid tales of your exploits that you not only want to share with your friends, but then those friends are riveted by them, then the game has made its mark.
Though I haven't even yet had the chance to try out all of the game's dozen or so multiplayer modes, my early favorites are Cops 'n Crooks and Hangman's Noose. We had a 7-on-7 match going in the former, and with me on the crooks side during one match, we set off at night to try to get our boss to the destination area. Driving my own car while the boss and a few of my teammates/fellow henchmen followed a different route, I tried to rendezvous with my crew to help protect our leader.
There was just one problem: I don't know the layout of the city very well yet.
This, combined with the nighttime setting, put me across a small inlet of water from them. With the cops converging on both sides of the inlet, I frantically tried to get over to my teammates. Because they also weren't yet familiar with the city, they came to a dead end. In a panic, the boss jumped into the water and began to swim! Two crooks followed as bodyguards, and I started trying to make my way over to help them.
It was too late, however, as I was gunned down in my car just before the swimming boss was shot up like a fish in a barrel. We lost, but we lost in an awesome way.
Another awesome sequence occurred in a four-player Hangman's Noose session. Having already tried a couple of rounds — including one successful run where I managed to get the boss into a helicopter and get him to the baseball diamond safely despite no piloting experience in the game yet (I don't know how I landed that helicopter without killing us all...) — the Liberty City SWAT began arriving in their armored vehicles, armed to the teeth.
I decided to try something a little unconventional. From our starting point on the airport tarmac, I bolted in the opposite direction of the police on-foot. Rounding a bend toward another terminal, I was desperate for a vehicle. Any vehicle...but not the little two-seat luggage mover! Doh! Continuing a little further ahead, I spotted — yes! — two cars parked side by side. Both two-seater sports cars, meaning I'd only be able to take the boss with no armed passengers.
I chose the Corvette look-alike, and peeled out back towards my pals, who were still in a heated firefight with the five-oh. Picking up the boss with the cops distracted, I tore away, looking for any exit to get back to public streets and away towards the ballfield.
Uh-oh, they're already on to us! Fortunately, one of my fellow criminals had procured an armored SWAT van, and darted in front of us. I panicked at first, thinking the police were about to surround us, but once I saw the colored dot above the car and the gamertag of my buddy, I was relieved to have the help of a decoy/battering-ram car.
Unfortunately, our ally slowed us down enough when he pulled out in front of us that the boys in blue got close enough to open fire. As my Vette began to fill with bulletholes, one of the slugs pierced my rear left tire. I sped away, using the supercar's horsepower to blow past our armored protector vehicle and try to get to our destination quicker.
The punctured tire quickly peeled off the car, and I was blitzing down the streets of Liberty City on three wheels, the fourth grinding directly with the pavement as I fought the handling the whole way. Despite my (somewhat restricted) speed advantage, the well-trained po-po were right on our tail as I wrestled the car through each turn. I was trying to minimize the turns and keep the gimped car going straight ahead as much as possible, but once again my lack of familiarity with the city layout would prove to be my downfall.
I finally botched a turn, spinning out and coming to a complete stop while pointed in the opposite direction of what I wanted — and pointed directly at the police. Mercilessly, they tore into the fiberglass vehicle, ripping through its husk like it were paper. I was killed first, but our helpless boss in the passenger seat lasted only a few seconds longer.
Note to self for future reference: Fiberglass-bodied sports cars are no match for gunfire. Even in defeat, however, Grand Theft Auto IV displays its genius. I love this game!
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MASTER GAMER
June 16, 2008 at 5:12pm
sorry I put so many comments, my computer has ben frezzing alot lately
MASTER GAMER
June 16, 2008 at 5:09pm
here's something really wierd that happend to me: I was flyin in my chopper around happiness island,so I landed on the statue's feet, so I got out and walked up to one of the 'doors'and I tried to get in,and I walked throght the door and there was a latter, so I climed up , but when I got to the top I saw it. The statue's HEART!!!!! Held in place by chanes!
MASTER GAMER
June 16, 2008 at 5:08pm
here's something really frik'in wierd that happend to me: I was flyin in my chopper around happiness island,so I landed on the statue's feet, so I got out and walked up to one of the 'doors'and I tried to get in,and I walked throght the door and there was a latter, so I climed up , but when I got to the top I saw it. The statue's HEART!!!!! Held in place by chanes!
MASTER GAMER
June 16, 2008 at 5:08pm
here's something really frik'in wierd that happend to me: I was flyin in my chopper around happiness island,so I landed on the statue's feet, so I got out and walked up to one of the 'doors'and I tried to get in,and I walked throght the door and there was a latter, so I climed up , but when I got to the top I saw it. The statue's HEART!!!!! Held in place by chanes!
caseypants
May 14, 2008 at 12:58am
i feel that one of the best perks of a game with such great replay value (in this case, GTAIV) is that even when the game pisses you off, you're like "damn that was kick-ass", or something to that effect. this is a superb example of what i mean. rockstar continues to please, as they always have with roughly 90% of their titles (if not better).
Neonspinnazz
May 07, 2008 at 3:42pm
I love to play like a flying taxi/rescue with the Annihilator chopper
Neonspinnazz
May 07, 2008 at 3:40pm
Here's my story, Almost 2 hours after the release I was driving like a pro, drifting around corners, and even having 5 chopper jousting battles in Free Mode. Almost as soon after I gotten my 1st chopper, I crashed it and then found the biggest drivable in the game. The Tugboat. I've also learned how to do some pretty sweet tricks in the city bus. Like what happened when 5 guys and I got into a bus and we've earned 6 stars, I slammed on the brakes in effort to dodge a stray rocket shot off by another player. Instead of making a U-turn, I hit into reverse, hit top speed, and jerked over my left anolog stick while simultaneously hitting the gas to make the sweetest full speed burnout/drift I had ever seen. Before we knew it, we were going from reverse to forward in less than 3 seconds. All together, I've earned myself these three nicknames: Tugboat King, Splatter King, Navigator, and bus Drifter. Just yesterday, a buddy and I joined a clan, our base is the Shyster law offices in Algonquin, I stay at the receptionist's desk as a bouncer, and I protect both the buildings entrance and the "BOSS". I ask unknown members for their Name, Rank, and Division, I'm Private Neon MP Division. I really love the Sultan RS: which is found on the northwest end of the Map behind a run-down garage on a dirt road. Tugboat Location: Industrial complex just nerth of Statue of happiness To Sink: Shoot at the hull with a rocketlauncher/ throw grenades at it. To Capsize: Shoot multiple Rockets at the smokestack. The water outside the map goes on until your icon gets off of the start menu map, at that point, it'l tell you to turn back or suffer the consequences. To Get to Statue's beating heart: Grab a Maverick and head to the upper platform on the statue (it has 4 doors circling it) jump out of the chopper at just the right time, and once you get up, go through the only working door and climb the ladder. Helicopters can fly without a tail boom, they can stay in the sky, but they will spin non-stop and they're not very controllable. IM TALKING ABOUT THE BOOM ITSELF, NOT THE JUST THE REAR ROTOR
armageddon74400
May 05, 2008 at 3:37pm
awesome i can't wait to get this game (too bad i have to wait for june -_-)
smith7391
May 05, 2008 at 2:00pm
wow. I'm sad to say that i don't yet own this orgasm-on-a-disc YET, but i really hope that you guys continue to share these stories. It gets me really pumped up until i get it.
PaperLantern
May 04, 2008 at 5:04pm
In a free-roam game with 10 players, me and my friend were in a car and trying to get away from the cops. He took a wrong turn that led to him swerving into a construction area enclosed by two massive gate doors that can swing open. My friend died and I was forced to get out of the car and use a nearby storage container as cover as the cops stormed through the gate two-by-two. I was frantically holding them off, thinking I had no hope to live, since my friend had spawned on the opposite side of the map and I had no means of escape. Then, my in-game cell phone rang, and someone else in the room was calling me (GTA IV's form of private chat), and when I answered, he said "Need a lift?" And as he said that, his car busted through the gate, smashing all the cops in the way. I hopped in, and we drove away as we shot out of the window to kill some more cops. Best moment ever.
powergloveman
May 03, 2008 at 5:37am
Rocket vs Helicopters deathmatch, im on the ground, my rocket ammo low but i only have on heli left i finally get a clear shot, and i get smoked by a car still a great time and a wicked game!
Mr. B
May 03, 2008 at 3:32am
Hey Ryan, I got a crazy multiplayer minigame variant. Ok, lemme give you some background into my LC dementia. I got into a golf cart at the airport and was tooling around until I found a ramp that was placed perfectly in front of a jet engine intake. Hmmmm, i thought, this could be fun! In a nutshell, me and my bros came up with the idea of jumping over the wing with a helo on the other side of the wing. A certain 1970's daredevil comes to mind. Good times. Gamertag: MrBubbles1221 P.S. i'm gonna change my gamertag soon to reflect my favorite type of beer (IPA). P.P.S. ricky gervais is great!
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