GTA IV Headed to PC in November

[Duke Togo]

GTA IV Headed to PC in November

Rockstar announces that its blockbuster smash hit is headed to Windows.

http://pc.ign.com/articles/896/896807p1.html

by Jason Ocampo

August 6, 2008 - Rockstar has announced that Grand Theft Auto IV for the PC will ship on November 18 in North America and November 21 in Europe, approximately six months after the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions smashed sales records with sales of $500 million in the first week.

This news wasn't entirely unexpected; previous GTA games have been ported over to the PC, and the series itself began only on the PC. Speculation ramped up in recent weeks, though, especially after industry ratings organization ESRB listed Grand Theft Auto IV and Bully: Scholarship Edition, another Rockstar game, for the "Windows PC" platform. The ESRB then updated the list to remove those citations.

Grand Theft Auto IV is the latest in the popular, open-world crime saga. In this game, you play as Eastern European immigrant Niko Belic as he attempts to make it in Liberty City, which is basically a stand-in for New York City. The console versions were universally praised by critics, and the game averages a 9.4 and a 9.5 on GameStats for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions, respectively.

[JsARCLIGHT]

I wonder if they will clear up the blurry\grainy depth of field effect for the PC release. That was my one and main complaint against the console versions... that darn depth effect nastied up the graphics just enough to make you think it looked like ass when you first played it, but you eventually got used to it.

I wonder if any of the supposedly exclusive PS3\Xbox downloadable content (which has yet to materialize even though Rockstar was saying August for the Xbox stuff in their TV commercials but I hear it's been bumped to the holidays) will port over to the PC release?

[yellowlightman]

I wonder if they will clear up the blurry\grainy depth of field effect for the PC release. That was my one and main complaint against the console versions... that darn depth effect nastied up the graphics just enough to make you think it looked like ass when you first played it, but you eventually got used to it.

Not to mention the control, which was easily one of the worst of any games I've played in recent memory... let alone for a game as "great" as GTAIV.

[JsARCLIGHT]

I had a lot of issues with the controls when I first started playing but after going through the game I found the controls to become more and more intuitive as time went on. At first the controls were unbelievably frustrating... I couldn't hit crap with a gun, I couldn't drive a car without fishtailing everywhere and I couldn't survive simple straightforward missions without getting hung up on walls. Now when I play I can drive like a stuntman, beat missions with ease and plink headshots every time. I think the game just has this rather grumpy learning curve that you either eventually gel with or fight the whole time.

[Kin]

lol this time it's not ony my vidcard... probably must buy a whole new computer for this game.

Ah well my non pci-express served long enough though.