If the mythical "conspiracy consolers" by the murder of PC as a gaming platform existed in reality, the Windows-port of GTA IV would play in it role of Judas Iscariot. And 30 pieces of silver should give OU Rockstar Toronto, responsible for porting.
Version of Grand Theft Auto IV for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 literally stormed the wallets of buyers, twice managed to get into the Guinness Book of Records (based on sales during the first day and first week). PC-version was able to "distinguish" just unreasonably high system requirements and impossibly intricate procedure of installation and registration. And that - not counting the delays as much as seven months, during which the forum threads on gaming sites swelled from speculation "as it is PC-version of GTA udelaet console.
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To put it bluntly, were grounds for optimism: the improved resolution textures and the increased view distance, twice the number of players in multiplayer (32 versus 16 in the console versions), feature-rich video editor. For the sake of these surprises to suffer six months - not a problem. A Russian players were waiting for PC-version for another reason - for the localization of "1C", without which many of the nuances of the magnificent story would have remained behind the scenes.
Formally, all promises have been fulfilled. But here's the problem - almost every pleasant surprise "pisishnoy» GTA IV tray and a bitter pill. Let's start with the most obvious and improbable - with graphics.
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When the number is already ready to be sent to press, we received a message on the output of the first official patch, which solves some problems rendering, correcting critical bugs and adds new graphics quality settings, as well as support for DirectInput-compatible control devices such as joysticks and steering wheels. We have not had time to test the game with this "patch", but you can do it yourself by taking a file from our drive.
Less is better It is no secret that the technological bells and whistles graphics engine has never been the strength of the series of GTA. Large open game world - is an equation with two related unknowns: image quality and amount of detail. And Rockstar has always focuses on just a second, easily sacrificing the number of polygons, texture quality and newfangled effects for an incredible number of details of the game world.Was no exception, and Grand Theft Auto IV, with its hexagonal wheels auto square strippers and terrible vegetation - anyway, a 512 MB memory in the current generation of consoles - a living wage for such a huge city like Liberty City. It would seem to correct the misunderstanding on the PC - God himself commanded: here and at times more memory and graphics card - hoo! However, programmers Rockstar Toronto decided not to bother optimizing the game engine, and the result - tired of waiting fans update service pack Windows, prowl for the latest drivers for video and still continue to swear his teeth, "admiring" the flickering light, disappearing textures, and periodically and slideshows. Have you changed fundamentally the picture on screen, in this situation no one is interested in, and, hand on heart, - the improvement is so small that one could easily do without them.
 | |  | Goosey steroid kachok Theft Auto and Bruce Kibbutz compared with these dregs of Liberty City - a good fellow, he, at least, harmless | | In most cases, the difference in graphics between the PC-version and the console is not evident - at full speed and no time to check the pixels on the screen |
And here's another fad PC-version - video editor - though pleased. Its scope is so large that the head involuntarily climb a comparison with The Movies Peter Molyneux, except that the scenery here is smaller and command the "actors" are not directly obtained. But in terms of camera control, timing, the imposition of special effects, music and subtitles - full shine. Add to this elegant mounting option, and you get just a bottomless fount of machinima films in the universe GTA IV. On the other hand, it is unlikely this feature will be in demand more than 10% of the players.
In terms of mass and excitement is much more interesting is another "trick" that has not advertised in the development stage - the radio station with its own music. Anyone who played the previous parts of the computer, certainly surprised - what's so special? After all, the ability to add their tunes to the playlist became the de facto standard even with the third GTA. Absolutely. The difference is that now the channel Independence FM also have ads and even a DJ who examines ID3-tag music tracks and comments on your listening habits. Bravo, Rockstar!
Increasing the number of players in multiplayer up to 32 - also the right move. With such a crowd is already crazy races in Liberty City turned into a circus of non-stop. Just do not forget to set the Rockstar Social Club account and make Games for Windows-LIVE - without it there is not only in the multiplayer is not ottyaneshsya, but the game does not save. Those who in their time "fighting" with the launch of PC-version of Gears of War, already knew what to do, and the rest we refer to the site of the Russian game publisher (http://games.1c.ru/gta4), where You can find more information about "taming» GTA IV.
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Of course, we can not ignore, and localization. Given the number of conversations (only one scene clips here for eight hours) and the wonderful game voice actor in the original version, "1C" has chosen the only correct translation - with the subtitle: and all managed to keep the flavor and sense of hurt. Shortcomings in the translation, unfortunately, but they are unimportant, they are few, and the overall quality they are almost not affected. In short, a well-deserved five-minus and a bow of the entire Russian-speaking audience.
Picky readers probably noticed that during the entire review, we almost never actually talked about the game - about the plot, gameplay and everything else. The reason is simple - to complete a detailed review of Eugene Zakirova № 10 "SI" for the last year there is nothing banal. And silly it is: six months after the release of GTA IV to paint dignity as meaningless as talking about the contribution of Steven Spielberg's world cinema, or to transfer the exploits of Chuck Norris. Chuck, if you're reading this, do not be angry - you're so cool! But GTA still steeper - in fact it could not spoil even "talented" employees Rockstar Toronto, although minus one point compared to the console versions of the men still have gained that much must be confessed ...
| Secret! |
Cheat codes in GTA IV are introduced by mobile phone no.
Cheats:
GTA-555-0100 - Full Health
DOC-555-0100 - Full Armor
GUN-555-0100 - a set number 1 weapon (bat, pistol, shotgun, MP-10, M4, sniper, RPG, Grenades)
GUN-555-0150 - a set number 2 weapons (knife, pistol, shotgun, Uzi, "Kalash", sniper, RPG, Molotov cocktails)
COP-555-0100 - remove all the stars tracing
COP-555-0150 - add a star search
HOT-555-0100 - Change of weather
Cars and other vehicles:
CAR-555-0142 - Cognoscenti
CAR-555-0175 - Comet
CAR-555-0100 - FIB Buffalo
CAR-555-0168 - SuperGT
CAR-555-0147 - Turismo
MBK-555-0100 - NRG-900 motorcycle
MBK-555-0150 - moped Sanchez
WET-555-0100 - the boat Jetmax
FLY-555-0100 - Annihilator police helicopter
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