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France PSM3 Hand-On with Grand Theft Auto 4

It seems like every publication has gotten their grubby mits on GTA4 except for us. (Yeah, we're just jealous). This time around, it's the French version of Playstation Magazine and their findings in the game were very different from their UK counterparts. (The translation is a bit choppy)\n\n- The first hands-on minutes of the game are enough to understand how the game is gonna kick ass.\n- The city have a lot of streets of any genre.\n- You cannot enter in all the buildings, but you can interact with most of them.\n- No property gestion, neither gang gestion nor trade gestion.\n- Instead of that, we'll have bowling, dart games, drinking spree in pub, strip-club and night club.\n- The core of GTA IV is all about the human relationship.\n- Sometimes, your contacts may call you during hard mission to ask you a service, you choose between the mission or your contact.\n- If you do sh*t with your contact, you may assume the consequences.\n- The impression of a breathing city is, again, absolutely stunning.\n- The density of the population (peds) change between the place/borough you are.\n- If you walk around the street with a gun in your hand, peds who have a cellphone can call the police.\n- While we tried to high-jack a car, the scared bastard go so fast that he hit 2 cars.\n- During the first mission, we tried to high jack a car without gun, then the driver beat up niko, who finished at the hospital.\n- Peds react in a very realistic way, like they lead their own life.\n- We played seven missions during four hours, the devs tell us that it's a very very small portion of the game.\n- 15 minutes necessary to go through 2/3 of manhattan with a boat, and 10 minutes by car to do brooklyn/central park.\n- The cars can be destroyed very realisticly, every parts can fold, it's stunning !\n- More variety of missions, and hard.\n- The game is done, clipping has gone, and the game is super smooth.\n- Forget about every other gta-like that tried to compete GTA IV, that game kick ass.\n\n- If you press the jump bouton, niko can climb everywhere, you can also move straft left or right while you're hung at something (assassin's creed style).\n- There is swimming club.\n- If you have 5 stars, it's very difficult to escape from the cops, they are everywhere and they don't joke with you and this time, they are really clever.\n- While boast trip, the sfx are awsome, you can hear the sound of the waves that beat the cockle of the boat, wonderful !\n- With powerful weapons, you can shoot through the walls.\n- The weather : we've seen fog, rain, sun, clouds, variety of colours depend of what time it is, soo beautiful.\n- This time around, for the first time in a gta, if you die you go to the hospital and you paye \$100, but you keep all of your weapons.\n- But if we go to jail, we must pay a lot more and we no more have our weapons .\n- While you are drunk, it's very difficult to control niko, the drunk sensation is perfectly done.\n- When we steal a car to a ped, he can hung his car and they are gliding on the road (like a sh*t lol).\n- When we make a crime, choppers arrive with searchlights to follow you through the city.\n- We've seen some strip tease in a prositute club, by paying the chicks.\n- after a big crash on the freeway, niko get ejected through the window and he lost some health.\n- Depend on wich bourogh you are, peds speak different language if they are italian, chinese, or bronx dude.\n- Healthkits are available only in the buildings.\n- Grenades and cocktail molotov's sfx and effects are really stunning!\n\nSource: gtaforums