By advancements I really hope they mean gameplay more like GTA3 with great graphics... GTA4 was really disappointing on many levels for me. The absence of the Bribs to reduce stars, pizza boy missions, ambulance and firetruck missions, the vigilante missions were pretty cool how you could choose your mission but I really missed the progression of GTA:SA vigilante missions. They really lost the enjoyability of just playing and running around raising hell by making it more "realistic". Screw realism, give me FUN.
@Psmitty456 I think the new maps create a change of pace. It is much more frantic, but there are less landslide games, I mean sometimes on a 1000 tix server you are getting your ass kicked for almost an hour... the new maps feel great at about the 300 tix marker. I enjoy playing 32 and 24 person servers on the smaller maps. And the Vanilla maps and B2k on 64 player maps. It does a good job breaking the monotony, and allows me to play fun 15 min games,that don't feel to short.
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