The overcrowded monkey house that was the 2007 holiday release schedule lost one of its 800-pound gorillas today. Without warning, this afternoon Take-Two Interactive stunned the game industry by announcing it was delaying Grand Theft Auto IV to the second quarter of its 2008 fiscal year, which begins on February 1, 2008. Published by Take-Two subsidiary Rockstar Games, the crime-action title had been slated to ship for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in North America on October 16, 2007 .
With this news i am dissapointed big time :cry:, i felt realy sad after reading this :( , well i came to know about this early this morning coz the entire nite i was playing Gears of War :P , and when i was just about to sleep at 6 am , my dad waked up and saw me playing on my xbox 360, and i was speechless :shock:, he scolded me a lot for being awake all nite :(, he doesnt likes me gaming , well in some ways , he s right coz i should not be awake all night to play games on a daily basis:P , well i was missing gears a lot coz of lately i ve been playing saints row , crackdown and motostorm and other games a lot , so last week i got back to gears and ever since getting back to gears , its been really an awesome gaming time 4 me :), i dont think so that i ll stop playing gears of war untill gears of war 2 comes out :P.
I got back at Forza 2 too last nite , i ve been missing gears and forza 2 ever since i bought my PS3 . so i decided to get back at forza 2 and gears again for sometime and will be playing it over the weekend :wink:, well i may be playing The Darkness over the weekend :P, if the package arrives in time , coz i twas not available here at all , so my cousin bought it 4 me last nite and now any moment i will begetting it :D , just waiting 4 the delivery boy :P .
PSN , not fully online
Now onto my Dissapointment , well first i ll start with PSN , i ll be fair with all of you on this , but it is true PSN is not fully online and is region locked :(. i tried a lot to join my friends in games like Resistance and Motorstorm , but i was unable to join them coz some of my friends had pal, some had ntsc and some had ntscj versions of the game and thus you cant join games from other regions and all i can do is only play online in European, Australlian and New Zealand Universe , which means that i cant play online with my Amercian or Canadian Friends :cry: , for that i have to buy a NTSC version of Motorstorm and Resistance . this is complete bull crap in my opinion if you ask me:evil: ,you cant play online with people from other countries , what the hell is wrong with psn:(.i got extremelly dissapointed last nite when i tried to join some of good friends in Motorstorm at PSN , and i was unable to do that . then i tried some Resistance online and again got dissapointed right after playing my very first online ranked match:( , its no way near to gears of war , infact games like Prey looked much better then resistance and were fun to play online .so i didnt even bothered to try other online modes of resistance , i only tried team deathmatch mode and it was nothing but complete mess :(, i didnt expected this , already the single player campaign of resistance is average , the main charachter of the game looks like a 40 year old depressed guy , no sort of attitude at all , extremelly painfull cutscenes to watch :evil:. overall my experience with resistance has been very bad :(, i dont know what others think about this game , but to me this games is just an average game at the moment , may be playing it more may change my mind . but for now all i can say that this game doesnt even feels next gen :( .
Thank god i exchanged my copy of resistance for crackdown and doa 4 a couple of weeks back . when i bought resistance with my PS3 , my gr8 friend reetesh told me that he was unable to go online with pal version of resistance on his ps3 , and luckily i had my resistance disc unopened , so what i did was got back to the store and exchanged that disc for 2 x360 games , Crackdown & DOA 4 :) . and last week 1 of my friends gaved me his copy of resistance :), even he didnt liked it at all , so now i may beat this games single player campaign, play it a bit online and then return it . so for those of you who are looking to buy this game , i ll say dont waste your money on resistance , its good for a week rental , and there are better shooters available on ps3 like Fear and Call of Duty 3 :wink:.
On the other hand Motorstorm is extremely superb :), so i dont regret buying a PS3 anywayz :P, i always wanted to play it , and now i am enjoying this game 24/7 . this game is simply 1 of the best online racing game ever made :wink:. though there are some 9 tracks , but still it never gets old . and playing it online is a complete different experience then offline , you can crash easily in motorstorm ,but proper selection of vehicle , cornering and boost will win you matches and is the key to Victory in Motorstorm :wink: so 4 me , Motorstorm is the only online game that i had on my PS3 ,i may get Rainbow 6 Vegas since a lot of my friends have it on ps3 , i may also get it :P.
GTA 4 Delay .
My Most Wanted Game of 2007 were Halo 3 and GTA IV , and now i feel really sad that GTA IV has been delayed till April 2008 , i was counting my days left untill October 16 , and now the timer has increased and i wont get gta 4 in 2007 :cry: . but the good thing is that already there are some awesome games coming out for 2007 like Halo 3 , Half -Life 2 Orange Box , Assassins Creed , Crysis , Mass Effect , Burnout Paradise , PGR 4 , Haze , Heavenly Sword , Call of Duty 4 , Nfs Pro Street , Uncharted Drake , UT 3 , God Of War Chains of Olympus , Bioshock , Stranglehold , WWE SVR 08 , Mercenaries 2 and a lot more :) .
So now i ll be enjoying them all first , but hey , i ll miss the biggest of them all :(, which is Grand Theft Auto IV , first i was shocked to hear that it got delayed . but now its kinda OK with me , coz now i am sure that Grand Theft Auto IV is gonna be the best game ever and once again will Revoutionise the gaming world like it did with Grand Theft Auto III :), and will definately be thebest GTA Expereince ever :D, so its fine by me, coz i dont want to play an unfinished game with compromises or glitches, and with a name like GTA , i would rather wait and enjoy it when it releases :wink:, and 1 things 4 sure that this time in GTA , Things Will be Different , and it ll definately be worth the wait :wink:
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