I am back, bitches!
The screen is still black but that is the first sentence you hear when you fire up the latest entry in Rockstar’s long going series. Actually a guy was screaming that while getting spanked by a dominatrix, but still a fiting intro. My last weeks were stuffed with work, LotRO and usual lazyness. But this game is just too good to be silent about it. At least the first 30 minutes were. The main character is Niko Bellic, a guy from Serbia, lured to the US by his cousin Roman to find his luck in a new world.
That’s where I am right now, haven’t played much yet. In fact the first couple of minutes are introductory sequences to the game world. Still I got a good look at what the game promises. The cutscenes look great so far, the voice acting is great and Rockstar also worked on the mimics. They’re not “Mass Effect perfect” but they’re good nonetheless.
The basic plot is set. Cousin Roman is a fuck up who likes to gamble and thus owes money to a lot people I wouldn’t want to owe money to. He seems to have a cab business and problems to score with the girls, fat and strange that he is. GTA IV starts like every other entry in the series before: I am at the bottom and have to work my way up meeting all kinds of strange people. And normal people, like the girl Roman’s secretary tried to hook me up with. I fixed a date with her over the cellphone, a pretty neat tool, where you can call all the people you know the number’s of and also receive messages and so on.
Now forgive me, I have to play on.