Subtle PS3 & 360 GTA IV Differences Revealed source:sarcasticgamer.com
Its widely known that both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 are very powerful yet very different machines. While third party developers do their best to ensure a single vision of their game is created on all the platforms they develop it for, there are ultimately always differences between various platforms. GTA IV is no exception to this. No, were not talking about the exclusive Xbox 360 downloadable content or the Achievements and Gamerscore here, there are more fundamental differences that will be manifested throughout the gameplay.Continue reading to find out what we learned while visiting the Rockstar offices for our first GTA IV hands-on report.
First off, GTA IV for the PS3 will be yet another game that mandates a large up-front installation. Weve been told that between 8GB and 10GB of data (the most of any game to date) will be read off the Blu-ray disc before you step one foot in Liberty City. We were also told that while the installation procedure does its work, your TV will display the inside of a creaky dimly lit cargo container aboard a ship nearing the end of its trans-Atlantic voyage.
We spoke to Kevin Thist, Creative Director from Rockstar for GTA IV. He said the 85 minute installation procedure was meant thematically to get the player into character, adding,
You start the game with nothing& youre an immigrant to Liberty City being snuck into the country with the understanding that youll work off your debt. We realize it sucks, but hey& crossing the Atlantic in a shipping container would suck in real life too and were striving to bring next-gen realism to next-gen gaming. We didnt want to pull any of that go make a sandwich crap that Capcom did with Devil May Cry 4 either, so you have to periodically push buttons to proceed through the installation process; such as pressing X to step on a rat carrying the plague. If you dont sit there and press the button within 3 seconds, the installation process starts over again.
A little bit of trivia: GTA IV is the first game you can die and lose before ever getting to play!
After the long installation procedure, Kevin explained that you emerge from the shipping container on the docks in Libery City. Because youve been in this container for 2-3 weeks, weve utilized the high dynamic range lighting capability of the PS3 to completely overpower you with extremely white whites. Youll have a hard time seeing sh*t in the game for probably two hours. In our internal testing centers, this led to some hilarious sh*t with people wandering directly into traffic, people accidentally pushing children in front of trains, one guy even walked off the wrong side of the ship and died in the harbor!
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Edit: It is satire. Sarcastic gamer. To be honest it will require half that time around 40 minutes to install GTA 4 to PS3.
DMC 4 took 20 minute download and took up 4GB of PS3 storage capacity.
GTA 4 will take up over 8 GB of storage capacity if installed to PS3 and take around 40 minutes.
