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So I finished the main story missions in Grand Theft Auto 4 this evening. It was super high quality all the way. It took me approximately 50 hours and there’s still tons of side stuff left to do in the game, as well as multiplayer and general sandbox fooling about.
All that for €60. That’s what I call a bargain.
I can’t see anything else that gets released this year topping GTA4. Its certainly my game of the year.
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Criterion Games today announced that they plan to release Burnout Paradise on PC. I’ve already got it on the Xbox 360 and enjoyed it a lot. The PC, however, is my platform of choice. I’d love to see what modders could get up to with Burnout. Seeing it in uber-high resolutions should be nice too.
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Michael hooked me up with a copy of GTA4 for the Xbox 360 
Sendit.com can suck my balls.
I’ve spent the last 5 hours totally engrossed in the world of Grand Theft Auto 4 and I still can’t get enough of it. This game has such fantastic atmosphere. The city feels like its alive.
The first time I accidentally had a head on car crash and Niko came flying out the windscreen I nearly shit my pants laughing. Realistic physics + ragdolls + Grand Theft Auto = epic win. If you haven’t already got this game, and you can find it… BUY IT. I say all this before even trying the multiplayer component of the game which by all accounts is fantastic fun also.
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Valve released a new map (and consequently, a new game type) for Team Fortress 2 this week, called Goldrush. I had gotten a bit tired of the game but this new map has me addicted again. It is massively fun. It will help to fill the void while I STILL WAIT FOR GTA4.
Goldrush is done in an art style similar to that of dustbowl but I find the gameplay much more fun. Essentially the blue team has to escort a mine cart along the tracks until it reaches the end of the line. The red team has to stop them. The cart only moves when blue players are close to it. The more players close by, the faster it moves.
Since the cart has to follow a fixed path you can expect lots of sentry guns and ambushes. The fixed path focuses players to congregate in the same area, making for some fun action.
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GTA4 was not delivered by the postman today 
Fingers crossed for tomorrow.
I took a drive down to Mahon Falls in Waterford today. Its a natural beauty spot in the Comeragh Mountains, easily accessible by road from Dungarvan or Carrick on Suir. It was beautifully sunny on the way down but once I got up into the mountains the clouds became very low and dark very fast.
I’ve put a few photos on Flickr here (took ages to upload a mere 20 or so MB, I need faster upload speed). I had another go at HDR although this time from only a single exposure. I used Nikon’s RAW software to generate JPEGs with 7 different exposure levels from the one RAW file (.NEF in Nikon land) and then fed those into Photomatix and fiddled about with it to get the following.
Straight from camera:
HDR’d up the ass:
Click the photos for the flickr page with full size versions available.
In the past I would never do anything more than cropping or rotating a bit to fix lopsided shots but I think this photo really benefited from the tone mapping shenanigans of Photomatix. Which do you prefer?
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This email arrived moments ago from sendit.com:
We thought you might like to know that we shipped a parcel today to:
< < address >>containing:
Grand Theft Auto IV GTA (Xbox 360)
\o/
Although given the speed of An Post I have my doubts about it arriving on Tuesday, it’ll be here soon enough 
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10/10.
WANT.
Sorry for the ad.
Update 28/04/2008: Gametrailers has a very good 11 minute video review up now
UBERWANT.
