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I picked this up for my Xbox 360 yesterday and have since become quite addicted to it. I do enjoy most racing games except the ultra realistic ones where the slightest mistake results in utter failure. This one is no exception. It has real cars plus the fantastic damage modeling used in DIRT last year. There’s a wide variety of racing disciplines in the game, including:

• Open-wheeled single-seater circuit racing
• European touring cars
• American muscle car street racing
• Stock car racing
• Japanese drifting
• Japanese Touge events (i.e. head to head hill climb/descent runs)

There’s a few more that don’t come to mind right now also. Graphics are fantastic looking and the car handling feels good to me. The 360’s controller suits driving games perfectly as usual, and the game supports steering wheel peripherals also.
The game is also available on PS3 and PC, both in shops and on Steam.

9/10
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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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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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Yes it is. An early review of the Xbox 360 version has been leaked to the internets. I’ve had it preordered for about 6 months from a web shop, hopefully it will arrive close enough to the release date.

I’m sure it will appear for PC a few months down the line. That’ll be a guaranteed purchase too. I’ve always preferred the GTA games with a keyboard and mouse!

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Not content with making europeans wait for months after Rock Band was released in the US, the game’s distributor, Electronic Arts has decided to give us all a good hard shafting too.

Rock Band retails for $169 in the US. This includes the game and all of the peripheral instruments. Here in europe you can have it for €240. Yes. Lets do some currency conversion, shall we? At today’s rates, $169 will get you €106.65. Even when you take the difference in VAT over here and US sales taxes over there into account we’re still getting ripped right the fuck off. We’ve accepted the dodgy $1 = €1 style european RRPs for a long time now, but this is taking the piss.

Fuck you, EA.

Unless you’re able to shit gold bricks you should join me in boycotting this game. Show them that we’re not a bunch of saps that will bend over and take it in the ass just because we don’t live in the US.

There’s loads of flames being thrown on various Eurogamer comment threads about Rock Band. Feel free to throw your tuppenceworth in there too.

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I love this game. It finally arrived in the post yesterday about 2 weeks after the ebay muppet I got it from was supposed to ship it. I ended up spending 4 hours at it last night. I’m using the Xbox 360 version - its also out for Playstation 3. If you want something to show off that fancy new HDTV, this is it! The graphics look brilliant and it keeps up a high frame rate throughout. Highly recommended!

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