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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: Big BpG on May 14, 2004, 08:22:05 PM
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General
- The game is more serious than the others, but the elements of comedy are still there.
- A full staff of reasearch personnel at Rockstar have been studying Las Vegas, San Diego, and Los Angeles for months to ensure that they truly capture the feelings of these cities.
Location
- The game will not take place in Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Las Vegas. It will take place IN ALL THREE as well as the countryside in between.
- Los Angeles will be called Los Santos, San Francisco will be called San Fieero, and Las Vegas will be called Las Venturra.
- Each city is about the same size as Vice City.
- Not all cities will be open at the start of the game.
- The entire game will be about four to six times as large as Vice City.
- San Fierro (San Francisco) will have hills. This city is more driving based.
- You can drive from LA, through the countryside, up a mountain, into San Fran, and onto Las Vegas.
- Driving through the desert won’t be empty and plain with a couple cacti...it will be vibrant and alive with weird things to see.
- There will be a lot more buildings with open interiors.
Graphics
- The graphics engine has been tweaked. Smog will be present in LA, and real-time reflections on cars, windows, and mirrors, as well as new techniques like radial lighting, which allows for more realistic shadowing, and soft-shadow lighting for interior levels will be present.
- Everything in the game now has independent models for day and night to give better lighting and shadowing.
- The game will have ragdoll physics, or “impact animation” in Rockstar’s words.
Vehicles
- As for vehicles, there will be pimped-out lowriders, and 90’s versions of some GTA3/VC cars will return.
- There will be bicycles.
Story
- Characters from the past will return.
Gameplay
- In the Las Vegas city, you will be able to buy and build a casino - and then run it.
- You can then gamble your money in the casino.
- Your character can dual wield pistols and potentially other weapons.
- You need to eat to retain your stamina. If you eat too much fast food, you become fat and pedestrians mock you for being fat. You also run slower. To remedy this, you can go to a gym to exercise.
- You can now rob homes. The robberies will require skill and planning, however.
- You can recruit gang members and use them to do four person drive-by’s. (seen here)
Weapons
- The choice of weapons will match the time in which the era of the early 90's.
Artificial Intelligence
- Enemy/pedestrian AI will be greatly revamped and they will think more logically. You can't beat someone to death in broad daylight and not have people notice and react.
- Your enemies will be smarter, which will make robbing houses take a lot of skill.
Music
- There will be a rap station, but there will be a variety of other stations as always.
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cool thanks for the info and screenshots
this game is gonna be great - dont know if i like the fact u gotta eat to stay healthy and u can become to fat and shit. sounds too much like ordinary life like in The Sims or somethin. fuck i hated that game
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damnnnn ey good lookin out with the pics homie. this game looks dope...
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why the fuck did you post this?
now i want to buy this game and i wont be able to for a long time.
THANX
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DOPPPE. Everything sounds amazing.
What happened to San Andreas tho? I thought thats the way they was doing it, Liberty CVity, then Vice then San Andreas. But gutted about that, wudda been nice.
The game looks and sounds fucking awesome tho.
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damnnnn ey good lookin out with the pics homie. this game looks dope...
word, props BpG!!
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DOPPPE. Everything sounds amazing.
What happened to San Andreas tho? I thought thats the way they was doing it, Liberty CVity, then Vice then San Andreas. But gutted about that, wudda been nice.
The game looks and sounds fucking awesome tho.
I think they call it San Andreas because the major cities (L.A. San Fran and Las Vegas) all lie along the san andreas fault
-BpG
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i guess the Halo fanboys were right.....no new improvements off the other GTA's ::) ::)
teaches them not to make an opinion off just a couple of pictures
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So is it in San Diego or what ???
Or will it be a San Angeles thing.
LA/SD will probably be the first open city...since they already have screenshots :D
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:o
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when they said vice city was 2 times the size of gta3
i was thinking o ya bullshit.
now there saying san andreas is FOUR TIMES VICE CITY????
thats some awesome shit
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i guess the Halo fanboys were right.....no new improvements off the other GTA's ::) ::)
teaches them not to make an opinion off just a couple of pictures
yea i was right...from GTA3 to Vice City it wasnt that much of an improvement. I never made a comment on the new GTA since its not evne fuckn out yet.
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So is it in San Diego or what ???
Or will it be a San Angeles thing.
LA/SD will probably be the first open city...since they already have screenshots :D
not San diego..san francisco...
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So is it in San Diego or what ???
Or will it be a San Angeles thing.
LA/SD will probably be the first open city...since they already have screenshots :D
not San diego..san francisco...
And L.A. and Las Vegas.
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i liek the idea of the casino that sounds pretty cool.
so your not only a gangsta but a business man
i also like the idea that you can hire some men, makes the "gang life" more realistic
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Word this game is gonna b fuckin dope 8)
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No way...REFLECTIONS???!?!?! HOLY SHIT!!!!
AND HOUSE BREAK INS???!!!! GET THE FUCK OUTTA TOWN!!!!!
(Tries to get excited about game...cannot, and pisses all over it).
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No way...REFLECTIONS???!?!?! HOLY SHIT!!!!
AND HOUSE BREAK INS???!!!! GET THE FUCK OUTTA TOWN!!!!!
(Tries to get excited about game...cannot, and pisses all over it).
lol your just mad cuz no one agress with you that halo is awesome.
Go play your little halo game, leave the mature games to us older guys. dont stay up too late playing it though youll be cranky in the morning
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So, according to you breaking into houses, killing people, and doing drive by's are all mature things....wow ::)
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i guess the Halo fanboys were right.....no new improvements off the other GTA's ::) ::)
Yup, this seems like a even bigger improvement to VC than VC was to GTA3..
when they said vice city was 2 times the size of gta3
i was thinking o ya bullshit.
now there saying san andreas is FOUR TIMES VICE CITY????
thats some awesome shit
Yeah, it's crazy.. 3 whole towns in 1 game..
No way...REFLECTIONS???!?!?! HOLY SHIT!!!!
AND HOUSE BREAK INS???!!!! GET THE FUCK OUTTA TOWN!!!!!
(Tries to get excited about game...cannot, and pisses all over it).
U mad ?
Don't get upset cuz GTA breaks barriers and set trends, and Halo does what other FPS games have done before, several times.
If you didn't get the concept before, GTA is about innovative and near unlimited gameplay, not about having the highest resolution or weirdest looking space age aliens.
GTA San Andreas CANNOT compare to Halo 2's graphics...Halo 2's graphics are far superior.
GAMEPLAY.
G-A-M-E-P-L-A-Y.. come on say it with me..
This game is about stealing cars (illegal) and killing people (illegal). Wow...great game there...
YES, and shooting aliens is very realistic and legal.
Doing illegal things is part of the concept.. you can't do illegal things in life, so you act it out in a game where you will not get locked up, shot or beaten up..
BTW, props to BGP. 8)
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Doing illegal things is part of the concept.. you can't do illegal things in life, so you act it out in a game where you will not get locked up, shot or beaten up..
wait...its illegal to grind chainsaws into old women?
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lmao @ xearo...
getting dissed left right and centre cos nobody gives a fuck about halo...
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Doing illegal things is part of the concept.. you can't do illegal things in life, so you act it out in a game where you will not get locked up, shot or beaten up..
wait...its illegal to grind chainsaws into old women?
only if you don't warn them first by firing a warning shot into the face of the person walking next to them ;D
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i guess the Halo fanboys were right.....no new improvements off the other GTA's ::) ::)
Yup, this seems like a even bigger improvement to VC than VC was to GTA3..
when they said vice city was 2 times the size of gta3
i was thinking o ya bullshit.
now there saying san andreas is FOUR TIMES VICE CITY????
thats some awesome shit
Yeah, it's crazy.. 3 whole towns in 1 game..
No way...REFLECTIONS???!?!?! HOLY SHIT!!!!
AND HOUSE BREAK INS???!!!! GET THE FUCK OUTTA TOWN!!!!!
(Tries to get excited about game...cannot, and pisses all over it).
U mad ?
Don't get upset cuz GTA breaks barriers and set trends, and Halo does what other FPS games have done before, several times.
If you didn't get the concept before, GTA is about innovative and near unlimited gameplay, not about having the highest resolution or weirdest looking space age aliens.
GTA San Andreas CANNOT compare to Halo 2's graphics...Halo 2's graphics are far superior.
GAMEPLAY.
G-A-M-E-P-L-A-Y.. come on say it with me..
This game is about stealing cars (illegal) and killing people (illegal). Wow...great game there...
YES, and shooting aliens is very realistic and legal.
Doing illegal things is part of the concept.. you can't do illegal things in life, so you act it out in a game where you will not get locked up, shot or beaten up..
BTW, props to BGP. 8)
Great post...
Xearo your a punk... don't act like these aren't some nice upgrades... sittin there talkin about reflections and house break in's (the house break in's part is fuckin tight)... yet doesn't comment on the 3 city's that equals 4 times the area of vc... that alone makes this game amazing and a must have...
so yeah, you keep shooting your aliens while us gta fans keep doin are thing...
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I will...happily
Only I doubt some retarded kid will go around shooting cars after he played Halo...oh wait, thats right...he went around shooting cars after he played GTA...my bad.
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I will...happily
Only I doubt some retarded kid will go around shooting cars after he played Halo...oh wait, thats right...he went around shooting cars after he played GTA...my bad.
another good thing....GTA filters out the weak minded in our society....
but let's not forget that the columbine shooting were attributed to DOOM a FPS that took place in a space like enviroment :P
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lol you stupid fuck youll think of anything to try and make your retard scifi ass look cool.
yea ok so two guys after playing gta went outside their house and shot at a car....hmm how many people bought this game again? o ya thats right millions.
so 2 outta 1,000,000 people do something bad as a result of a game (im making up million i dont evenknow the real number)
yea ok so halo doesnt have this "affect" on people. All halo does is start a revolution of nerds where all they talk about is halo and its predeceser halo 2.
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Doom affected the kids at Columbine? You sure? I thought it was just cuz nobody liked em and picked on em all the time. ???
A "revolution" rampant? Those are awfully big words for you to be using.
Kid # 1: "Hey, you see the new GTA?"
Kid # 2: "Which one?"
Kid # 1: "San Andreas. It looks so amazing!!! You can do house break ins, the graphics are better, and theres reflections!"
Kid # 2: "Awesome!! I WANNA PLAY IT!"
Go have fun you two....lol
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it's because they were picked on but they said Doom influenced them to do it...and i don't want to hear about games inciting violence....i read up on most cases and children have killed other children over a pokemon game.... so there goes the end of that arguement...
and you want a cool dialog.....how about
Trekkie 1: greeting earthling, have you aquired the new halo sequal for the xbox home transponder equipment
Trekkie 2: that's affirmitive! Z'larg the Conquerer is coming over to my Habitat today to eradicate the evil covenent from the face of the universe
Trekkie 1: What a joyous occasion, will there be solid consumable treats to digest?
Trekkie 2: That is also affirmative
together: JOY!
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smerlus you get beat up for that kinda shit.
Seriously on this whole forum theres no way you could win this argument. Halo is such a pussy game, so you go play it. ill play a game that revolves around a badass, not some fucking futuristic shooting game.
you just sound so stupid coming over here talking shit about gta when nobody agrees with your lame ass
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Halo>Gta
End of story.
Reflections?! Hockey gaves have been having reflections for a while now
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Halo>Gta
End of story.
In terms of innovative gameplay & originality .. NO.
In terms of longevity & versatileness.. NO.
In terms of having the best resolution and best graphics.. yeah sure.
In terms of having the weirdest enemies, yeah sure.
GTA wins in a lot of categories if you compare it to Halo, and Halo in others..
But they're not really compareable, and they don't have the same core audience.
GTA undeniably breaks new grounds in a lot of areas as compared to Halo, it's not been done before..
I shot weird looking aliens back in the early 90's, did I have the opportunity to be a ruthless bastard making money in every illegal or even legal possible way while being able to drive every possible vehicle, an do every possible thing that is possible in real life in a videogame back then.. ? No.
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Halo>Gta
End of story.
Reflections?! Hockey gaves have been having reflections for a while now
and hockey's gameplay pretty much sums up Halo's
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^^i cant believe u just dissed Halo's gameplay.
Halo not being innovative? When you play the hardest level on Halo...you really have to think and outsmart ur enemies cuz these fuckers are smart. Never has the AI been so good in a game before than Halo.
while GTA...ur enemies just shoot at u.
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GTA San Andreas CANNOT compare to Halo 2's graphics...Halo 2's graphics are far superior.
GAMEPLAY.
G-A-M-E-P-L-A-Y.. come on say it with me..
LMAO
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lol you cant compare these 2 games, there so damn different its not even funny.
Halo is the or one of the best FPS ever made and GTA is so unique and cool, it has better gameplay then halo because its so open ended, u can do so many things,i like em both n the new GTA and Halo 2 are gonna be the or 2 of the best games coming out this year on any system period
you gotta give props to rockstar and bungie for makin 2 very very dope games
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^^i cant believe u just dissed Halo's gameplay.
Halo not being innovative? When you play the hardest level on Halo...you really have to think and outsmart ur enemies cuz these fuckers are smart. Never has the AI been so good in a game before than Halo.
while GTA...ur enemies just shoot at u.
AI has little to do with gameplay...halo is still a fps. you run, hide behind things and shoot...repeat for the next 10 hours
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i know it has nothing to do with Gameplay. I was talking about Halo being innovative, and its innovatice with its AI. if u think Halo is just about running and shooting and hiding...i feel sorry for you. It is obvious u havent played Halo in the Legendary or HEroic level.
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i know it has nothing to do with Gameplay. I was talking about Halo being innovative, and its innovatice with its AI. if u think Halo is just about running and shooting and hiding...i feel sorry for you. It is obvious u havent played Halo in the Legendary or HEroic level.
Finally someone has seen the light.
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having good ai has little to do with innovation. what us smart people are talking about is something completly different.
How many games take place in the future. where you go to differnt planets and shoot aliens????? well this is hard but ill try to think of some off the top of my head.
doom....that came out like 10 years ago. STAR WARS! wow these are some old games. were not talking about ai or graphics...were talking about the game.
now how many games are like gta? im not talking about those lame ass games that came out after gta (getaway, simpsons hit and run, and true crime)
the answer is no game. GTA innovated the "do whatever you want open area gameplay" im so sick of these geeks coming into a gta thread trying to diss this game when the fact is only 2 people are for halo while the rest of this board thinks gta is a good game. OPEN YOUR EYES ALL TWO OF YOU NOBODY AGREES WITH YOU. Theres probably a scifi star wars forum that likes halo try siging up there and talk with them.
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Or how about this a forum where people can openly express their opinions on anything they want...so in short terms, go fuck yourself ;D
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AI has nothing to do with how innovative a game is? Thats stupid. If a game comes out with AI that has blown away the competition...it shoudl be noted.
ill stick with my games and u stick with ur male barbie video game
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AI has nothing to do with how innovative a game is? Thats stupid. If a game comes out with AI that has blown away the competition...it shoudl be noted.
ill stick with my games and u stick with ur male barbie video game
if you want a game with innovative AI check out Black and White for PC, Seaman for DC, the upcomming Black and White 2....Teaching a computer how you want it to act through a reward system is an innovation in AI technology....squad based tactics in a FPS are not. hell turok 2 for N64 had squad based tactics, it's just that technology has gotten better
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Socom 2 online is the best gameplay.
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http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/socom2/screenindex.html (http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/socom2/screenindex.html)
http://www.freewebs.com/03socomcodes/socomiiphotos.htm (http://www.freewebs.com/03socomcodes/socomiiphotos.htm)
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don't get me on Socom 2.... realistic weapons, realistic sounds, realistic environments..... guy can walk over a PMN take 5 shot gun blasts and a few automatic rounds and still kill a person ::)
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don't get me on Socom 2.... realistic weapons, realistic sounds, realistic environments..... guy can walk over a PMN take 5 shot gun blasts and a few automatic rounds and still kill a person ::)
^maybe they are lagging? ;D
Same goes for GTA...never played Halo probably the same way too on the unrealistic part.
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neither of those two game's selling points are realism.. SOCOM's is, you're supposed to be a Navy SEAL, a regular human
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neither of those two game's selling points are realism.. SOCOM's is, you're supposed to be a Navy SEAL, a regular human
So when a Seal gets shot in the leg...you want him to run around with a limp.
Even better if a Seal eyes get taking out by a grenade blast you want to see a black screen ;D
That would be lame.
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play the first game... while the limb specific wound effect wasn't there, you still wouldn't see a person take over 6 shots MAX
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play the first game... while the limb specific wound effect wasn't there, you still wouldn't see a person take over 6 shots MAX
I feel the shooting aspect of the game is fine but I never played socom1.
I don't understand the PMN's though but I'm happy I'm not dead when I step on them ;D :D
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PMN's are only for terrorists and they are Anti Personel Mines....you step on it you're supposed to die
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PMN's are only for terrorists and they are Anti Personel Mines....you step on it you're supposed to die
Yeah yeah I know what mines are...I don't understand why when Seals step on them they don't die sometimes (like 20% of the time)
I play socom2 online every now and then...lol I stop playing Vice City ;D
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i played for about the first 3 months.... i was a Captain with about 60% of my kills being headshots.....then the game just got boring
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i played for about the first 3 months.... i was a Captain with about 60% of my kills being headshots.....then the game just got boring
Team killing is too much fun.
What gun did you use the most? M14?
Socom2 never gets boring for me...I can play Vigilance forever :D
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i was a terrorist 90% of the times....my tools were the 9mm heater and PMN mines
my sn was MR.NASTY TIME
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lol socom 2 is so lame. all the ps2 people (im one of them but not in this case) think socom is like the best shooter alive. These people need to buy computers and experience real shooter/squad/seal/army/tactical games.
in my opinion pc has the best shooters around.
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Isn't it obvious we're talking about PS2/Halo...scram :-*
Where can I get a computer from? I'm not sure if I can afford one of those :-\
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i was a terrorist 90% of the times....my tools were the 9mm heater and PMN mines
my sn was MR.NASTY TIME
M14/552SD/M4AISD
DE .50 (lol how do you explain the desert eagle...that shit is not realistic)
RPG
PMN
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Isn't it obvious we're talking about PS2/Halo...scram :-*
Where can I get a computer from? I'm not sure if I can afford one of those :-\
yeah, don't you hate typing with the Dreamcast controller?
i was a terrorist 90% of the times....my tools were the 9mm heater and PMN mines
my sn was MR.NASTY TIME
M14/552SD/M4AISD
DE .50 (lol how do you explain the desert eagle...that shit is not realistic)
RPG
PMN
what's wrong with the desert eagle?
i usually picked the Model 18 for the handgun and put it on fully automatic
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BTW my sn is Frágger.
Desert eagle is too potent...you can be in a shootout with a M60 and a desert eagle will win.
Play a respawn game with only pistols...DE one shot your done from a mile away.
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the DE is supposed to be one of the most powerful handguns made... but i agree, some of the weapons aren't realistic
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Socom II is pretty dope.. havnt played online yet though! :( is it hard settin it up to play online?...
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The thing i hate about console shooters..is that there too damn hard to aim. with a pc its so easy to aim at a certain area of the body.
with consoles im always having trouble going too far up and then too far down. i guess its something you got to get used to
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8)^^ I agree.. pc shooters are much easier to aim exactly where you want to.
Counter-Strike 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
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Yo who here is online for ps2? I just hooked that shit up about a week ago and it's tight... im playin like 3 or 4 games online with it, mostly ea sports games, and socom...
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^^im not online yet, but how hard was it to set up adapter and everything?
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^^im not online yet, but how hard was it to set up adapter and everything?
not hard at all. i have a cable connection and all i had to do was screw the adapter into the back, put in the disk that comes with it, make sure i had enough space on my memory card and the BBA program automatically set my settings....it all took about 5 minutes
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alright well im gonna have to get an adapter soon
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here is another picture from the game
http://media.ps2.ign.com/media/611/611957/img_2155267.html
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alright well im gonna have to get an adapter soon
Yeah, hook up an adapter fa sho Bram... then we can play some shit man... it's easy to hook up... if you got high speed you just run a cable from your modem to the adaptor on the back of your ps2 and your set... took me like 30 max to figure it all out...
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yeah man.. might be for a while though.. not sure yet :-\
but for sure we shall play sometime
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awmbe the first muawfucka to get dis game :D
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Man I just can;t wait for this to finally drop. It looks like it's gonna blow all the other GTA;s away.