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April 14th, 2008 @ 12:36
A community member over at GTAForums.com has got hold of a copy of the last OXM and has scanned the full GTA IV review for your spoiler pleasure.
You can get the images in one handy place here.
This is the very first “official” review. No prizes for guessing the score, by the way.
By Mike Bowden
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April 14th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Purple shadows?
/goes to read
April 14th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Gah! Or not. Those scans are stupidly huge and I can’t be arsed downloading them all so I can resize them.
April 14th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
You can pretty much read the full text on the page itself.
April 14th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Interesting review and something rather intriguing about real life celebs appearing as themselves in the game, I wonder if it means the Naked Cowboy will be hanging around at Star Junction?
April 14th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Oh dear, a review not based on final code.
April 14th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
I thought Rockstar were officially disowning any reviews from preview code?
April 14th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Hmm… read it now. Not the most detailed of reviews for an 8-pager, is it? There’s hardly anything in there that we didn’t know already.
April 14th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
“I thought Rockstar were officially disowning any reviews from preview code?”
I’m sure they’ll make them retract the score and do it again.
April 14th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
First review of highly anticipated game?
Great score?
Unfinished code?
Golly, you can almost smell the journalistic integrity.
April 14th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
/whiffs
April 14th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Looking at this from another angle, this is fucking appalling. Scanning an entire review of a mag before it’s even on shop shelves? You get people whining about mags on the internet all the time, yet the same people are happy to basically rob pages and pages of it and get to read it for free. Wankers.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
It’s the nature of the internet - the era of games print journalism is dying.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
What, so that makes it acceptable, does it? It’s theft, effectively. Future should sue.
And there’s room still for magazines - they just have to offer something different to the ‘net. Those which don’t might struggle, but then again, quite a few mags saw a rise in the latest ABCs. So perhaps it’s not dying just yet.
April 14th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
In regards to games, news, review, preview and features the internet beats magazines every time. Magazine’s are a dying breed and there is nothing they can offer that beats the content available from so many internet based games journalist sites.
April 14th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Very, very few sites have writers anywhere near as good as those who contribute to magazines on a regular basis. Eurogamer is one (indeed, I prefer Eurogamer to most mags). IGN UK has the excellent Dave McCarthy and a couple of other decent writers. But the quality of journalism on the internet at the moment is generally much lower than in print.
News and previews you’re right about - mags struggle to compete on that front, particularly the former. But I think mags are far better when it comes to features, and - in most cases - on the review front, too.
April 15th, 2008 at 7:51 am
I think you’re mistaken there. All the quality journalists are moving online, if they’re not there already. There are probably less than ten writers still on print that I’d rate, probably closer to five.
The funny thing is that for freelance writers not on retainer, the pay rates for online are far, far worse than print - indeed EMAP paid more in 1990 (price NOT adjusted for inflation). You put up with it because it’s the place to be, because you’ll actually get an audience for what you’re writing, and because for games journalism at least, it’s the future.
April 15th, 2008 at 8:08 am
This game doesn’t need a review & I don’t even read reviews, I’m hardcore I go with my gut.
April 15th, 2008 at 8:28 am
@ grandmaster - Name your five. I’m intrigued…