Slightest Detail
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Monday 30 November 2009 00:17

I hope the Gamekings put some nice stuff together
about the slightest details. The issue I have with
professional publications surrounding games is that
you know it's just some guys battling themselves
through a steady stream of new games and they
hardly have time to really get into most of them.
So the reviews are usually about the bare minimum
and by the time players have had enough time to
find bugs or the real depth of a game it's no
longer interesting to mention anything about the
game, while some games have enough content and
depth to revisit them for a seriously deep review
long after the game is considered new.

So what did I notice in GTA IV? (Besides a ton of
incredible details that are pretty obvious)

  * The in-game screen of the phone your character
    is holding is the same as on the phone used as
    the game interface.

  * With your controller you don't control the
    radio, but you control your character who then
    controls the radio. The movement of changing
    the radio station in a car is motion captured,
    and while in a taxi the character asks the
    driver to change the radio station instead.

by Roland van Ipenburg
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ipenburg/blog/posts/play/2009/11/30/slightest-detail/