I can wait sooooooo good.

Too busy with RL to post?  Not really.  I’ve been gaming about as much as I always have.  I’ve been playing Call of Duty 4 less, Teamfortress 2 more.  I bought Rainbox Six: Vegas 2 for the PC and have been getting into that more than I thought I would.  I decided to stop playing Mass Effect on my brother’s Xbox360 when I’m visiting because I’m going to wait for the PC version to hit shelves later this month. 

I’m playing the Age of Conan open beta right now as well.  And, even with the level 13 cap, I’m having fun with it.  I’ll be writing two reviews for CheatCC.com this month, so I have to set time aside for that.  May is shaping up to be one crazy month in gaming.  We’ve got the release of Age of Conan on May 17th (3-day headstart!), the release of Mass Effect (PC), and my 2 reviews.  Not to mention that I have to find time to go to work and feed myself so I don’t die.

Let me ditch the nonsensical recap though and focus on something… like Grant Theft Auto IV.  Yeah, it’s getting perfect scores from all the major reviewer sites.  Do I own a copy?  Not at the moment, but I plan on buying mine either later tonight or tomorrow.  At first, I was skeptical about these reviews.  How could a game get all those perfect scores?  I mean, not even Halo 3 got perfect scores with Bungie having more money than God.  So maybe Rockstar Games threw truckloads of money at reviewers or, maybe, just maybe… it is the first “perfect” game.

I got a chance to sit down and play GTAIV this past weekend with my brothers.  My first thought was just nice the game looked, which is saying a lot coming from someone who favors PCs.  One by one, my impressions of each aspect–the controls, the audio, the characters, the plot–were being formed.  Say what you will about a game series that has received more controversial media time than that crazy religious nut Obama used to receive his sermons from, GTA IV set out on a mission to accomplish its goals and that’s the definition of a perfect video game. 

What did the developers want to do with it?  Did they incorporate those features into the game?  If so, at what level of quality are they incorporated?  Rockstar Games didn’t just slap on additional features; they took the time to make sure each part of what they put into the game was the best.

It is far more likely that GTA IV is just a great game than it is likely that Rockstar Games paid off every major reviewer in the United States.