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Old 03-31-2007, 11:48 PM   #55
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GTAIV musn't go backwards, but forwards. In San Andreas it had its ultimate 'last-gen' spasm where a better game equalled a bigger game. In my idealistic view of things, 'next-gen' means that the gameplay itself is deepened, instead of the gameworld being broadened. I'd rather take a single city where interaction in these type of sandbox games is taken to a new height, with empathic possibilities and unthought of interactivity, than ten cities each with the same shallow wash-rinse-repeat gameplay as the last.

The chances are good that my wish will be granted, if Rockstar's Table Tennis is any indication. Instead of going for a massive scale there, they went for deep underlying mechanics. I hope the same will be true for GTAIV.
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