Today, GTA IV joins The Godfather in the 100 club (The 100 was for the PlayStation 3 version, the Xbox 360 scored slightly lower at 99). This is significant for a lot of reasons. First, GTA IV will have the critical praise of The Godfather, but it will have the box office of Titanic. While the direct relationship is not as unusual as film, it is still somewhat unusual in our business. In terms of the score, to give you a better idea of what a 100 really means, the highest average score for a publisher in 2007 was Nintendo’s 75.
The Godfather is the only film with a perfect 100 on Metacritic. “The game business quantifies critical reviews and assigns scores. , which also aggregates reviews for film, television, books, DVDs and music, is the game industry Q rating. The value of the property you are trying sell, as well as the ability to sell at all, is directly related to the Metacritic score of your last title. By every measure, GTA IV is orders of magnitude larger than anything else on the market, including with the critical scores. The fact you are reading this and know what I am talking about is already an indication of the scale. How many of you knew the second largest game on the Playstation, Gran Turismo: Prologue came out a couple weeks ago? Partially fixed emissive shader bug, namely BAWSAQ building is still rendered incorrectly, but the rest of the lights are now present in the game (e.g.“To put it lightly, if the other things made for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 are called ‘games’, we have to come up with a new word for GTA IV. I think the word is ‘platform’.
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dat file after the game is first loaded, cutting load times by as much as 50% or more.įolder C has an optional mod which I find necessary given how little blood is present in GTA IV compared to the other games in the series, and what this mod does is that it changes how the blood looks, its size and how long it stays in the game (a worthy mod in my opinion).įusionFix changelog below (taken directly from ):įixed recoil behavior that was different when playing with keyboard/mouse and gamepadįixed forced "definition off" setting in cutscenes, now cutscenes will respect the menu setting
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One that tells you how to install all of this, another that gives credit to all the mod authors and another detailing what this section and the next section of the guide states :)įolder A of this Fix Package brings back the previously cut radio stations and tracks which have been removed patch after patch (mostly due to expired licenses and Rockstar not renewing them)įolder B gives us a hotfix for the soundtrack mentioned above, an ASI Loader which allows for the mods in this folder as well as folder C to function within the game, an unofficial patch which corrects a number of issues - both technical and gameplay-related - that are still present in the game (more on that below) and also the ColAccel plugin which greatly improves loading times by creating a. Exaggerated Blood mod"Īnd, of course, three text documents. > an "Exaggerated Blood" mod (version 1.16) made by dDefinder ( ) contained within folder "C. Hotfix, ASI Loader, Fusion Fix AND ColAccel" all of which are contained within folder "B. > a hotfix for the soundtrack mentioned above ( ), an "Ultimate ASI Loader" made by ThirteenAG( ), an unofficial patch dubbed "FusionFix" made by ThirteenAG ( ) and a plugin called "ColAccel" made by NTAuthority ( ). a GTA IV soundtrack downgrader made by Sam Lake ( ) and is contained within folder "A.