Those scans look good, looking forward to seeing this in motion. View

Does anyone else think that the guy in the product shot for this game looks exactly like Anthony Hopkins?

It wouldn't be unlike Rockstar to rope in some celebrity talent for a game. View

An admission of guilt does not absolve you of it.

'I am like totally a sell out but I know it so it's totally cool. Hey did I give you my latest counter culture line of risque 'I totally don't give a f*ck' humour? It's about f*cking people in the eye sockets and using the word rape as a wacky adjective instead of a noun. I came up with it while I was taking a sh*t on a swan, lol my tits off etc.'

Seriously, this guy may be funny at times but a sell out is a sell out and having the decency to admit it does not make you special.

Rant over. View

The first saints row was junk food, a luke warm bacon double cheese burger with limp fries and a sugary over iced gallon of coke.

GTA is a Fillet steak served with chasseure sauce, potatoe dophinoise and parsnip fritters washed down with a strong bodied merlot.

I really don't think the two will even compare. View

Why has nobody asked how this guy apparently knows what settings Gametrailers uses for its comparison videos? How the hell does this guy know that they don't have their settings optimized (which I am sure they do)?

This is nonensense and for the record I think that the limited pallete actually looks better on the PS3 than the full settings, the full settings are much too dark and loads of the detail is lost in some scenes. View

If more people by standalone BR players surely that is less incentive for them to buy a PS3 seeing as BR is one of the console's key features, no? View

Xiphos,

That might just be the best comment that has been posted on N4G this week, you have summed up this community perfectly and I too feel increasingly embarassed to be a part of it.

And the point about the admin is a very good one too. This community feels like it is completely un-monitered mostly. I know there are occasional bans but the number of people that get away with repeatedly posting racist or homopobic insults in their comments is nothing short of despicable.

This site gives a voice to people who know precicely nothing about the industry or how it works but as I type this I already feel like launching an attack on the congregation of feeble minded children that populate N4G is a waste of energy.

It seems the N4G team is quite happy to just keep posting the enormous site hit numbers to their sponsers and watch the money roll in. View

Have to say, awsome avatar Capt Chaos! View

Boodybandit I sympathise with you.

I am really starting to hate this site, I know it have been said a hundred times but the fanboys on both sides have overun this place, unfortunately N4G is no longer a place for balanced sober comment, in fact even if I didn't post anything positive or negative about either format in this comment I bet I would still get disagrees. It's nuts!

For the record fanboys take a look at what this developer is saying. It is clear that the people who make the best games for consoles are not blinkered fanboys so why should you be. Having a preference is fine but the behaviour on this site is just insane. View

The dreamcast is definately the gaming community's best loved failure of all time and just based on the affection that people talk about the console with I think that lots of people would buy it,maybe sega has been listening to us all??

It would really need to swoop in on and challenge whichever console is in third place sales wise just now to really be in with a shot of being a long term financial prospect for sega. Maybe the company wants to get revenge on Sony for killing the original dreamcast with the PS2 all those years ago :)

I wonder what it would mean for Sega as a publisher too, would we still see sonic as a multiplatform license?

Look at me getting ahead of myself, this is probably nothing, but I really hope I am wrong. View

I hope that the franchise being ressurected is Donkey Kong.

As for the GTA V thing, seriously nobody knows and the liklihood is that it will be multiplatform. Rockstar are making exclusive games so that they can have the opportunity to harness the PS3's uniquie strengths but that will not be a priority when it comes to the GTA franchise (which has always been multiplatform).

The priority with titles in that franchise will always be to make games that makes the best of both platforms with the least compromises possible so that it can sell as many units as possible. At the end of the day Rockstar are in a position where they need to keep their publishers happy, can you imagine how take 2 would reaact if rockstar turned around to them and said, 'we only want to sell half as many units with our next GTA game as we usually would so we are only developing it for one platfrom'

It will never happen, be happy with the exclusives you are getting from the company and stop believing everything you hear. View

I have always maintained that MGS is a a hardcore game for hardcore gamers, it is not the game that is going to make people buy more PS3's any more than portable ops did for the PSP.

I am sure it will be an outstanding game, potentially best of its genre, but I don't think people who don't already own a playstation 3 or have an affection for the franchise will suddenly become converts. There will of course be a very small percentage of PS3 fans who are waiting for MGS4 to release before they invest in their console but we are not talking about the sort of numbers that will make a huge impact on Sony's level of market penetration.

Something else that nobody seems to get is that the PS3 does have two exclusive franchises that appeal to a huge aray of gamers and that neither Microsoft or Nintendo can match. What are they? Singstar and Buzz. To a gamer interested in shooters, stealth and racing games these might not seem important but in terms of hooking the casual market not even the Wii has anything that comes close.

If I was Sony and was looking to turn around my fortunes those are the games and the customers I would be looking to snare (like the PS2 has done with the same games.) A 350-400 dollar package that includes one or both of the games would have much more people buying the PS3 than the same bundle with MGS 4 if you ask me (even though MGS 4 is the game that I personally would prefer).

Games like MGS4, GT and Killzone 2 will work wonders for the PS3's attachment rate but actual console sales, I'm thinking not so much. View

Erm not sure why mine got reported repeatedly as a duplicate despite the fact that I submitted it 20 hrs ago and this was only submitted 13 hrs ago.

Doesn't matter as seeing it is to the same link and I am promoting that site you are making my job easier but it is still poor etiquette. View

gamesblow, please go and look up the word trite as you use it in almost every post and you don't seem to know what it means. I think you mean spurious, but you seem to use it as a suppliment for hackneyed or humdrum neither of which really seem to be in keeping with your attitude towards surfer girl.

Oh yeah and you are now on my ignore list too for being a dog brained dilettante. View

That must make me the other person that bought it on the 360 (I even bought the special edition with the fancy box and bonus DVD).

I agree it is a great concept and really good fun, shame nobody bought it, if it had been on the Wii it would have sold by the truck load. Great avatar by the way. View

I have to say I haven't been expecting much of this but the videos look very impressive, especially the thermo vision, surely that efffect was made for a game featuring the predator. View

Erm I have been playing HL2 on the 360 for a couple of weeks and it does have autosave. Even if it didn'T is this really the sort of feature you want to hold up to claim that one version is better than another?

My advice to PS3 owners is to buy the Orange box, most of you don't have a clue what 30fps let alone the difference between 30 and 60fps actually means anyway, its just more numbers you use when arguing about what is better than what.

Forget Haze, forget Halo 3, forget Gears forget Bioshock; they may all be great games but in my eyes HL2 is still the interstellar leap in FPS gaming that has yet to be bettered and if you are a PS3/360 owner you owe it to yourself as a gamer to give this a shot. View

It mentions that the source is amazon and has rumour in the title. Nobody is trying to decieve anyone here and this is not being submitted as news so reporting it for that reason is a trifle daft.

My guess is that this will turn out to be untrue when the official announcement is made but this is still interesting nonetheless. View

Excuse my slightly combative tone, it's just that I am a keen proponent of mobile gaming and I am bit fed up of the whole 'we all know mobile games are rubbish but (insert news piece here)' tone that the majority of the gaming industry takes just now.

Sounds like you can be excused though :)

I'd reccomend Urban Attack, SolaRola and the new Bomberman as recent mobile titles you should try. All of them are great. View

Am I the only one that thinks Project Offset looks better than this, Killzone 2, Bioshock, COD4 and pretty much anything else you could mention. From what I have seen of its vids Crisis still has the technical edge what with all the destructable environments and what not but the overall effect in Project Offset looks much better IMO. View