First Thoughts – GTA IV.

James — Sun, 18 May 2008 14:11:56 +0000

I’ve owned it for a couple of weeks now (I bought it the day after it was released) and i’ve decided to give a couple of thoughts on the game.

Gameplay

When you first start the game, it has a great cut scene but it was confusing until i twigged what was going on. You are a russian bloke called Niko Bellic and you and your brother have moved here, leaving Mother behind. First you do a couple of missions for Roman (your brother) and get a cash flow on the move. You then work for different boss’s (i would call them) and do some other missions. Yes, these all include violence.

Graphics

I’m not the only one saying this, there a bit off to be honest. There really not what they say they are. And comparing them to the graphics on the advert – great false advertising from Rockstar there, thats all i can say. The graphics can be really stuttery at times apart from when your driving fast at the whole set starts to blur and seems realistic.

Online Gameplay

It really needs some going over to be honest. When you enter a “room” i would say, you select what game your playing before hand in single player mode and you wait….. and wait…. and wait….
Once your into a game room you stupidly have to get ever player to press ready. The single most annoying thing in the world. You’ll get people pressing it on and off to simply annoy you oh and the lag, i won’t go there.

Overall

Its a good game, with a good plot and story. But its really not what its cracked up to be. At the end of the day – I’m a first person shooter kinda man.

Sharing internet to your Xbox 360, (For Mac’s!)

James — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:12:48 +0000

If your like me and to cheap to fork out for the price-tag-hefty wireless adapter for the xbox 360. Sharing your internet through your mac via the ethernet port is the easiest and cheapest way to go.

Overview

1)Start Internet Sharing

2)In Terminal, type cp /etc/bootpd.plist /tmp/bootpd.plist

3)Stop Internet Sharing.

4)Open /tmp/bootpd.plist for editing using TextEdit or whatever.

5)Locate this section of the file, near the end:

reply_threshold_seconds
4

6)Change the value 4 to 0.

7)In Terminal, type sudo cp /tmp/bootpd.plist /etc

8)Start Internet Sharing.

9)Check that your change to /etc/bootpd.plist hasn’t been reverted.

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I hope this guide has helped you. I just want to say that i did this guide on a macbook pro, but I know that it works on a macbook to. I don’t know about iMac’s and Mac Pro’s. I’m not liable to any damage that you may cause in doing this (which should be none).