Recent reviews by Tau

For any Hitman fans out there this game offers nice little trip to the world of assasination while waiting for the next real thing. I'm impressed how much stuff there is in this game considering how small production it is.

+ You can kill anyone in this game

- No babies

A Ubisoft experience.

Online: "A Ubisoft service is not available at the moment"

Trying to launch Uplay to find offline-mode: "the procedure entry point could not be located in the dynamic link library"

After uninstalling and installing the latest UPlay I can finally login to the launcher. Then "do you want to use 2-steps auth?" Well of course!
In browser: "Login Error"

Do they actually want for customers to hate them?

Before trying the game myself I was optimistic and though that perhaps people just complain a bit too easily about drm's and stuff. But when I installed and tried to play the game the ugly truth revealed to me: The progress you have to go through to be able to play GTA IV was the worst drm bloatware online registeration bug-filled s**t that I can remember. To play the game you have to first notice you can't play without logging in but loggin with your valid user name and password fails. After a hour of googling and s**t you can start the game but notice that the game resolution is set to 800x600 and all other graphics settings are at the minimun. So you go to options to change that. Unforunately the game refuses to change any settings. So you end up googling again how to solve this problem. You find out that the game does not recognize more than 2gb ram so you have to use command line parameters to launch the game - something that Rockstar could have easily updated along the years.

Edit: I also want to give honorable mention to long unskippable parts like new game intro, which also cause your computer to go in sort of freeze state if try to close the game manually after accidentally pressing new game.
Also, I want to give honorable mention to one of the worst menu navigation I have seen.

Excluding above the game is great. Now I just have to keep my fingers crossed and hope the game starts again next time I decide to play it...

Edit 12/2016: Apparently there's is new patch that is said to fix many issues mentioned above! Well I guess Steam didn't download it for me since options were still same c**p they were before. I wen't to options to see what happens when I change resolution to something a bit lower and the screen mode changed to windowed and moved partly off screen. I didn't see all buttons so I accidentally started new game. Of couse you can't skip the into so I ended up alt+tabbing and tried to close the game manually. But hey, you don't mess with GTA, it messes your computer so that you can't close the game that just froze and you can't get back to Windows either.
Oh, One more thing. When I launched to game today, GFWL installation screen popped up and the only option to choose was to uninstall it. I didn't uninstall it since I though it was still need to play the game. I don't know what that was about.
Now should I change my review .. Huumm...

Nope