Oooh Grand Theft Auto IV on the PS3 (yeah yeah I know Xbox more content, but no moolah for that, so later ya?).

Me ish likey.

I’ve never thought I’ll get all excited over a game, other than Pokemon Diamond which I didn’t complete, and installing Cooking Mama 2 on my DS Lite. Yesh, but I did get excited over getting home from work or running errands while sitting around in our grubbiest gear and blowing things up.

The ultra-violence sort of got numb on me after sometime, right after I ran over too many pedestrians, knocked down a couple hundred trash cans and lamp posts, and crashed like a dozen stolen borrowed vehicles, and blowing them up a few streets after.

I was quite happy driving around aimlessly and exploring the city that was modelled after The Big Apple, in striking detail, mind you. I wasn’t that interested in the missions, but of course, as the “Gameboy” that he is, he happily went through with those, while for once, I was actually engrossed in the storyline, AND the character build-up.

Guess I should blog about the shenanigans before he did (he is now busy with Army of 2 with his brother btw).

List of things that got us squealing and ROTFLOLing and ignoring the cuteness of our cats:

1. Driving motorcycles, trucks, beat-up cars, over a ramp that was constructed over a… surprise! An uncompleted flyover! We tried landing those neatly over the other side, but bleah. Need to keep trying.

2. I hereby named myself as Mistress of Mayhem, simply because the first major explosions were actually done by me. One of which included a car, a gas pump and a concrete pillar that refused to give way.

3. Driving into a police barricade lined with concrete blocks, with a burning car that… well, burned when he pumped a couple of lead bullets into the engine. The whole thing blew up just like in the movies. The main character jumped out the door just in time to be a wanted fugitive in mere seconds.

4. Accidentally turning my swee swee car into a car bomb. Caused a traffic jam. Jumped out. Car blew up. Which set the other cars on fire. Ran away. Some other car blew up. I got killed. And hey, presto! I am outside the hospital, all healed. Nice… …

5. He read somewhere that we could actually rob a guy of his moolah when he withdrawed money from the ATM. And so we did! But first we need to get the street clogged up with traffic so the ambulance can’t get here in time.

6. Beating up a poor dude doing Tai Chi at the seaside. It felt damn good. I think I got a screen shot somewhere. Told him to take a picture while I was happily punching that dude.

Ohhh I can’t wait to get home tonight. WHEE!!!

P/S Strangely it sort of cured me of my moodiness.