74 degrees & sunny.. time to be inside

Grand Theft Auto IV(IntraVenous), the latest game to pump more life into the parasite that is gaming, has taken sales figures, politicos, angry parents, shut-ins, gaming nerds, and agoraphobes and thrown them to the wind. Right into a woodchipper. Yes, this game is all you thought it would be: violent, vile, crazy, bloody, graphic, sexual, adult, creative, expansive, gigantic, amazing. Multiplayer co-op and versus. Offline and online connected via your character's (Niko's) in-game cellular phone.

I've only played through a couple of missions, because I have been concentrating on the online multiplayer aspect of the game. 16 player deathmatch, all for one, multiple teams. Ah, the blood flows like grass through a goose. Pass me a sponge? The only hang-ups I've seen so far, are the lag issues which lead to invincible enemies, and players who have already memorized and learned the game quicker and faster and more intensely and more accurately than they had studied for high school finals, pregnancy tests, and the occasional piss-cup test.

It is also fun to vicariously drive through a deformed New York City Metro area: Pulaski Skyway; the chemical plants and refineries in Jersey; Times Square; Liberty Island; LaGuardia; Coney Island; drive across the Brooklyn Bridge..... and Rykers Island, among others..

I don't write reviews of games, I write opinions. My opinion, you will like this game, for either platform (360, PS3).. Listen up for the XM Virues "AFRO Connection" on the radio: Ron Bennington, Fez Whatley, Anthony Cumia, "Little" Jimmy Norton, Patrice Oneal, Opie Hughes.