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It's been more than 2 years!!! and finally... it's here....
WOOOHHOOOO ! I got my PS3 !!!! 
I'm truly impressed by its look, and it's even heavier than what you might expect! I got a copy of Oblivion with it to have a taste of Gamespot's Best RPG of the year! but..... I had some trouble playing it because of this.
In brief, NTSC PS3s can't run PAL games on SD displays... DAMN IT SONY!!!
so, to play this marvel I have to pay an extra $1000 or so for an HDTV!
Aside from its gaming capability, there are a lot of other features to have fun with. including Remote Play which really impressed me.
yeh, with remote play you can have all the PS3's media functionalities on the PSP.
The slideshow feature under the Phote menu is also fantastic! You'll wonder how a machine can play both MP3s and simoltaneously render photos in real-time. it's CELL anyway.
now I should convince my father to buy me an HDTV and it's too hard though. 
I'm totally satisfied with my new playstation although it didn't let me to play a single game on it !
and back to the PS2, I'm waiting for Manhunt 2 and I think it would be my last PS2 purchase!
That's all.
Well... it seems I'm a late-comer to the trailer! however I finally watched it....
I was expecting more info to leak, but it can be enough for the first one...
I believe that the Rockstar trailers are diffrent from others, if you've noticed to the GTA: Vice City Stories trailer, you'd find that every scene has its own meaning...
like introducing the main character, then the "drive-by"s and then the Helicopters flying over Vice city are shown,and a bit of the story was told...
but things were too brief in GTA IV....
However here's an article from the Computerandvideogames.com showing those hidden parts of the trailer....
I put the article here for those lazy guys who don't want to bother themselves to click more....
-----GTA IV trailer: 10 things you didn't see-----
The internet was grinded to a halt last
night by the arrival of the first massive trailer of this year's
biggest game, the legendary fourth instalment of Grand Theft Auto.
After
pushing our office hours to the very limit and wrestling with old
Captain Bandwidth to get at the biggest video size possible, we've
dissected to the GTA IV trailer thoroughly and picked out all of its
little secrets you may have missed the first time around.
So magnifying glass in hand, here's what we've discovered...
It's Liberty City!
Despite internet reports claiming otherwise, GTA IV is indeed set (at
least partially) in Liberty City - or more likely Liberty State, the
area beyond Liberty City. If you're still not convinced, you can see
the words 'Liberty City' plastered on a docked tanker in the trailer, a
ferry and of course there's also a glimpse of the 'LCPD' patrolling the
GTA IV streets.
As you can see from the comparison
screenshots at the bottom of the page, the layout of GTA IV's Liberty
City seems to resemble we remember from the PS2 - though obviously
there's a whole lot of extra detail washed onto the streets.
As
for what's beyond the walls of the famous GTA III locale, the trailer
confirms GTA versions of the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty
and a fun park including rollercoaster, which were all missing from the
PS2 instalment.
The time setting
While there's already plenty of debate over what time setting the next
game takes place in, there are plenty of cues in the trailer to suggest
a modern day setting for GTA IV.
The vehicles in the trailer
all look pretty 2007 to us - including a BMW look-a-like and a sports
car that has a very post-2000 design. There are also plenty of
advertisements plastered around Liberty City that also cropped-up in
the 90s-set GTA III, including Burger Shot and Cluckin' Bell.
Is that really the main Character?
The narrator in the trailer is a Russian character whose background
seems to revolve around murder, smuggling and erm, selling people. The
internet is already shouting from the electronic rooftops that this
Eastern European chap will be the main protagonist in GTA IV, but
really the trailer confirms nothing of the sort.
What it does
confirms is that the story will somehow bring Eastern Europeans into
the equations, which leads us to wonder what's happened to the Leone
kingpins from GTA III.
Hit the water
Multiple-viewings make the GTA IV trailer's emphasis on water-based
travel even more apparent; there are shots of bridges, ferry ports, a
dock and some of the prettiest water effects we've seen to date in a
sandbox game.
A realistically floating buoy 16 seconds in seems
to suggest dynamic water physics for the fourth instalment, and of
course you can see the gorgeous refraction effects later on in the
trailer. A spot of boating for GTA IV seems a near-cert then, but - for
as much as we hope - we just can't see jet-skiing going down in the
Liberty City harbour.
Cast Your RAGE
As has always been heavily assumed, the next GTA ditches Renderware to
make use of the graphically-spectacular Table Tennis RAGE engine
(Rockstar Advanced Game Engine).
The confirmation comes from a
Rockstar representative who told Gamespot: "We can confirm that all
footage in the trailer was captured directly from 720p gameplay running
real time in our Rage engine on a next-gen gaming console."
And
the engine seems to be working well for the series - as you can see
from the trailer tech-wise GTA IV is looking very impressive.
Super Pedestrian
We're expecting lots of advancements in how realistically the
inhabitants of Liberty City live and work, but already there are a
number of improvements on show in the short teaser.
At the
beginning of the video you can see that the driver of the blue sports
car is adjusting his rear-view mirror - a very nice touch indeed that
we would never have seen working on the PS2. The pedestrians on the
streets also have fully-modelled faces and carry groceries and books,
which certainly adds a more realistic vibe to surroundings that the
aimlessly-walking residents in GTA III.
The funny is back!
Oldschool movie buffs will recognize the spoof reference in the GTA IV
trailer straight away; the music is from Godfrey Reggio's
Koyaanisqatsi, a dialogue-less documentary film from the early eighties
that mixed landscape footage with a rolling soundtrack. The music, in
case your wondering, is a piece from minimalist composer Philip Glass,
who created the music for Koyaanisqatsi.
Further proving that
GTA hasn't lost it's trademark humour are the plethora of fake adverts
available for glimpse in the video, including upcoming TV show
"America's Next Top Hooker" and "Sprunk", a beverage we probably won't
picking up on the next trip round Tesco.
Visit Vice City!
Keen-eyed viewers with seriously-ninja Photoshop skills will notice an
interesting in-game ad five seconds into the trailer. On the top left
of the shot just above the wall is a sign that says "Visit Vice City -
$300", leading many internet forums to explode with messages of
"OMG!!11 MULTIPLE CITIEZ IN GTAIV!1"
So yeah, we might be
getting a tiny bit ahead of ourselves taking this tiniest of glimpses
as evidence that GTA IV will contain multiple, country-wide locals, but
what would be more next-gen than a trip to all three cities that we've
explored so vigorously on PS2? Having said that, would Vice City even
look like Vice City in a modern day setting?
Doc Oc attacks!
Another one for the eagle-eyed among us is the brief glimpse of a cable
car travelling behind a bridge 30 seconds in to the trailer, leading us
to fantasise over the Spider-Man-****mischief we could have jumping
around fighting an imaginary Doctor Octopus.
Having said that,
we're hoping Spidey's influence stretches all over GTA IV; we just
can't look at that massive Crysler building without planning a
Crackdown-****route up to the top, and it would be an absolute crime if we can't base-jump from one of those skyscrapers.
Clever birds
Going from the trailer, we can see that the birds and pigeons in GTA IV
are detailed and have some sort of behaviour system going on - which
should please virtual game hunters everywhere.
In one scene you
can see a seagull flying underneath a bridge, and in another we get a
glimpse of two pigeons sitting on a statue. Will we be able to chase
those dirty flying-rats through the streets? Pick them out of the skies
with high-calibre rifles? At this point we'd bet money on it. (CVG
doesn't condone the harming of pigeons).
Here's the original text , don't forget to check the images taken from the trailer....
I decided to have a look to my large PS2 game collection...
I noticed that there are some games that I haven't played even
for a second! like Yakuza!
First I started counting, 82 games! that's pretty huge!
Here's the complete list...Gamespot also gave me an emblem for that...PlayStation2 Aficionado ?!
considering the upcoming games, say God of war II, Burnout
Dominator, Medal of Honor: Vangaurd, which are all great, and will be added to my collection soon, there would be around 85 games here!
Although these game will keep me busy for a long time, having a new system is something better...and it feels much better.
Damn! my memory card is also full, and there are some awesome replays of FIFA in it that i'm not gonna let them go away! so a new memory card is required! (actually I wanted to play Hitman: blood money but there were no room for the game profile!).
I'm still playing FIFA, Bully which is another masterpiece from Rockstar and also Just Cause although the graphics are a bit disappointing...
I'm really looking forward to God of War II, surely It'll be one of the best PS2 games ever...I don't want to miss it...
WoW...
When I took it home, I just put it in my PS2 and played it for more than 6 hours continually ...
It's really addicting!
At first I picked "Watford" to get some reputation, then I'm gonna travel to Germany, picking "Hamburg" and then back to England to pick my favorite club "Manchester United".
That's my goal in Fifa 07 manager mode...
Yes playing manager mode is really addicting since it takes hours to complete the seasons...
Actually I don't like to simulate my games, I like to play them myself...
Unfortunately I can't play online but this feature is also extremely exciting, playing against other human opponents across the world with your favorite club...
Well it's my first season, I need more time to become a skilled coach!
oh today I'm having a frustrating match with "Wigan athletic"...
well I must go now...
November 21st ,2006 !!!
Tehran-Iran.
Yes! PS3 is here but with a pretty huge price.
$1700 to $2000 !!! 
The official launch of the PS3 In Europe and Middle east is
March 2007 , but I touched the legendary PS3 Nov 21 in Tehran!
At first I thought I’m wrong but after that I got closer, my
dreams became true,
Actually I went to downtown to see whether the Wii has
arrived here or not,But instead of that the Japanese Versions Of PS3s were there (according to the shopkeeper
speeches!!!)
In the picture above you can see the lovely 60GB PS3, the Sixaxis ,and the Marvel Ultimate Alliances blu ray.
Tell me who would buy a PS3 for $1700?
Bad news!
Xbox 360 is getting some of the Sony exclusives!
360 will get "Assasins Creed", "Grand Theft Auto 4" ,"Fifa 07","Guitar Hero" and even the "Splinter Cell 5" as an exclusive title !!!
This is terrible!!!
What is Sony doing out there?!!
Not only Xbox will get GTA4 ,but also some expansion packs like GTA:Liberty City Stories !!!!
The only game that will hit PS3 from other platforms will be Oblivion !
C'mon Sony !!!
