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is it still a sandbox game?

True Crime... LOL!
Activision... LOL!

The main character is probably dead on the last picture: Notice the smoking gun :-)

Yes.

I'm liking the asian protagonist, but I feel its going to look extremely out of place when they all start speaking english. Refer to Stranglehold if you don't know what I mean.

i don't have much hope for this seeing as the last ones where complete and utter crap.

yep, the first 2 were comically bad.. TC2 being pretty much broken on the original xbox.

I just hope they get the controls right for the fighting and driving

I prefer Mafia 2

Looks nice visually, but i hope they put some facial expressions in there. Otherwise whats the point?...

i question if it will look like that during the gameplay..especially given it's retaining it's open world

This game rolls over GTA graphically. There is a video over at gametrailers.com that shows it in action. The movements, everything is just smoother and more refined.

A day 1 for me.

damn you're right there is. Looks nice. The fighting looks like it's take out of batman - can only be a good thing.

I remember having a lot of fun with the first game. Wasn't perfect but it did do some cool stuff.

Will keep a eye on this.

lol, i'm sorry, but no, canned animations do not in anyway look smoother then the euphoria engine.

I would agree that, from the short clip shown, everything about this game's graphics looks better than GTA IV (with the major exceptions of movement animation and physics). The characters just don't look like they have weight and they move like sped up robots. Then again, that vid might not even be gameplay, or the game could look way better by the time it's done. It is WAY too early to tell right now.

hmmm guess they werent supposed to show that footage as it's been pulled from the site

GTA's animation system interfered with movement of the character, in a way that made me give up on the game. They were too over exaggerated, almost as if you are trying to stop a car with a parking break. Just moving forward and back or left and right, you had to wait for the animation to finish. It was maddening, especially if you were trying to precisely do something or be somewhere.

I'll take canned with Havok over Euphoria for anything.

Was looking a bit rough, looking forward to this myself, I'm one of the 7 people in the world who actually really liked True Crime New York on the PS2 (my wife's one of the other 6).

lol.. sadly 7 people is probably not an under estimate. The trouble with New york was that it was far too ambitious for the hardware..so it just came off as broken

and new york is boring... you forgot that part.

That is because it is physics based. If you are running, or even walking in real life, you have to plan your steps- you can't just change direction at a moments notice. It's called weight transfer, and is a real way of doing things, which is what the Euphoria engine is all about. It is a different way of doing things in games, but I like it.
Oh yeah, I can't stand New York as a setting either. Although I quess if you want to use a place full of corruption, it certainly delivers there...