GTA IV Midnight Launch

By Bill Tangeman | April 29, 2008

The ultimate next-gen game is finally in the hands of the masses as GameStops and Best Buys across the country doled out copies at midnight tonight. I counted around seventy people at my local GameStop. As I approached the line to take a picture, an employee ushered me in to the store to pay in advance so they could hand out the copies quickly at the strike of the witching hour.

The dude at the front of the line said he’d been waiting there for only a few hours. I guess there was never any doubt there’d be plenty of copies to go around. There was no sign of any hookers, crooked cops, or Russian crime lords.

The only safety concern I had was from a guy standing a couple of spots ahead of me in line. All the poor guy’s credit cards were rejected, and for a moment I thought he might go GTA on the employee who was telling him he couldn’t have the game. Fortunately, he just walked out of the store with his head down all embarrassed.

Now, like millions of other gamers across the country, I face a dilemma. I have to be at my job tomorrow by around eight or nine in the morning. It’s well past midnight, but I have a copy of GTAIV in my hands. GTAIV! Should I be responsible and get some sleep, or fire up the 360? Ah, who am I kidding? There’s no dilemma. Fire it up!!!

4 Responses to “GTA IV Midnight Launch”

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   Bill Tangeman on April 29th, 2008 at 1:32 am Says:
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   Bonus! I just opened my copy of the 360 version of the game and there is a card inside for a free month of Xbox Live Gold. Sweet! My year was about up anyway.