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Grand Theft Auto IV Spotify Playlists – Electro-Choc

Kieran — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:25:49 +0000

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Padded Cell – Signal Failure
Black Devil Disco Club – The Devil In Us (Dub)
One + One – No Pressure (Deadmau5 Remix)
Alex Gopher – Brain Leech (Bugged Mind Remix)
K.I.M. – B.T.T.T.T.R.Y. (Bag Raiders Remix)
Simian Mobile Disco – Tits & Acid (!)
Nitzer Ebb – Let Your Body Learn
Kavinsky – Testarossa Overdrive (Sebastian Remix)
Chris Lake vs. Deadmau5 – I Thought Inside Out (Original Mix)
Boys Noize – & Down
Justice – Waters Of Nazareth (!)
Killing Joke – Turn To Red (!)
Playgroup – Make It Happen
Liquid Liquid – Optimo

Grand Theft Auto IV Spotify Playlists – The Journey

Kieran — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:00:29 +0000

The Journey Spotify Playlist

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Global Communication - 8 07
Terry Riley – A Rainbow in Curved Air
Steve Roach – Arrival
Michael Shrieve – Communiqué ’Approach Spiral’
Jean Michel Jarre – Oxygène (Part IV)
Philip Glass – Pruit Igoe
Tangerine Dream – Remote Viewing
Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Vol. II CD2 TRK5a
Ray Lynch – The Oh of Pleasure

Grand Theft Auto IV Spotify Playlists – Liberty Rock Radio

Kieran — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:07:38 +0000

Liberty Rock Radio Spotify Playlist

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GTA IV

The Smashing Pumpkins – 1979
Steve Marriot’s All Stars – Cocaine
Godley & Creme – Cry
The Sisters of Mercy – Dominion/Mother Russia
Stevie Nicks – Edge of Seventeen
Electric Light Orchestra – Evil Woman
David Bowie – Fascination
Q Lazzarus – Goodbye Horses (!)
Black Sabbath – Heaven and Hell (!)
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band – Her Strut
Iggy Pop & The Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog (!)
Thin Lizzy – Jailbreak
Genesis – Mama (!)
Hello – New York Groove
Queen – One Vision
The Black Crowes – Remedy
Joe Walsh – Rocky Mountain Way
The Who – The Seeker (!)
Elton John – Street Kids
Heart – Straight On
ZZ Top – Thug
R.E.M. – Turn You Inside Out

The Lost and Damned

Nazareth – Hair of the Dog (!)
Styx – Renegade (!)
Rod Stewart – Every Picture Tells a Story
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Saturday Night Special
The James Gang – Funk #49 (!)
Edgar Winter Group – Free Ride (!)
Aerosmith – Lord of the Thighs
Deep Purple – Highway Star
AC/DC – Touch Too Much
Foghat – Drivin’ Wheel
The Doors – Five to One
Alice Cooper – Go to Hell
Jefferson Starship – Jane (!)
Iron Maiden – Run to the Hills
Mötley Crüe – Wild Side
Saxon – Wheels of Steel
The Doobie Brothers – China Grove
Bon Jovi – Wanted Dead or Alive

Grand Theft Auto IV Spotify Playlists

Kieran — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:31:12 +0000

Spotify has become my main way of listening to music at home, though I’ll leave the discussion of that to another day. I’m also playing ‘The Lost and Damned’ addon to Grand Theft Auto IV at the moment, which has inspired me to check out some of the bands on GTA IV’s many radio stations (continuing the trend of my musical tastes being defined by what game I’m playing!). So over the next few posts I’ll be posting links to Spotify playlists for my favourite stations, with URLs that should jump you straight into Spotify.

The one downside is that a lot of the bands aren’t listed on Spotify so it’s not 100%, wherever I’ve not inserted a URL to a track in the post, it means I couldn’t find it in Spotify. If you can, let me know. Also, any track with a (!) means that the track in Spotify isn’t the original album track, but from something like a compilation album, again if you can find the original track in Spotify, let me know.

Lastly, just a note that the stations and the tracks are in the order they appear in the back of the manual, rather than Wikipedia or any other source.

Click on the logo of the radio station you want to listen to and jump to the relevant post.

[I'll be updating this post as I add more stations]

E3 2008: Mirror’s Edge

Kieran — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:46:57 +0000

Genre: Action adventure
Platforms: PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360
Developer: DICE (EA Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment)
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release date: “Late 2008″

Mirror’s Edge comes from the Swedish developers DICE, most famously known for the Battlefield series. It’s nice to see them producing something very different from their recent games and I’m sure it’s a refreshing change for the developers themselves! The game stars Faith, a runner delivering packages in some future dystopia fighting to save her sister.

The gameplay features true first person gaming, in the sense that as you run you can see your arms and legs flailing about- I did feel queasy the first time I saw the trailers – and seems to heavily feature parkour. Speed and momentum appear to be key, with weapons being a secondary, optional element to the game.

Seeing the acrobatic character, weapon-less gameplay and clean visuals I was reminded of an old Bungie game called Oni (yes they have on occasion made other games besides Halo), as well as the character YT – or Yours Truly – a young Kourier in the seminal Cyberpunk novel Snow Crash.

If you haven’t seen the game in action before the first video below features the game’s first trailer which has been floating around for a while now. Following this is the second trailer that was released recently and puts to rest my concern that the entire game world was going to be very white and very bland. Finally the last trailer features footage of the EA conference where the game was demo-ed. In this walkthough they mention that they are following ‘one of the possible routes’ in the game, however I am concerned that this may be a very linear game with limited replay value, but as always I reserve judgement until the game has actually been released. This is one game where you’ll want to watch the trailers below in high definition if you have the bandwidth for it.