I walked into a game store in Shinjuku today on a whim to research what is currently popular in Japan. Today was a national holiday, the weather was beautiful, so I was tooling around Tokyo. To my surprise, the English version of GTA4 was in the store and there were plenty of copies. WTF? It was an imported British PAL version of the game that works on Japanese Xbox 360 Hardware. I asked to confirm, I didn’t expect the PAL version to fly, but lo-and-behold it works fine.
Anyways, I’ve just started to play it now and it is awesome so far. Really cool atmosphere and what seems like an extremely well realized world. I don’t have much more to say yet other than I’m planning to stay up for at least another hour or two to keep going (it’s 12:30 am right now).
Check it out!