Gta IV or Just Cause 2

I have a nephew and his birthday is coming. He love to play video game just like me but the problem is his PC is not very good gaming PC. (He use an old HP pavelion). I asked him what he want for his birthday and he named those two game. I surely not support the GTA IV because its for adault but he is turning 18. So what is your suggestion.

I surely not support the GTA IV because its for adault but he is turning 18. So what is your suggestion.

dreamerdonkey

Just Cause 2 has pretty much the same content. Though, I think it's very idiotic not to allow an 18 year old to play ANY sort of game (there's no moronic age laws in my country, every person that plays games that I know has played at least one GTA or "mature" game before the age of 14)

Anyway, it depends on the person. Just Cause 2 is mindless shooting and crazy stunts which I personally found boring and repetative very quickly (uninteresting characters and missions). GTA4 is more story oriented and I actually found the gameplay more satisfying

Also, both require a good PC, so maybe get him GTA: San Andreas or a Barbie game or something

If his PC isn't very good you can throw GTA IV out the window. The game runs like crap even on good PCs. There's no guarantee that he can run JC2 either though. We'd need the specs of the PC. Just Cause 2 is the better game though.

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I surely not support the GTA IV because its for adault but he is turning 18. So what is your suggestion.

Darth_Kane

Just Cause 2 has pretty much the same content. Though, I think it's very idiotic not to allow an 18 year old to play ANY sort of game (there's no moronic age laws in my country, every person that plays games that I know has played at least one GTA or "mature" game before the age of 14)

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I surely not support the GTA IV because its for adault but he is turning 18. So what is your suggestion.

dreamerdonkey

Just Cause 2 has pretty much the same content. Though, I think it's very idiotic not to allow an 18 year old to play ANY sort of game (there's no moronic age laws in my country, every person that plays games that I know has played at least one GTA or "mature" game before the age of 14)

5450 won't run either of those games.C_Rule

[QUOTE="C_Rule"]5450 won't run either of those games.Toxic-Seahorse

Buy him a new PC instead because he'll never be able to run anything he wants to play :p

5450 won't run either well at all.

They're extremely different games, and kind of hard to compare. I've absolutely loved both. If the PC's performance is a potential issue, though, go with Just Cause 2. GTA 4 is much more demanding, and is also terribly optimized, so it takes quite a beast of a system to actually get decent performance out of it. I wouldn't count on that old HP being able to run it AT ALL. Just Cause 2 can also be reasonably demanding, and look good, at high settings, but it scales way better. I play it on a laptop from 2009. Got a dual core i5 2.27 ghz, 4gb RAM, and a mobility radeon HD4670 1gb. I can get 50+ fps at medium/high settings in JC2, just by turning down to 720p res. Even at 1080p, it's playable, albeit a bit choppy (more like 25-35 fps). GTA 4 on the other hand... bare minimum settings and 720p, and I just barely get 25-30 fps, with frequent dips into the teens (and even a couple into the 10 fps range :cry: )

I would surely suggest new hardware, with around $400-$500 he can build a decent machine that can not only play GTA IV but also all the new games that are coming out in the near future.