Several lucky Aussie’s are battling it out for top honours on the GTAIV Aussie Leaderboards

by XboxOZ360

©2008 Grant Smythe

“Update:”

It seems our intrepid GrathiusXR is now 2nd on the Global Leaderboard . . congratulations, and keep it up mate,. Plus stay tunned for his “Personal Impression” of the game after a solid 5 days of gameplay which we will post up soon, along with a full review in just a short while from one of our other staff writers.

“`With the unexpected “accidental” early release of GTAIV in several countries, many Aussie gamers are battling it out for top honours in their Leaderboards. All working seemingly non-stop to acquire the next achievement to take them one step higher up the ladder.

It’s been a to-and-fro battle between on of our staffers (GrathiusXR), and other Aussie gamers. Who BTW, got his copy legitimately through DVD-Crave’s “accidental” shipping error, where over 20 odd people recieved their copies in the mail a week early. While DVD-Crave claimed just 3 or 4 copies were shipped, it’s evident that far more than that got shipped out of their warehouse earlier than planned.

Having the game a whole week early will give the 500 odd people world wide a chance to hedge their bets and get a higher place in the global leaderboards before the bulk of the games are released on April 29th globally. NZ will have first crack at it, being the first major country to wake up in the new day dawn, followed by Australia 2 hours later, then spreading across the globe and finally finishing in the West Coats of America some 19 hours later.

Naturally the “Official” release sales figures data will be marked on the US release time, as this side of the world rarely gets acknowleged as being the first off the blocks when it comes to world wide releases. Funny that. We were the first to get Halo2, Halo 3, BioShock, Gears, yet all figures and official data marked the US as the prime point of release. Hmmmm Yep, it seems no where else exists outside the big US of A.

GrahiusXR with 45/6 points is battling it out at the moment with the top five players, Baldalinger (65/4 points), Dominus Magnus (40/6 points), boredofsilence (35/5 points), DrunknMonkey84 (30/5 points) and Busta Chopz (30/3 points). Wit each tryingto out do the other and stay just that one achievement up.

We’ll keep you updated on the huge Aussie GTAIV Battle as the days go on, but make sure you zip back here early, as we hope to have a nice, meaty review for you right on the witching hour come April 29th (New Zealand-Time so that it’s nice and eary, but still legally on time hehehe)

©2008 Grant Smythe

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