To all of you who have completed the game yet - what were your favourite levels?
Hum..I think the police station and the favelas...but probably because I was impressed how perfectly BR they were. No level stood out for me besides that, they were all good and had a nice pacing, with cutscenes popping on when killing dudes started to get boring. And FFS, they had "coxinhas" at the police station! I loled hard at those:
from what I've seen in videos translation is weird as fuck, sometimes it's artificial as fuck(you know that the dialogue is even worse than a telenovela...
Yeah, they did something very weird here; the secondary characters and enemies are all voiced by BRs and have their dialogs written by BRs. It feels/sounds very natural, and it's very funny how they use genuine BR insults, like "Você atira feito um viadinho!" (you shoot like a fag) and "Você tá fudido, seu gringo arrombado!" (you're fucked, ass-raped gringo!). I even had to pause to laugh at some of those, it's just to unusual and funny to be at a major gunfight in a AAA title and hear a NPC shout "Vira homem a saí daí de trás rapá!" (be a man and get out of cover dude!) like a angry kid at a Counter-Strike game.
But the main BR characters are clearly voiced by portuguese actors (why?) and had their lines badly translated from english...there's a part where Neves is angry and says "Encontre-o, Mate-o!" (Find him, kill him!), that was obviously written in english, because it sounds dumb and too formal in portuguese...
Oriebam - how does it feel how they portrayed Brazil and the people who live there in that game? Does it make you a bit uncomfortable/uncanny or is it too abstract? Genuienely interested, if a game would be set directly in my surrounding area it would feel awkward too. Note - I am not implying you are living in one of these Favelas and I am well aware that there are just "normal" parts in many places all around your country. ;P
Mix of things... I was excited to see they showing my city, but a bit dissapointed they only showed the bad things...Then again, this is a depressive alchoolic bro in a shooter game killing bad guys, they can't make it around the nice people that live in the beatifull places...And while they clearly did a lot of research to get things right, like the fireworks at the favela, bruning people inside tires and the coxinhas, they also clearly had most of their material from movies like City of God, set in Rio de Janeiro, not São Paulo.
Even the press here seems to have had some fun with the game, because instead of bitching about violence or something they focused on how the city "looks like São Paulo but feels like Rio de Janeiro". It doesn't help that the first trailer that Rockstart showed said our city is "hot and know for funk music", and that's Rio de Janeiro, not São Paulo (the people in SP don't like the people in RJ, so that's is a big offense).
Also, it was funny to feel like russians, germans and arabs, being the "evil race" that spawns unlimited evil dudes for the american to kill.
The bad part, of course, is that some people now think my city is just favelas and hotels in ruins controlled by paramilitar groups...
Overall it was fun to play in São Paulo, to naturally understand the "secret language" the characters speak in and all that, but I keep wanting for then to show more of the city...sadly, the DLCs seem to be all about multiplayer...and god knows how cool GTA São Paulo would be!
All in all, I don't regret buying it in the slightest,
Yup, agreed. Good & fun shooter, probably only flaw is that I beated it on hard from start, so I have no motivation to replay it at all....
) you are being bodyguard for - nice leveldesign, was hard at the end and the "fire" parts were very atmospheric too.
