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So by now you’ve played GTA 4 like a real addict and finished pretty much all the side missions, cop missions and harassed many innocent people but find yourself wanted some more fun and entertainment here’s a list of fun things to do in GTA 4.

Let the fun begin:

Stunt – complete all the bike stunts around the city there is around 50 from what I remember.

Fire Hydrant-  Blow the top off a fire hydrant then jump on your bike and ride that wave sky high:)

911 – Call the cops and then rush around punching as many people as you can when the cops arrive they will see people attacking you and promptly arrested those mean mean people.

Fire Department – jump in a firetruck and give those dirty homeless a good spraying.

Car Domino’s – Line up a whole bunch of cars then fire off a rocket or grenade to see a domino explosion effect, yoeu may have to make sure you’ve damaged the cars enough.

Army Chopper – Visit the airport and grab the army helicopter with the minigun and terrorize the island.

Airport Madness – Get a full wanted rating and then head to the airport with a bike and run circles around the cops its especially fun to place yourself in the middle of the back wheels of a moving airplane and watch the cops try to get to you cause nothing stops a giant boeing 747 , those cops get squished and thrown around all over the place.

Friendly Fire – play a lan game with friendly fire off and hit each other with those rockets and watch yourself fly like a birdie.

Stripathon – go the strip club and get as many lap dancers into the private room as possible ( this can get quite tricky to get the dancers to ask you for a private dance but people have been known to get 2 or even up to 3 dancers into one room)

Cinematic Challenge – grab a fast car or a strong vehicle switch on cinematic camera mode and see how long you can last while the cops are after you it can be quite entertaining in this camera mode.

Pool throw- start a pool game then get out and just pelt those balls at your opponents head , no one messes with nico bellic

Scream Wheel- grab a car thats full of passengers and take them for the ride of there life , you wont even need the radio on cause they provide enough noise through screaming and oh my god’ss.

Burnouts – hold the forward and backwards keys at the same time and see that smoke go ( not much smoke really) but you can do donuts by using the directional keys which is quite fun.

Bike simulator – grab a bike, then switch into first person view and try and drive at high speeds without crashing ( can be quite tricky).

Falling Boat – use the boat cheat code to drop a speed boat on unsuspecting people.

No hands- grab your sniper rifle or any other gun if your accurate and shoot the driver of a car straight in the head, sometimes he will come to a stop other times he will keep driving all over the place fun to watch.

One of the most fun things you will find in the new GTA is the ability to play multiplayer with your friends in lots of different styles such as deathmatch and races. Deathmatch can give you hours of fun simply by logging on with a lot of friends and turning friendly fire off and let your friends have it with a rocket launcher and they will go flying into the distance. The list are things me and friends have tried and found fun but i’m sure you’ve got your own qwerks and I managed to find a bigger list here: fun things to do in [http://hubpages.com/hub/Fun-things-to-do-in-GTA-4]GTA 4 it seems pretty up to date so would be cool to comment on things he hasn’t added to build a huge list. Until next time GTA fans.

I also hope none of the content on the lists offended anyone as GTA 4 is a game for mature gamers and contain mature content.

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Rarely do you walk into a video game store and see many game titles catered exclusively for the female game audience. There is virtually no big box support for such titles as they spend millions of dollars catering exclusively to male audiences. After all, conventional wisdom would suggest that since only games for males are being made, that only males are interested in playing video games. This couldn’t be further from the truth, a fact often overlooked by larger game publishing companies such as EA, Activision or Take-Two. The statistics alone disprove the notion that girls are not interested in spending time playing video games. The Sims is the best selling game of all time and a large amount of its success can be attributed to its loyal female fan base. 40% of all girls in Australia that participated in a survey admitted to spending time online playing video games as well. This is a global trend that as more game enabled devices are available, so does the potential audience for your products. From personal experience I can attest to the power of focusing on the female gamer audience and the amount of success it can bring to your game portals. Hopefully this article can shed some light on what you can do to acknowledge the female audience and entice them to use your product.

Understand Your Audience

This would be common sense regardless of any type of video game or interactive content you would develop but due to the lack of exclusively developed girl titles how would you go about starting? The answer isn’t necessary waiting on a shelf of a game retail store but rather online on a games website or games portal.

Depending on the age range of the female audience you will find some games more popular than others. These games usually have simple and easy to learn game play factors that most professional game developers would consider basic or even in some cases downright primitive. Don’t be fooled by this or dismiss this fact. Its a mistake that many game developers make and hold against working on such games that would otherwise be something the female audience would be interested in.

One of the most popular games website with young girls would be StarDoll.com which is essentially a online paper doll website. Moving various clothing items on a 2d doll is a very simple thing to develop if you have any professional game experience. It is this very simple game mechanic combined with variety of various current celebrities and other incentives that encourage millions of users to return every day to that website.

Dress up games are some of the most popular games with girls with thousands of web game portals devoted exclusively to this genre of game. Other game categories that are popular with female gamers include pet games, makeover games, cooking games and room makeover games. Some of the most popular games with girls may have combined elements of these game categories providing an even more compelling game experience. Almost all of the games popular with the female audience would be categorized under Casual Games.

Doing your homework on what works out there currently on the Internet will help you understand an audience that might be decades younger than you personally and completely different than your own personal preferences for games. It is a challenge you must embark upon to fully capitalize on this market segment and achieve success.

The Online Factor

One of the game categories not mentioned previously are quickly becoming the most popular. Online worlds provide an experience where they can socialize and meet new friends. Important game elements of online worlds would include; the ability to have avatar customization, personalize user rooms and the ability to chat and meet new friends. Some examples would be Club Penguin, Habbo Hotel, There.com and IMVU.

Major companies are taking notice of the immense popularity of online worlds with the female audiences and now feature many similar game elements. The key for anyone looking to compete in this field is to come up with a compelling game mechanic that entices this key demographic of female users.

This type of game might be out of the reach of many small time developers but any game starts modestly so this might be a long term goal for you to reach. Never discount any game idea entirely especially as it can help you in developing some uniqueness. Sometimes combining existing game ideas in a online setting can help set it apart from what is available currently.

Making It Unique

Regardless of the size or scope of your game websites, an important aspect to realize is that uniqueness will help stand you apart from the competition in a very crowded market. My games portal for example specializes in browser based online worlds which require no registration. The benefit of this is you can immediately introduce your user to your game product without having them register or download anything. Consider introducing a unique element such as this into your game or website and you will of taken the first step to capturing some the fastest growing gamer demographic out there.

Utilize The Female Gamer Demographic

Accepting and embracing the fact that your games website caters to female gamers is a very important and strategic move that should be planned for in any games portal website. The market share is so large that the chance you will find success and as an independent developer raises if you do so. This is not the first choice for most professional game developers but I am one hundred percent certain this is the right direction to take a small games website if you want to attract a larger audience. The games you make don’t always have to be exclusively made for a female audience but I think they deserve some consideration.

Hopefully this has shed some interesting light on the often neglected market demographic of female gamers and brings about some success in your endeavors.

Derek Young co-owns Switchin.net which receives 1.7 million unique visitors a month. With over 5 years of professional game development experience he can always point you towards some good [http://www.switchin.net]online girl games

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