My PS3 was working perfectly. I even beat GTA IV without any crashing in the single player. After replaying the game to try out the alternative ending, my PS3 crashed with blinking red lights.

I started it up again, to retry the game and it crashed yet again, this time without even loading the intro. Now, the PS3 shutsdown (blinking red lights) randomly.

I have the 60 GB PS3 which is known to have this problem. I just find it strange that everything has worked out okay until now. I haven't done anything provocative to my PS3 (last thing i installed was Qore and Battlefield).

Be careful guys, especially for GTA, its hazardous to the system. I thought it couldn't happen to me, but oh well.

I'll try and reinstall and see if it still happens. Hopefully its just a save game corrupt file.

This post has been edited by OmniAtlas: Jun 10 2008, 08:27 PM

I thought the 60GB was the best PS3? the 80GB had software BC emulation, but the 60GB version actually has the emotion engine built inside.

Good luck. I hope it's nothing serious.

Actually I read somewhere that the 20GB and 60GB models from Nov - Dec 06 are most susceptible to this blinking red lights issue. Anyway doesn't blinking red lights mean that it's overheating?

aiks. dont scare me. mine is one of the earlier models. ps2 hardware. so far ok ler.. gta4 doesnt crash on me no matter how long i play.

okay guys, it wasn't a heat issue, b/c i was blasting the a/c and it would still crash.

I got it working again. I simply deleted the installed files (game data), reinstalled and its okay now. so somehow gta iv must have screwed up those essential files. strange huh.

hopefully nothing else happens.

And a game like that managed to score 10 points.

lol 10/10 coz its on x360

And rockstar claims its the ps3's fault not theirs lol

So, it's okay already? I think can close the thread.

i bet rockstar paid those reviewers very good. cuz a game that scored 10/10 doesn't make me feel for replaying after I cleared it once.
To be honest, stored my copy of GTA4 in the collection rack after i cleared the game and I hardly touched it again. well, a few rounds of MP and i'm tired with it.

it's totally over-rated. It has to be at least, like San Andreas' volume (minigames, map variety, shop variety, buying cribs...) in order to gain 10/10. If only they made this game PS3 exclusive, they could have expand the game better with Blu Ray.

i bought GTA 4 on the very 1st day..and yet im still at 8% of the game..really don't have the mood to play it.. im down with the overhype..

hope it wont crash my system when i decide to play it again

thats a rule of thumb

haha that happened to me with ace combat. it happened to my roomate with assasins creed, but i thought that game was superb.

well for me, I think numbers shouldn't determine how much we like the game. You can't quantify feelings that accurately. Can u go around giving number ratings to girls and decide to marry girl A over girl B because one person score 8.9 and the other 8.8 ? Not me.

GTA IV still holds number 1 spot in my games library. Depends on my mood though.

I thought I'm the only one who don't really enjoy this game.

I agree GTA San Andreas is more entertaining. I was really excited when I got the game in my hands but after a few missions it bored me.

Let's be extra careful when buying the next GTA.

I'm sorry to say that I too think that GTA4 is a slight let down. I really can't feel for Nico the way I felt for the San Andreas protagonist. San Andreas is definitely way better because I actually felt ownership of the gangs and the story of betrayal hit harder. Or maybe I'm just egoistical because I could sculpt the look of my hero anyway I like... major muscles, tattoos, hair cuts, blink blink...

Man... GTA4 is just repetition gameplay and the MP is whatever la. Still, I'm going to hold on to it just the same cause its GTA man...

Someone mentioned ace combat being a let down... ace combat for ps3 got meh? I love that series jeez.

lol, true.. i think this game memang is overhype.. only game so far that made me wanna play till the end are a handful. god of war series and cod4. and ofcourse RE series.

I think GTA IV has the best storyline compared to the rest, even san andreas. Way, way better acting. I never felt so involved with the story as I did with the other games. They did a great job putting in the choice of how the story proceeds in a very subtle way. I find all the gangsta thing in san andreas just a little too pretentious.

I give GTA IV a 9/10 ; it could have been so much more. I really wish they worked on the interiors -- the streets were great, but if they had more enterable buildings it would really build upon the illusion that this was a living breathing city.

Don't know whats up with every magazine out there giving it a 10/10; rockstar must have bribed them seriously.

GTA IV still crashes my PS3 btw, but this time only in multiplayer, lol.

well, I, somehow, need to agree with your point.
after i've cleared GTA4, I played back my PSP's Vice City Stories and guess what, I turned off my psp after 2 missions lol.

except the graphics and environment of the game, I do felt VCS acting is way too crappy.

My full salute to GTA4's voice actors (especially in car conversation, I do think GTA4 has the greatest volume in dialogs), and I like Little Jacob's Jamaican English, but still, it's not my 10/10 game.

The first GTA which contains some moral point, gay or not?

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Added on June 8, 2008, 12:27 pmYeah, same experience here, not only GTA4, i found similar problem in Army of TWO too.
It's a connection problem.

This post has been edited by cRazYee: Jun 8 2008, 12:28 PM