This game is a masterpiece! We have never seen such a harmonic virtual world before. The story is as good as a movie and the graphics offer tons of incredible moments. GTA IV is more than a game.
An absolutely essential landmark title for the games industry. In terms of the sheer scope, emotion, ambition, and the stupidly high fun factor it offers, there is no better available in the genre today. In fact, no one else comes anywhere near.
I don't know where to start from. Do I start with the great characters, the soundtrack, the radio stations, the story or maybe start with Niko Bellic or even that the game gave you choices throughout the story or even the easter eggs. Can I say that this game was perfect?
It's not merely the fact that Rockstar have taken an already engaging gameworld and rebuilt it from the ground up, it's the fact that they've done that, and shoehorned in realistic weather systems, day to night transitions, realtime lighting, realistic character movement and animation, realistic physics and kinetics, incidental details, solid and well written dialogue, convincing AI and non-player characters and a multiplayer system that puts other games to shame.
Almost everything you do in Liberty City would be good enough to drive its own game, and the best parts would be good enough to outrun the competition, but the reason it works so well is that Rockstar has made a game that requires no patience to play. This, as much as its usual coherency and the best script in the series, is what makes GTA IV the best openworld game yet, and why it will take something miraculous to rob it of game of the year status.
Grand Theft Auto IV is the sex, drugs, and rock and roll of video games. It's a little less brave and intimidating this time around, but it’s also the most refined and polished game in the franchise’s history. This kind of sheen is generally reserved for titles with a much smaller scope.
This is a more refined, smoother game than its predecessors, and is almost certainly the most thoroughly interactive form of entertainment ever created, especially with the fantastic multiplayer options. But it's also more self-consciously constructed than the previous two GTA games, and in my eyes, a little less engaging.
A well written story, unforgettable characters, unforgettable athmosphere, very good phsyics even today. Definitely a cult production for gaming world.
La verdad nunca acabe el juego, no lo jugue en su epoca y no tengo ese cariño que otros jugadores le puedan tener, aun así las horas que le meti las disfrute aunque al final lo dejase por que me parecio repetitivo. Tendré que rejugarlo en algun momento y seguramente cambie mi valoración.
There needs to be a remaster for Xbox and ps4, in some ways this game was a little disappointing, but it has one thing that gta 5 doesn’t have, or should I say doesn’t have that gta 5 has, an infestation of predatory micro transactions, this game seems a little bleak, gta 3 had more colors than this, but gta 5 really makes me miss playing gta 4, gta 4 did teach me something, it’s how much worse the gta series can get after every release, and gta 5 has only proven that, though there are fun activities in gta 5 story mode, but that’s it, after writing about gta 5, it made me appreciate gta 4 a little more on how a real gta game was designed, because in some way gta 5 felt like a knockoff.
GTA is the same game recycled over and over just like cod and many more these days. Anything in GTA series should not even be close to a ninety. San Andreas maybe because it brought a lot of new and fresh ideas. Still same old game though
Summary[Metacritic's 2008 PS3 Game of the Year; Also known as "GTA IV"] What does the American Dream mean today? For Niko Belic, fresh off the boat from Europe. It's the hope he can escape his past. For his cousin, Roman, it is the vision that together they can find fortune in Liberty City, gateway to the land of opportunity. As they slip into...