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Grand Theft Auto IV | 
| From: Rockstar Games
Category: Video Games
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Rating:  342 reviews
Sales Rank: 174
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Adventure Games
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
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Number Of Items: 1
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Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
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MPN: 39012
UPC: 710425390128
EAN: 0710425392320
ASIN: B000FRU1UM
Publication Date: April 2008
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| Features:
| • | Carry on the Grand Theft Auto tradition playing through the single player campaign as Niko Bellic | | • | Get cars and other modes of transportation anyway you can | | • | Interact with various colorful characters who give you various missions to engage in | | • | Engage in multiplayer challenges ranging from cover matches to shoot-outs | | • | Game Rated 'M' due to Intense Violence, Blood, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Partial Nudity, Use of Drugs and Alcohol |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 342
 The maturation of the GTA series March 3, 2010
Bryan Creel
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I did several side tasks and achievements along the way and my time played was somewhere between 35 and 40 hours. You will definitely get your money's worth for this game. There are plenty of reviews out there so you don't need me to tell me how great the game is. Instead I will just list the things I loved and a few gripes I had:
Liked So Much
* There are yellow cabs all over Liberty City. You can hail a cab and hop in. The driver will take you to any point of interest or waypoint that you have marked on your map. You can watch the ride or be instantly transported there (well, after a loading screen). This is so awesome. There are many times I want to drive around, but sometimes I just want to get there.
* You can set waypoints on your map. If you are in a car it will show you a GPS-style route on your mini-map that you can follow to reach your destination. This is a massive help to getting around this large city.
* The city is very much alive. GTA has always been known for having an active environment but this latest installment really takes the cake. There are tons of little details that you will notice and be amazed by. An example: I was standing in the road and a car stopped so it would not hit me. The car behind it ran into its bumper, and the driver hit his head on the steering wheel and was knocked out. His head was on the steering wheel sounding his horn. It was just a cool non-scripted event.
* As it is often mentioned, the plot and characters are excellent. I was reallly drawn into the world and the plot.
* The graphics are excellent.
* The difficulty is pretty good. The missions do ramp up in difficulty, but I seldom had to repeat a mission more than once. There were a few tough ones, but nothing that just made me despair.
Liked Not So Much
* Previous GTA games had hidden packages. If you found them, you would get weapons to spawn at your safehouses. GTA 4 has pigeons that you kill instead of packages, but there is no reward for finding them. There's no way I'm going to hunt down all of them for no game benefit.
* I would have enjoyed a little more control over the camera's default position when you are driving. It tends to be a little too low for my preference.
If you want to play GTA 4, here are a few tips that might help you out:
* Take some time and learn the driving mechanics. The brake and emergency brake work very differently from other GTA games. You have to use a combination of them to skid around a corner and that combination differs based on the car type you are driving. Learning how to handle them will serve you well in the later missions.
* You will meet people over the course of the game that want to be friends with you. They will call you on the phone and ask if you want to do stuff. Saying "no" will decrease their Like score. To avoid this, say "yes" and call them back to cancel immediately after they hang up. This will keep their Like score from going down.
* When the missions start getting harder, keep your body armor maxed out. There's nothing to spend money on besides armor and weapons, so don't worry about that. Get Lil Jacob's Like score up and he will offer you discounted armor and ammo.
Obviously I really liked the game and I'm giving it 5 stars. It's is very, very good and an excellent value for the money.
If Gary Busey and Nick Nolte had a baby, it would be Brucie! February 20, 2010
bookreader (Jersey)
Straight off the boat and sucked into the criminal life, that's the american dream hu! Friends in need, cab rides, drug drop offs, gangs from every bureau, psychos, car thieves, jumping into helicoptors, out running the law, quietly taking care of problems, or blowing them up, car chases galore, and the weapons I could go on forever but I won't.
Getting people drunk is one of my favorite things to do, just to see how they all act. From Jacob being "mash up" to Kate and Packie saying they wanna die and fallin' all over, it's great! Bernie nearly made me piss myself many times "maybe he wants to kill me because i'm FAAAABBBUUULLLOUSSSS"! Brucie has issues. Roman is a man whore but a nice guy. This ones a definite must have. Wasn't a fan of GTA until this one got into our collection. Loved ever minute!
Stay safe, stay second Amendment!
Review on GTA 4's Multiplayer Racing February 20, 2010
Mango
I've owned GTA 4 for at least four months and still haven't completed the story mode yet. The main reason is because I usually play multiplayer instead. The multiplayer is more interesting and fun to me than the singleplayer, so this review is going to be focused more on the multiplayer, particularly the racing bits.
There are two kinds of races: Race and GTA Race.
Race is just that, a race. You and a bunch of other players racing through checkpoints to the finish line. There's usually no tricks in this game. The only thing you might have to worry about is people who drive the wrong way. They are commonly known as backwards drivers. If you aren't paying attention they could really mess up your place. While they can be annoying, especially if you're in first place and they hit you, bumping you down to fifth, it does add a bit of a challenge.
GTA Race is just like regular race. The only difference is you can get weapons and shoot at other racers. If you're behind someone and you have a weapon you can shoot the car in front and the car in front can shoot right back. Cars shooting from behind have a better advantage at taking down their opponent because shooting for the car in front can be a bit difficult since they are looking behind them and not at what might be up ahead. If they have grenades on hand, well, that's another story.
Cars can catch fire and eventually blow up, so unless you get to a health pack in time, you'll want to get out of the car ASAP!! Just be sure not to evacuate in the middle of the road where other cars can run you over.
While it can be fun, GTA Race has several rather annoying things about it.
Campers/ Spawn Killers- Campers are people who sit on corners waiting to shoot at passing cars or stragglers. They are more common in games where auto-aim is allowed, where they have a better chance at getting easy, no skill kills. I don't mind campers. Like wrong way drivers in regular Race, they add a challenge. Either you take them down first or they'll get you. It's the Campers that spawn kill that get frustrating. They kill you, you respawn with NO weapons and no way to defend yourself and they kill you again. And again... and... you get it. Unless you can somehow evade their bullets and escape, which is pretty much impossible when auto-aim is concerned, you won't be going anywhere.
My Thoughts: I think this problem could be fixed if Rockstar lets players spawn with weapons temporarily when they die. This way if someone is waiting to kill them they have a way to protect themselves. Once they get in a vehicle the weapon disappears. Of course, that won't happen so we'll just have to deal with dying unfairly.
Race or Deathmatch?- Very annoying. You're in a race but NO one is racing. The majority of players are on the map shooting each other as if the game were deathmatch and not a race. These happen often and are more common on races with long laps. Many times I've finished a race and had to sit and wait as the rest of the "racers" run around shooting each other. One game lasted and ended after a whole HOUR and that was with no one finishing. Usually after half the racers cross the finish line a countdown from thirty seconds starts.
My Thoughts: After the first person crosses the finish line they should start the countdown. Maybe starting at two minutes. At least then we'll know the race will end sooner rather than later.
GTA 4 is definitely a good racing game. The story mode and the rest of the multiplayer modes are fun too, they just aren't as exciting as the racing, in my opinion. I really enjoy racing games and I haven't found any good ones in the past few years other than NFS: Hot Pursuit 2 and NFS: Underground 2.
 Games are only fun when you can PLAY them. February 13, 2010
Casey Futoma (NY)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I received a pretty good looking case, complete with all it's original manuals and such. The disc didn't look too bad, but when I put it into my Xbox it would crash at the title screen every time. The funnest part of a game is being able to play it. :|
 Not good, not good at all. February 10, 2010
Edward Cullen (New york city)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
When I got this game I was so happy, I brought the special edition which is a def must have if you got the money.But back to the game itself I was completely disappointed with this game, the graphics are great a little not for me but still great.To look at everything is so life like you will be amaze on how detail everything is and living in new york myself I love that rockstar did their research on each part of liberty city to compare with new york city because of what you experience in the game is also what you most likely experience in new york.Also liberty city is massive in gta4 its so big it kind of annoying going to places that are so far that it might take you about 5 minutes just to reach a mission.
I got mostly bad things to say about this game so please bare with me.To start off the music in gta4 sucks big time I means every song that they pick out is so boring and not catchy at all.Almost all the artist and their songs I do not recognize at all and whats sad is that all the stations are the same with boring music and not so funny jokes.So to be honest when I'm driving the music is always turn off which makes me mad cause I love the soundtracks they usually put in GTA but this time they fail and having it put off while driving sucks.Next is the driving its so bad its not even funny when you start driving you tell yourself "oh this is bad but maybe I'll get use to it", but I promise you that will never happen.The cars themselves always kinda look the same as well as drive the same which sucks cause if you want a fast car that's not going to happen and turning in sharp corners is hell making races stupid and not fun at all.I can't tell you how many times I cuss at the tv and threw my X-box remote on the floor just cause I could not turn my car around the corner and I end up crashing into someone else or end up in the water and repeating the damn mission from the start and take ten to 15 minutes just to drive and get the mission done and pray I don't crash again.
Another thing I hate is the story line its the worst one in the series its makes no sense and is boring as hell, missions are the same shoot, kill and drive which is fine because the shooting system is great and very fun ,the acting is great also, not one bad actor to be found.At the end of the day I stop playing the game all together because of the bad driving the story is boring and music is terrible,I'll finish it but only because of the achievements and that's it do yourself a flavor and skip it.Get china town wars for ds or psp its fun as hell and won't make you throw your remote on the floor.
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