Grand Theft Auto 4 (GTA IV) (Xbox 360)

...4 Review History Grand theft auto was first introduced onto the PC platform in 1997. It was then introduced onto the popular console platform, 'Playstation,' a couple of months later. It was created by at the time a relatively unknown game company originating in Scotland named DMA designs. The name of the company then later changed to Rockstar and Rockstar North. Over the years there have been a number of sequels and add ons in the franchise. Below ...
...brief overview of the story. Grand Theft Auto was the first game that used a sandbox style design. This basically means that the gamer is placed in a wide open city or world, where they can approach completing the game their own method. The city is also alive with other people who seem to go around their daily life. They drive their cars and go around the streets at their own will. Even if that means attached to your front bumper. Gamers can attempt ...

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GTA IV's sense of timing is impeccable - perhaps somewhat ironic for a game which arrived six months overdue. Liberty City is an apt venue to exorcise Rockstar's creative ghosts, as this certainly feels like the game they wanted to ship back in 2001 - bringing to bear myriad ideas previously left on the cutting room floor due to timing and technological constraint. This pastiche of criminal life in New York City has greater subtlety, richness of ...
...with each playing session. This GTA is important because it takes the concept and delivery of action game scripting in unfamiliarly engaging directions. Eastern-European immigrant Niko Belic arrives with a charismatic edge which rather embarrassingly hacks the two-dimensional Tommy Vercetti and CJ into confetti. It's hardly Dostoyevsky, but Belic the brooding Balkan is a believable and solidly researched character, complete with a sardonic wit and ...

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...one. To put it simply Grand Theft Auto IV when taken as a stand alone game is one of the most enjoyable games I've ever played. You play Russian immigrant Nico Belic, a low level criminal looking to live the American Dream and also plotting revenge for a 'incident' in his past (I'll not go into this as it would spoil part of the story for you). He's pretty messed up but a good guy at heart who I became more attached too the longer I played the game. ...
...name of the game - Grand Theft Auto - stealing expensive cars on order. Plenty here to keep you going. The controls are excellent and easy to use. The new cover system and use of the trigger button for your fire arm makes gun fights much easier to play (more on this later). In car the controls work fine with a new refined driving system, while on foot the controls are pretty much the same as past games. The graphics are the best yet for any GTA ...

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Introduction GTA 4 is this year most hyped up game and like other GTA games has broken records for most copies sold Storyline You are Niko Bellic, a man who has some ghosts on his back and the promise of a luxury life with his cousin in Liberty city has come to get rid of the sins of his past and make a fresh start. However as soon as he steps off the boat he finds the wild stories of his cousin roman have all been lies and that he only owns an ...
...bottom end of downtown, and even before Niko gets chance to take this all this in he is thrown into a world of organized crime, loan sharks and professional contacts that will test the last oz of fiber in this battered man soul. Gameplay One of the main things that you get from this game is the fact that they have completely revamped the entire game as a game. This time you get a real feeling of being in this real world One of the first things ...

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I brought this game around four months ago and this was the first game i purchased with my 360. I was told by my mates that this was the must have game of 2008 and they were telling the truth. I always thought that The Gta series were top notch and were superb in acting quality and speech quality but Gta4 has absolutly blown me off my feet with amazing graphics, great acting-speech and lovable graphics, this definantly is the best Gta to date so ...
...i started up my 360 and played on Gta4 for at least 3 hours and after all that time i never got bored. Gta4 offers amazing fun such as the free roaming the streets and insanely killing hundreds of innocent people and cops. The difference in this to the rest of the gta franchise games is that you can even go chilling with mates of yours by ringing them with your mobile phone. This game has a classic selection of guns which have been in most/all of ...

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This Grand theft auto really takes a step forward from the others, the graphics are amazing, if you look at the cars they have so much detail in unbelieveable and when you hit other cars the damage to the cars is much more realistic now and now if you damage the car to much the engine will cut off and when you accelerate it will just keep trying to turn the engine on which is quite cool. The way you walk and other pedestrians walk is much more realistic ...
...quite hard to get used to on the old games you could go round corners really fast but on this you have to slow down for them otherwise you wont make the corner, which is good because its more realistic but you could say its not as fun. You can also activate headlights in the car now which is quite cool. You can now do other things on the game like bowling, darts, go out to eat, go to clubs and go to cabaret and more. You can even get a girlfriend, ...

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...Rockstar's sandbox car-jacking pedestrian-killing game, Grand Theft Auto IV uses a totally new game engine from the GTA III series of games. With much better physics, graphics and more variety of radio stations, the series truely is evolving. For quite a few missions you are given tutorials on how to do things in the game. This is good, but it does make the game feel rather short when you finish it. The side missions and "random people" you can ...
...graphics and features may be, Grand Theft Auto is a monument to all "next-gen" games; by this I mean it looks nice, it contains the features needed to be considered "better than the last one" but it seriously underperforms and falls short of living up to the hype that has surrounded it. Years ago, games would be very poor, graphically, and they couldn't run on particulary good machines. The result was that developers had to make interesting and immersive ...

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To put it simply Grand Theft Auto IV when taken as a stand alone game is one of the most enjoyable games I've ever played. You play Russian immigrant Nico Belic, a low level criminal looking to live the American Dream and also plotting revenge for a 'incident' in his past (I'll not go into this as it would spoil part of the story for you). He's pretty messed up but a good guy at heart who I became more attached too the longer I played the game. ...
...sort of like Tony Montana in Scarface. The Xbox live section of the game is pretty good, even just driving around in the foyer (free roam of the map) is alot of fun as you can enter areas like the airport without being chased by the police. The only problem I had with it is the ability to lock onto targets. Its my opinion in multiplayer it should only be 'free aim' as when you can lock onto a target it becomes a test of whos weapon is more powerful, ...

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...a bit from the previous Grand theft autos, the physics in GTA4 are really good and quite funny sometimes! When you get run over by a car your played flys up into the air and nearly all of his body parts move! It is also quite fun jumping off buildings as the player starts screaming and waving his arms! The driving has been improved quite a bit from the previous games, It now takes alot more skill to drive and you can't go round corners at full speed. ...
...end up in the hospital! Storyline I am quite disappointed about the story in the game, Many of the missions are very much the same. An example is 'Drive to see tony then take him to the gun shop' Many of the missions are like this and get very boring after a while...Some are very good but the majority are quite boring. Playability The playability in this game depends of the sort of gamer you are. I found this game boring after a while and couldn't ...

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GTA has always been one of the most controversial games in recent history. I remember the first GTA on the PC / PSone and that caused so much controversy that some individuals wanted this banned. Since the old top-down days of GTA up to GTA 2, the game was transformed to 3D to bring the series more up to date on the next generation games consoles and PCs and my word how the game had evolved. From the Liberty City of GTA 3 to the Vice City and San ...
...game and making each GTA game the best yet. Now, we enter a further evolution of GTA in the next series, GTA IV. GTA IV is now set in Liberty City (again) and the main character this time being a Russian named Niko Bellic. Niko arrives to find a better life and also to search for that 'special someone'. Roman Bellic is his cousin and introduces him to life in Liberty City and things start to go wrong throughout the game at the beginning. Together, ...

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I waited for about a week or so after GTA IV came out before I tried to buy it. Blockbuster: Sorry out of stock. Game: Sorry out of stock. Woolworth's...you get the idea. Eventually I logged onto Amazon and ordered the game with no fuss and £10 cheaper that all the other places. Three to five working days later I had a spanking new copy of GTA IV in my hot little hand. This happily coincided with a week off..good times. GTA IV follows the adventures ...
...Eastern European country and out for some fun in Liberty City. Nico is in Liberty City to visit his cousin Roman Bellic and to escape some trouble he encountered while people smuggling in the Adriatic. The first part of the story builds up Nico's character and back story which reveals Nico to be a psychologically scarred war veteran who was betrayed back in Europe and is in Liberty City looking for the men who wronged him. Nico's search takes him ...

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Grand Theft Auto one of the best selling series out there and I have played them all and have not been disappointed. Grand Theft Auto IV is finally here and does not fail to disappoint Rockstar North in Scotland have really done their best to make sure that this game is top quality which it is. Grand Theft Auto has taken a big change for once this game looks, feels and plays realistic. The first thing when coming in to this game I had problems the ...
...other character from the previous Grand Theft Auto games for one he is funny and the other reason he gives the choice sometimes if he wants to kill a person. As any other Grand Theft Auto game you have to kill loads of people you will work with Russians, Gangsta's, and even the cops and Government theres more. The story of the game does get very interesting once it really gets into it but I will not say more over the story as I don't really want ...

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...reviewing a game such as Grand Theft Auto, as there is so much to do in this game that it is quite incredible. You play an Eastern European migrating to America through the promise of fame and fortune from his cousin, although you soon discover that the land of opportunity isn't all it's cracked up to be. You begin working for some rather dodgy characters doing the usual missions ie kill this person, steal this car etc. However the world that has ...
...spend hours just driving/walking/flying around just seeing the sites, playing smaller minigames, and generally just creating havoc with the oncoming traffic and unfortunate pedestrians who get in your way! There are smaller side missions for when you feel tired of the main story, and these are nice and varied to stop things getting repetitive. There are also some excellent multiplayer modes available to Xbox Live users which enhance the overall ...

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Have you ever played a GTA game? Have you ever played one of them since 3 onwards? Then you know what to expect here. It is more of the same really but that is by no means a bad thing. The story is a real cut above the usual junk pumped out by games developers. I won't bother telling you any of it here beyond it being about an Eastern European (not Russian) ex military type who has just arrived in Liberty City and needs to make his way via crime. ...
...highly anticipated games for a number of years and one that thankfully lives up to those high expectations. There has not been that much marketing hype surrounding this game as it probably hasn't needed it. It has had a bit of media coverage but not much of that has been negative as I think that people now accept that this game is not for children by any stretch of the imagination. As long as it is sold responsibly it will not be the corrupting influence ...

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Grand Theft Auto IV is set within Liberty City with the main character that you play being Niko Bellic who is an illegal immigrant. This GTA allows you to play both the single player missions, cooperative missions and ranked and non ranked game types. Grand Theft Auto IV's single player story line can be beaten in less than 30 hours due to the available achievement; personally I completed it within 19 hours making it substantially shorter than expected. ...
...thrilling aspects found in previous Grand Theft Auto's such as the ability to duel wield weapons, the facility of driving schools and being able to drive planes. Nevertheless the online multiplayer modes were surprisingly fun with the simple option of creating a party with friends or entering any of the ranked or non ranked game types by selecting them on your cell phone within single player. Before entering a game type with friends the option of ...

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