GTA:IV is proberly the bast GTA game yet.
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Grand Theft Auto: IV is proberly the best GTA game yet, most things have been improved since the last Grand Theft Auto games. In GTA:IV you play as Niko Balic, a recent european imegrent sucked in to going to Liberty City by his cousen claiming he had a mansion, sports cars and the ladies. But when Niko gets of the boat he realises the truth, the mansion is just an old apartment, the sports cars are taxi cabs and the ladies are prostitutes.
First of all, the first main thing that has been improved is the graphics. Everthing has a great detail to it from the buildings to the characters, the graphics no longer look so cartoony like in past games. The same goes with the physics of this game, In past games when you shot someone it would be cartoony, however in GTA:IV when you shoot someone the victim will wimper away in pain before they get up.
The enviroment now has distructable elements in it, for example when you are in a heavy firefight with your foes the enviroment around were the firefight is taking place will get damaged, if you shoot an RPG into a concreat wall the wall will be left with a chunk taken out of it, the covour and shooting system has been improved as you can now hide behind objects to avoid being shot.
The car physics are now more realistic, now you can't just floor it around a corner as fast as you can in a car you have to acturally slow down around corners before eventurally speeding up again.
The mission structure has gorne back to basic, that may sound like a let down to some but in most part you will have to use different tactics to pass some missions. In some missions you will have to make dissisions on weather or not you kill or save someone or you may have two people and you have a choice to kill one or the other, one may be helpfull for you further down the line were another may be compleatly useless to you. Everything you do has it's advantages ind disadvantages.
The characters are well disigned, it is like every character has emotions. Niko has feelings and when something bad happens to someone close to him he will be worried and you can tell that what he says in his dialogue. If someone has been kidnapped, Niko will sound angry in his voice.
The cutsceen dialogue is also funny and well done, ingame dialogue when you fail a mission the character you worked for has different lines they say so if you fail the mission again and again, that particular character will say a different line again and again.
The music in GTA:IV is nothing different then other GTA's, the music sets the feel and vibe in the time and setting of this game.
Like in past GTA games, this ones filled with many funny real-life spoofs and eastereggs, for example, the statue of Liberty is the statue of happyness, the metalife building is getalife just to name a couple.
With that all said, this game certainly ain't perfect, there are a few bugs in the game were characters don't do what they are supposed to do, there are glitches which also effect the enviroment of the game. But this game gets a 10 purly on the basis of what said above, the negatives don't really have an impact.
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