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Grand Theft Auto IV
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Overall Critic Score:3.9827
Grand Theft Auto IV Critic Reviews
So overall, if you are of the proper age and have no problem with grasping that this is fiction and shouldn't be re-enacted on the streets of your town, then you should buy this game. It's the best example of the sandbox style of gameplay that GTA first...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at IC-Games
Stepping off a boat in the shoes of illegal immigrant Niko Bellic as he arrives in Liberty City at the start of Grand Theft Auto IV, you can tell immediately that Rockstar North's latest offering is something quite special. Yes, this is another GTA game...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at GameSpot
I warn you, don't buy GTA IV. Trust me when I say this, just don't buy it. I think its injecting heroin or something of similar addictive content through my eyeballs and directly into my bloodstream. You buy this, and you're going to lose a lot of sleep,...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at GamingExcellence
Undoubtedly one of the most hyped games of the year, if not the most hyped of all time, we had huge expectations for Grand Theft Auto IV. Rockstar promised more detail, more things to do, more excitement, better visuals – you name it, they promised it....read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at Jolt UK
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Niko Bellic is not a morally ambiguous man. Far from it, in fact. His time in the army is not a period he looks back on with fondness, ordered into performing atrocities that haunt his thoughts; his unflinching loyalty to the cause was only rewarded with...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at Gameplayer
If you're anything like the rest of the internet, you've probably spent the last few months scrounging for every scrap of Grand Theft Auto IV information you could find. At this point, though, a lot of questions still remain, the first and most important...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at Games Radar
Criminals are an ugly, cowardly lot more worthy of pity and disdain than admiration. This is what you'll learn playing through the single-player campaign in Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV. The series cheered (and criticized) for glorifying violence has...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at IGN
Niko Bellic, Grand Theft Auto IV's bruiser from the former Eastern Bloc, is a stone-cold couch potato, a desperate online dater with dead-on aim, and a chronic websurfer who could kill you in a hand-to-hand Krav Maga brawl. Fresh off the boat, he's an...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at 1UP
It takes an awful lot for me to spend extended periods of time playing games. I tend to pick at them, putting in a few hours a day over a week while doing other things in between. So, when GTA 4's game-time stat read 35 hours after just three days and my...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at VideoGamer
A couple weeks back I read an article wherein Moby, the pint-sized electro funk genius mentioned that in and among a booze, drug and women addled binge some years back he counted GTA amongt his many vices, including a three-day binge on the Play tour...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at PSW Magazine UK
What is the American Dream? More specifically, what is your American Dream? Posing that question to a million people would likely net you a million unique answers, as the term (and the theory itself) means something different to everyone. Do you want a...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at GameSpy
Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto 4 has arrived. Need we really say more? The last time a number followed the game's title, it completely revolutionized what gamers thought could be done in a video game. The two console releases which followed III...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at UGO
This is not to say the edge is gone. Niko encounters plenty of strange fellows in his travels, including self-styled street vigilante documentary makers, a nurse who refers to herself in the third person, and genetically different alpha male Brucie, who...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at G4 - X-Play
IT'S NOT EASY REVIEWING games. No, seriously, it's hard work and requires a steady eye for detail, and a great deal of patience. So when we first floated the idea of simultaneously reviewing the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of one of the most...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at Gameplanet
I now know how film critics felt after screening The Godfather. It’s been days since Grand Theft Auto IV’s credits rolled, yet I can’t seem to construct a coherent thought without my mind wandering off into a daydream about the game. I just want to ...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at Game Informer
It was difficult to anticipate how Grand Theft Auto IV would turn out, given the way that the whole “open-world game” thing is being done to death across as many different games and settings as possible. Rather than try to out-do the Crackdowns and th...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at Giant Bomb
SXIAXIS quirks and PSN issues aside, Grand Theft Auto IV is a must-have and an excellent reason to purchase a PlayStation 3. Its gripping storyline, beautiful graphics and wanton destruction set the standard, not only within the video game industry, but...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at GameDaily
So another generation has come and along with it a Grand Theft Auto title is born. It's not going to please everyone, but certainly it will make fans of the series happy for the space between another installment. Some like myself may despise the social...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at Gaming Age
Grand Theft Auto IV for the PlayStation 3 is one of those rare games that push the console to its very limits to bring gamers a living world that is simply irresistible. Rockstar has gone to great lengths to improve the series with each iteration but...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at GameZone
So, as you can see GTA IV is not perfect, but it is unlikely there will ever be a game we could fairly label with that heavy moniker. It is however an absolutely essential landmark title for the games industry. In terms of the sheer scope, emotion,...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at DarkZero
Seven. It has been seven years since the release of what some would call the biggest innovation in video game history. A true open world was brought to us in the form of Grand Theft Auto III. That was back in 2001. Seven years later fans of the series...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at Console Monster
The frame rate isn't great - it's no 60fps - but at a little less than 30, it still works nicely. There are a few issues when moving very slowly or spinning the camera quickly, but nothing that significantly impacts the gameplay. Lastly, tremendous...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at PSX Extreme
Grand Theft Auto is one of the key reasons we’re producing Play today. We’ve had our perceptions of both gaming and pop culture turned inside out by the series, and that monumental trend has carried on into Grand Theft Auto IV. After the extensive,...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at Play UK
As games close an ever-tightening circle around the mass market, it seems entirely appropriate that a new Grand Theft Auto now takes to the stage; Nintendo has softened up those non-hardcore gamers with a little Wii Fit, and now its time to invite those...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at Ferrago
Simply put, GTA IV improves upon the GTA formula in just about every way imaginable. Almost anything that I can think of that frustrated me about the previous titles in the series has been fixed or completely reworked, leaving only an amazing experience...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at Cheat Code Central
Grand Theft Auto IV is better in every way possible. The more lifelike direction that the team went in takes a little getting used to, especially when it comes to getting behind the wheel, but once you get over the learning curve, you’re handed an...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at Gamer 2.0
Simply put, Grand Theft Auto IV is the best game ever released in its genre, and is the new standard to which other open-world titles will be measured. Age permitting, this is a game everyone should have in their collection. It's by no means perfect, but...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at PALGN
Grand Theft Auto IV's caricatured slice of urban Americana is a criminal masterpiece. Even with the rocks found in its sandbox, GTA IV is undeniably the kind of technical milestone that fans have been waiting for and with which curious newcomers can get...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at Worth Playing
Very few games can be considered “disappointments” for failing to innovate the medium, so that says something very positive about its credentials. GTA IV has more content for your buck than pretty much anything else out there, and it has more variety,...read the complete Grand Theft Auto IV review at Game Revolution
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