The game is great, though it doesn't have as much replay value as the previous versions once you finish the story, thought with the PC version you have the addition of user created content, which could possibly add lots of gameplay time.
The main problem/annoyance i had with the game is the change in the way the cops work. Instead of simply evading them and perhaps picking up a police bribe along the way and you'd be done, in GTA IV it's no longer this easy. Even if you evade the cops chasing you, you'll have to escape their search area, represented by flashing red and blue circle on your radar that expands more and more with each higher wanted level, which would not be too bad if it weren't for the fact that in GTA IV there's a cop or two or three on every block and almost every street, and whenever you're running from the cops they have a habit of appearing in the distance driving straight toward you just as you're about to escape the search area, resulting in the search area being reset and you having to start the chase all over again, which becomes quite tedious.
Gone are the joys of canning around town in cars with rediculous physics wiping out people, blowing **** up and outrunning cops all over the place, now the cops are everywhere and aren't going to let you get away that easy.
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