GTA4? What makes it great?

Now, first off, I love this game. But what do you think makes it such a great game? The environment/atmosphere? The city itself? The story? What do you think?

Personally, I think the story and the physics make this game what it is. I love the physics. Nothing like dragging a cop down the road after car-jacking him just to slam him into the front end of another car, or shooting a cop while hes coming down a ladder and watching him fall exactly as he would in real life. Thank God for Euphoria, its such an amazing thing.

Well, what about you?

Well, for one thing the multiplayer is a lot of fun (free mode especially). I enjoy chasing my friend all over the city, while I try to kill him and he tries to get away. For instance, once he got up a ladder and climbed on top of this billboard. I followed him up there, and pointed my gun at him, and he ran over to me and kicked me off of this billboard. I fell pretty far, flayling my arms and such. It was pretty cool.

i love the story ,characters and voice acting.its hell funny

Nothing at all, the game is extremely overrated and really repetitive, not to mention it can be annoying to play. Constant phone calls and having to eat to restore health all the time in a game where you die so easy isn't my idea of fun. The game was a great overall experience but far from anything spectacular, at least in my opinion. I could name about ten reasons why i think the game is overrated and i'm not saying its a bad game but definitely not what the critics make it out to be.

I had much more fun playing saints row 2 and i'm not a fanboy, just saying overall i had more fun with saints row 2.

Nothing at all, the game is extremely overrated and really repetitive, not to mention it can be annoying to play. Constant phone calls and having to eat to restore health all the time in a game where you die so easy isn't my idea of fun. The game was a great overall experience but far from anything spectacular, at least in my opinion. I could name about ten reasons why i think the game is overrated and i'm not saying its a bad game but definitely not what the critics make it out to be.

I had much more fun playing saints row

XileLord

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Nothing at all, the game is extremely overrated and really repetitive, not to mention it can be annoying to play. Constant phone calls and having to eat to restore health all the time in a game where you die so easy isn't my idea of fun. The game was a great overall experience but far from anything spectacular, at least in my opinion. I could name about ten reasons why i think the game is overrated and i'm not saying its a bad game but definitely not what the critics make it out to be.

I had much more fun playing saints row

Doomtime

The whole game is good, but it is the story that makes it great. There are a ton of games with an open environment, but not many that have a sotry with such deep motifs and themes that you really can't even taker in completely until you play through it a couple of times.

Based on everything GTA3've got.This game is superly advanced on its grafic,combat ,driving and story.Especailly the story can makes you learn what life is like of Niko Bellic as a imigrant of Libery City from Russia.

It still need more improvement to win player's heart totally,I think,though it's a 10 scorce game!What I mean by "Improvement" might just be adding more custom feature and/or more funny small chellenges in to the game.(But I wonder...could 360 and DVD run this game smoothly in 1 disc when GTA4:Vice City or GTA4:SA come out!Any way,I am worried because I am a 360 owner.)

The thing that I want added most is better music. I cant stand the GTA4 soundtrack. They have a few songs on there that I like but nothing really. Only songs that come to mind is Love Lockdown (Kanye West) and Wanted Dead or Alive (Bon Jovi).Morning_Revival

Oh, I thought it was Love Lockdown. Lmao, my bad. I actually havent heard him in the game, I just saw on Wikipedia that it was in there and I thought it was Love Lockdown. What station is he on? Morning_Revival

I used to be a huge fan of the GTA series, but this game just seemed like more of the same.. Only played for about 5-7 hours, is there more variety in the missions after that or not? (oh yeah I really enjoyed the raggae radio station in this game)BadFishBTK

This game is far from overrated.

The swingset. ;-)

I finally picked up the DLC last Friday and it's great too.

[QUOTE="Morning_Revival"]Oh, I thought it was Love Lockdown. Lmao, my bad. I actually havent heard him in the game, I just saw on Wikipedia that it was in there and I thought it was Love Lockdown. What station is he on? II-FBIsniper-II

I liked the city and the story. Also, Niko had sometihing about him that made him likable, even though he really is a mass murderer. :PCube_of_MooN

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Nothing at all, the game is extremely overrated and really repetitive, not to mention it can be annoying to play. Constant phone calls and having to eat to restore health all the time in a game where you die so easy isn't my idea of fun. The game was a great overall experience but far from anything spectacular, at least in my opinion. I could name about ten reasons why i think the game is overrated and i'm not saying its a bad game but definitely not what the critics make it out to be.

I had much more fun playing saints row

XileLord

nothing that game suck

nothing that game suck

Alucard1809

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nothing that game suck

BLBxLakers24

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nothing that game suck

Doomtime

Nothing at all, the game is extremely overrated and really repetitive, not to mention it can be annoying to play. Constant phone calls and having to eat to restore health all the time in a game where you die so easy isn't my idea of fun. The game was a great overall experience but far from anything spectacular, at least in my opinion. I could name about ten reasons why i think the game is overrated and i'm not saying its a bad game but definitely not what the critics make it out to be.

I had much more fun playing saints row 2 and i'm not a fanboy, just saying overall i had more fun with saints row 2.

XileLord

i agree it was repetive and in all reality boring. The only thing good was free play.

The Cityo

The Graphics

The Story

The Updated combat system

Lost And Damned

Niko

The Grittiness

AWESOME GAME.

The story of the american dream and what trials and tribulations niko went through to put everything to an end so he could finally get away from all the killing and backstabbing he went through in his life.

And the Physics

For me, it's a poor game. The first and foremost problem is that it doesn't know what it wants to be. Is it a gritty, terse thriller? Or a comic romp? It is similar to Watchmen in that it can't decide between being VERY PORTENTOUS AND SRS and light-hearted tomfoolery.

There's nothing going on that we haven't seen before - the storyline is slow as get out. I felt like I was wading through molasses just to get anywhere. it keeps the formulaic elements of a GTA game, but lacks any sense of doing it differently.

Nothing. I felt it was an average game, basically the same as the rest of the gta's. I bought this game upon release but got rid of it shortly after. oh well.

I'm forced to play the bad guy here. There was nothing particularly earth shaking in GTA IV, save, for the nauseating amount of pulse and detail of Liberty.

It feels like interactive propaganda for one-this kind of bias is off-putting and childish.

Niko moves with all the grace of a drunken one-legged bovine-seriously it's a pain to move in a straight line in this game. (That and we're forced to hold a button to move at a reasonable pace, Liberty is a beauty and all that but staying in awe-struck tourist auto-pilot is a real hassle.)

I've been driving now for seven years and I can confirm that hitting a curb at roughly 7 mph will not pinball your car or force you into some marathon roll. (Odd how "Rolled Over" was still such a pain given these exaggerated physics)

Mission variety is non-existent. Each follows a tired formula of Drive here (with or without a timer) , Kill bad people here, or more often chase this guy to this point and kill him at that point. It's all very cinematic---that part of cinema that is very predictable, boring, rehash from summers past.

The story is a by the book, cut and paste rendering of a rags to slightly better rags tale that is all too commonplace given Rockstar's track record and obvious ethical sympathies. (Funny how my Niko by game's end had over 900k-not bad for an immigrant, he's making more than me and 98% of Americans-tragic, I know)

[QUOTE="Morning_Revival"]The thing that I want added most is better music. I cant stand the GTA4 soundtrack. They have a few songs on there that I like but nothing really. Only songs that come to mind is Love Lockdown (Kanye West) and Wanted Dead or Alive (Bon Jovi).II-FBIsniper-II

Thank you, I thought I was the only one that felt this way. Don't get me wrong, I do like the "The Beat 103.7", but if I have to hear "Riddin wit my top down" one more time, I'm gonna break the game

love the game, but would not give it any rating more than 9......not sure why gamespot gave it a 10!