This is a great game and crime story and you will enjoy playing it.
The main character of the game is Niko Belic, immigrant from ex Yu (Croatia or Serbia) who came in America to his cousin Roman. Niko run away from war and war memories and came to find his American dream.
The story is great, cut scenes are beautiful (there is over of 200 cut scenes). I suggest you not to skip them, because they are part of the game that you need to watch, and they are not boring and too long for a second, they are well done... perfect.
The story has everything what one great movie should have. Story follows Niko in his life in America. Niko must do a lot of different jobs and he must to co-operate with a lot of different people to survive and take a piece of American dream. In the same time it is a crime story, love story and a human warm story.
Liberty City
The town is so great and detailed, and on ever step you see how much effort is made in creating it. City is very big, with a lot of beautiful location and you can spent days and days and you will still have a lot to explore. When you playing the game there is not a lot of time do watch the City because you are too concentrate on the game, but if you will seeking for flying rats you will see the masterpiece of the details.
During gameplay, the weather conditions are changed (sunshine, rain, day, night...)... Beautiful.
Gameplay
Story has 94 missions, with alternative ending and you will need about 100 hours to finish them all. Missions are different, there are car missions, sniper missions, bike missions, sneaking missions... I mean there are so many different and original tasks and you will enjoy playing them. There is a lot of very hard missions, and there is no checkpoints but it is possible to beat them all without cheats, and I suggest you to try to do that because than you will fill real gaming experience, and you will understand why you need money. If you play with cheats, the game will be great too, but less tensely.
Unlockables
There is so many things to do, expect story and you will probably need at least 300 hours of playing to get 100% of the game. I finished all missions and start to seeking for flying rats and I must say it is a very interesting part where you will discover all the greatness of Liberty City.
Graphic
The best GTA graphic ever.
On-line
I didn't play on-line a lot, because the game is very long, but things I saw seems very interesting. You can create your own character and choose between different on-line modes. The access to on-line is made through mobile phone and it is very smooth.
Controls
The controls are not perfect, and you will probably need between 10 - 20 hours of gameplay to use to them.
Camera movement is very annoying and I don't like those automatic centre of camera.
Cars are very hard to control until you get used to them, and you will suffer a lot of crashes until you learn to control the vehicles. My advice to you is to try to manipulate in the same time with brake and hand brake while cornering because it's very hard to hit the corner only with hand brake.
Overall
This is one of the best crime story ever made on console and I'm very happy to have a privilege to play this game.