GTAIV getting a consitent rating from readers of under 4. Yes something is very wrong and it is not the readers.
GTAIV PC should have never been released in its current state. How anyone could regard the game as playable is beyond me. I dont care what sort of rig you have, you will not be playing GTAIV PC in high detail and if your lucky it will be more than a slide show in low detail.
The game is basically broken, if I had to guess, as a lay person, I would say it either has a horro memory leak or the port was so lazy it is just not coded to work with PC hardware. In short the technical side of the game is not in a marketable state.
This means I will not even comment on the gameplay because after 2 hours of trying to get it started and waiting for Winblows Live to go through its crap... I gave up after 5 minutes of play. I got off the boat, projectile vommited at the performance, turned everything to minimum... projectile vomited that it made no difference and went back to playing Warhammer 40k again... a game so good I am still playing it nightly to this day.
SHAME SHAME SHAME Rockstar.
Gamespot... you need to go attend rehab because you are halucinating to give this a 9
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