A magnificent achievement. Brilliantly conceived game with highly polished implementation and engrossing storyline. WOW
User Rating: 10 | Grand Theft Auto IV X360
Simply put GTA IV is a Magnificent Game. Every aspect and detail of the game is brilliantly conveived and implemented with spectacular effect. WOW...what an achievement. Graphical setting is epic and rendered with care and great beauty. The storyline sparkles while the dialogue has the rough edge and tough tenor of the big city streets. Central role of the cell phone and text messaging is a nice touch. At one point I jacked a chopper and took a tour of the city hoping to unleash a bit of mayham on the city but was simply too mesmerized by the scenery to actually do anything. The game drips with excellence from the start. Found myself at one point in the middle of some pea soup fog trying to find a customer who needed a ride. At one point the cops were after me and I crashed off of the overpass onto the elevated subway tracks....so...I followed the tracks for a bit and kept looking behind me to see if the cops were following me...well no surprise you know what happened next... missed the fact that a subway was sceaming right for me and whamo...blown to smithereens. I was laughing so hard I was crying...what a gas. Thanks Rockstar....job supremely well done. It is fun to be the baddest mof***** in the citay.
Surprisingly I have heard some people dis the graphics. In my opinion the level of graphical detail in this game is second to none. It is nothing short of brilliant. When people say the graphics are 'fuzzy' I am not sure what they are saying because the detail is exquisite. They may need to upgrade the good ol TV set. or perhaps they either need contacts or they may be referring to the style used to create a certain atmosphere. This approach is actually more refined than simply having everything in the game be sharply defined and in hard focus all the time.
It is the little things in this game though that add up. Niko's almost imperceptible limp when he is going down some stairs, the cheap rawness of the Eastern European mob and the way they phrase things, the guy running down the street with the newspaper over his head in the rain...hundreds, maybe even thousands of little detials that add to the ambiance and make the game so believable. Liberty city comes alive in a new and fresh way.
The only way to appreciate the richness of this game is to get into it...and get deep into it. Darned amazing really. 
