A game with almost as many jaw-dropping moments as F-Bombs. None of the jaw-drops had me drop the F-Bomb though.

User Rating: 8 | Grand Theft Auto IV X360
By jazilla | Review Date:
This game is just like every other version of GTA, except its like the crack head GTA member of the family. It just has a different edge to it that the other games didn't have. It is definitely darker. But the premise is the same: Fish out of water, broke, no weapons, deliver this, kill that, screw a hooker, listen to your dead beat friends drop F-Bombs and prattle on senselessy about this and that. Nothing about the opening of the game was any different than any other GTA game...ok it was set in New York as opposed to Cali or Florida like the last two installments. I am really disappointed with the story so far. I am also disappointed that it didnt start out differently than all of the other games as well. A premise like being the top dog and having to protect your empire from all of the other up-and-coming thugs of Liberty City would have been a nice plot twist...but that didn't happen. Rockstar has also managed to fit more cussing in the game than all of the others combined. A lot of the swearing doesn't even fit the characters. I've had nurses call me names in the hospitals in Liberty City, that nurses would never utter. Even the main characters, while they could cuss, should have taken a page out of the script of the film, "Eastern Promises" which didn't see the protagonist use much profanity at all and he was a million times cooler that Niko or his oaf of a cousin. The hu,or has some very witty parts to it, but overall is just pointless crass trash. At least in the other games, the innuendo was far more subtle and outshined the blatant reach for cheap dirty humor that this game has to offer.
There are a lot of things that were done right in this game though. A lot. There are almost as many things that are great, fantastic, and superb in this game as there are that are wrong with it. The cars are amazingly detailed. The weapons never get old to use. The City is AMAZING. It truly is the most detailed city I have played in a game, besides maybe Jerusalem in Assassin's Creed. Graphically, I was hoping for a little more though. While Rockstar has never been on the cutting edge when it comes to graphical prowess, this game could have really been a jewel to look at technically. This game also suffers from some technical glitches with the NPC's as well. The music is great. Definitely the best soundtrack ever in a GTA game. You get a great channel in Tuff Gong on the radio(All Marley) and the jazz station just absolutely is fantastic jazz(Basie to Bird man to Coltrane to Miles). The voice acting(not the dialogue) is incredibly portrayed by awesome actors, comedians, musicians and others. After hearing the F-Word for the 1000th time after playing the game for 2 hours(I'm not kidding) I just turned off the dialogue. It's like having to hear Ashton Kutcher say, "dude" in Dude where's my car over and over again til it makes me want to vomit in my mouth and gouge my eardrums out with a ball-point pen. What I do now is just turn the missions off with my cell-phone, and I cruise around the city causing trouble and I don't have to listen to nice looking, wholesome nurses and old ladies call me B@$t!rd and F--k-r. This game, with a few adjustments and some self censoring by Rockstar could have been a true gem. Just feels like they went for the same overly used sterotypes again, and rehashed a lot of humor.

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