Not the best GTA game i had ever played, but it's most realistic GTA game, and it's awesome.
Now for the cons, there's quite a few cons, so bear with me please. :D
Clothing, there are only like 5 clothing shops in the whole game only. I mean seriously, wtf? 3 shops that sells the same clothing. Look at San Andreas, they have so many shops! Ok and the choice of clothing is so little! 2 glasses to choose from only? 2 hats to choose from only? San Andreas can even put tattoos, have a haircut, wear bling bling, and most importantly, a very very large range of clothing for us to choose from.
Weapons, they took away....the mini-gun, chainsaw and the flamethrower. When the A.I caught fire, that animation is good, but that is only if throw the fire grenade(forget how to spell it, it's something like molovc or something). I wanna use the flamethrower on it! But it's been taken away.
Air planes, why can't we have? Scared because of the 9-11 incident? That is lame man. When i go to the airport, when those planes take off, i really wanna ride on it, it looks so big and epic. And where's the parachutes? It's gone sadly. T_T
There's still much more, but those are not really important. Up to now, i still think San Andreas is the best GTA game i had ever played. But still, GTAIV comes close to the fun factor San Andreas gives. It's a must buy game for every GTA fans. And of course every other gamers. ^_^