After many years of playing GTA and following the franchise, this game is a major disappointment.
User Rating: 5 | Grand Theft Auto IV PS3
Before i buy a game i usually rent and this time i am glad that i did before wasting $60 hard earned dollars. First i would like to compliment the game on its fabulous graphics and performance. The characters voices are actually in synchronized with the lip movements and each character has distinctive facial movements such as frowning, smiling and so on and you are able to see the movement in their faces. Now the bad, this game has a huge imbalance between real world mechanics and game world mechanics. For example when you have the fastest car and are using it to chase down some fool whom has a real POS as a ride, no matter what his car is he will ALWAYS be faster than you. When pursing the target they effortlessly more between cars at insane speeds while you just get hit by every other car that just happens to turn in your path. They also tried to add a "drifting" aspect to the game where you can use your E brake but this does not work as planned because half the time you just spin out. Also the car shooting mechanics are retarded and need some serious work. You can use the L1 button to start to shoot out your car but it is extremely difficult to shoot and dodge traffic at the same time. They do however give you the ability to "focus" in on your target but not "lock onto" your target while driving. In addition the motorcycles are just plan crap, if you are driving down the middle lane all the cars just have to get in your way and if you get bumped by another car you go flying off your motorcycle losing about half your health and then get run over by some taxi, killing you. Next up is the limited arsenal you have to work with. You get two different kinds of handguns, assault rifles, sniper rifles, SMG's, shotguns, and explosives. These weapons are divided into two simple categories weak and strong, cheap and expensive. the weaker weapons are the ones you are given throughout the game but the stronger types you have to buy with your money and might i add this is the ONLY thing you can use to buy with your money. There is no end game playability, you have about a million plus at the end of the game but nothing to spend it on, no assets to acquire, no hired muscle, no gambling, cant buy penthouses (there given to you) and so on. In conclusion this game to me was a huge let down from the past games i prefer the PS2 San Andreas to this one on PS3 
