Grand Theft Auto IV

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  1. tillas
    Aug 12, 2023
    4
    i don't understand people who like this game. Really.

    Missions is just: Go to point A kill a dude after that go to point B. Mission end. And a boring car physics made it even worser. Also PC port is absolute **** Especially in 2008 with a ton of bugs. The main character. Niko is just random fool that is doing other people jobs. Very rarely he is having his decision. Game is just    i don't understand people who like this game. Really.

    Missions is just: Go to point A kill a dude after that go to point B. Mission end. And a boring car physics made it even worser.

    Also PC port is absolute **** Especially in 2008 with a ton of bugs.

    The main character. Niko is just random fool that is doing other people jobs. Very rarely he is having his decision. Game is just boring.

    And some people telling this game is better than GTA V lol. GTA vice city is even better than that ****.

    Also there is no autosave in this game. Game relased in 2008 and there is no autosave? Seriously? Some people telling this game is better because there is a serious story... In GTA... Who even needs a serious story in GTA? Especially with so boring missions. Btw whole story is boring and not interesting.

    "very nice game"    … Expand
  2. Czechinator
    Jul 25, 2023
    3
    At first, I enjoyed the game. I liked the driving model, which was not as braindead as in other gta. I also enjoyed the shooting mechanics. However, the game lost its appeal to me fairly quickly. (I did a run of all GTA games from the first to the latest part, and no other gta left me feeling disappointed like this one.)
    GTA 4 is incredibly long and boring, with uninspiring repetitive    At first, I enjoyed the game. I liked the driving model, which was not as braindead as in other gta. I also enjoyed the shooting mechanics. However, the game lost its appeal to me fairly quickly. (I did a run of all GTA games from the first to the latest part, and no other gta left me feeling disappointed like this one.)
    GTA 4 is incredibly long and boring, with uninspiring repetitive missions and no checkpoints!
    Around mission 40, I just wished for it to be over, after that i only wanted to know how the story ends. I'm playing it in 2023 on a powerful PC (GTA 5 on max settings is no problem, but this one lags on medium ,experiencing graphic issues, texture flickering, and so on.). Uninstalled and i have no desire to play any DLC content and would rather watch a story compilation on YouTube.    … Expand
  3. MrMayheMx
    May 5, 2023
    0
    favorite gta ever, the best story in the franchise and more realistic, the protagonist, although not the only one, is the most humanized in the franchise, sounding convincing enough for the player who appreciates the story. excellent graphics for the time and the physics of this game is an example to this day. several current games do not do the incredible job done in the physics of gta iv.
  4. Phonzie27
    Apr 23, 2022
    0
    wtf is this? half the missions freeze and dont work, why brag about being the biggest selling franchise when this is all it can do, greedy corporate geezers
  5. teenageSpirit
    Jan 18, 2022
    2
    Not impressed AT ALL.

    I'll start with loved ones. It's just not here, when you play this game, it's not even surprising why in a game from 14 years ago you have 40 frames per second on the minimum graphics implementations. Further, there are bugs everywhere: sound bugs, bugs on the streets, bugs in missions. Awkward t/s controls (those who love the controls in this game, do you    Not impressed AT ALL.

    I'll start with loved ones. It's just not here, when you play this game, it's not even surprising why in a game from 14 years ago you have 40 frames per second on the minimum graphics implementations. Further, there are bugs everywhere: sound bugs, bugs on the streets, bugs in missions. Awkward t/s controls (those who love the controls in this game, do you seriously like the camera position when you're in t/s?). Inconvenient character control, it cannot be controlled smoothly, as smoothly as it was in SA, VC, III. If in those parts there were 3 types of steps, then here the figure is either taken with all his might, or he just walks slowly. The camera in the cut-scenes flies incomprehensibly where... It's definitely not placed in the correct position, it's either too far away or too close to even see the faces of the characters. In some missions, there are simply NO interiors, they do not load even after restarting the mission. Absolutely gray, boring city where there is no desire to travel and explore. Throughout the story, I got from one mission to another using a taxi, because driving a car is inconvenient and inappropriate among absolutely buggy traffic and the dumbest AI that always cuts you off. The plot and the hero is as gray and insipid as the game itself. Ch. the hero also does not have any charisma, as well as other characters in this game (even the silent Claude in a 3 made a lot more impression than this guy, the guy who always whines about his past). In general, I can list a lot of things that I did not like. I think this GTA is superfluous in the Grand Theft Auto series of games.    … Expand
  6. Glic2003
    Jan 9, 2022
    4
    Truly one of the worst open-world games I've ever played. Gameplay consists of drive to location, watch cutscene, then sometimes engage in a gunfight with some of the worst controls I've ever seen. There is SO MUCH driving in this game. Hours and hours of it. It just never ends. In some missions you have to follow a car - very slowly - without getting too close. In other missions,Truly one of the worst open-world games I've ever played. Gameplay consists of drive to location, watch cutscene, then sometimes engage in a gunfight with some of the worst controls I've ever seen. There is SO MUCH driving in this game. Hours and hours of it. It just never ends. In some missions you have to follow a car - very slowly - without getting too close. In other missions, you have to make sure the target car doesn't get too far away. Neither type of mission is fun, as it's not like you can really tell how close/far you need to be. There's traffic EVERYWHERE and everyone drives SO SLOWLY. Your best bet is to just drive on the sidewalk. Even if you drive perfectly, you'll still get in accidents because there are so many unmarked intersections, and the other drivers don't really follow the rules of the road. It's like the developers of this game saw a city in a movie, but have never actually been to a city in real life. The story and characters are complete cringe, like there was a quota for the number of F-bombs they had to include so it would seem like a tough gangster story. The game also looks like muddy crap, and does that awkward thing where it zooms in close to the characters' horrible-looking faces. It doesn't even have anti-aliasing, unless you manually force it on. I did enjoy driving the cars. The car physics are great, and smashing them up is very satisfying. I recommend doing that instead of the story missions, because they're terrible. I know this game is fourteen years old but it feels like it's forty years old.… Expand
  7. TiredAlfred
    Dec 30, 2021
    0
    (Also known as "GTA IV") What does the American Dream mean today? For Niko Belic, fresh off the boat from Europe. It's the hope he can escape his past. For hi
  8. Yarry_Toodessky
    Nov 4, 2021
    3
    Именно 4ая часть GTA вышла просто не в своё время. Игроки конца 2000х годов ждали от игр онлайн, а изначально в GTA 4 его небыло, а то что подгрузили потом, можно назвать  - стыдом и позором Rockstar.
    Так что это конечно полный провал в серии, хотя игра супер. Просто вышла не в своё время.
    В одиночные игры в конце 2000х играли только, извините за выражения - бомжи и нищеброды. Так что,    Именно 4ая часть GTA вышла просто не в своё время. Игроки конца 2000х годов ждали от игр онлайн, а изначально в GTA 4 его небыло, а то что подгрузили потом, можно назвать  - стыдом и позором Rockstar.
    Так что это конечно полный провал в серии, хотя игра супер. Просто вышла не в своё время.
    В одиночные игры в конце 2000х играли только, извините за выражения - бомжи и нищеброды. Так что, если ты играл в гта4 в актуальное время, то ты сам можешь определить кто ты =)
    Единственный провал Rockstar.    … Expand
  9. Bushido95
    Sep 27, 2021
    4
    Мы любим GTA за веселье за какое-то безумие и GTA IV лишена всего этого. Чуть ли не черно-белый фильтр и я понимаю зачем это было сделано, но не могу этого принять.
    Не могу назвать себя большим поклонником серии, но это определенно самая отталкивающая часть.    Мы любим GTA за веселье за какое-то безумие и GTA IV лишена всего этого. Чуть ли не черно-белый фильтр и я понимаю зачем это было сделано, но не могу этого принять.
    Не могу назвать себя большим поклонником серии, но это определенно самая отталкивающая часть.
  10. GloriousBoi
    Dec 5, 2020
    1
    Awful PC port and an overrated game especially today.Boring/repetitive mission design with lack of checkpoints,overwhelming dark color palette,clunky driving and movement mechanics,game's story and characters are not dark at all until last few hours of the game,no barbers,no car modfication,limited amount of clothes to buy and no usable airplanes.
    GTA San Andreas,a game from 2004 had a    Awful PC port and an overrated game especially today.Boring/repetitive mission design with lack of checkpoints,overwhelming dark color palette,clunky driving and movement mechanics,game's story and characters are not dark at all until last few hours of the game,no barbers,no car modfication,limited amount of clothes to buy and no usable airplanes.
    GTA San Andreas,a game from 2004 had a considerably larger world with a lot more things to do and more variety of missions.And honestly there is nothing in this game to prefer it over GTA V maybe except if you want a city a bit smaller but more accessible interiors and buildings.
    About physics,honestly there is not a big difference except driving which ı prefer GTA V's a bit less realistic but way more smoother and easier driving mechanics.
    Overall,it was an ok game for it's time but today it's just a chore to play.    … Expand
  11. Thorbir
    Aug 30, 2020
    4
    This game is boring af. For me it's the worst game of GTA, the driving is awful, Nico is boring, missions are the same.
  12. Todish
    Aug 8, 2020
    0
    Awesome game but it has a game breaking issue, at the last mission, the one with the helicopter where you have to tap space to climb...Rockstart did not bother to fix that...so it's a BIG ZERO from me...if I can't finish the game then ZERO it's what it gets...I liked it but IT IS UNACCEPTABLE TO HAVE A GAME BREAKING ISSUE in the final version...
  13. ksejoshot
    Jul 16, 2020
    4
    Juego que disfruté en PS3, en PC se disfruta también por sus posibilidades como los mods pero no por su mala optimización, y yo personalmente lo disfruté más en PS3. El modo historia está bien, ya que se centraron en esto y sus físicas estaban adelantadas a su época. No lo recomiendo por su mala optimización y porque vale 20 euros a día de hoy, yo pillé una key, y para los años que tieneJuego que disfruté en PS3, en PC se disfruta también por sus posibilidades como los mods pero no por su mala optimización, y yo personalmente lo disfruté más en PS3. El modo historia está bien, ya que se centraron en esto y sus físicas estaban adelantadas a su época. No lo recomiendo por su mala optimización y porque vale 20 euros a día de hoy, yo pillé una key, y para los años que tiene ya es excesivo, los mods no te hacen olvidar el campo anterior. De las peores optimizaciones que hay en PC sin duda. Y hay que descargarse archivos externos para poder ejecutar esta mierda, Rockstar en pc a veces la caga man. GTA V que lo tengo en su plataforma me dió este mismo último error. Tengo casi todos los juegos importantes de esta compañía comprados en pc, unos en steam, y la mayoría en su plataforma, pero no todos, la gran mayoría ya me los jugué en su época en consola.… Expand
  14. SMBW
    Feb 21, 2020
    2
    Кусок тормозного дерьма, убогий, забагованный порт для тупорылых васянов. В это дерьмо невозможно нормально играть, лучше на мылостейшене пройти этот кал и забыть его, чем мучиться на пердимонокле с вылетами и фризами.
  15. SHIMMER_CODE
    Dec 5, 2019
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. this have a lot pf problem. low fps when speed up your car. the game still glitchy. when pause the game 10 time the all city, props, peoples will be gone why? my pc start over heating and lot and start problem from my soft wear this is good but still have some major and small problem.… Expand
  16. Hexus80
    Apr 19, 2018
    2
    WARNING: the game was ported to PC badly and contains HUGE amount of bugs. Some even may prevent you from finishing the game!

    Don't waste your time and money.
  17. notBOB
    Jul 30, 2017
    3
    Pros:
    -love the voice acting
    -story is OK -runs well on my system Cons: -BORING! Chase with car, or motorbike, or... kill the target to get a little money that can't actually be spent on anything - mindless driving. If I was too young to have a licence this might be fun but... - repetitive quests with no real point to them whatsoever. Starts out with a guy I thought was trying to    Pros:
    -love the voice acting
    -story is OK
    -runs well on my system

    Cons:
    -BORING! Chase with car, or motorbike, or... kill the target to get a little money that can't actually be spent on anything
    - mindless driving. If I was too young to have a licence this might be fun but...
    - repetitive quests with no real point to them whatsoever. Starts out with a guy I thought was trying to better himself but instead becomes a mindless psychopathic thug... who kills for money that can't be spent on anything
    - GTA 5 is funny. GTA 4 is boring.
    - installed it for the third time intending to force myself to finish it. Just couldn't bring myself to do it. It is BORING!    … Expand
  18. JTJSGamer
    Nov 25, 2016
    4
    Gta 4 is a great game on the consoles, but the PC port feels rushed. Where do I begin, well for starters the game would not even launch, no matter how many times I tried, I had to download a mod that fixed that problem for me. But when I first played the game the setting were on the lowest possible, and the game looked terrible, and it wouldn't even let me change the settings. Again I gotGta 4 is a great game on the consoles, but the PC port feels rushed. Where do I begin, well for starters the game would not even launch, no matter how many times I tried, I had to download a mod that fixed that problem for me. But when I first played the game the setting were on the lowest possible, and the game looked terrible, and it wouldn't even let me change the settings. Again I got a mod that fixed that problem as well. The game also suffers from constant frame-rate drops, and crashes that become annoying after a while, and there is no way of telling when the game is going to crash, so make sure you save at all times. I know it is not my PC, because I have the best graphics card, and processor currently available. Until Rockstar decides to fix these issues, I can't recommend the game to you on PC. Just buy it on Xbox 360 or Playstation 3… Expand
  19. frhanhanif
    Jun 14, 2016
    3
    as a gta franchise fan, i didnt enjoy this game much. gta 4 didnt give much impression like when i play gta sa. maybe because i expect this game like gta san andreas, but its not. i have more fun playing san andreas rathe than gta 4
  20. scarfake
    Dec 27, 2015
    0
    i want to say 2 things.                                                                                                                                                         
                                       
    awful port and bugs are everywhere    i want to say 2 things.                                                                                                                                                         
                                       
    awful port and bugs are everywhere
  21. XDavidX
    Nov 19, 2015
    0
    Its a bad game with bad storyline, bad handling, bad city and bad optymalisation. Every aspect in this game is bad. And its not even have any feel of climate like Vice City or even the San Andreas.
  22. arcizlo
    Jul 5, 2015
    2
    not sure about the game, but if you want to play, you have to spend at least an hour getting behind some drm crap, creating microsoft live profile, rockstar games profile, restart the game 5 times, authentize mail and so on. definetely not recommended to anyone who just want to play.
  23. fedeel
    Jun 30, 2015
    0
    Year 2015. Installed my copy from steam after 5 years of having uninstalled it.
    Gtx 780 TI + i7 2600k, that is my config. And still, i'm getting unacceptable framerate, bugs everywhere, and stupid Social Club pesting while i try to play.
    What the hell is wrong with this game??? It's been YEARS, literally, and none of the patches released by rockstar is able to fix the crappy performance.    Year 2015. Installed my copy from steam after 5 years of having uninstalled it.
    Gtx 780 TI + i7 2600k, that is my config. And still, i'm getting unacceptable framerate, bugs everywhere, and stupid Social Club pesting while i try to play.
    What the hell is wrong with this game??? It's been YEARS, literally, and none of the patches released by rockstar is able to fix the crappy performance. And this is not just on PC. I also got it as a gift for my ps3, and the performance is the same s**t.
    Shame on you, rockstar. I promised myself not to buy another game from you, and i will keep staying away from them.    … Expand
  24. Vyrotix
    Jan 12, 2015
    4
    Grand Lag Auto Bore : Modders Poopy

    In all seriousness, the game is still as bad as it is on consoles, including the fact that anything can go wrong at anytime when you start to install mods.

    The fact that this game lags almost all the time, despite having an expensive video card, brings this game to a 4.9/10
  25. isacclarke
    Dec 10, 2014
    2
    same game play mode in the entire game, you spend more time traveling to the mission than completing it, the only challenge games are the minigames, even the dates are repetitive. Obviously the high rates was for the graphics and free run mode.
  26. coldasStone
    Oct 17, 2014
    0
    **** Final Mission
    Pc Version have problem but Rockstar cant fix it
    im so fast take Boat and chase dimitri BUT Cant take Jacobs Heli
    15 Times retry same result Mission Failed
    Fuxxcking this game **** programer this mission designer !
    totaly GTA 4 is **** game..
    too many money...cant buy nothing
    and sux framelate and so on
  27. GameComplete
    Sep 30, 2014
    2
    It's bad. It's boring. It's broken.
    Now, autumn of 2014, i7-2700 (3,4GHz Quad), 16 GB RAM, Geforce 970 (Maxwell 2), Win8.1-64, SSD: The game does not stutter anymore. Maybe unless you use the X-Box-controller, that is.
    Now, you can see GTA4 in its full glory. And it is bad. Graphics? Dated. Well, they were already dated when the game was released in 2008, but hardly anybody noticed that,    It's bad. It's boring. It's broken.
    Now, autumn of 2014, i7-2700 (3,4GHz Quad), 16 GB RAM, Geforce 970 (Maxwell 2), Win8.1-64, SSD: The game does not stutter anymore. Maybe unless you use the X-Box-controller, that is.
    Now, you can see GTA4 in its full glory. And it is bad. Graphics? Dated. Well, they were already dated when the game was released in 2008, but hardly anybody noticed that, as nearly everybody was just overwhelmed by the sheer size of the city. Music? No, just awful noise. Dialogues? Do you consider F-words and S-words a bearable dialogue? In that case you do not have a problem with the game. You do have a problem with your life. Missions? Try to navigate a horrible car through a horrible mess of horrible AI and kill someone. Repeat.
    The good news is: The triggers in the game can be broken, so you cannot start the next mission. What about other savegames? It is GfWL - no escape here. The game essentially gives you a "Game over" for free. Thus the game has a useful message after all: Go and play something else.    … Expand
  28. ZombieWhosoever
    May 30, 2014
    2
    Points for the fantastic graphics, but unfortunately, the game is so painfully laggy that it's beyond the point of being playable. Even after trying everything to fix the situation, this game just doesn't want to cooperate with my PC. Hopefully, Rockstar is able to avoid these kind of bugs in future games.
  29. william42589
    May 25, 2014
    0
    A Rockstar tem uma falta de respeito muito grande pelos PC Gamers... este jogo é pesado demais... e até hoje em dia, nem todos os PC's rodam esse jogo!! Você terá que desembolsar R$ 2.000 (US$ 2.000) pra rodar no máximo!!
  30. debigman
    May 15, 2014
    0
    This is the most bugged game EVER MADE. This game will not even start for me, even after I called Rockstar and spent 3 hours moving files and such to try to get it to work. It has so many glitches and bugs it is not even fun in any way. I played a console version at a friend's house, and cars still can't turn when going over 5 MPH. This game is a disaster. Don't get it unless it's on aThis is the most bugged game EVER MADE. This game will not even start for me, even after I called Rockstar and spent 3 hours moving files and such to try to get it to work. It has so many glitches and bugs it is not even fun in any way. I played a console version at a friend's house, and cars still can't turn when going over 5 MPH. This game is a disaster. Don't get it unless it's on a humble bundle.… Expand
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Awards & Rankings

5
#5 Best PC Game of 2008
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#3 Most Discussed PC Game of 2008
2
#2 Most Shared PC Game of 2008

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Metascore
90

Universal acclaim - based on 40 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 38 out of 40
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 40
  3. Negative: 0 out of 40
  1. PC Gamer UK
    92
    It's the peripheral distractions of both going out with Roman, and meeting your girlfriends, that really make your virtual life so worth living. Although incredibly simplistic, they're oddly touching...One of the finest videogames ever. [Christmas 2008, p.87]
  2. PC Format
    89
    The most grown-up GTA and the best realised, but it doesn't respect the PC much. Enjoy the multiplayer madness if you can. [Christmas 2008, p.96]
  3. Eurogamer
    90
    A genuinely ground-breaking blockbuster in videogame history. There were moments playing GTA IV that I thought back to my initial experiences with games, and realised exactly how far we've come. There's never been anything quite like GTA IV in the world. That there makes me genuinely happy to be a gamer.
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