Grand Theft Auto IV

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7.1

Mixed or average reviews- based on 3664 Ratings

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  1. 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
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  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.
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#5 Best PC Game of 2008
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#3 Most Discussed PC Game of 2008
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#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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