Grand Theft Auto IV

 PlayStation 3
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7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 5146 Ratings

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  1. MRDUERUEM
    Sep 6, 2023
    4
    Es war kein San Andreas mehr und wurde von GTA5 in den Boden gestampft. Ich kann mir die guten Bewertungen nicht erklären. Sorry Mister Belic
  2. dunuch
    Aug 31, 2023
    3
    Over hyped. A plain game pagued with framerate issues and bad gore effects. Ohh.
  3. Achilles997
    Aug 17, 2023
    1
    Boring repetitive and over all a classic game experience nothing new. The fact that it is so high is troublesome. It's not worth it's purchase price.
  4. greentolar
    Jun 20, 2023
    4
    This score and some reviews are just ridiculous. First time when I started a game because I was overhyped so I didnt even watched gameplay videos I say to myself:Wtf is this? Aiming is bad. Enemies who are close to you arent important to game mechanics but enemies who are far away are so that should result into your misery. Sometimes you dont know if enemy is dead or he wakes up and startThis score and some reviews are just ridiculous. First time when I started a game because I was overhyped so I didnt even watched gameplay videos I say to myself:Wtf is this? Aiming is bad. Enemies who are close to you arent important to game mechanics but enemies who are far away are so that should result into your misery. Sometimes you dont know if enemy is dead or he wakes up and start blasting again.Moving gun sight is also annoying and if you are shot in the arm you drop the gun... Riding a cars.. You must be very careful because any higher speed driving turn car into crazy rolling thing.These mechanics make game more realistic but less GTA and less fun. Story in nutshell is you owe money to gangsters,try to live better life,survive and all ends bad. I feel like this game instead of telling you story want to teach you some morale lesson. I dont play games for that. Most of characters are annoying or not interesting.Roman is example for them all.Only two and thats Vlad and Jacob are characters that represents good GTA game. Activities like dancing,truck driving,some rampage missions etc. arent there. You cant also buy a property to feel like a real thug who owns city like another review said.Vehicles you can drive are strictly limited. Bikes,cars,helicopter and maybe some quad. Thats all. Compared to another GTA games is poor choice. Reduced game. What I enjoyed is mood of the city. Pleasant scenery with dark backround...People should do more things but city feels alive. Side missions when you met strange people on streets and get involved into their lifes are really interesting. More interesting than main story. Throwing stuff you pick up like bricks and cups are funny and get game more immersive feeling into game. Also be a passenger in helicopter rides or taxi.Computer and ingame internet is interesting idea.Ragdoll physics are sometimes funny but thats all. Im mostly console player and defender of them but game works bad on PS3 while you drive fast world is slowly rendering sometimes even if you walk and you can see cube like glitches. So game isnt well optimalized either. 3 years took me to complete the game because story is some kind of morale teaching,missions are repetitive in bad way and end of story is not worthy of this all. 4 points just for some city mood.… Expand
  5. Gibrail
    Apr 23, 2023
    1
    Vraiment nul, les graphismes la modélisation mais surtout le gameplay. Je met un point car le moteur physique euphoria est sympa lors du ragdoll
  6. Plunger91
    Mar 18, 2023
    0
    o love grand theft auto 5‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎
  7. aaronnmp96
    Jan 31, 2023
    4
    Boring, the gameplay sucks and lacks charisma, the story is the darkest but not the best
  8. Mebrah
    Apr 12, 2022
    0
    it's a fantastic game, good story and very good gameplay. Nice characters and amazing map. But is not better than GTA V or GTA San Andreas. 7/10
  9. Krekw
    Mar 27, 2022
    0
    御意ﾋﾟﾄﾞﾗs自信おすすめお位置ドル経営するいず島懸念すするけどねとかにですけどねとかをですかですけどよねとかがですもないけど嘘だ遠藤イッヂdh不断臼田ちゃん踏ん
  10. DBZ0wnz
    Mar 8, 2022
    0
    Let me just say that this game has caused so much chaos irl, murders from kids, teens and adults to negatitive influcence on young minds like rap music and much more explicit things.
    Unappealing Story, loaded up with so much **** it is insane, most certainly over hyped, fraterate issues (got the PS3 complete edition), put all the genres in the game and you get one giant mess of a game, I    Let me just say that this game has caused so much chaos irl, murders from kids, teens and adults to negatitive influcence on young minds like rap music and much more explicit things.
    Unappealing Story, loaded up with so much **** it is insane, most certainly over hyped, fraterate issues (got the PS3 complete edition), put all the genres in the game and you get one giant mess of a game, I completed the game 100% and the DLC 100% and it was a chore from beginnning to end. Also led future games of this monstoroity genre which is called open world, it certainly influenced a generation of new gamers. Thus helped with the decline of modern gaming, among the popularity of online gaming era the game does not deserve any awards and a complete joke. No good radio stations. Game Crashed more times than I can count. Killing all the pidgeons was a point of Insanity.
    Pathetic game 0/10.    … Expand
  11. Cristobalcolon
    Jan 28, 2022
    0
    Es muy oscuro
  12. Harwex213
    Sep 11, 2021
    4
    If you enjoyed previous GTAs, avoid this game at all costs. Its the complete OPPOSITE of previous GTAs, good graphics, boring storyline, dull characters, no variety in the gameplay,ect.

    I am extremely dissapointed with rockstar, the only reason it scored so high with the critics was because it happened to be the first next-gen sandbox game on the market, GTA4 has failed miserably.
  13. red7thunder
    Aug 25, 2021
    0
    Hope not today notfjfjfjfjrjfjfjfkdjdjdjdkdkrieiekekekekekekekekekekekekdifigivib
  14. Zingoed
    Aug 21, 2021
    1
    i like it and hate it

    the first hour was good but then they give us obnoxious characters which give us obnoxious missions notably elizabeta and brucie kibbutz the writers who thought they were good choices to add to this game is beyond my understanding also if you die on a mission there are no checkpoints no health regeneration if you die you have to restart from the    i like it and hate it

    the first hour was good

    but then they give us obnoxious characters which give us obnoxious missions

    notably elizabeta and brucie kibbutz

    the writers who thought they were good choices to add to this game is beyond my understanding

    also if you die on a mission there are no checkpoints no health regeneration if you die you have to restart from the beginning man rockstar added some horrible gameplay mechanics in this one even sonic the hedgehog (1991) had checkpoints this game is game companies going back to horrid gameplay mechanics just to rush making a game so they can make millions and rockstar didnt even pay the actor of niko bellic he is the reason the game was popular but no they paid themselves millions and didnt pay him enough for his great contributions to this game. they did that with young maylay too the actor of cj from gta san andreas. this game was ruined by rockstar but the actors did great jobs.

    a gta game that i can stand is gta v which actually has checkpoints and health regeneration and it lets you skip a level if its too hard

    that is my review    … Expand
  15. Sats
    Sep 5, 2020
    0
    Nie fajna gra ja nie moge grac zabrania mi ciocia wujka i mama taty. Jakies sceny wogule z cimcirimcim . NIE. Nie fajne
  16. Tarikhfgg
    Aug 18, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Yok HdhdjsjdjsjdjdjsjdnshshshshskzjHsuizjsususyatyaayyayayayauauJajzhshzuYYUYzusu… Expand
  17. Kaasworst
    Jun 30, 2020
    4
    The worst game ever developed by Rockstar. I really hope that they will never ever go back to Liberty City
  18. Kacak321
    Apr 8, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Bad game....................................................................… Expand
  19. Destroynkill34
    Feb 25, 2020
    4
    The game is decent at best this game definitely doesn't deserve to be considered the 3rd greasy game of all time and is judged out of pure nostalgia. the driving is ridiculously awful when it's supposed to be the keystone of the game. The story was dissopointing and the gameplay is sloppy and not fun.
  20. Sahhid
    Nov 19, 2019
    3
    Overrated mindless games. GTA games always get positive reviews but I find them repetitive. Games like sleeping dogs were better than this.
  21. Retro_indepecat
    Sep 6, 2017
    3
    Gràficament està molt bé, les animacions, la música, tot, tot molt bé... però amb aquesta merda d'historia, missions que la meitat no tenen ni cap ni peus, cinematica de 20 minuts amb converses de merda... no em va agradar gens, va ser acabar-lo i tornar-li al meu germà.
  22. MadPax5000
    May 9, 2017
    3
    I played the game recently in 2017 and was surprised at the rating of the game so far. While it has some good missions overall, the game mechanics is poor. Even when comparing this game to some others released in and around the same period, the game has some serious issues.

    The graphics for the game is good and enjoyable, the missions are good too. The annoyance comes in when you fail a    I played the game recently in 2017 and was surprised at the rating of the game so far. While it has some good missions overall, the game mechanics is poor. Even when comparing this game to some others released in and around the same period, the game has some serious issues.

    The graphics for the game is good and enjoyable, the missions are good too. The annoyance comes in when you fail a mission and then you need to drive all the way up to the mission start point. Very frustrating for some missions. Does not add to difficulty, but just waste of time.

    The controls act very poorly, selecting the right weapon, throwing a grenade, riding the chopper all get tricky just because your played does not move properly. This after me having played several games with a higher difficulty quotient.

    Very disappointed with this version of GTA.    … Expand
  23. NvizoN
    Mar 11, 2017
    1
    Where to start. Let me preface this by saying that I'm a fan of the GTA series. I started with GTA 3 when I was 10 and it had just come out. But this game...I hate this game with every fiber of my being. I loathe this game. It is the second worst game I have ever played (Call of Juarez: The Cartel being number 1.)

    The characters - This is the only game I've ever played where I wanted    Where to start. Let me preface this by saying that I'm a fan of the GTA series. I started with GTA 3 when I was 10 and it had just come out. But this game...I hate this game with every fiber of my being. I loathe this game. It is the second worst game I have ever played (Call of Juarez: The Cartel being number 1.)

    The characters - This is the only game I've ever played where I wanted every single character to die at the end. I was hoping some catastrophic event would happen that would wipe them all out. Niko is a bland, boring, irritating lead character. A stereotype of Baltic crime. Roman was always calling and irritating me. He was one of the worst characters from any GTA title. Brucie was always yelling, constantly talking about being the alpha male, and while I understand he was meant to be an over the top take of steroid users and "manly men," he didn't come across that way. He came across as just downright annoying. And then all of the supporting characters are forgettable in every way.

    The gameplay - The driving was like driving a boat that someone had stuck training wheels on and then made you drive through both molasses AND ice. Somehow that happened. It doesn't even make sense, but GTA IV managed to do it. The shooting and fighting was slow and clunky.

    The revamp of Liberty City wasn't bad. I liked bits and pieces of it even though I'm partial to the original design from 3. That's the only reason this game gets a 1 and not a 0.

    I just...my hatred for this game borders on unnatural.    … Expand
  24. ItayDigital
    Mar 10, 2017
    0
    Worst game ever! All you do is play with druggies and drunkies and idiots! You just go kill everyone in the game for no reason and keep on killing and killing all these idiots! this game should be banned because it sucks!
  25. triskyhd
    Mar 4, 2017
    0
    The terrible driving made the game unplayable for me. Worst GrandTheft Auto of all time. If your thinking of getting it just skip it for GTA 5 and you'll have a much better experience.
  26. ZerotakerZX
    Nov 1, 2016
    2
    Overhyped junk.
    You see:
    Plot is dull and vague
    Missions are repetetive and unoriginal.
    Downfall of R* started here, with this lousy game.

    graphx is good, so youngsters maybe be pleased, but that's it.
  27. Jiano74
    Jan 27, 2016
    3
    How did this get a higher critic score than GTA V? The story was bland and boring compared to GTA V which was really enjoyable this was nothing the characters were highly irritating their Serbian accents (I believe) were truly annoying as if it wasn't for the subtitles I wouldn't know what they were saying.
  28. Infamous-Rivera
    Nov 20, 2015
    4
    Twice i Have tried to play through this game and both times i have never finished it.
    This is one of those games that is just highly overrated and did not really leave me with much feelings besides negative towards it!
    The story was pretty well as far as i played but almost every other aspect to the game was just so uncaptivating messy and needed improvement. Driving - was murky and    Twice i Have tried to play through this game and both times i have never finished it.
    This is one of those games that is just highly overrated and did not really leave me with much feelings besides negative towards it!

    The story was pretty well as far as i played but almost every other aspect to the game was just so uncaptivating messy and needed improvement.

    Driving - was murky and shallow really not as fun as most open world driving games.

    Shooting - One of the biggest problems in the game aim was terrible the aim assist was always either good or extremely bad i mean its soo hard to free aim if you wanted to.

    Customization - Besides cars and clothing theres not really too much or at least anything really worth considering customizable

    Gameplay - I found missions to be mostly boring and a little too difficult (because of aiming) to be really enjoyable.

    My recommendation is if you have a ps3 still just get GTA V you dont need to suffer through GTA IV to play V    … Expand
  29. TheLastColossus
    Feb 16, 2015
    0
    Overrated piece of **** just like Ocarina of Time, worst GTA of them all....................................................................................................................
  30. vhatever
    Jan 20, 2015
    1
    I cannot believe the 98 meta score. Ridiculous. Probably the worst GTA there is. Boring repetitive missions, boring characters except maybe for brucie. Driving and getting around just feels tedious. Gameplay = clunky and unintutitive. might not be a bad game if all you want to do is run around shooting random people and crashing cars ignoring the characters, plot, missions etc. Even thenI cannot believe the 98 meta score. Ridiculous. Probably the worst GTA there is. Boring repetitive missions, boring characters except maybe for brucie. Driving and getting around just feels tedious. Gameplay = clunky and unintutitive. might not be a bad game if all you want to do is run around shooting random people and crashing cars ignoring the characters, plot, missions etc. Even then it's only mediocre and not much different than previous GTAs. Bad game, horribly overrated.… Expand
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Metascore
98

Universal acclaim - based on 64 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 64 out of 64
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 64
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  1. Jolt Online Gaming UK
    100
    Grand Theft Auto IV is not a perfect game, but it is fantastic through and through, from start to finish and beyond. It is so massive, vast and impressive that it is almost mind-boggling to imagine how much work must have gone into the game to come up with so much detail.
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  2. Gameplayer
    100
    But GTA IV will never get old, or start repeating itself. It will always offer anyone who turns it on an experience to savour.
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  3. Electronic Gaming Monthly
    100
    GTA4 is a traditional crime story through and through, with a script that rarely strays from its purpose, a pitch-perfect supporting cast, and an expert combination of in-game storytelling and crafted cut-scenes. [June 2008, p.80]
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