Grand Theft Auto IV

 PlayStation 3
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7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 5146 Ratings

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  1. JohnDonovan_1
    Jun 25, 2022
    10
    One of the best games I have played. Maybe the second after Red Dead Redemption 2.
  2. 44yigit1905
    Jun 13, 2022
    10
    It is definitely the best game of the GTA series. Their physique, npc reactions, story, dark tone and setup make the player addicted.
  3. RosannaHomarra
    Jun 10, 2022
    8
    Best GTA if you care about the purity of the physics, literally best use of the Euphoria engine before they cut it down in GTA V. BEST cops in the GTA series to date, on how they act to what they say during chaos and ooooo so good and funny! Recommended. PC port kinda iffy tho with performance.
  4. Gabriel69240
    Jun 6, 2022
    10
    Amazing game,good story,great characters,amazing gameplay.Overall amazing gta title.
  5. LuisHD
    May 28, 2022
    10
    Gta 4 no es un juego perfecto, ninguno lo es, algo que me atrapó en este juego aparte de la jugabilidad y los gráficos fue su historia, sin duda este es el gta más maduro que ha hecho Rockstar games asta la fecha, nos precento una historia diferente con una forma de contar o narrar la historia diferente a lo que ya estábamos acostumbrados, gta 4 es un juego bastante oscuro, sin duda uno deGta 4 no es un juego perfecto, ninguno lo es, algo que me atrapó en este juego aparte de la jugabilidad y los gráficos fue su historia, sin duda este es el gta más maduro que ha hecho Rockstar games asta la fecha, nos precento una historia diferente con una forma de contar o narrar la historia diferente a lo que ya estábamos acostumbrados, gta 4 es un juego bastante oscuro, sin duda uno de los mejores gtas, no, el mejor gta de la saga… Expand
  6. ZM41213
    May 25, 2022
    10
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  7. Ez1459
    May 10, 2022
    10
    best game ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!¨!!¨¨
  8. Mafia3isgood
    May 7, 2022
    9
    Grand theft auto 4 is one of the best games I have ever played. I like the graphics, AI and physics. It is good but I think the game could have added a bigger and more diverse map like gta san andreas or Gta 5. I think it is the only flaw of Gta 4. I recommend you to try it because it has one of the best storyline ever.
  9. uglybanana
    Apr 13, 2022
    10
    I played this game ages and ages ago because my friends told me that the character is based off of me my actual name is Niko I am a Balkaner adidas wearer so I played it for the jokes, but THIS WAS THE BEST EXPERIENCE EVER, only game aside for Red Dead 1 and 2 I cried at their ending. 10/ADIDAS for me.
  10. 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
  11. GetBreadDuck
    Apr 3, 2022
    10
    So far ahead of it's time, very enjoyable experience. No other GTA comes close, and never will.
  12. veljkomcx
    Apr 2, 2022
    8
    I absolutely love this game! Amazing story and great characters. The gameplay could have been better thought.
  13. 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
  14. BatmanTheNr1
    Mar 27, 2022
    10
    My fav game!!!!! LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
  15. DJMetal
    Mar 23, 2022
    10
    El mejor juego de rockstar games,con excelentes graficos,motor grafico de excelente calidad,historia muy oscura y dramatica,aunque el juego tenga problemas de compatibilidad es debido al motor grafico que es pesado
  16. CacoTermin8torz
    Mar 20, 2022
    10
    I spent more time playing this game than with my dog, nuff said. I would anything to go back to the first day I played it!!!
  17. Ping1965
    Mar 19, 2022
    10
    Amazing game still good as hell and funny and the history it’s the best one ☝️ from every gta
  18. kyle20ellis
    Mar 17, 2022
    10
    Warning: Spoilers
    Usually when "Grand Theft Auto" comes out, it takes a good week or two for the initial "WOW!" factor to wear off. I purposely put off reviewing this until I had completed the entire game, because by then I knew I'd have some time to take it all in and form a more objective opinion.
    First of all, early criticisms included accusations that the game was "too short." Yes,    Warning: Spoilers
    Usually when "Grand Theft Auto" comes out, it takes a good week or two for the initial "WOW!" factor to wear off. I purposely put off reviewing this until I had completed the entire game, because by then I knew I'd have some time to take it all in and form a more objective opinion.

    First of all, early criticisms included accusations that the game was "too short." Yes, perhaps - if you rush through it over the course of a caffeine-enhanced weekend. For those of us with modest social lives and jobs who can't devote 12 hours a day to a video game, it'll take a while. I played about 35 hours before beating the "basic" single player missions - and I say "basic" because there's a lot more to do in the game once you've completed the main structure. I can still get in a cop car and chase down criminals if I want to, or perform assassinations, or find all the stunt jumps, or street race cars. It's quite limitless.

    But anyway, like I said - it took about 35 hours to beat the main structure of gameplay, which translated into a solid two weeks. It may be a tad bit shorter than "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" but I had so much fun I wasn't counting.

    The pros of the game are: better graphics, more realistic graphics engine and physics, better on-foot fighting/gunplay controls, more attention paid to the storyline and characters, and an overall more expansive universe.

    The downsides are: even though the controls for fighting are better, they still need drastic improvement; the whole "duck/dodge" thing is quite lame and doesn't work half the time. If you lock onto someone and try to lock onto somebody else instead, it doesn't work correctly - or fast enough. Sometimes during missions I'd try to lock onto the villain and end up locking onto a pedestrian further away. The "free aim" pressure sensitivity is also confusing.

    I do think there's a bit of contrivance towards the end of the game as well. I won't put any spoilers in, but suffice to say you're playing a fairly ruthless thug who has a heart compared to past GTA characters but nonetheless has no qualms with kidnapping a girl and referring to her in derogatory terms, or killing countless people, but is then expected to show more depth towards the end for a female character that is underdeveloped to begin with. I can understand what they were TRYING to do and I admire that, but they should have expanded the relationship between Nico and Kate before attempting to pull that off. Nico ends up coming across as something of a self-absorbed person at the end, because you have to wonder if the motivation for revenge is really because he cared about this other person or whether it's just because he wants to prove to himself that he has room to care about someone.

    Really, though, that's the only fault. The overall mechanics of the plot and the expansiveness of it all is cinematic and deeper than any other GTA game.

    The physics are far better than previous games which has caused some people to complain because they can't flip their cars a hundred times and keep driving, but I liked it. Liberty City is totally revamped and looks and feels like a real, living city - it's amazing. The attention to detail is quite impressive - non-characters walking down the street just start smoking cigarettes or drinking coffee. Sometimes as you pass by someone too fast they'll drop their bag of groceries or stumble over. I can't wait to see what a GTA game will look like in ten years' time.

    Too much has already been said about this game for me to add anything new or insightful, really, but I will end this by saying I disagree that it's "by far" the best game of the series. I love it about as much as I loved "Vice City," which was probably my favourite. It's hard to compare them because each has their strengths. I didn't like San Andreas quite as much as Vice City but even "San Andreas" had the benefit of planes and skydiving and bicycles which have been removed from GTA IV. But basically I think this fits in well with the others; it has enough advancements to be truly "fresh" while still providing the same dark humour and basic gameplay attributes of previous games. It's a solid addition to an already excellent franchise and just a lot of fun.    … Expand
  19. Honestx
    Mar 12, 2022
    10
    Such an underrated GTA game, the jump from GTA 3 to 4 was massive... can't wait for the remastered version of this game as long as rockstar doesn't get lazy like with the GTA trilogy.
  20. Mindurbidniss
    Mar 11, 2022
    7
    First of all I want to praise the level of detail and immersion. The issue is, in the jump to realism, they lost the fun of San Andreas and those before. They also dropped a ton of features, virtually no customization as far as clothes and cars. Another area that's seriously lacking in this vs previous GTA's is in the characters. They're simply not interesting. Niko may be the leastFirst of all I want to praise the level of detail and immersion. The issue is, in the jump to realism, they lost the fun of San Andreas and those before. They also dropped a ton of features, virtually no customization as far as clothes and cars. Another area that's seriously lacking in this vs previous GTA's is in the characters. They're simply not interesting. Niko may be the least interesting of all and at no point did I connect with him or route for him. Other aspects of this game such as the realistic vehicle handling and cover mechanics were excellent additions though and led to some cinematic situations.… Expand
  21. dinfluder
    Mar 10, 2022
    10
    Это самая лучшая часть гта, за всё время существования серии.
    Потрясающий сюжет. Физика сделана блестательно, а графика даже лучше чем в следующей части серии.Великолепная стрельба и повреждения автомобилей.
    Анимации и искусственный интеллект сделаны на невероятно высоком уровне.    Это самая лучшая часть гта, за всё время существования серии.
    Потрясающий сюжет. Физика сделана блестательно, а графика даже лучше чем в следующей части серии.Великолепная стрельба и повреждения автомобилей.
    Анимации и искусственный интеллект сделаны на невероятно высоком уровне.
  22. Kostas_Spirou
    Dec 30, 2021
    8
    Grand Theft Auto IV is by far the most serious game in the series, even though it's not as over-the-top as the other games, I really dig the darker aesthetic this game has, and the music fits very well.

    The story is interesting and I really like how the game isn't all about "shooting people and having fun", instead it's a mature story about how awful the life of a criminal can be. The    Grand Theft Auto IV is by far the most serious game in the series, even though it's not as over-the-top as the other games, I really dig the darker aesthetic this game has, and the music fits very well.

    The story is interesting and I really like how the game isn't all about "shooting people and having fun", instead it's a mature story about how awful the life of a criminal can be.

    The gameplay is fun, there's not much action especially compared to the other games but it's still enjoyable.

    Overall it's just all around a great game and revolutionary when it came out.

    Final Rating: "Great" - 8/10.    … Expand
  23. Draco9
    Mar 8, 2022
    10
    İ was always a liberty guy my first game was gta 3 this game is my childhood
  24. 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
  25. Gregor1
    Mar 7, 2022
    10
    Best game I've ever played, no other game has come close, Niko bellic is an amazing and unique protagonist, unbeatable
  26. Domdom21br
    Mar 7, 2022
    8
    muito bom o foda é que no final as missões não apareceram e eu não pude zerar, vai tomar no cu rockstar
  27. MiniLauti
    Mar 5, 2022
    9
    Es buen juego, tiene unas de las mejores historias de todos los gta, pero nada supera al mítico GTA San Andreas
  28. Gab76
    Feb 27, 2022
    10
    Le meilleur GTA avec san Andreas !
    C'est pas pour rien que c'est le GTA le mieux noté sur le site.
  29. Gole
    Feb 27, 2022
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Крутая игра советую всем пройти графика отличная даже сейчас
    оптимизация под качала это конечно плохо но минус бал не за это
    а за сюжет в начале у него есть хоть какой то моральный кодекс а в середине
    ограбить банк легко убить сотни головорезов сколько заплатите? а так игра супер    … Expand
  30. Ventilador0043
    Feb 23, 2022
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Simplesmente espetacular parabéns Rockstar por fazer um jogo incrível como GTA 4… Expand
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#1 Best PS3 Game of 2008
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Metascore
98

Universal acclaim - based on 64 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
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  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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