Comments on: Why Grand Theft Auto IV Isn’t a 10

By: J.Carter

J.Carter — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:41:58 +0000

and another thing what happened to fitness room like san andreas had all im trying to say once again Grand Theft Auto San Andreas = Best

By: J.Carter

J.Carter — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:33:58 +0000

Also the online Multiplayer would of been better with clans/gangs it would of put more interest in multiplayer. But if yall was to make another GTA SA it will be the top selling game for sure everyone loved that game.

By: J.Carter

J.Carter — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:32:27 +0000

I think yall should of made a gta like San Andreas
GTA IV wasnt all that even though it was real in certain ways but it would of been 10 times better if it was another San Andreas and everyone else think that as well. Lot of my friends quit cuz the multiplayer isnt all that good because of the clothes issue. Why put colombian in NY and have other people wear regular clothes but online we wear winter clothes. Basicly what im trying to say is come out with another GTA SA because IV wasn’t all that hot like I thought it would be.

By: dichromaticb3c

dichromaticb3c — Sat, 31 May 2008 13:16:46 +0000

Reviews are extremely subjective. One mans 10 is another mans 2. Only uber fanboys give a crap. If you need a review to make a purchase decision that’s sad. Most people have been playing VG’s long enough to know their personal taste.

The cover system is an improvement and the online multiplayer spanks hard in the online sandbox category. The game’s far from perfect, but the technical achievements are very impressive.

I hated the original GTA 3’s. The graphics were hideous and the guns/aiming were lame.

Complaints for IV:
Can be glitchy at times.
The online Free Play mode has spazzed out and kicked all my friends out of the room. Not cool. May be due to the high volume of people playing onlione though.

By: WEST AUSSIE

WEST AUSSIE — Sun, 25 May 2008 12:17:38 +0000

WERES FISHING IN THE WATER AND ALL THE OTHER SOUGHT OF STUFF ITS THE SAME BUT LESS THAN SAN ANDREAS NOT VAT GOOD EXPECTED MORE PLAYED SAN ANDREAS TO THIS CAME OUT ALL READY SICK OF THIS CLOCKED IT SAN ANDREAS TOOK LONGER

By: ben

ben — Sun, 25 May 2008 11:30:21 +0000

Having completed the game i would say its alright. its gta so you get what you expect with extras. it all comes down to personal choice. who gives a shite what other people think. stop bitching about it and either play the game or take it back.

By: J

Sat, 24 May 2008 23:36:16 +0000

Theres alot of things missing from this game as someone said eg pushbike, so if its more realistic then how come pushbikes arent in there, there was more stuff also in GTA : SA, like swat teams armys etc, it would be fun driving a tank down the street

By: JesterOTC

JesterOTC — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:31:24 +0000

It’s sad when a good game like GTA 4 is so heavily criticized. Is it fun? Check. Re playable? Check. (especially with the multi player added) Great Graphics? Check.
If tomorrow they came out with a fully virtual reality GTA5 that you played like Neo jumps in and out of the Matrix. People would still bitch.No matter how good a game is some asshole is gonna come along and say it sucks because he needs to have something to bitch about. You can’t please everyone so as long as you are having fun with GTA4 tell all the haters to make a better game or shut the hell up and go play your Wii.

By: nickelpat

nickelpat — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:33:00 +0000

Halo 3 sucked. Simply, it was hyped to the sun and back with a short detour to the moon. It came out and was simply a shiny Halo 2. I don’t see how GTA4 could really be much different from San Andreas. At this point they’re simply putting in a new character, shining it up, fixing some minor things, taking out things (fixed-wing aircraft, I couldn’t care less about realism flying a learjet or a Boeing was awesome)and then selling it for 60 bucks. It’s not worth it, and personally I don’t think it really revolutionized anything, the genre’s been there for a while. It’d be like giving a basic FPS game a 10 because it was big and shiny *cough*Halo3*cough*. The games that deserve tens, the ones that revolutionize a whole genre, can anyone say ‘Fable’, don’t get them (it got a 9.3 from IGN, but for changing a whole genre forever, a 10/10 is deserved. GTA3 deserved a 10, San Andreas, Vice City, and now this thing are simply pushing the game series as far as it can go, they each deserve solid 8’s for a good game, but nothing new, maybe San Andreas deserves a 9 because it allowed fixed-wing craft, swimming, skills, etc. There’s my take on it.

By: phalxor

phalxor — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:41:46 +0000

this should be titled, why im jealous of GTA4

By: Dead

Dead — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:05:57 +0000

This article basically summed up my exact feelings toward GTA IV. And Halo 3 for that matter. This seems to happen too often now. I wish the gaming press would calm down their hype machine for a while and actually let a big release get reviewed properly.

Glad to see I’m not alone.

By: Rik

Rik — Tue, 20 May 2008 08:59:28 +0000

Alright here’s another random view on this topic. Unlike others I will go into some detail into why I think this game does not deserve a 10/10. Now I’venever been a big fan of the GTA series so if you all wanna discredit me now go ahead. To be honest I think the last GTA I really enjoyed was GTA 2, but I AM liking this one. Alright so lemme just get to this.

Graphics
the good – Attention to detail is amazing, they did a really good job on all the small things. the sparks, the crashes, the cars, draw distance is also very nice.
the bad – most of the time the game is running at 15-25fps. The characters dont seem next gen. They look alright during actual gameplay but when you see them up close they look “deformed” i guess is the best way to put it. Resolution. at 1080p I’m expecting everything to be crystal clear but it all looks blurred. I think it’s purpossely a depth of field thing but personally I’m not enjoying it. day/evening/night, once again a personal thing but I find the days a bit too blue evenings a bit to orange. If they toned it down just a bit it would be perfect. Maybe it might be an overuse of the bloom effect reflecting off of everything. And textures I find are way to low res. I understand it’s a huge city and there needs to be a lot of textures and painting them on a city a quarter mile away may take up a lot of power but from a next gen system I was just expecting more.
Overall I think the graphics are very nice. But after seing the jump from GTA-SA to Saints Row (yes different creators but still…) I was expecting to see much more. It looks more like a revamped GTA 3 engine. Don’t know the name of it.

Sound
I have no problems with. They did a great job. From the sounds of a chainlinked fence to the crashes to the sounds of tires squealing on a wet road compared to a dry one. Excellent job. Music on the otherhand, not my personal taste but it doesnt really matter to me anyway I ususally turn music off or down.

Controls
I have a major problem here. I don’t like them at all. Could be personal but I’m not a fan of the auto camera. I like the Saints Row approach which feels more like an fps. I look up, move forward the camera stays up. I run backwards the camera stays facing the same direction instead of turning around. I like to strafe one way and look another and feel I can’t do that in this game. The lock-on system. ??? Does anyone else seem to have problems with this. I point my crosshair on an enemy hold down lock on and now im facing a different direction locked on to another guy. I also think that once an enemy is incapacitated it should automatically lose the lock or switch to another character. I also found that if something is obstructing my line of sight Neko will not fire his weapon I can press fire as many times as I want and hold it down and nothing will happen. I’d prefer it to fire hit what’s in front of me and I’d know to move. Too many times I’ve been killed cause he will not fire and then I’ll get a nice shotgun blast. If I could at least fire then rotate I would have got them first.

Environment
alright the bad first this time.
I’m gonna put camera here cause I was unsure of whether to put it here or in controls but whatever. I find that the camera looks like it’s too far from things. A character 2 car lengths away looks small enough to be a block away. Probably personal I know. Outside car camera looks like it’s too low down. 10ft (game distance) higher and it would be great. Roof cam, never been a fan of gimmer bumper (no parts of car on screen) or in-car. Now try this go incar (roof) and drive down a street with no cars on it. Now look up so you can’t see the roadand immediatly look down again. Bam you probably just hit a car that apeared out of nowhere, and probably 3 more along with it. Same thing if youre standing on an empty street look one way then the other and you probably now have a line of cars. Same goes the other way around. I drive past a banshee that I like, get in front of it to stop it, and look behind and it’s gone. The main storyline characters I think are a little over the top.
The good – The city is very well done. Radio, tv, internet, cellphone, all very great features. All the characters in the world act as you think they would. Peoples conversations on the street, friends, girlfriends. It’s a great place to be. Neko I think is a great character unlike some of the other ones.

Story
Well like I said I’m not a big fan of the GTA series but I’m liking this game. But I ca’t really say cause I’m only about 40% into this, so that’s as far as I’m going.

So does this game deserve a 10. I don’t think so. It looks to be a great game definatly an 8.5. But I think there’s just too many faults to say it’s perfect. But that’s just me…

By: William

William — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:08:08 +0000

I have to disagree. I personally rarely consider a game to be a 10 personally, but GTA IV is probably one of the top 4 games on the Xbox 360, so it deserves to be up there with Halo 3 and COD 4 ratings. The game was a huge improvement over past GTA games. I’ve been playing the game in-depth since release and am still discovering little things they threw into the game.

It certainly wasn’t a perfect game, but what game is?

By: Motive

Motive — Sat, 17 May 2008 13:21:25 +0000

Definitely not worth a 10 in my eyes. The gameplay is as undeniably repetitive as its predecessors (the inferred myriad missions are thinly redressed variations on a theme). The range of interaction with other characters and the environment is limited in the same way that all so-called immersive gaming environments are. What’s the point of highly detailed graphical environments if they are shrouded in inpenetrable shadow, for example? Maybe its just me, but isn’t Roman just the irritatingly moronic victim we love to see murdered in the movies?

By: Reeku

Reeku — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:43:53 +0000

Of course it earned the 10 rating it perfected a game type on which they created from the ground up, its the best of its kind. Saying its much like GTA IV is like saying Warcraft 3 is a better looking version of StarCraft. Which it is, however, they added elements to create differences such as story line and where it takes place.

Here is what the problem is with the world, if Grand Theft Auto 4 would have went a different route and made the game NOT like any other Grand Theft Auto, it would have been an utter failure. Why you might ask… Well this is why, because people can’t accept change, they don’t like it whatsoever, which is why Halo 3 was such a large success, but the same damn game.

Of course it deserves a 10…

By: ramzezh

ramzezh — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:51:55 +0000

I love gta4 but I was a little disappointed by it (mainly because of the hype including comments from the developer saying that its the same kind of leap from gta3 to this than gta2 to 3 only to find out it clearly isn’t) although it is the best in the series. An example of this is that I was led to believe by previews from various websites that you could go into most if not all houses/shop when in fact its still very limited to where you can go in. I don’t think its groundbreaking, it won’t be for me until you can do that (going in every house and shop) I would give it a 9/10

By: MrMister

MrMister — Sun, 11 May 2008 04:56:45 +0000

Completely agree with you, Ron.

By: Jazzy

Jazzy — Sun, 11 May 2008 01:12:42 +0000

oh no! You just had to piss off the righteous followers of GTA. Didn’t you know no matter what you say… even if you add in “I like the game”. People will be butthurt about it anyway. You are talking about the mighty LORD of games.

By: 1day

1day — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:59:58 +0000

sounds like it must be about a 9.5 then

By: cihx

cihx — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:15:49 +0000

people were just happy they actually made a sequel instead of milking 3 with expansion packs for years.