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| From: Rockstar Games
Category: Video Games
List Price: $59.99
Buy Used: $16.95
You Save: $43.04 (72%)
New (54) Used (115) Collectible (1) from $16.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  277 reviews
Sales Rank: 55
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 39012
UPC: 710425390128
EAN: 0710425392320
ASIN: B000FRU1UM
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Includes game, case and all cover art. Works perfect. Manual not included.
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| Features:
 | Carry on the Grand Theft Auto tradition playing through the single player campaign as Niko Bellic | | | Get cars and other modes of transportation anyway you can | | | Interact with various colorful characters who give you various missions to engage in | | | Engage in multiplayer challenges ranging from cover matches to shoot-outs | | | Game Rated 'M' due to Intense Violence, Blood, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Partial Nudity, Use of Drugs and Alcohol |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 272 more reviews...
CMacks Official January 7, 2009
Cmack AKA DJCrum back in to give you some insight on GTA4. SICK game. once again Rockstar games has come out with a beauty. smooth play, sick cars, hot women, and mad gameplay. not to mention the new online multiplayer matches. "I got the heli" some people say it gets boring, the past ones maybe so but the story line in this one is off the chain. a must own game.
Thats whats up. Get the Official review from me CMack.
 Fun but for the older crowd! January 6, 2009
Fun game...but definitely some inappropriate content for anyone under 18. DO NOT BUY FOR YOUR KIDS!
 Good, could be better. January 4, 2009
This game received a 10/10 from IGN (among others I believe), a rating I strongly disagree with. The environment is very interactive and there is so much you can do, but as a result the controls are a bit weak in different parts of the game. Also, if you've played other GTA games this is not anything very different, despite many critics and reviews saying otherwise.
The game is pretty violent, which is neither a pro or con in my opinion, just something to note.
Overall it's a good game, and I would recommend getting it if you've never played any GTA games before. If you have played them, or have anything against video game violence, you could probably let this one go.
 great game! when it works! unfortunatley it doesn't work so great! January 4, 2009
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
GTA 4 could have been classic! I tried to get into it, but I played a few missions and it froze. I checked the disc and it was fine. I returned the disc to Gamestop, and exchanged for another one, and the disc seemed better. So I thought it would work fine, but I was wrong! I did did the same thing! It froze AGAIN! Now I can see if this game didn't have this issue I would give it all the praise it deserves, but sorry Rockstar you ain't getting mine! Not with all the aggravation and tamdrums I've been through with this broken, overhyped game! I honestly have ask myself "What on Earth is Rockstar Games Thinking?! And what was everybody thinking?!" Is it the best in the GTA Series??!! NOT QUITE AT ALL!!!
GTA 4 Really? January 2, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Before I start ranting, I just want to say that GTA4, as a game of its own, is actually quite good, but as a GTA game, it has shortcomings. So Let's kick this review off right.
Graphics: GTA4 has rather well defined graphics. It is definitely much better from it's predecessors. Among many of the improvements graphically; people in the car actually move as they speak, blood stains actually appear on your car if you hit people, hitting newspaper stands actually cause newspapers to go flying everywhere, and some of the text on those flying newspapers is actually legible. So, suffice it to say, GTA is graphically a good game. Is it as good as all the other games out there, not really, but it is an open ended gameplay where you can go anywhere, and as far as that goes, it is pretty great.
Glitches: The game has quite a few glitches, as most of them do, which cause random events from a car to start flying in circles to your legs falling through the floor. It is expected in most games of this style I suppose, but is worth mentioning that these are no fewer than any previous GTA Game.
Setting: Taking place in a new liberty city similar to New York, the game offers little in the ways of variety. You go from tight closed off streets with big buildings to tight closed off streets with really big buildings. It is a bit claustrophobic, giving you very little room to just drive and speed up to top speed. San Andreas was expansive, giving you three cities completely different in appearance, numerous small towns, mountains, forests, and deserts. 4 gives you one city, nothing else.
Car Gameplay: The cars in this game seem much more difficult to control, was this done for realism sake, I am not sure. However, sometimes, some cars have incredibly poor traction and put you into terrible accidents when you think you have plenty of time to stop. It is hard to tell which cars are better, as appearance doesn't always suggest driving style. A couple of added things kind of make the gameplay funner. Most park cars are locked now, so you actually break the window, unlock the car, then actually hotwire it, You can speed up hotwiring, but it usually doesn't take more than a couple seconds anyway. Also, you can receive damage, fly out the window shield, die in fatal accidents, drive drunk (which always gets a cop on your tail) and even have a car die and won't start up again. However, many of these events seem random, and you can ram a building at 50 miles an hour and recieve no damage, or hit a fence and 25 miles an hour, fly our your window shield, and have you car land on you. So that kind of sucks.
Person Gameplay: On a surplus, you can now use cover and hide behind stuff, also peaking out from behind cover to shoot an opponent. You also have a new melee system, which includes kick, punch, and block combos. It isn't much better than the original system, but it does give you a bit more control over what you are doing to your opponent. However, once you get a couple guns, this becomes almost irrelevant anyway. Everything else is just about the same from previous games.
Story: The story is OK. I can't say I feel too passionate about the protagonist, who just doesn't appeal to me as much as the GTA3 + characters, who were frequently hilarious and likable. Niko revenge story does not seem as passionate as GTA3, and that guy was a mute. He lacks the ambition of VC character, and SA did a better job of displaying that protagonists goals and ideals(protecting his home and family). Besides that, it seems less humorous and more serious of a story. It still has all the jokes from the previous GTAs, I can't really put my finger on it, but everything in this one just seems more serious. One reviewer believes that this is GTA with a conscious, which I kind of agree with, maybe groups put pressure on Rockstar to make them show the consequences of your actions, since it seems like you're constantly being reminded that killing, drunk driving, and prostitution are bad.
The Extras: This is where I feel the game fell. Had this game been the direct sequel from GTA III, I probably would have been a lot easier on it, but VC and SA existed, and this game almost seems to have forgotten that fact. This game almost seems like a stripped version of it's predecessors. No gang wars, no gambling, no owning businesses, no car collections. Flying has almost been cut out of this game, although I can't imagine why, it was such a successful feature. Fighting on a flying plane, then para shooting out was the coolest thing ever, not to mention stealing a harrier jet from a battleship. The girlfriend thing from SA was added to, making normal friends too. This is worse, as you now have to maintain relationships with not only your gfs, but any friend you make as well. I also believe the "sex scenes" you get at the end of the date are toned down a bit. I dislike where Rockstar is going with this game, it almost as if they want to take the open part out of open game. They keep you caught up with their characters with frequent cellphone calls, rather than letting you initiate your own sidequests by setting in the right vehicle or shiny circle.
Sum it Up: So in general, this game is a worthy sequel to GTA III... as long as you pretend SA and VC did not exist. It cuts out way too much content added in the last two (what do you call them, expansion packs?). Why they felt the need to cut so much? Or did they feel they had to to make room for more graphics? If so, I would pick side missions and content over graphics any day.
One more beef that bugged me endlessly, they cut out hidden packages and replaced it with flying rats that you can shoot. That was a good idea, but the thing is, you don't get anything unless you shoot all 200, which gets you an achievement (big whoop) and a pop up for just about the only flying thing in the game (helicopter). I always depended on those items that pop up have 10, 30, 50 packages. Just knowing that if I got arrested or used up my ammo, that I always had a store at my place was great. This just bites, what horrible thing happened to Rockstar, whom created a nearly perfect game with San Andreas, feel they needed to take a chainsaw to the game and cut out all of its charm. Oh well, I hope that answers your questions and helps your decision in getting GTA 4.
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