Comments on: Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3, Xbox 360)

By: billy smith

billy smith — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:52:34 +0000

can’t the sky lift be drived online because it would make the game better and would i be able to use the parchute online?

By: samyb123

samyb123 — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:03:45 +0000

my mum wont let mr buy it, im 14 and i really want it, anyway i could convince her to let me buy it?
or a better game for the ps3

By: bongo

bongo — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:04:10 +0000

how dai u get a fuking camera in gta iv for xbox360

By: Roman200333

Roman200333 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:44:28 +0000

lol Ben is a N E R D

By: timmy

timmy — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:46:02 +0000

this game is the shit

By: DanDare

DanDare — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:22:54 +0000

What the hell! just read reviews after buying the game and spending a limited time on it (so far) but I plan to crank GTA 4 up at the weekend on my very large lcd hd tv for some serious gaming while the wife is away… 10/10 or 9.5/10… who cares how the game scores, if a new piece of gaming genius strives for perfection and pushes it’s limitations then surely a bar has been set and anything less pushed out in the future by Rockstart or any other developer should be unacceptable? lets hear some feedback from those who have played the thing and killed every living sole in the game or simply followed the story line etc. Neuro, quite agree with your comments and I anticipate hours of gaming carnage along with an array of exploration with what appears to be a Gem from Rockstar.

By: lewis murphy

lewis murphy — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:14:23 +0000

if my mate plays this game one more time and says watch wat i do hear i will put the fu*king controler up his ass and pull him around the room with the wire hang out!

By: jooligan

jooligan — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:08:26 +0000

i can haz maths?

By: tareum

tareum — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:17:16 +0000

“So, as you can see GTA IV is not perfect” … and 10/10

wtf

By: Neuro

Neuro — Tue, 20 May 2008 03:03:23 +0000

How pathetic that i should stumble across this gathering of bad replies. lol. As said somewhere above.. it’s the best game around.. and here we are.. 2008.. it is the most innovative game there is.. how can you give something that is pushing boundaries and achieving its goals of mass applause anything less than 10/10? We could always poke into the future to GTA5 and then look back at how lesser a game GTA4 is.. but that’d be pointless.. what you gonna do then? Reduce the score of GTA4 to a 6/10 just because its not as good as whats gonna appear in 5 years time?

Fools fools fools… the word “perfect” is such an unobtainable word by its very definition.. it should be swiftly removed from our dictionaries for claiming to be the god of words.

If all who don’t give this game 10/10, rub your eyes then look again.. it IS the greatest game of now in its field.. Rockstar are the dogs nuts.. period! The only thing that is more fun is having to explain this to ye who cannot see correctly.

Good review by the way.. fairs fair…

My verdict… TEN OUT OF TEN. A Masterclass in how games should be realised!

By: dave

dave — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:12:26 +0000

Am..i kinda worried cause my friend in Europe bought me a game…this game GTA 4 and Europe is using PAL systems so game is PAL version right?…and xbox360 is maybe NTSC im not sure but it is made in china and bought it here in the Philippines…will my xbox support the game am will it work?
your reply is needed cause ive waited for this for a long time….

thanks…

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:02:37 +0000

You say that, but this way we’ve got several people talking about the wrong score. Can you imagine how many people would kick off if it was anything other than 10.

Games will come and go, systems and mechanics will fade. The only thing we can guarantee here and now is that GTAIV is at the top of the food chain, and for the most part deserves to be. 10/10.

By: Manuel

Manuel — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:40:41 +0000

“No game can ever be perfect or flaw free, which means 10/10 would then never be achievable. If a rating is never achievable then the ratings would actually be out of 9, which would be totally arbitrary”
I dont agree with that, because a 10/10 game is basecally a game that does something that you never seen before, plays great, look good and innovates a lot, like Super mario, Zelda OOT, resident evil 4, soul calibur, bioshock, those games only had some minor issues, but GTA IV has a bad driving gameplay department, camera issues here and there, niko movements are not that fluid, the cover mecanics doesnt work all time and the shotting department not always respond as you want, so i think it doesnt deserve the 10/10, because those before mentioned things break the fluidity of the gameplay, thats something the above games didnt had, and finally this is the same game we had play in the past years but with new things that are not revolutionary by all means. great game but doesnt deserve the 10/10.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:19:59 +0000

I hear what you’re saying Lloytron, if no game is ever going to be perfect then 10/10 should be unachievable. Reviewing games is not a case of benchmarking against other games with the best one getting a perfect score. If there is never a perfect game then we should never see full marks, plain and simple. If you sit an exam and get one question wrong, the examiner doesn’t give you full marks just cos you got the highest score. Same principle applies.

The premise of then scoring things out of 9 is absurd though!

By: Lloytron

Lloytron — Sat, 10 May 2008 11:53:56 +0000

No game can ever be perfect or flaw free, which means 10/10 would then never be achievable. If a rating is never achievable then the ratings would actually be out of 9, which would be totally arbitrary.

No system is perfect. What is the difference between a game that scores 86% and one that scores 87%?

The only logical way to do this is to do as stated above – any game that would get 95% or more gets marked as a 10. If not, all games the equivalent of 85% or more would score a 9, which is ridiculous.

By: Muhammad-Oli

Muhammad-Oli — Sat, 10 May 2008 11:41:16 +0000

^^^Man, grow up. Rob was maturely arguing his point. Some may agree, some may not. I agree to an extent, but can see why this game got a 10/10. There is no need to insult another person in such a way, as it just proves yourself to be less respectable than the person you insult.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:37:02 +0000

Rob loves cock

By: Surrealist

Surrealist — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:07:52 +0000

I don’t have much to add, but I totally agree with Ben, it’s deserving of over 95% and therefore is a 10/10 game. That is all.

By: Manuel

Manuel — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:24:39 +0000

I keep what i had said in a previous blog, and agree 100 % with Rob, is a great game but doesnt deserve a perfect ten.
Previous blog comment

“I think GTA IV does not deserve a perfect 10, maybe a 9.5 if you take in consideration some flaws, the cars are very dificult to handle (still a lot of pain) , even if you had played 10+ hours, you dont get it right, nikos movements are kind of slow, sometimes the cover system doesnt work all to well, the game is a bit to dark for my tastes and i had to adjust the brithness seetings of my tv,in order to play it porperly, this small inconveniences for me take down the score a little bit, , though this before mentioned things, doesnt broke the gameplay at all, it does take down the score, but the good things in this game outweights the bads.

For me a game that deserve a perfect score is a game that everything is polish, the gameplay, the graphics, the story, the innovation, the fluidity of the movements, etc. for example, bioshock, zelda OOT, super mario galaxy, soul calibur, and resident evil 4, all these games did comply with all the things, and for me deserved a perfect score”

By: Major

Major — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:04:06 +0000

Stupid argument to be having, but I’d definitley give this >9.5/10 therefore 10/10. Its quite easily the best sandbox game ever made. Its a colossal achievement to create a living breathing world of this size, add to that the vast single player story, the side missions and the truly excellent multiplayer and you have a 10/10 game. It is also a landmark game which will no doubt raise the bar for other developers.
BTW good review, I always enjoy reading them.