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Average Ratings

Addiction Level	7.4/10
Graphics	8.9/10
Value for Money	7.4/10
Reviewer Rating	7.7/10
Overall Rating	7.8/10

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By Liebermann on 13th Jul 2008

Liebermann's Ratings

Addiction Level	10/10
Graphics	10/10
Multi-player	No
Value for money	5/10
Overall value	5/10
Liebermann's recommendation

Good Points

Best HUMOR and Best GRAPHICS ever in any video game and years to come until this can be topped.

Bad Points

The XBOX 360 is the worst possible platform for this great game! LOADING... and having to replay the initial part of any failed mission is BOREDOM!

General Comments

I LOVE this game!

GTA4 is an amazing game. It is a truly innovative product with the greatest entertainment value in any game so far.

Unfortunately, as great and amazing the game is, the XBOX 360 is the worst possible platform for it. I have never been so frustrated playing any game ever before! For every hour of playing time, I have at least an hour of staring at the screen ' LOADING' . As if that wasn't enough, the game forces you to always replay the boring initial parts of any mission you fail, which means that you will have to do an awful lot of BORING driving in this game. Driving and racing is part of the fun, but the fun diminishes after a few hours and you will be left with total boredom!

I really love the GTA concept and this time the radio shows are the best ever. If it weren't for the great variety of radio stations and the rich content, the driving would be unbearable and I would have thrown the game including the stinking console through the closed window halfway through the game.

GTA4 gives you the most amazing graphical environment I have seen so far. I would really like to know how they do this. The city looks so real, so alive; sometimes I thought I could smell the hot dogs. I wonder how many hours it has taken to do all the drawing for this game. It got to be measured in man-centuries rather then man-hours! The repetitions in the buildings are hardly noticeable. Only the NPCs are limited and you might wonder why there is the same guy in almost every taxi cab in the city, even if you just pulled him out of one and knifed him. But that's fine. After a while you won ' t care about the taxi driver anymore, except when he hits your fine luxury cars in the dedicated parking space in front of one of your houses and you just got to take care of him..

The sum of voice acting talent in this game got to be the best ever! Even the people on the streets, little phrases here and there, are very realistic and with very little repetitions. The people on the radio are shockingly new and fresh and it's worth buying the game just to listen to WKTT, Integrity or PLR. I couldn't believe that Karl Lagerfeld, the famous fashion designer, works as DJ on K109. He is a very popular talk show guest because of what he has to say and the way he says it. Nevertheless, his comments on K109 are amazingly unremarkable to say the least. He still has some humorous value because of his gruesome German accent.

There are many aspects that make GTA4 a great game, but the one that had me endure all those many boring LOADINGS and replays is the generous amount of humor in this game. Actually, I think GTA4 is probably the ONLY seriously humorous game on the market today. Not only the radio shows, but also the cut scenes and even the dialogues are something to look forward to. For the humor alone, I would give the game 20 out of 10!

The axis of the story line is Nick B. and his hunger for revenge. I liked the character initially, but I found it very hard to identify with his motives, because he doesn't seem to have any. He (and me and you with him) acts like a mindless killer robot without any values, any goal and any reason. The game doesn't really give you any choices either. You have to kill hundreds of people just because. That is something I really don't understand: if you pay millions for graphic talent, voice talent, comedy talents, why can ' t you find a decent story writer?

GTA4 is (again) a linear shooter. Although there seem to be plenty of choices, you don't get any. Yes, you can kill some innocent people and get away with it. Yes, you can drive like a maniac and police doesn't take notice. Unfortunately, there is no way to even marginally feel like a decent guy. You are an utterly worthless murderer and you have to work for the worst people. You are scum. Even Chenej and Bosh seem like honest people next to you!

Fortunately, we don't have to care about the story in a computer game. What counts for us is killing, racing, having (virtual) sex, and ' grand theft auto!

For me, the total bore with the ' LOADING' on the XBOX 360 somehow balanced the total awe of the actual game. Here is a game with the potential for 20 but on the Xbox it only gets a 5 from me!

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