Then GTA IV might be the game for you.

Punch a stranger, steal a car. Then drive around the city and run from the cops after you've ran over one too many old ladies trying to cross the street. It's kind of fun at first... for a couple of hours. But then you realize how much memorization is required to progress through the game and how repetitive it is.

Best thing to do when you start playing is just steal a car and go cruising for a few hours until you've memorized every road and alleyway. Because the only challenge the game provides is from the player not knowing how to get from point A to point B quick enough to complete a mission. Memorize the area, master the game. But by the time you have the map memorized, you'll be bored of the game.

I recommend renting this if you've never played a GTA game before, as it is fun for a short while. However, if you've ever played a GTA since GTA III, then you've already played this game before, and you should already be bored with the 'drive here in time' formula by now. If not, then you should have your head examined for tumors.

Don't believe the hype. The perfect scores you see on the major game sites are all a lie, bought and paid for by Rockstar, Microsoft and Sony.

Don't be a tool. Rent or borrow from a friend.

i recomment you to get a life.
Dont listen to him guys, in a game everything is acceptable, its your brain that is smaller from your balls if you can understand the difference of doing something in a game and doing something in real life.

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Originally posted by Exoskeletor:
i recomment you to get a life.
Dont listen to him guys, in a game everything is acceptable, its your brain that is smaller from your balls if you can understand the difference of doing something in a game and doing something in real life.

Wait. This has nothing to do with what he is talking about. See, you automatically think that he is challenging the morals of the game, when you didn't even bother to read the fact that he actually, very intellegently, found weakness in the game mechanics and gameplay.

This is why everyone constantly promotes this garbage. As soon as you start to critic it objectively as a game, people think you are only rating it down because of moral issues. And suddenly the game becomes even 'coooler', since it's only major attraction is how edgy and controversial it is.

I wouldn't say he "very intelligently" found weakness with the game. He didn't like it and said that those of us who enjoy GTA games should have "our heads examined for tumors". Insulting statements lead to insulting responses.

I have enjoyed GTAIII, Vice City, and San Andreas. I played the crap out of Doom back in the day. I suppose I should just call it quits with first person shooters as well.

I have yet to play it, but personally, I do not see how any grand theft auto game could ever get old... I loved vice city and san andres, it was just so... fulfilling to go on massacures

I'd have to say that was one of the least intellectual critiques of GTA IV I've read.

He didn't mention one bit of what GTA IV had to offer, from one of the most realistic cities ever rendered in a game, a fully functioning internet exists withing the game, not to mention TV channels and of course the story of GTA IV. Niko Belic the remorseful killer, everyone is so quick to decry the game for being vulgar and sexist, yet almost none of these people have actually played the game. When engaging in many of the more vulgar acts in the game such as getting a prostitute or going to a strip club Niko's comments aren't exactly what you'd expect such as "I'm a hired killer and I pay for sex, my mother would be ashamed of me" or "Do your parents know you're here".

Regardless of that the story of GTA IV is rather engaging and features some of the better voice acting that I've heard in a game. My biggest critique with GTA IV is it verges on the point of too much realism at times. You are know equipped with a cellphone and in order to keep friends you actually have to hang out with them, in order to have a girlfriend you have to take her out on dates and the like. It actually gets to be a bit of a hassle driving across town to pick your friend or girlfriend up going somewhere and then dropping them back off. Although it was incredibly humorous watching my friend fail the first date mission twice, first by starting a fight for no reason and getting killed and then by accidentally punching his date.

But I mean you talk about it like, you haven't really played the game enough to provide a good critique one way or the other. If you're going to critique it, do it right...

Seems as if the main point of interest was gameplay, the lack of specifically - nothing about specific activities that some call questionable for a game.

To each his own. I would go as far to say that a repetitious game from R* is no big surprise, they found their magic formula to enable throngs of people to throw them money - who's going to mess with that formula? Alienate the fanbase?

But rule number one in a game is the gameplay should be fun and engaging - even if the game is repetitious, as long as the gameplay is good - it's all good.

It seems that this guy's main argument against GTA IV is that it's the same type of game as the previous titles. What's wrong with that? I played GTA III - loved it. So I bought GTA: Vice City, which is exactly the same type of game - loved it even more. Then I bought GTA: San Andreas, which is even MORE of the same - loved it so much I played through it multiple times.

No, I think GTA IV sounds just fine to me...