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| From: Rockstar Games
Category: Video Games
List Price: $59.99
Buy Used: $15.55
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New (58) Used (126) Collectible (1) from $15.55
Avg. Customer Rating:  277 reviews
Sales Rank: 46
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
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great game for blowing off steam! December 28, 2008
This is not my favorite GTA in the series but it still is an amazing game. This is a game for those days when you are aggravated and are ready to knock someone out. This game will allow you to take out your anger. I have never been one for the missions in any GTA game so I can't really talk about the actual missions or difficulty of the game but for me it was a lot of fun to play. If you buy this you will not be disappointed. It is well worth the money and you will get hours of entertainment from this game.
addictive December 27, 2008
ok so everyone has heard about this game, whether they wanted to or not and whether they like it or not. i'm just going to say one thing, this game is exceptional and truly awesome (yes this is actually the one time where the word actually makes sense to use!). i'm actually at a loss for words, but i will say be prepared to play this for at LEAST a month straight, if not more.
 Play World of Warcraft instead! December 26, 2008
1 out of 18 found this review helpful
I love playing WOW. It's so fun!
WOW helped me get the follow accomplished with my life:
1. Helped me earn college credits from home! Yes, Blizzard is now accredited Regionally. You earn credits in Information Systems, Math, Alchemy, Physical Education, Military Science, and Time Management. Incredible huh!
2. Helped me get chicks. Being on a computer all day helped me become a chick magnet! Girls were asking for my myspace URL left and right!
3. Helped me learn time management. Instead of being like the losers that I went to high school with, I spent 80+ hours a week doing something that will help with progressing in my life. and to think all these losers joined the military or went to State Universities.. LOL!
4. Helped me learn foreign language '1337'. Leet is very useful these days.. especially in the IT industry. LOL!
Plus, the game is just so fun! Funner than Call of Duty 4 and the GTA series!
 Whining about gritty realism ends up with this December 23, 2008
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
So the last few Grand Theft Auto games were great fun and rather shiny and colorful, and while people whine and complain about wanting things grittier and more realistic, you end up with this.
Grand Theft Auto IV is undoubtedly the most realistic GTA game ever. And it's also one of the most boring.
Everything that can be said about it has already been said by hundreds of reviewers, and spectacularly by that guy I keep mentioning in my reviews, Yahtzee, of The Escapist magazine.
On the good side, the game indeed LOOKS very real, and has some amazing rag-doll physics and the like.
The bad side is extreme in comparison. Your character is a generic Eastern European refugee whose life consists of being an unemployed bum who goes about carrying out illegal jobs in a lackadaisical "oh vell I guess eet eez time to keel sambaddy" demeanor, while he and his cousin get exploited and ripped off by everyone, and his cousin calls him all the damn time to go out on dates bowling or drinking or whatever.
The controls are odd and the city's colors are all manner of shades of gray, brown, and graybrown. It is so dismally bleak and gritty that not even a real life New York City would resemble this sort of city every day of the year. Everything is in such bleak colors bordering on monochrome that it makes it a bore to look at despite the fantastic graphics.
The driving takes the cake (Chocolate. With lemon filling. And vanilla/caramel frosting) as being the absolute biggest and worst fault in this game. Having driven cars in GTA3-GTA San Andreas, as well as in other games involving driving, and Saints Row 2, as well as even driving in real life, it is safe and believable for me to say:
THE DRIVING IN GTAIV DOES NOT COME ANYWHERE CLOSE TO REALITY. IT IS A GIGANTIC CASATROF*** MESS. IT IS DOODOO.
The driving system in this game seems to be that every car you get into immediately has buttery tires and gains a thousand pounds, as just going 10-20 miles an hour makes clean, tight turns a physical impossibility. Unless you come to a complete stop and slowly edge your way into a sharp or not-so-sharp turn, you'll end up either going far too wide out of your lane, or completely losing control and spinning or swerving or crashing.
Nothing in real life can possibly mirror the driving in this game save for perhaps driving piss-drunk wasted with two or three flat tires and several heavy objects weighing down the trunk.
Multiplayer is a great new addition, as it lets you create your own character (although with a limited number of choices) so I got to create my own fantasy creation complete with long red hair, a beret, glasses, and a rainbow-colored jacket. By the way, if anyone knows of any rainbow-colored jackets in real life, let me know so I may buy one.
Despite the fun of multiplayer, or rather BECAUSE of it, it distracts heavily from the main campaign. The main storyline is so utterly boring and pathetic, and Niko Bellic is such a drag to play as, I haven't managed to get more than three or four missions into the story before giving up entirely and playing multiplayer, where I've had my most memorable experiences with the game.
However, despite all the work gone into crafting this, it fails out in comparison to its predecessor, because it fails to balance gritty realism with escapist cartoonish-ness, simultaneously encouraging and punishing us for going all-out sandbox murder and mayhemming, while also giving us in-game TV to watch, as if to mock us for our pathetic lives that we buy a video game about murder and mayhem and spend the first moments of the game buying news clothes, going out on a date, and watching TV ALL WHILE IN GAME.
I said it in my review for Saints Row 2, but I'll say here that Saints Row 2, by a different company, and a complete and utter GTA clone, is in fact far superior to GTAIV.
GTA 4 Pretty Good December 21, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The graphics, sound and gameplay were all great. I really did enjoy the story, as it made the missions more challenging and coherent. Although I still think that we should get more save points.
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