Grand Theft Auto 4: perfect game
Highly-anticipated video game Grand Theft Auto (GTA) IV has received a string of near-perfect reviews ahead of its worldwide release on Tuesday. The game is expected to break records for the fastest-selling game of all time and many shops are opening their doors at midnight for gamers. The game has been classified as 18 in the UK and Mature for US gamers. In the US, regulators have reminded parents that the title is not designed for children under 17 years old. In a joint statement the ESRB and the National Institute on Media and the Family urged parents to check ratings on games for their children.
It said: “With the latest installment of the Grand Theft Auto series… parents need to be reminded to make sure their kids are playing games appropriate for their age and level of maturity. “It is critical that parents consider the assigned rating carefully.” The GTA series has proved incredibly popular and almost equally controversial in the last few years. More than 70 million copies of the franchise’s titles have been sold worldwide but the series has also been criticised for glorifying violence. Needless to say, the game was leaked to the internet last week and quickly became one of the most popular console torrents in the history.
Source: BBC
Comments(116)
First! _ Forget about Holidays in Greece – Now I have to buy a PS3 for the summer!
I wonder when the fcking PC version will come out. /*sigh*
cant wait! only 3 hours and 12 minutes to go till i get mine
they really get some nice free publicity with this series…
@2 – Why the hell would they release a “Politically Correct” version of this game? Wouldn´t that kind of take away the point?
I wonder if they will even release it on PC… nah they have to right? Pc sales are still pretty high, so they’d be cutting into their own profits if not.
Either way i aint buying a ps3 or xbox. Consoles suck, my pc rocks. Ill just emulate the game
Yes, but when will it be on here ??
Very nice, I hope he also comes out for the PC.
quickly became one of the most popular console torrents in the history.
FFS Martin you are a total numpty idiot. Stop posting total rubbish PLEASE you dont know what your talking about kid
@7 – It was on here last week!!
@9 if you don’t like it here, build your own crappy blog where you can post your crap. i can also ban you if you feel too addicted to this place.
[b]BUY THE GAME!!![/b]
If there was any single game that would make me buy a PS3 or Xbox360, this is without a doubt the one. Gonna start saving for this right now.. Can’t decide though, xbox or ps3
It’s not perfect until a PC version is out.
Pizza. Check.
Red bull. check.
beer. check.
batteries. check.
adult diapers. check.
Why the hell would they release a “Politically Correct” version of this game? I don´t get it?
@14 Buy PS3 – XboX sux! I have one and I am saving for PS3..:D!
-ng-
bin playing it since last week on 360 n i say it doesnt live up to all the hype but non the less its the best gta ever and prob the best game, im goin to pick up my one now
martin, you shouldn’t pay attention to such idiots. you are doing an excellent job in running this blog. many people out there are ungrateful parasites, who feed on the brains of their hosts.
i love this blog and thousands of other people also. your daily visitor numbers prove that, and you are one of the best editors here, too.
keep up the good work.
If your buying a console just for this game then choose 360. They have exclusive rights to extra game content which releases in the fall plus the online aspect is way better than with PS3.
@masterchief,
i lol’ed @ adult diaper one, might want to add aspirin to that list though
Looking forward to getting this game. gd post
or shrooms…
The Shadows look very crappy on the Console Versions, ill wait for PC Version, most people are guessing its coming out end of the Year.
I have an xbox 360 and this game and gotta say….
get the PS3 version the xbox360 version looks jaggedy running at 720p on a 32 lcd….the ps3 version is supposed to clear up the aliasing issues.
It has a few glitches, but still the best game ive ever played.
Gonna be picking up my offical copy tomorrow
@24
Have you even seen it running?…the shadows..and textures look fantastic in this game!
you gotta love this
http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/O51l7S7Sx3g
how they got away with this i dont know.
Im getting PS3 version only becuase i dont play 360 anymore and the fact M$ had to pay a small fortune for the DLC just sucks IMO, why they just dont let the consol do the talking i dont know but I have read many websites saying the PS3 version is better overall unlike normally when they get the same reviews but which ever consol you have it on, just enjoy
get a 360. if you are interested in playing online, and dont want to spend money for a dead format, that is.
A shallow, repetitive, graphically uninspired game… I never did understand how GTA 3 got so popular. Maybe it was the subtle humor… In any case, there are tons of better games around, and this just goes to prove people just wanna be criminals because they see it as cool.
@ 29
So the story line does not matter in a game ?
I like to play gmaes with story lines, makes the game interesting
I think it depends on the game of course…what makes COD 4 so popular ? It’s not the story line FACT
played this on xbox360 last night (original copy) awesome recommend anyone to buy it just for the map and hilarious adverts piswasser beer “your in for a good time” lol graphics mint best gta yet
WHERES THE PC-RELEASE!?
I WANTED TO TEST GTA BEFORE (!) I GO AND BUY IT AND NOW…!?
FFS it’s you’re not your. Learn English if YOU’RE going to use it first. F’ing noobs.
@29 go fcuk urself!
Especially if you’re stupid enough to take the piss out of someone who works here. Dumbass.
picking up hookers and getting service…nice…what’s next, entering hotel rooms…?
Seems like a good time to buy PS3. Hopefully they sell it bundled with GTA, that would be awesome.
I live in australia, I ordered my copy from the UK so I can get to see all the titties and violence that our censored version wouldn’t have.
Bad news is its going to take a few more days to get here
Good news is that it only cost me A$55 delivered. Cant wait!
I’ve bought PS3 exclusively for GTA IV. Why not x360? Because I don’t want to replace the the hair-dryer cooling system right after purchase. PS3 is running silently.
40 more gaming hours on the xbox version? Yes, I know that. But I’m ready to bet, that the agreement between Rockstar and M$oft was only for the release time. Therefore I’m sure that the additional 40 hours of gaming will be available for PS3 as an add-on or upgrade at a later time. For free or very small fee, like $9,99.
PC version will also be available. If the game is already ported on XBOX360, PC port will take very small amount of human / technical resources. PC version release date will be announced later this year.
Greetz for all RLSLOG users
B.
Gta lets me mimic things i would never do in real life.. what other reason do you need?
19 mins till the store opens… 19 mins till i get my copy… 19 mins! i better get going!, lucky its only 3 mins away (on foot) laters, oh PS3 + GTA4 + 55 inch HD lcd ftw!
BTW im in NZ, the future…
what pisses me off about rockstar games is that they only release 1 or 2 patches. GTA San Andreas still has bugs.. They make good games but when it comes time to actually fix the games they are lazy bastards.
@30
“I think it depends on the game of course…what makes COD 4 so popular ? It’s not the story line FACT”
who the f plays COD4 single player?
its multiplayer is awesome…
personally don’t like GTA games, i get extremely bored playing them. but hey, whatever floats your boat.
xbox360 all the way tons of games out,the achievement points itself is addictive which ps3 dont have, got mine on order but delivery will be afew days after. i can wait though
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woo hoo ! i have a copy of this game … and im from Bangladesh .. i bought mine yesterday ! thanks to the piracy we get everything so fast around here !
this game is a masterpiece i tell you … fkcing awesome game been playing it for hours on my xbox 360 !
woo hooo !
I can’t wait for the PC version.
*Imagines high resolution GTA IV on my 22″ LCD + geforce 9800 GX2*
2 hours 36 minutes until i get my copy
LOL @ that youtube vid, tramp jacking off the main char
http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/O51l7S7Sx3g
@48, no. 27 has the link to the same movie.
PS3 or XBOX 360 which is better for this game?
I personally think that we’ll be seeing GTA IV on PC some time next year as they’ll need some time to fix up some basic problems, bugs etc. that won’t be acceptable if the game was to be ported onto PC now. One example of this is some of the things such as the infamous palmtree from San Andreas in which CJ would keep ‘bumping into’ upon his exit form a girlfriend’s house. On the PC version of the game however, (also released later than the console) the palm tree itself was completely removed thus preventing the ‘problem’ occurring. If simple things such as this were to add up and the game hit PC too early, no amount of patches or bugfixes would be able to set it straight.
whoooooooooooot
It will be released on PC,but after a year and so,whitch grants console version prime exclusivity.
Wow, Midnight, eh?
Does anyone (hopefully a Gamestop employee?) know if it’d be feasible to expect that I could just walk up and buy a copy? I forgot to preorder.
In other words, how many non-preorder copies can be expect to be on hand?
“If simple things such as this were to add up and the game hit PC too early, no amount of patches or bugfixes would be able to set it straight.”
I highly doubt this.
@51
It would be fixed but not immediately after the game’s release.
all game reviewers are giving in to the hype, and scores are inflated
it’s a 95% game at best, not nearly a 100% game (10/10). no way in hell. I mean, if GTAIV is 10/10, then GTAIII or Vice City should’ve been 11/10 when they came out
Yeah why dont they release the PC version at the same time? Pff im sure they have some deal with Sony and MS and want to trick us all into buying a console.
Well… is this game worth to buy a console for? or wait on the pc version… hmm
Now this is a game I want to(and did) buy, also because the ps3 is not really modded yet, but also because is rocks ass!
Cannot wait till it’s in my postbox.
woot woot
I think the PC version will take about half a year to release.
Sure it’s a bit sneaky, to get us to buy a console for the game, but it’s freakin worth it!
I mean, I bought a PS3 for GTA IV and Little Big Planet, the last one, wich is gonna rock everyone’s ass so bad to buy a Playstation 3. LBP will definately be a console-seller.
But GTA IV I think will sell a lot of PS3’s because I suspect the graphics to be slightly better, although no downloadable content, who gives a rat’s ass, I personally say, F*CK Microsoft and it’s bloodsucking friends!
im there at midnight when the door open, I cant friggin wait, just hope there aint that many people and they have enough copies!
I was going to spend my money on a hooker, but a PS3 and GTA 4 sounds mighty tempting now.
that youtube video is cool but everyone knows your supposed to kill the hookers and rob them after they service you.
did have pc ???
The 40 more hours of content on the 360 version is all sub mission BS to earn points to spend on crap.
everyone is thinking the pc-release si over a year etc..
but if i think about gta SA, i remember that HOODLUM
released a gta:SA version way before the pc-release-date…
so maybe we will see it soon?
me and my friends have been playing this for a few days but a couple of negatives have been noticed….you can no longer dive in the water? YHou can no longer interact with pedestrians? gta tv is grrrreat though!!
yeah, I couldn’t wait for a PC version, I bought a console just for this game.
Wake up guys! It’s foolish to expect to release the pc version before or closely after the console version. That would kill their sales and profits!!!! You will have to wait several months until they’ve made enough profits from the consoles. The only compensation is that the pc version would be definitely superior in graphics, if you have the proper pc to run it of course….
I understand that many 360 owners out there arn’t about to change to PS3 (Although I did, but I only bought the xbox as a stop gap) but i don’t know anyone that bought anything other than a Playstation recently!
If you’re not into GTA then fairplay but otherwise IV will be the best game ever.
If it moves forward with a step as big as Vice to SA it will be amazing, as this is a console jump version…OMG it should be good!
Look like all the XBOX 360 Rapidshare links have been reported … not suprising really!
have the game, its AMAZING, obviously theres a few issues, but by far its the best game made to date, and i play WoW and Cod4, and team fortress, among much else… anyone that hates on the GTA series, i know these people, its because they arent very good at driving cars in games, lol…. dont listen to them…. It looks great on both systems, and for all you PC nerds, this game will be out in 2010 on the PC, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH, by then i will be on to bigger and better things = ) and Rockstar has alrready stated that they will have little to no involvement with PC’s when it comes to tournys and downloaded expansion content is 360 exclusive.
Online GTA looks absolutely amazing
Mannn this game looks wicked, I can’t wait for the pc version! I hope they make it soon!
i got my copy on thursday and iv completed 48% already(i havnt done more because my final uni project is due in in an hour), the game is f**ckin awsome, i cant wait to play it online
@45 satan
(sighs with nostalgia !!!) I was there last year, I guess piracy is legal in that place their biggest market sells pirated copies of every goddamn movie and game ever produced, shops there are named as Dominous Pizza and FFC. I got a hundred dvd’s through customs without a blink, what a place !!!!
Lol @27, this may be worse, I really don’t know how this wasn’t cut from the game: (warning NSFW) http://youtube.com/watch?v=HI_El3aIpic
hi-res gameplay videos
(because youtube sux and delete them :smartass:)
http://www.btarena.org/news/gta-4-gameplay-videos
I wonder when will this be available on PSP
it will most likely suffer the same fate as the other gta games do, play it for a few hrs, realise all the missions are as detailed and fun as the average side mission in stalker, do the gun cheat, mow down pigs with the minigun, steal cars, drive around, and get bored a day later.
and never go back to it again.
I already downloaded it almost 10 days ago for the 360 and it plays just fine, but I pre-ordered it for the PS3. I mean come on now, the Grand Theft Auto series started out on Playstaion.
I can’t wait till the 29th cus then…ONLINE!!!!
PC will be out when console versions stop making money
can’t wait for PC version…
haha, i bought the ps3 and the simpson game, day after i took it home its been sat there all alone collecting dust, tomoro the fans have a lot of work to do…
@ 13; no it didn’t you fool, GTA started out on the Amiga! (way before you were even born from the sound of it)
[quote]
The M-rated/18-certificate gameplay of GTA IV is the pinnacle of an eleven-entry series that began life in 1996 on the Commodore Amiga. As the Amiga grew old and technologically infirm, GTA’s creator, DMA Design, switched the development of the original game to the PC. Grand Theft Auto eventually hit the PSone in 1998, where the mighty Official PlayStation Magazine praised it to the heavens as “one of the most original, innovative, technically impressive and controversial PlayStation releases ever”.
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stupid kids
i’ve been playing this for a while, i havn’t found any collectables, (like in previous gta’s).
no wanted level items to reduce that, only seen one jump on a bridge.
don’t get me wrong wicked game so far, cars are great, scenery is awesome, love the private lap dancing, but come on thats what gta was all about collecting bonuses, finding all those secrets etc etc.
maybe they’ll put it in the pc version.
How does this work? Is it simply burn and play or do i need some chip for my 360?
Forth installment looks good but since the 3rd one the sequels have pretty much been the same. Vice City was overated and I couldn’t really be bothered to play San Andreas, it seemed pretty much the same game but set in a different evironment. This one is probably worth buying because its on a next generation consoles but I’ll pass on the inevitable sequels.
@89
You need flash your xbox dvd drive with computer. google like “xbox 360 flashing” or something. then you have to burn this game to DVD+R DL rom… then you can play, but not online, because you get BANNED!
will releaselog post the ported version of GTA to PC?
pleeaaseee
So is this game actually any good or is it just a load of over-hyped rubbish (that every boy under the age of 16 simply MUST have just to impress their friends and scare off the girls with?)
it is like playing a movie! I LOVE IT!
@Martin: Don’t bother replying to the trolls just whip out the ban hammer and do us all a favor.
@92 Well then R* have to make it first, right? -.-
Who remembers the good ol original GTA game, that was such a crappy game, yet I remember spending months cruising around in that hot 2 stripe cobra looking thing through the 2D city.
Ahhh, might have to look for a download.
been playing for days now and just loveeeeee it.
so many details. Go to the top of the empire to see manhattan view… beautiful
lmao @ 97 im doing the same thing now, d/l the old gta series, those games being from my day i loved them you can get gta and gta2 from
the rockstar site
played a bit couple days, is ok , nothing special, more of an evolution than a revolution. prefer the car handling this time , overall id give it 7/10 coz its a gta game and i like the formula, but frankly the magazines/online reviewers are widly overhyping with 10/10 scores.
for one thing the protagonist niko isnt that cool
while im here i should mention ICON release of this game doesnt work very well , missing textures, frame rate from hell, makes the game a bit annoying.. perhaps an interesting copy protection from the developers
I still hope that it also comes out for the ps2, i know it’s hard but who knows…
“the game was leaked to the internet last week and quickly became one of the most popular console torrents in the history.”
sorry total noob question but how the hell do u download a game via internet burn iso/or via console then play on 360 or ps3 with the advanced protection of these consoles? I thought consoles needed mod chips to play some but not all back up or copied commercial games? Does so many have modded consoles????
Stick to my pc
i hope wal-mart has it tonight
i dont know where else to go.. i dunno if best buy will do a midnight release or not
Any one have RS links to the PC version? And a cheat?
Thanks…
damn..this game worths every penny…and worth to buy a xbox for it..but i’m still hoping pc versionx(
is there a way to play this on the PC?
like using EMUs?
ta!
There are no plans for a PC release at this time.
James Cameron
-Rockstar Customer Relations
James, you’re fired, that was top secret.
Rockstar’s Owner
don’t know if this is true, have not verified:
“Gta 4 !!!!!!!!!! [pc] Must Have”:
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whatever rockstar are coc***ckers.. consoles s**k.. i played the first gta.. its was only on pc, 2d asymetric view, but whatever now its like “EA” everyone is su**ing their balls
has anyone tried 110s links?
Can there be a real pc version already leaked and out there or another fake?
@100
U r kidding right ?
how you suppose that someone is stupid enough to download all this links knowing for sure that there’s not a PC version…
!!!!
is it coming out for PC ?? ever? it better be~!
Hey there!
heres a great selection of Cheats(god forbid!), walkthroughs, maps and other things for GTAIV!
http://rapidshare.com/files/112448664/GTA_IV_Guide_2008.rar
ENJOY!
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Linkz Plz
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