ya like u can read from the tittle gta4 just sucks!!!! wth happened to rockstar. Y in the hell did u remove all the goods things that make the gta series the best franchise ever. where is the airplane, car pimping, jetpacks, original and complex missions not just drive kill an leave, the safe houses u could buy, and other thousand of things.

the **** graphics added dont justifie this ripoff. Well thats my thinking and have not even played tha game, i was waiting for the pc version but seeing at this overrated and overhyped s-h-i-t rockstar have made ill not buyit. ill instead buy saint row 2 thats what the old gta fans used to like.

thats just my thinking. feel fre to post ur thoughts

did you play the game, and for how long did you play it?

no, i havent played it yet. i have ps3 and pc but with the coming of the game to pc i was hoping to buy it for this platform.

and also before i buy a game thats going to cost me $70 i do my research and i found thousand of post through the net of true gamers, not payed overrated reviews in the well known review pages, that feel the same as me.

well, the game sucks compared to the other gta games in the gameplay i mean that is the fun part after all.

my point is that game review sites should not give false hopes to people giving the game u want to buy a 10 when it doesnt deserve it.

Geez i almost made the mistake of buying it for the ps3. and ill have to think twice before i buyit for pc.

thats my point. this product is clearly inferior to what rockstar used to do with gta!!!!

man thats the awful thruth i didnt want to believei t either but the media just brainwashed all that people who rush to buy the game and after just some time of play they just got bored and put it in a side.

i want the free-roaming sandbox game of endless playhours time that gta used to be i dont wanna waste my money in a game that its going to be fun just for a couple of days.

and there are alot of people that are gta fanbois and dont accept it.
just reading all the fun things rockstar took off from the game and the **** ones they added (bowling, pool, dating. meh not tanks!!!!!)

just sucks man. microsoft and rockstar crapped on us!!!

given that GTA 4 was by far the highest grossing launch for a pc video game /EVER/ I think they must've done - something - right.

Lets see... so far GTA4 has sold 4.28 million copies on the PS3 (2.4 in week 1), and 5.81 million on the Xbox 360 (3.3 in week 1). It has been out 15 weeks today and is still selling close to 50,000 a week on each console. Sounds like the sales trend of a poor game all right. </sarcasm>

GTA4 is superior to all the previous ones for 1 simple reason: the characters. Niko is a much more fleshed out and complex character than any of the previous ones. All the side characters are really well portrayed too. Add to it that the voice acting across the board is a lot better and you have a great gaming experience.

Some things are missing from the older games but they're all fluff used to fill out a game and make up for shortcomings. I mean really, did anyone actually like the RPG elements in GTA:SA? 'Oh, I'm sorry, you can't do this mission unless your lung capacity is higher. Go swim for about 3 hours and try again.'

Removal of buyable safehouses is great in my opinion. Something less to have to save up tons of cash for. I do miss the planes but the helicopters make up for it, because they're awesome.

And how can you moan about the graphics? The game looks fantastic, even before you take into account just how big it is. The physics are better, there's more debris from blowing things up, the explosions look better, shadows and reflections are really well done, and the colour pallett they use really fits with the tone of the game.

Go buy the game before you pass judgement on it. Hell, if you don't want to buy it then rent it!

They did help subsidize development costs for the promise of exclusive downloadable content.

But yeah, this guy is nothing but a troll.

Well, considering that you were essentially whining about the fact that they removed the best parts of the older GTA's games, why is it you now move onto innovation as a topic? It sounds as if you would be happy with the exact game that was GTA3/Vice City/San Andreas with updated graphics and physics. No?

I own both the 360 and PS3 version of GTA IV and as far as graphics quality goes, they're pretty comparable. The PS3 version does suffer from less pop-in, but the 360 version runs at a higher resolution is slightly sharper, and it seems to have a higher average framerate, although both versions suffer from slow down when the action gets intense. Also, playing both the PS3 and 360 on a 1920x1200 monitor will not look nearly as good as what you will get on a good TV; the built in scaling of your display paired with the fact that neither console is designed for that aspect ratio will make games look worse. I tried playing my PS3 and my 360 on my 1920x1200 LCD monitor, but have found that the same games look MUCH better on my 1080p DLP television.

I kind of doubt that GTA IV would be much different if it were PS3 exclusive; just because you have more space available on a disc doesn't mean Rockstar is going to invest the time creating content to fill up all of that extra space.