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| Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3) | 
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| From: Rockstar
Category: Video Games
List Price: £49.99
Buy Used: £25.49
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New (17) Used (28) from £25.49
Avg. Customer Rating:  138 reviews
Sales Rank: 90
Platform: Playstation 3
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
ESRB: Adults Only
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 11 - 18 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: ZED-GTAIV_PS3
EAN: 5026555400213
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 PS3? BUY IT! August 30, 2008
Gta is fantastic ride around in boats cars choppers and walk throgh a massive detailed new york city wich in the game is called liberty city, you can visit statue of liberty ride around the empire state building or blow someones head of with your combat shotgun, gta is positivley the best game ever and is worth buying for any console.
Best in the gta series and graphics and realism have been taken to the next level uses the physics engine and cell processer tirelessley, while mentaining complete glitch free gameplay.
There are much more missions than in the past, and the drama between characters is amazing the cars now have suspension when you go up curbes or stop the car, and now it's more realistic and harder the way you turn corns.
Online wow wow but the ps3 has glitches like car jumping or floating and is especially irratating when you run over someoe and turns out you didn't run over them at all, also there's problems like diconnection from other players or signing out of psn, and for that I would recommend XBOX, but don't take like a big problem it's very small, sometimes doesn't even happen so buy ps3 version for actual better graphics but purchase XBOX for downloadable content and best online connection and with all the hold backs and delays I expected it to be much better and some veichles have been taken out including the plane all thanks to microsoft telling them it couldn't handle the graphics.
If you have a PS3 or XBOX! There's also a guide book a bundle with PS3 and a special edition one with art and music ect.
 GTA 4. The latest GTA in the series. Does it improve the series or not? August 20, 2008
You will inevitably be drawn in by this game whether you are a die hard fan of the GTA games or not. I have played the 3 major GTA releases (GTA 3, VC and SA) and there is one thing that struck me the most as I played through them: content progression. As each game is released, it brings out new content by the bucketload - VC included bikes and planes, which number 3 didnt have. SA included hilarious additions such as mini games (pool), rpg elements and ways to customise your character. The GTA series is effectively a ladder, constantly climbing up to the golden roof of gaming heaven, but I believe that GTA 4 is a step down, let me explain why.
The very first thing that will strike you upon entering Liberity City for the second time is how incredible it looks. Sure, distant structures look cloudy and textures can look foggy, but this is a major step forward for the otherwise ageing GTA engine. Word of warning: The night time in this game is VERY dark to enhance the realism. Although this looks nice and fancy I will explain its drawback later on.
Niko Belic has a past! Yes, in the other GTA games you can consider your character to be a blank slate, looking to build up a reputation. In GTA 4 you have a dirty slate which isn't hidden from you, the gamer, which you must work hard to clean. It brings over a slightly more compassionate bond between you and Niko. However the story isn't fully developed enough, and some elements just seem to be thrown in to make it sound more plausible.
You may think that the game sounds good right? Well now its time to take a much more cynical view of it.
If you played GTA: San Andreas and utterly loved it, like I did, and played it endlessly until completion. And played it again, you may be dissapointed by number 4. You see, I made reference to the series as a step ladder to greatness BECAUSE of the constant content additions, GTA 4 falls over itself because so much of what made the series what it is, isn't there anymore. Pay n sprays are rare! As one mission giver wants you to constantly get him cars and the price he gives you drops if its condition is bad, you will find yourself making ludicrous trips across the map to get to that one pay n spray, and then back to the mission giver.
Same story with Ammunatio.....oops sorry, it isn't called Ammunation anymore, now its an underground guns dealer in a tiny room in some dark alley. Prices there are high, and guns dont come in stock until much later in the game. This will remove your option of even paying him a visit at all, because you get plenty of guns through missions anyway.
Time to get harsh. Mission running is what has made the GTA games so incredible. The climactic build up of mission importance and your rewards spurs you on as you build your very own empire (SA nailed this perfectly I reckon). However, GTA 4 has you running silly errands for someone else, without expanding your own power. Content at the end of the game is on the low side. This is undoubtedly because there is so much less to do! No hair dressers, no mod shops for your cars, no race events. Clothing shops have such a limited array of clothing, and most of it looks crap. Reminds me of going to Primark.
The missions themselves remind me of World of Warcraft, as they are effectively grinding missions requiring you to go to the mission site, find bloke, kill bloke, chase other bloke down in car, chase half way across map, kill bloke, drive all the way back to the mission giver. The shooting system isnt much good either, as you lock on to your targets and you just have to spam the button as he stands there in the open. The cover system isn't great, and this sucks as the AI can be brutally accurate at times.
Remember what I said about nights being dark? Well this is where it becomes an utter pain. If you have the severe misfortune of ending up doing a mission in the dark, then you literally cannot see a thing. I failed some missions a bunch of times because my target got away because I couldn't find the damn door. You could turn the brightness settings all the way up, but once it becomes light again, you have to tune them back down. It becomes a mission of repetitiveness.
Overall I would score this game on a percentage of 80%. It does take some previous areas of the other GTA games and improves on them hugely (graphics being the main one). However it does take a LOT out too and it makes you wonder...what really is a GTA game? They are meant to be about smashing people up and going hilarious missions! GTA 4's more realistic and serious take now requires a far more patient approach to things, and therefore I no longer classify it as a GTA game, more like True Crime: Streets of LA, on the dark side.
 Drive and Shoot July 31, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Drive.
Shoot.
Drive and shoot.
That's the game. Nice graphics, good characters. Boring and repetitive game play. Press hyped it for money.
Not as good or improved? July 28, 2008
So they've trimmed it a little, and maybe it does not look as good as the 360 version, perhaps they've made it slower in the storyline... Who cares? The fact is it is more realistic and better looking then it ever was and it is still the best way to take control of a whole town...
A Masterpiece, so why am i disappointed July 17, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Many reviews have highlighted the plus points to this awesome game, the inclusion of the mobile phone, the much improved combat and the friendships that you have the time to cultavate and which can serve in making the game eastier or at least a little different.
But, there is something missing and that something is ambition. San Andres may have been all over the place but the sandbox was large and encompassed many ideas. Niko is a mission machine who will work for anyone but he makes no headway in any organizations and more importanly there is nothing to spend your money on making side missions pointless.
Gone are businesses you can buy and cars you can modify, gone are gang wars and the ability to alter your charactor beyound his clothes, gone to is the ability to buy your own safe houses.
Instead this is a hollywood production. It is a great story with the first really good leading charactor of the GTA series but it is nothing new and maybe even a little less than what came before it.
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