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| Grand Theft Auto IV (Xbox 360) | 
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| From: Rockstar
Category: Video Games
List Price: £49.99
Buy Used: £16.99
You Save: £33.00 (66%)
New (20) Used (54) from £16.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  135 reviews
Sales Rank: 74
Platform: Xbox 360
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
ESRB: Adults Only
Media: Video Game
Age: 18 - 18 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 5026555245920
EAN: 5026555245920
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Minor ware to outside of the case, But disc is in Mint Condition Sent first class
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| Customer Reviews:
 Nothing special August 13, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Oh dear, this game sports a dissapointing framerate, uninspiring visuals and a distinct lack of originality. The amount of fun features has been cut down from san andreas and the violence has been toned down; the blood looks like grey paint. Dissapointing.
Different, but better August 5, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Now, you may agree or disagree with my title but for me it was a better game. There were just certain things which made it feel like a much more solid product than the other GTAs. I remember when I played the 1st GTA, it was quite fun though it never felt like a very grown up game, this one feels like it's more for the guys rather than the boys.
Graphics: It's not hard to see that this is the best looking Grand Theft Auto title produced, everything looks more solid than any of the others and the bullet holes and scrapes on the cars helps to make them look more real.
Story: Another strong point of GTAIV, the story has a more gritty feel to it as such and (I don't think I need to explain it since it has been already several times) yet again feels more like a real story rather than the more fictional ones of the past, though it does present the game with a problem.
Gameplay: For me, my idea of fun in a game wasn't racing around in a ambulance or a taxi, it was more about the more basic things such as how the cars handled and how combat was. It's good and bad news on this front. Get a decent car and the handling is pretty good (In the beginning it is a problem but it is easier to get use to I found) but it can be annoying at the start and some of the car chases are annoying later on. The combat has too been improved quite a bit though still isn't trouble free, I found hand to hand combat more awkward this time so never really bothered with it and the lock on sometimes doesn't do what it should.
Audio: The music is good with a large variety of styles for all different tastes, however I got quite fed up of it as the radio stations seem to be shorter than they use to be. The voice casting is really good and does help the story to be one of it's strongest points.
Lifespan: Now, this is probably GTAIV's main problem. Extra chapters will be available sometime in 2009 however could I see myself keeping this game for that long? Probably not, since there isn't much else to do other than the story and get more money which you really don't need, and money is what proves a weakness in the story. I find it hard to see Niko as a poor, Russian immigrant who kills people as he has no other options when he has $500,000 in his bank account. I think having large amounts of money to go missing from it would help to make the story more believeable since he claims Roman gambles it all away and this would help to make you more careful with what weapons you buy with your money.
Also, making it so that you can put 9mm bullets into a Desert Eagle means there is no reason to be careful with ammo and no reason to buy it, it is quite an old problem with the GTA series but it would help to flesh out the combat a bit more than just being able to blind fire with a Desert Eagle for ages.
All in all, a good game though to an extent a disappointing one. It can be difficult to get into, but it can be worth it if you stick it out, it's just a shame that it's lost out on part of it's soul (the ambulance and taxi missions weren't exactly my favorite missions, though I appreciated why they were there) as it could have appealed to the boys and the guys/men. Would I suggest buying it? Possibly not, maybe a rental then buy it if you really like it.
 Well Made But Just Didn't Grab Me August 5, 2008
There's no doubt that a lot of work went into this game. The graphics and sound are both very good and the game is a highly polished, slick affair. It's also very funny, although in an un-relentingly cynical way. The game world is big and gives you the freedom to do pretty much what ever you want.
The thing is, the game just didn't really grab my attention. There's something about it I just found a bit ... well, dull really. The missions mainly seemed to boil down to driving somewhere, watching a cut scene and then driving back. It's fun to go on the rampage the first couple of times but that gets tiresome pretty quickly.
It's certainly not a bad game, and as far as production values go it's great, but is wasn't for me.
Rockafella August 1, 2008
There are a few reasons why GTA4 is different from its predecessors. Firstly, the whole thing seems darker and moodier; generally more serious. Secondly, the graphics are better. The reflections in the puddles, the crash damage to vehicles and the cut-scenes are all excellent. The lighting is great, and looking down at the weather and the sunrise across the city from a vantage point is great. Thirdly, the car controls have been tweaked to perfection, very responsive but not overly twitchy. I consider all these good points.
The bad points are that the game still suffers from the same problems as all the others. The awful, awful camera angles when running, for example, leads to you getting shot and killed by someone in big shootouts standing around a corner because the clunky controls don't let you move fast enough to hide yourself. Another issue I have with it is that too many of the missions are the same content-wise. I lost count of how many times I had to go and empty a warehouse of bad guys in order to pick something up and return with it. Missions like this become a chore, and when you are only playing in order to finish the game and not out of enjoyment, then the game has lost you.
Luckily, enough of it has been tweaked to make it a lot of fun on its own, even if you ignore the missions. The city is beautifully crafted, certainly their best effort yet in that department. And it's miles better than the atrocious San Andreas, which got boring after about half an hour. The addition of online play is the knockout punch. If you have a good connection it just works really well, with plenty of choice in relation to types of game and the whole open endedness of it means you're less likely on here than with other games to get those sad individuals who devote their lives to the thing and kill everyone in a single shot while hanging upside down reading a novel with one eye shut. You know the sort I mean.
Good game, fun to play but not perfect with the same problems now getting annoying. Buy it and enjoy it, but Rockstar need to start getting rid of those creases instead of ironing them out.
not as good July 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i was so hyped up for this game but when i got it, it was like every mission was simular. you get told to go somehwere then you do an objective then you go back to where you started and that is it mission over. gta san andreas is better. gta iv is not worth 39.99. the game was over pretty quicky and the plot was not the best. overall dont get this game at this price wait till it is a bit cheaper. if you like complicated games and hard games then dont get this. it well to easy the complete. i completed it within 1 week. so easy.
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