Grand Theft Auto is back with its latest installment. You return to a new Liberty CIty as Niko Bellic, a russian who has come to America to start anew. When he arrives in the "land of oppurtunity" he is greeted by his cousin Roman Bellic who has offered to let him stay and work for him to earn some cash. Niko, hoping to settle down and find a girl, soon finds out that his past in Russia has followed him to America. He soon is betrayed by a group of people he thinks is his friends. The person who betrays him turn out to be a Russian who is friends with the person Niko had been trying to escape from.
The gameplay in GTA IV is very good. You can hold the left-trigger half way down for free zoom or hold it all the way down for lock-on. You can carry as many weapons as you can find. There is anything from a sub-machine gun, shotguns, to sniper rifles. Each weapon is good for certain tasks such as being in a massive gun fight or for stealth.
The AI in the game is much improved. Civilians will fight back if you steal their car and they react to if you pull out a gun and shoot it. The enviroments are wonderful. The city is huge and has no load times during the game. You can go from building to building with no loading. The graphics are beautiful for such a large area to cover and it has almost no framerate issues. SOmetimes I notice minor slow down but nothing to interupt your gameplay.
Don't get me wrong the game is not perfect by any means. Sometimes I have trouble getting in to games online. I will enter a deathmatch and I will be kicked out for no reason. Also I will sometimes notice my people I am escorting or teamed with stop shooting or stand still for a second as if frozen.
The little details is what makes this game amazing. You can go into your apartment and turn on your TV. There are several different stations that have new shows on pretty often. Also going to a comedy club is hilarious. The jokes are funny, and you can sit there and watch several shows of comedy or hang at the strip club for hours. The thing about this game is it provides hardcore and casual gamers with several things to do.
Also it is nice to be able to feel a connection with a character for once. You can almost feel sorry for Niko because he deals with problems in life a lot of people face. Maybe not to the extent of feeling like killing someone, and actually doing it, but you really can connect with him.
The game is not perfect by any means, but if you don't own this game and can't decide what to get next then I strongly suggest looking at this game.