Great story, great game!
Now let me just clear this up. This is the first GTA game where I ever completed the story. I never bought San Andreas, I bought GTA lll and GTA Vice city BUT I just played those for fun. Anyways on to the game itself. I bought GTA IV excepting a whole lot. It was hyped to the maximum and I joined in on the hype and I admit thats something you should never do because you'll often be dissapointed but with GTA that is not the case. When you first pop in the disk you will be greeted by the opening scene (which is one of the best opening scenes in game so far) Which shows Niko Bellic on a cargo ship closing in on liberty city. After getting off the boat his cousin arrives a few seconds late, but he shows up a drunken mess. After YOU drive him back to his place you find out his stories were a pack of lies and the only thing he owns is a taxi business. After that the story begins.The first time I played it I was just so into the game. It was just so greatly done.The controls are of the average game of the GTA type. There is a new cover system that is great offline, horrible online. The driving controls definatley take a while to get used to but they are a big improvement even so. The car damage is great and I mean great! Flip a car upside down and then get a car and ram back up, its unbelieavable. The soundtrack does have a few good songs but I wouldn't call any of them great. The online was great and the missions were interesting. Graphics are defineatly a huge improvement. AI has improved and this whole game is just too damn good.
4.5./5
