GTA IV: Great game but still a dissapointment
Description
Grand Theft Auto IV was released on April 29th of 2008. It was Developed by Rockstar North, Published by Rockstar Games, and Distributed by Take-Two Interactive. In the story you play as Niko Bellic who has come to Liberty City to live "The American Dream" with his cousin Roman. Niko once lived in Eastern Europe and is a veteran of the Bosnian War. After Niko gets settled in with his cousin, he realizes that all his tales of fortune and riches are false and happen to be filled with huge debts, drug deals, and the life of a gangster. Niko gets involved by trying to drag his cousin out of all this mix, consequently pulling them both in deeper. Your job playing as Niko is to survive and to attempt the life of an american in this corrupt city.
Analysis
Grand Theft Auto IV is an open world action-adventure shooter where your decisions decide your friends and your enemies. Throughout the game you make decisions that determine whether certain characters live or die. Ultimately there are only two different endings to the story but throughout the story you get to choose what happens to an extent. The game is played in a third person point of view but when shooting it moves to an over the shoulder view.
Interpretation
GTA IV is an alright game with good graphics and an decent story line. I feel like the story line has been done before just with different characters and such. The gameplay is good, between the graphics and the physics of the game it is good but not great. There isn't much customization to the game though and that is an issue because a hug part of Role PLaying Games is customization. You don't get to customize your guns or anything but you do get to choose from a limited selection of clothes for your character that look weird no matter what clothes he has on.
Judgement and Evaluation
GTA IV when you it comes down to it is an alright game. It is not the worst game i have ever played but it is certainly not the best. The gameplay is mediocre and the story line is repetitive. Almost all of the missions in the game you have to go and kill someone. Where in the other grand theft autos there were a variety of different missions such as flying a RC Helicopter with bombs attached to it to blow up a building. The missions in GTA IV just ended up being repetitive and annoying. Also if you did not use cheat codes to get weapons i do not know how you would survive against 15 gang members with huge assault rifles.
