Video & Online Gaming: Did you Enjoy Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV?

Question

Since Grand Theft Auto V comes out September 17, 2013, I decided to Re-Review Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV. Now, as I replayed the game I noticed even more issues then before.

- Broken Combat/Cover system; The Gamer hits the Cover button once to get into cover, but then as The Gamer attemps to move along whatever cover The Gamer's taken, the system often randomly interprets that movement to mean The Gamer want to switch cover entirely. Rather than sneaking along a wall to ambush an unsuspecting enemy, the mechanic can read the movement as The Gamer wants to break cover, run two feet to a fire hydrant and crouch behind it while bullets rain into The Gamer. leaving The Gamer to die, the entire Cover Mechanic is up to Niko's better judgment whether he'd like The Gamer to moves further down the alleyway like intended, or jogs across the street in a hail of gunfire to die.

- Broken Driving mechanics: The Gamer will slide around like everything is black ice; sad when a game named Grand Theft Auto which is the law for jacking a vehicle doesn't get the Driving Mechanics down right. Not to mention the game forces The Gamer to use the driving mechanics repeatedly, in near to every mission in the game; plus tosses new driving mechanics that don't work without any regard.

- Zero Mid-Mission Check point; If a mission requires the gamer to drive across town after receiving a cellphone mission to enter a warehouse, kill Russian mobsters within, Precisely take out one of them before they shoot Roman, Wait for Roman to get in the car, and Escape a level three wanted level, the gamer shouldn't have to redo this entire mission if their aim is off or The Gamer hits one of the explosive cans outside the warehouse. That's just shoddy design, and there's no justifying that.

- Broken Jump & Climbing Controls; There is an uncertainty with the Jump & Climbing mechanic. the gamer has to continuously wonder: Is Niko going to just step over this curb, or is the gamer going to get caught jogging in place alongside it? If the gamer hits the button now, does that mean hop over that guardrail, or leap in front of that speeding bus? Does pressing jump actually mean jump, or does it mean vault over the safety railing and fall to certain death.

- Relentless Police: Tapping a police car can gain The Gamer two stars, which is already near as impossible to escape.

- Broken Collision Detection: Collision Detection could either mean a car barely hits The Gamer and The Gamer is not phased or The Gamer starts doing the hula without any control as to stopping.

I don't know how exactly Grand Theft Auto IV earned a Ten out of Ten, personally I rated it at a generous Three out of Ten score.

Video & Online Gaming: Did you enjoy Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV?
Did you notice/ignore most of these problems stated above, why?

Answer 1

Think about how you felt about it when it first come out, odds are you loved it. The game was the most advanced video game we had played but as time went on we started to see everything that was wrong with it. I remember playing GTA 4 when it came out and just loving everything about it but fast forward to present day and I realized just how meh it is, maybe its because we have been spoiled by games that came out afterwards and you could for example go into cover and keep your cover while going around the corner and when we tried it in GTA 4 we realized we couldn't do it.

Back then the game was a masterpiece but with todays standards it just doesn't live up to the hype it once had.

Plus there wasn't anything to do! Couldn't customize cars, no tattoos, hardly any clothes, no stats that you could raise, only a few mini games, plus their wasn't a very good variety in missions, for the most part it was go here and shoot this guy, drive over there and shoot that guy, and repeat over and over again. If it wasn't for playing with friends online I probably would have been bored with the game and hardly ever touched it after I eventually beat it.

Answer 2

I had none of these 'bug' problems. Maybe it's your computer/game console or your just really bad at playing GTA IV. I completely disagree with everything you said. The driving mechanics are fine. The Zero mid-mission check points add a challenge (it's a video game). The jump and climbing controls are fine. Your "relentless police" argument factors in two things:

1. Your ability to be smart enough to not hit a police officer in the first place. The reaction in GTA is the same as if you did it in real life.

2. Your ability to get away. Either get in a car and drive quickly to the nearest pay & spray or get in a boat and go as far out as you can.

I also had no problems with "collision detection"

Answer 3

your question explains everything that i didnt like about gta 4 and nice review,as dustin have said,it was a masterpiece at that time but now its a crappy **** old game with not a proper port for a pc.i mean when i had version 1.4 of gta 4 i had 50 fps gameplay and when i upgraded to 1.7 it dropped down to 25 fps.it was like "OMG!!! did i payed all my savings for this crappy fps.i played max payne 3 afterwards and then it was like "gta 4 has the worst shooting system".but what they did with max payne 3 was epic and it is good to hear that the studio that made max payne 3 is helping the gta 5 studio to better optimize the gta 5 game.hope gta 5 comes out for pc and is well optimized.

Answer 4

it would be biased to look at gta IV today. when it came out, people were so easy to overlooked the flaws of the game cause they're just having fun and amazed at the liveliness of the city.



I do agree about the broken combat mech and savepoints, but none I have experienced your other points. GTA IV? not so much after a couple of hours. GTA IV gay tony? LOVED IT

Answer 5

I hated gta iv.it was lame and boring from day 1 of its release.i have never wanted to put down a controller when playing any other gta game,this includes the top down versions.this game was the biggest waste of money and time.it should have gta stripped from its title.hope this helps.

Answer 6

okay you shouldn't care about those little things.

I did enjoyed GTA 4 alot.

I would give it a 9.5/10.

Answer 7

Try reddit for this... http://www.reddit.com/r/Games