Grand Theft Auto 4 (Platinum)

Yes this is a good game, and well worth playing. Especially at the platinum price and considering the hours of content to play.

If you are easily offended though, by violence, foul language, sex and general rudeness... give it a miss because it will offend. Its an 18 for a reason and not something which young kids should play.

But this is a very over rated game also. While it is very good, with a strong storyline, lots of quests and a large area to explore... its also nothing original, and its certainly not perfect or a 10/10.

Its mainly let down by the controls and considering this is meant to primarily be a driving game... its the driving controls which are the worst aspect of the game.

Steering isn't great, but you get used to it, but if you try to use an external view when driving the camera swings all over the place and obscures your direction. If you are doing a timed drive, its a nightmare. Driving just isnt as good as it should be for a game this new which is meant have a strong driving aspect to it.

And driving a motorbike or shooting while driving makes it harder.

The other annoyance is how failed missions are handled. If a mission fails, you are returned right back to where you start which requires you to then re-drive to your destination AGAIN, which can be a tad frustrating if its quite a distance away.

A lot of missions involved driving to one place, changing car and then driving somewhere else. You would think a failed mission might restart you at point 2 in the equation, but unfortunately not.

But if you fail a mission, you can very easily just skip it and restart it ANYTIME you want, so its not all bad.

The other tiny gripe is fist fighting... its just awful. AWFUL!! Stick to using guns or at least your baseball bat, because hand to hand fighting is just rubbish and SLOWWW.

Otherwise.. not counting those 3 issues, this is a good game which should be played by people OVER 18, who can distinguise reality from fiction.

I can see a lot of young kids playing this and copy catting it, so if your a parents, have some common sense!!

But otherwise.. buy it.

best gta game so far for me and at £15. wat a gift
still playing this flat out and online is a great laugh with your mates
a absolute must have game for your collection.

I bought this game shortly after it first came out, i enjoy all the GTA games since the very start.
Again another good game, graphics, gameplay story all decent but it has picked up some annoying liitle bits.
Whats with the having a girlfriend and having to hang out with mates in the game, i liked the novelty at the start but it got very tiresome after a while. I think the game could have done without this bit. You can ignore it but you have to keep some people on friendly terms to get favours.
I like most other parts of the game, the story is quite good and long so offers a lot of game time, plus you can always break off from the storyline add one of the gun codes and pick a building to start sniping from.
As a platinum game it is well worth buying, great value. 8/10

buy this game!!! it may be old but it is still one of the best games out there and a absolute bargain at this price. the graphics will blow you away the story mode is great it has a vast map area to play in,and then you have the bonus of blowing your mates to bits online. miss it miss out

i think it's the best game i've ever played, it's a masterpiece in graphic.
you have a lot of missions to do and secondary missions,
quite long game...
trophies are a lot, among them some takes you a lot of time.... online playing it's amazing and takes you in competition with other people, that is very funny.
the story offline it's appreciable, you can move sixaxis to control heli, motorbikes, boats, charge the weapon by shoking it..
there are also shows that are really funny...

i'm italian: it contain's ITALIAN language, italian menu and subtitles, but english voice.... as all the gta rockstar made

finally... a must have!!!
too wonderful game