Cristism. Everyone needs it and while Grand Theft Auto IV was being praises with a 10/10 from IGN and living up to the hype, somebody from video gamer sat in their basement to write up a blog on all the wrong things of the game. He relates the new to the old, basically and how Rockstar changed things...for the worse. Go to the source to read full details, but the changes that he doesn't like in the game are the 'too-realistic' driving, harsh cops, the world, the bad combat, the overall fun(what you can wear, how you can't do out-of-the-ordinary things like in the other GTA games), the bland story, the duplicate graphics(not a very strong point, here), and the multiplayer(basically, the cops are as good in real life, when they shouldn't be). He compares the 'sandbox' gaming of the old GTA, to the new style of the 'small steel box' type now.
It's all related to realism or their attempt at it. All the fun of the old GTAs has been severely reduced because you cant do stuff any more. The driving; you used to be able to fling the cars around at almost max speed - it was really fun. Now they are forcing you to drive slow at corners or you skid off. When you roll out of a car, you take tons of damage - it used to be much less. The driving isn't even realistic, ask anyone who drives. Someone on a forum joked that their Vauxhall Corsa can take corners faster than any car in GTA 4, and he's right.
You can't do crazy stuff any more and survive. The windscreen thing, flying out of it, that's just so lame. If you have a head on crash, you want to continue, because you've already been slowed down, not go flying for miles, lose tonnes of health and have to run back to the car.
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GTA is perfect.
Not.
I reckon the guy pretty much hit the nail on the head with the driving.
xD
It's not a matter of "suck", it's different and forces you to play differently. The next-generation consoles pride themselves on realism and I see this as a step in that direction.
Either way i love the new things in GTA4. SA has far too much crap than i couldn't even 100% the game, it was just that much.
I got around 80% that i gave up, cause all those other stuff was useless. I wanted to get 100% to be able to cheat without penalty. This game is perfect for me and many others who felt the same about SA.
Honestly, I agree with not getting too realistic. That makes it so that it really feels like you're simulating murders and car chases.
The fact is that there are many GTA fans who were expecting the game to look like it does, have an involved and engaging story like it does, and STILL have the incalculable freedom that past GTA games offered.
You are either in this group or you're not, period. However, to categorically dismiss the yearnings of longtime GTA fans who aren't embracing the whole paradigm shift toward realism is as closed minded as the people running into the forums to blindly rag on the game because they personally don't like it.
Again, the bottom line is that this whole argument boils quite interestingly down to the whole realism debate. And either you are a fan of realism or youb aren't.
Have they not played Scarface: The World is Yours?
Still no delete comment feature though.
10 Means its revolutionary and doing things no other game has done. Which this does. While GTA games has been known to take things from multiple genre's and add it in into a sandbox title, what this did was just that, and it did it quite well.
Damn its a misconception around the world on what the ratings score means. NONE of the reviewers who gave it a 10 said it was perfect. Thats true, they all said the same thing, revolutionary.
I love the game, and am no means attacking it. You will still catch me playing for months to come.
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Quit judging games on curves. A perfect game should have no glitches or flaws. I haven't seen one like that yet, so the highest this game should have received is 9.9
While this makes the game a little harder to play when you first kick off - you do get used to it.
Sure I miss the rallying of the older GTA's but the new driving is just as fun as soon as you get used to it.
That's pretty much all paid off now in GTA IV. The driving mechanics are definitely hard to get used to at first, but then again, I thought the same thing when I first played Burnout. It's a matter of getting used to it. But now choosing which car you "acquire" is a bigger part of the game... because you'll want a low-rider or a Banshee (best car EVER <3) for better performance, over an SUV that can't turn or a muscle car that accelerates more slowly.
Yeah, it's more realistic overall, cops are now vicious and fighting them may not be the best choice anymore, but like some one already said earlier, that's a question of preference. You either like realism or you don't. R* was aiming for it, so I'd say the game is successful in that respect.
Cops are a non-issue. It's ridiculously easy to get away from a 2 star even. 1 star is even easier. I like the cops a lot in this game.
There are plenty of side missions. I've ran info one and I didn't even want to. But the city does seem sort of lacking in a way, I admit.
The combat isn't great. The lock-on can be annoying. His gripes about cops taking too much damage is lame though. You can kill a cop with a well placed shot in one hit with the first pistol you get from 100 feet away. He just doesn't know how to use a shotgun.
You don't get the max wanted level from going on the airport. It's only 4 stars. And really, who cares about clothes or BMX bikes (who actually ever really used them). =/
The story hasn't been overly impressive but there are plenty of things to do in the game. What happened to going on straight up rampages? This guy is just uncreative and boring.
Graphics are fine. It's GTA, it's never had stellar graphics. It's not "pitch black at night". However the ragdoll effects on you are really annoying.
Multiplayer is awesome. He needs to get out of his shell and play a deathmatch.
End of the day this guy is an unimaginative cry baby who probably just sucks at the game. The game is far from perfect, but it's still great. None of these things are game breaking. If you don't have the game don't let this write up disappoint you.