Grand Theft Auto IV Expert Reviews

The fourth installment in the hugely popular

The brilliance in the writing and the dialog of GTA IV is just one of the many reasons it is so entertaining. It is one of those games where you could sit back and not even participate in it, just to see and hear the interaction between the wide range ...

Grand Theft Auto IV is finally here, riding a wave of hype and perfect review scores. Nothing can live up to those expectations, but the game is one of the most striking cases for gaming as a storytelling medium. The Ars Technica review inside.

Upgraded graphics may be subtle in places, but they're very impressive, Better mechanics for gun play and fighting, Easier to get around Liberty City, Huge amount of content and side missions, Amazing cut scenes and vocal work, A story with better ...

The phone can be very hard to read at times, The camera could use work when driving, The frame rate is hard to get used to, and is often low, Sixaxis controls are weak, and will likely be turned off by most players, The missions can be repetitive at ...

I don't envy people who have to write game guides. Sure, they get to play the game before us and obviously get some help along the way from the developers, but it must be a right headache stopping and starting every few seconds to write down every ...

Grand Theft Auto IV hurtles onto the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 with the force of a supernova, making good on nearly all its promises.

Niko Bellic, Grand Theft Auto IV's bruiser from the former Eastern Bloc, is a stone-cold couch potato, a desperate online dater with dead-on aim, and a chronic websurfer who could kill you in a hand-to-hand Krav Maga brawl. Fresh off the boat, he's an ...

Game setting is richer than ever. New multimedia features including in-game Internet, e-mail and cable TV. Clever missions.

Missing some of the zanier toys from "San Andreas."

Grand Theft Auto IV is more immersive than ever with an engaging storyline, upgraded multimedia elements, and a dynamic setting where anything can happen. Videogame worlds just don't get this deep.

It may not be entirely true that crime doesn't pay, but more importantly it's not nice, which is why few of us pull our girlfriend's tights over our head and stick up the local sweet shop. In the virtual world, morality is rather more flexible, and ...

Mirror, signal, marauder. Satisfy your criminal urges in the latest addition to a justifiably notorious series.

Another epic installment of the GTA series, tragically hampered by a poor PC port

For the PC version, Rockstar has also included an integrated video editor. The scope offered as a director and editor is impressive, and it'll be interesting to see what machinima arises once people truly explore its depth

Grand Theft Auto is many things: a popular video game and a controversial subject, among others. It's also a brilliant satire wrapped in an ingenious crime story inside an interactive masterpiece. It really is.

To this day, Grand Theft Auto seems almost like a serendipitous fluke to me, a fascinating but improbable tale of two incredibly ambitious brothers almost stumbling into their third-in-sequence megahit by tapping a niche freeform legacy reaching back ...

a game that needs no introduction

A grand game in so many respects, and an absolute must for every X360 owner (unless you're offended by the adult themes, naturally).

Can Grand Theft Auto IV live up to all the hype? Stuart certainly thinks so...

GTAIV shows the pretenders how it should be done, with an incredibly rich world, strong characters, great technology and a truly compelling story. Provided you can handle its skewed morality, it's the year's most essential video game.