"This city can get real scary if you got no friends remember that"

A game about the city and not it's characters, everyone is a vilain here, Dimitri, Niko, Ray, Luis, Jhonny etc, GTA IV will present the player with differnts visions of the city through the eyes of 3 differnt characters that work for different mafias but every single story cross with each other all the time, that can happen through the main missions, the radio talking about the other campaing events like the heroin traficc of the Jhonny group, the russian mafia massacres of Niko and so on, even the color pallet it different for every character, representing it ways to see the city like Niko has a Gray filter all the time representing his feeling of being dead inside since the war, every single one of the stories are bitter, the characters are sad and the city eat the soul of every single one of them, the perfect gaming representation of the american dream am i right?

GTA IV has by far the most "Alive" city that rockstar ever made, you make friends on the story, friends that miss the characters if you don't hang out with them or even get mad about it, internet dating, radios and newspaper sites that talk about every single event of the story so things don't feel like an isolated thing where it has no impact on the city, you can find differnt special npcs with missions and unique random events, you deal with every tipe of american hypocritical steryotipe, from a ultra right-wing family values gay senator to a black guy trying to make money from the tragedies on the hood. We are presented we 3 amazing stories from horrible characters trying to survive in america and i think every single one of this stories are better than any other thing rockstar has ever written, and honestly i doubt this will change with GTA VI.





Reviewed on Dec 29, 2023


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