When I started my run-through of doing a GTA game a year I did not expect to like this game as much as I would have (let alone 100% it). This game is one of the darker GTA games and does it many favors because of the mature style of its story where the humor is there and when it hits and does not overstay it for the serious movements in the story.

The gameplay for this took on a realistic style that has the cars and bikes having a bit of weight to it, and this change is good and bad. Cars handle well, but bikes at times felt like I had to fight with the bike, especially for doing one of the things 100%. Combat is very easy at times with the inclusion of auto aim but that comes with its own problem with auto aim because that has its own issues. Auto-aim only aims at one of its targets and it is hard to switch between targets when it is on. The other issue with combat is when most enemies take cover with auto-aim on it just a waiting game but the game can be easy at times so that did balance it out.

As for music in this game I will be honest since I played the pc port I put in my own music that I got from Spotify. Even if I were not playing the pc port and could not put the music in I would honestly say most of the music in this game does not appeal to me, that is why I chose to have my own music implemented.

As for the PC port itself, it is the version I have to recommend minus the big performance issues it has. This pc Pitt I’d known to be a buggy mess the big reason I played this version is mainly for the reason that the bc version on Xbox series x are locked at 60 which makes this game unbeatable due to a glitch in the final mission of the game which luckily the settings on the pc can fix that. Luckily too like I said earlier the PC version you are able to add the music that you want to listen to in the game so that is a plus.

Overall though GTA 4 is worth a play through, and wish that it was easier to play on Middleton consoles except for the 60 fps bug on the BC version. 100% was fun to do, and even though I’m not done with the GTA 4 universe because of the 2 episodes, this at least satisfied me a lot.

Reviewed on Jul 14, 2023


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