5 Reasons Why Grand Theft Auto 4 is a bad GTA game *Spoilers* (56k?)

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/09/GTAIV_Logo.jpg

Reason #1: Shooting and Cover system sucks.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/32/Grand_Theft_Auto_IV_gameplay.jpg

Clunky shooting and cover system, my god that was just horrible. :(


Reason #2: Cops are very predictable in this game.

http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/grand-theft-auto-iv-screenshot-city-police-chase.jpg

First off, in car chases they ALWAYS try to trap you by crashing into each other in front of you and when in a building they always send the S.W.A.T that are just meat sheilds and are easy to gun down they run in like mindless idiots, they don't throw grenades or anything to make it difficult to escape.

Helicopters, easy to get rid of let's put it to that; In the end only out at sea is where the police are difficult because of the lack to swim underwater. Which brings me to....


Reason #3: Way to much content is taken out.

http://www.gta.cz/data/eng-sanandreas/clanky/telocvik/7-8-2005_16-36-09.jpg

No more swimming underwater, bummer it would have looked amazing in HD! :cry:

http://xboxmedia.ign.com/xbox/image/article/619/619378/grand-theft-auto-san-andreas-20050526025100522_640w.jpg

Boxing, and Karate cool things like those and changing they way you could fight, no more of that. :(

http://www.gta.cz/data/eng-sanandreas/clanky/telocvik/7-8-2005_17-54-39.jpg

Where are my bikes?! That's strictly the way I would try to get to places in GTA: SA :x

http://www.dedoimedo.com/images/games/gta_above_vice_city_2.jpg

This is a huge issue, no more jets/planes, come on Rockst*r this is a big thing in GTA, and you take it out?! :evil:

http://ps2media.gamespy.com/ps2/image/article/561/561830/grand-theft-auto-san-andreas-20041029021921623_640w.jpghttp://image.gamespotcdn.com/gamespot/images/2004/reviews/914983_20040723_screen006.jpghttp://www.ugo.com/images/galleries/grandtheftautosanandreas_games/1.jpg

We can't change the physical look of Nico, we can't lift weights, go for a swim, or run and ride a bike to have him look bigger and more fit, eating 20 hotdogs and drinking soda all the time won't have him gain any fat, what the hell Rockst*r :|

http://www.gtainside.com/downloads/download2/2player1ho.jpg

GTA 4 is missing couch co-op like in San Andreas, sure the camera got annoying but it was fun playing with a friend and messing around for a few hours. :P

Reason #4: The City is boring.

http://www.gamerscreensavers.com/Images/GRAND-THEFT-AUTO-IV55.jpg

After you complete the game, there's pretty much nothing to do. There's no cool mall like in GTA: Vice City, nothing to spend all that $$$ on no houses or anything to buy. With the stupid cell phone and having to drive friends around just to get things from them, for example Dwayne, if I kept him alive, before I can have him call buddies to come out and help me I have to take him to go bowling multiple times?! After all I've done.... :|

Reason #5: Missions are horrible

http://www.ngohq.com/attachments/screenshots/1502d1228392266-grand-theft-auto-iv-screenshots-grand-theft-auto-iv-screenshot-2.jpg

At the beggining of San Andreas your thrown out into a dangerous area and you have to quickly find your area and start the first mission before you get killed :shock: Now that's a start; Also on the first mission your chased down by people with guns and cars and all you have is a bike with no weapons and have to quickly escape.

http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/sites/jeux/img/807_gta_san_andreas_1_6.jpg

THAT WAS AWESOME! :)

At the beggining of GTA 4, you just drive Roman around to his apartment, that's what you do for like the first 5 missions just driving and meeting people, and the driving lasts forever this is dull, because the story to Grand theft Auto 4 is a snooze. The new Mafia 2 game, I never played it, but there was complaints on long driving nothing to do with your money etc, GTA 4 has the same problem.

http://guidesmedia.ign.com/guides/793799/images/gtaiv037.jpg

Yeah, well... I like Grand Theft Auto to be fun. :|

In the end Grand Theft Auto 4 should have been 7.5/10 on average, we have complaints on God Of War 3 not being as good as the other 2 because it didn't improve other than graphics, they same should be critizied on GTA4. The RAGE engine that Rockstar used for this game is awesome, but only for games like Red Dead Redemption it makes sense for it to be as real as possible back in the western times that's why RDR is a really good game and yea if anything it's miles ahead over GTA 4, due to actually improving from Revolver and adding more content and fixing issues and complaints from Revolver, making it the best Wild West Cowboy game out there. :P

http://gta.onlinewelten.com/uploads/inline/pic-770.jpg

Hopefully Agent will be what Grand Theft Auto 4 should have been.

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Nice blog.
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Nice blog.GeneralShowzer

Thanks! It's really goo- wait.... :P

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#4 emorainbo
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I agree with some points and disagree with others. For one I think Liberty City is an amazing place and I really felt is alive. I agree that the shooting and cover system needed some work but I think it was a step in the right direction (RDR is evidence that R* can make it work) And finally I have to say that I dont miss a lot of those crappy side activities found in other sandbox games although I would have liked to see planes.

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#5 JohnF111
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I agree somewhat... The game just lost everything that made it fun.. Just like you posted and because of the cellphone crap i stopped playing when i hit the second island, just boring and getting silly requests to go bowling... Urgh....
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As for the first point, I'd be hard-pressed to be convinced that the shooting mechanics in GTAIV could possibly be worse than in the GTAIII (VC, SA, LCS) games.
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As for the first point, I'd be hard-pressed to be convinced that the shooting mechanics in GTAIV could possibly be worse than in the GTAIII (VC, SA, LCS) games.PannicAtack
Yea, overall GTA games don't have a good shooting system. That's a thing that they could have improved in this one.
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well it cant be that bad if we are still talking about it. I really hate playing it on console though, its just so ugly and slow on anything but a fairly beefy pc. I also find the shooting mechanics terrible using a gamepad, something they didnt even fix in red dead redemption.

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[QUOTE="PannicAtack"]As for the first point, I'd be hard-pressed to be convinced that the shooting mechanics in GTAIV could possibly be worse than in the GTAIII (VC, SA, LCS) games.Wesrcks13
Yea, overall GTA games don't have a good shooting system. That's a thing that they could have improved in this one.

And they didn't improve right...are you kidding me?
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[QUOTE="Wesrcks13"][QUOTE="PannicAtack"]As for the first point, I'd be hard-pressed to be convinced that the shooting mechanics in GTAIV could possibly be worse than in the GTAIII (VC, SA, LCS) games.GeneralShowzer
Yea, overall GTA games don't have a good shooting system. That's a thing that they could have improved in this one.

And they didn't improve right...are you kidding me?

It still feels clunky man... :(

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#11 GeneralShowzer
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[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"][QUOTE="Wesrcks13"] Yea, overall GTA games don't have a good shooting system. That's a thing that they could have improved in this one. Wesrcks13

And they didn't improve right...are you kidding me?

It still feels clunky man... :(

No it doesn't. You're looking for senseless reasons to hate the game. It's better than most TPS out there. Like Kane and Lynch. You can take cover behind anything so it feels very natural. Cars, barrels you name it. It doesn't feel clunky at all.
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[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"][QUOTE="Wesrcks13"] Yea, overall GTA games don't have a good shooting system. That's a thing that they could have improved in this one. Wesrcks13

And they didn't improve right...are you kidding me?

It still feels clunky man... :(

its only ever felt right with keyboard and mouse, which is odd since the pc versions have been coming a year late since gta 3.
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#13 TerrorRizzing
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[QUOTE="Wesrcks13"]

[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"] And they didn't improve right...are you kidding me?GeneralShowzer

It still feels clunky man... :(

No it doesn't. You're looking for senseless reasons to hate the game. It's better than most TPS out there. Like Kane and Lynch. You can take cover behind anything so it feels very natural. Cars, barrels you name it. It doesn't feel clunky at all.

if playing with a controller it sure does, locking on to targets and fighting to aim at their head... ya thats awesome.
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The reason why I hate GTAIV is: horrible mission structure (too many multi-part missions that are repetitive cycle of drive, shoot, drive, shoot, drive) no checkpoints clunky controls that destroyed fun in shootouts (worse in PS3) very bad cover system I havne't played SA, but seeing how Vice City is one of my favourite games of last gen, GTAIV is very underwhelming..... and the ridiculous part is that except for the first one (which would be a lot less noticeable if they had checkpoints), the other mistakes are pretty easy to fix.
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[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"][QUOTE="Wesrcks13"]

It still feels clunky man... :(

TerrorRizzing

No it doesn't. You're looking for senseless reasons to hate the game. It's better than most TPS out there. Like Kane and Lynch. You can take cover behind anything so it feels very natural. Cars, barrels you name it. It doesn't feel clunky at all.

if playing with a controller it sure does, locking on to targets and fighting to aim at their head... ya thats awesome.

Well what do you expect. It's Liberty ****** City man, they can't fit all the enemies in one tiny corridor, so console gamers can think they're good shots when they kill everything.

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I am of the thought that Saints Row 2 is a better "GTA" game than GTA4. The lack of checkpoints during missions... playing as Nico Belloc moron... nothing to spend money on and nothing to do after you beat the game take away from the entire package.

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Its one of the biggest dissapointments ive played in 32 years of life. I truly felt that GTA for many of the reasons listed above was just a giant overblown turd of a game. mostly, it was INCREDIBLY BORING! Ive made threads like this before discussing my distataste for GTA4, I respect the scope and detail of the game, but man was it bad as a video game.

edit: Chinatown wars is the best gta this gen and for me its the best since vice city.

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Haters gonna hate. 98% Metacritic One of the best selling games ever.
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