 Really good game at a really good price. |
| Review Date: August 15, 2009 |
| Reviewer: The Unknown, London, UK |
Loads of people have been giving this game a bad review because it 'runs slow', requires Games For Windows live account and a social club account ect. Thing is that I own an Xbox 360 so I already have a Live account and I don't mind applying for a social club account. The social club account is however not at all needed, all that the game requires is for the program to be installed. Whether or not you have the account it doesn't matter, all the account does is inform you of updates (Which is nice but they could have done it without the whole social club thing I agree). Oh and for the game requiring an online live account isn't true. In game when you set up the game you can set up an offline account so you don't have to go online to save your game.
So on to the subject of it running 'slow', GTA IV for the PC is a very demanding game of your hardware but it can run on some newer lower end hardware. I mean the game is playable on a ATi HD 3200 IGP on lowest settings so having something like a 4650 or a GTS 250 should put GTA IV on good settings and enough for you to play the game. When Crysis came out people were asking the Q "Will it run", they weren't complaining that it took a lot of processing power, so what makes GTA IV different?, maybe people just had really high expectations.
This game has a really good story, is fun and there is lots to do. A bonus feature for the PC version is that it has up to 32 multiplayer and has a video editor which allows you save clips, edit them and then upload them! Another thing that is really good is the modding community that GTA IV is acquiring, groups of people are coming together to add their own features to GTA IV. One of them I'd like to point out is 'First person view', yes you can go round liberty city and experience it from the first person view. This is also not restricted to cars, so you get to drive cars the way they are supposed to be driven!
All in all I think its a good buy at its price, I don't know if I'd pay more. |
A superior Gaming experience
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| Review Date: February 2, 2009 |
| Reviewer: C Smith, London, UK |
Having played this game to death in recent months, i felt it necessary to contest or concur with some of the main issues, at least from my experience.
1.) installing the two extra appications (windows live and social) is unnecessary, and should not be repeated on future games, but has negligible impact on gaming overall.
2.) Some reviews suggest you need to be online to save your game file; this is false, my gaming pc has never been connected online whilst gaming, but i save nonetheless.
3.) I am running vista 64; this should be suicide, but this OS runs every modern game, including gta 4 no problem, and in decent hardware with a sensible user, is very stable.
4.) the 'high' system requirements are fully justifiable; this is a massive gaming experience that requires a relatively high commitment from your hardware.
From the internal benchmark test, and third party apps, i am running at 42fps, no lagging, no bsods, or random shutdowns.
I am running a self-built q6600 quad, 4gb ram, p5w dh MB, with a modest 640mb geforce 8800gts card, with vista 64. latest bios, latest drivers etc. In gamer-enthusiast terms, this is a very average, but cost effective rig, and in 9 months from the time of writing this review, this could be the standard consumer configuration in the shops.
In other words, don't make unreasonable demands on the game's system requirements; we want a next generation game that leaves everything else in the dust, and we got it, This game will run well on 'modern PCs,' for which i believe the game was intended.
On the game itself, Gta 4 creates the most spectacular and immersive simulation i've yet encountered; no other game compares, and as much as i loved gta3/vc/sa, this is a staggeringly evolved form of the series. The characters and plotlines are either over-the-top and random, or involving and dramatic, the some of the plot 'twists' are shocking, which is something that was lacking from the earlier games. The creation of New York City defies belief. Many hours have been spent just walking around the streets, listening to the funny or obscene chitter-chatter on the sidewalk, or set the 'vehicle density' to maximum, and feel like its a rush-hour on a sunny monday morning in times-square, where everyone is busy except you, unless you prepare to jack a helicopter and rain searing death upon the local law enforcement.
On-foot combat has had a major overhaul into a configuration that allows for some very exciting gun battles; the satire on the radio is still relentless, although the choice of music, though decent, does not compare to the real driving music of say, vice city.
Graphically, this game is IMO the equal of the notorious Crysis, much lauded as the benchmark in visuals. At a textures level, crysis may be more detailed, but it is not as dynamic or impactful as the visualisation of a living city. Crysis needs its graphics to be anything more than a decent combat game; New york city is just as convincing with 20% draw distance, and medium graphics settings.
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Grand Theft Auto IV
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| Review Date: February 16, 2010 |
| Reviewer: fabian, |
Grand Theft Auto IV is a classic game. I've not completed it yet, but of half the game I've played it is amazing! This game is probably the best I have ever played and I'm not joking! The sheer freedom, graphics, and amazing physics applied to many objects in the game make this a killer PC game - PROVIDED YOU HAVE THE REQUIRED HARDWARE. Let's face it - this was a "lazy" port, but that doesn't make it a bad game. All it means is that you need greater hardware than was needed on the 360 and PS3. As I do - I can speak of the game truthfully, as it funs fine at 1080p on very high for ALMOST everything except view distance. GTA IV is a masterpice of game development. One feature which is the icing on the cake is that Euphoria physics is used, so jacking a car may result in you being dragged 100 metres down the road before getting flung off!
This brings me to another point. By pressing F2 or Select on the 360 pad at ANY TIME (obviously not cutscenes) you can save the last 30 secs of footage. In fact it's deeper than that. You can - from your phone - access the video editor, where you import clips you took and edit them. Amazingly the footage you took earlier can be paused and the camera REFOCUSED on a different point, so you can create slick 10 minute films for the Rockstar Social Club!
I love this game to bits and love everything about it.
My specs are my home built PC if your interested:
Gigabyte EP45T-UD3P Motherboard - which is excellent!
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ stock 2.83 GHz
EVGA GTX 285 1 Gigabyte RAM
Four Gigs of DDR3 RAM |
Driving needs drivers.
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| Review Date: December 30, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Mr. R. G. Mills, North Yorkshire, UK |
Awesome game!
At first I had a few technical issues with this game - my ATI 3870 stuttered when travelling at high speeds (a common problem reported across the GTA community) but this was easily solved by updating the drivers for my graphics card. It runs as smooth as yoghurt now. Version 4 of the patches available from Rockstar fixes everything else, making this game one of the best games I've ever played - certainly the best in the GTA series.
If you don't mind fiddling with patches and drivers for ten minutes then I highly recommend this game, especially at this price. |
GTA 4 PC
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| Review Date: May 4, 2010 |
| Reviewer: S. Schulte, germany |
its a very good game...
but a few things should be better, like the handling of the helicopter! In San Andreas is the handling is better. And the map is too small, in San Andreas is much greater than in this game... |
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