I am currently a little less than 20% done with GTA IV. Overall, I would give it a 98% out of 100. I have a few gripes with it, but I will get to those in a second. The missions are way better than any of the previous games. This is a major upgrade from GTA: San Andreas. The missions in that game were really my only gripe. A lot were stupid like the Area 51 one. The missions are very realistic as is the whole game. The graphics are fantastic as well. Every street looks alive and lived in. The characters interact with each other and their environment realistically. Also, the interactions between Nico (your character) and his environment are flawless. When he commits a crime, it is reported on the radio and when he acts out, people recognize this in other ways than simply running and screaming. Stealing an occupied car results in several different outcomes, all realistic. Stealing an unoccupied car results in more than simply opening the door and driving off. While this game has employed an incredible level of realism, it has done something else I was sure that it would fail at and that is maintaining a high level of societal parody. Through billboards, radio commercials, comments heard on the street etc. the game continues a lot of the dry humor previous games made successful. The car damage in he game is incredible and has been looked over in other interviews. It is beyond impressive. It is yet another realistic touch to the game.
A lot of people have had complaints about the character's eastern European accents in the game. I don't. I do have some gripes with the characters. While some characters like Roman and Nico, you become close to, others are simply exceptionally annoying. The Jamaican Little Jake is impossible to understand and not even a funny parody of the "stoned Jamaican dude". The guy is simply annoying and you don't even know what to do on the mission until the game tells you at the bottom of the screen. Roman, your cousin in the game, has a friend named Brucie. He is a douchebag and has douchebag missions. Every time I am forced to do one of his or Little Jake's missions to advance to new characters, I cringe in disgust. Also, the game seems to follow the pattern of doing missions for someone and then deciding to kill them to move on to someone else's missions.
Another gripe is that the game's radio stations have taken several large steps back. The rock radio station is decent and a little repetitive and a lot of the others contain no name artists or obnoxious type of music. So far, I have found no way to change the stations to turn them off. Also, the little quips Iggy Pop makes as DJ suck as well.
Another thing I do not get is having a girlfriend and friends who you do activities with, but it doesn't seem to make a major difference. I can turn Roman or Little Jacob down for fun times and it seems to make little difference in the long run. Why would I waste gaming time in the long run playing darts of pool with them if it isn't in any way share or form pertinent to the plot at hand.
I hope I am not nitpicking too much but the game overall is the best I have ever played and I love it. Like I said 98% out of 100%.
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