Relationships are an important part of the game. It's not just the locations that make this all work tho - it's the people - when there is rain, umbrellas come out, Niko himself gets annoyed, and homeless gather around drums with fire in them. sometimes you'll want to just go driving and stick to the speed limit for fun, and sometimes you'll want to steal and crash a helicopter into the statue of happiness.
It looks great in Standard def too, and if you really want to be impressed you just need to take a boat ride, The freedom here is remarkable.
And it's the best rain we've ever seen - not just drops here and there - but it's heavier in some parts and lighter in others and if you're angled towards the sky, you get more drops on your screen. Steam from vents, the way sun makes shadows move over the ground, the wood grain and decor in cut scenes all just looks RIGHT. It's all in the detail isn't it JUNG, so much time has been spent making this city work aesthetically and feel kind of familiar. There's so much to explore, and every single location, wall and hot dog stand has that little bit extra detail, from magazines with funny pun tittles, to the squeaky noise from the binoculars at lookout points. That's a big call Bajo! But you're right, everything is better - lets start with the Liberty City itself. GTAIV has kicked all of these components up a notch, to make a complex masterpiece of cross genre awesomeness. But generally the sum of these parts formed on the whole a much greater game. GTA3 and it's follow-ups were an average racer, an average shooter and an average RPG. But now we're onto next gen, you instantly notice how everything is more detailed, busy, exciting and most importantly, more alive.
In the past, developers Rockstar have been limited by the hardware, and used many tricks to make the world appear bigger than it really was. The first thing you notice about GTAIV is how small you are in such a big city. but this time, he's got a hot date, and a sports car. Now he's come to the upstanding fast passed high crime world of Liberty City, where he will continue to cross the wrong people, make bad life choices and do bad things. We'll for years we've been teased with trailers, screenshots, leaked information and hands off preview screenings of GTA IV, but now it's time to take the gloves off, and Steal us some cars.īack in Russia, Niko has crossed the wrong people, made some bad life choices and he's done some bad things.