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10 Reasons why GTA IV sucks

So listen up! Forget 'broken' cars or a combat system that actually makes the combat playable (thus ruining it for us ultra-hardcore players). Here is why GTA IV sucks...
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Published: 559 days 17 hours ago | Article | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360
 
 

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BigKev45 - 559 days 17 hours ago
1 - GTA IV is great
10 reasons why this article sucks - 1 - 10 - lazygamer.co.za sucks.
1.1 SonySoldiers | 559 days 16 hours ago - comment has been reported as SPAM -
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Timesplitter14 - 559 days 15 hours ago
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GTA4 diserves a 8/10 for being mindless and simplistic. Do you honestly believe it matches Metal Gear or Zelda games? No. That would be just wrong.
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HelloBabe69 - 559 days 14 hours ago
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yeah it does. The more you play the game, the more awesome it is. It's crazy of what they put into a game like GTA IV.
1.4 vickers500 | 559 days 13 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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Timesplitter14 - 559 days 13 hours ago
1.5 - @ Vickers500
How about you play some of the top hardcore games instead? GTA4 is king of the casual games, that's why it gets so much attention. It's the kind of game that makes Jack Thompson happy.

There are impressive, mind-blowing and very deep games out there. Try them. Then GTA4 will look like pewp
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thisguywithhair - 559 days 9 hours ago
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To me most of the reasons he gives can be fixed be either not sucking, or being more patient. Sounds like someone needs to grow up and learn to properly complain.
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BeaArthur - 558 days 19 hours ago
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Timesplitter14...and these fantastic games that only "cool underground" people like you know about are? You are going to go tell him to play some "impressive, mind-blowing and very deep games" but then not mention any? You make me laugh.
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monkey602 - 559 days 17 hours ago
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Seriously who here needs to read aticles like this? By now the majority of people have played it for themselves and most likely loved it. No matter how many reasons fools can come up with GTA 4 doesnt suck.

And yes I do realise the guy who wrote this one in perticular loved the game.
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bourner - 559 days 11 hours ago
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problem is that the game is good but bot as good as everyone thought it was going to be . no one wants to say its bad but its not the best game i have ever played. no tanks, jets, jet packs,parachute and the cheats are long and annoying . they have taken out what makes gta
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waltercross - 559 days 9 hours ago
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Yeah GTA4 is great but not as
good as it could have been, overall
SA was better, the biggest thing
that was upgraded in GTA4 was the
physics, and It's online play which is
pretty good.

Besides, what the heck do you spend
money on??, I have over $1.2 Million
and nothing to spend it on, guns and
ammo is cheap and so is ring tones etc.
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permutated - 559 days 8 hours ago
2.3 - Monkey---
As much as I hated GTA4 this article sucked.

Anyhow, about people being "wrong" who don't like GTA: I think that's false. I've loved every GTA but GTA4 and just because I don't like it, doesn't make me wrong.
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MK_Red - 559 days 16 hours ago
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Funny how now that GTA4 is become the highest rated game of all time, everyone is attacking it. I understand some of the sarcastistic stuff but the thing is that most of the criticisms apply to many other games as well.
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The Closing - 559 days 9 hours ago
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It hasn't taken the crown of highest rated games after all, which is a good thing. I think gamers are complaining of fear it might because such a thing would be very disrespectful seeing such a game get that title.
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heyheyhey - 559 days 16 hours ago
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A WANTED LEVEL AT THE END OF EVERY FVCKING MISSION!!!!!

seriously, here we have a nice, enjoyable mission- why did R* feel the need to add a wanted level at the end of almost every mission

it does NOT make a mission more fun- just more frustrating
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Bigrhyno - 559 days 16 hours ago
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Hmmmm, I didn't really have a problem with wanted level at the end of most missions. And if I did, it was usually a very small radius.

Also, I am sick of people posting articles like this.
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theyellaboi44 - 558 days 19 hours ago
4.2 - Its logical
seeing that ppl just flip out cell phones on this game and call the cops on your ass
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IzKyD1331 - 559 days 16 hours ago
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this guy isnt telling how GTA IV sucks, hes telling how HE sucks and is just complaining cause he keeps getting owned by everyone he plays with
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ali312 - 559 days 16 hours ago
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I bought the game on launch day and sold it the day after. The game is average to say the least, the reviews were obviously rigged for the fear of Rockstar balcklisting them. Out of the 15 people I know who purchased the game on both the PS3 and 360 about 8 people were dissapointed. The graphics are average ( when compared to Assassins Creed and Call of duty ) and the gameplay was quite awful at times ( Online play is not even a patch on Call of Duty ). If you are honest with yourself you would admit the game is not the best out there and there will be others that will replace it. Im expecting alot of disagrees but im just being honest.
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Bigrhyno - 559 days 16 hours ago
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I am not a fan of Call of Duty 4, but I will agree that the online for GTA is horrible. But come on... bad graphics? I was utterly amazed when I put the game in at how well it looked in such a big and open world. I know assassins creed was open world too, but it isn't exactly the same size, and not as much is going on. Now don't get me wrong, the graphics could be better... but I still was pretty impressed.
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OldGamer - 559 days 16 hours ago
6.2 - I won't touch online...
until I've mastered the single player game. I'm assuming this will help me.

If not, oh well. I'm not much of an online gamer anyway. But I'm glad I have the option this time around.
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Bad_Karma - 559 days 16 hours ago
6.3 - Agree 100%
happy i didnt waste 40 quid.
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CRIMS0N_W0LF - 559 days 16 hours ago
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I agree with you.

I was greatly disappointed with GTAIV.

While its not a great game its a fun game to play. I suggest taking breaks from it to make game more pleasurable espically free roaming and stuff
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The Closing - 559 days 9 hours ago
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I told myself this game was going to be the same stale repetitive game as the others with broken game play, but sadly I gave into the massive hype. I really should have known better. I too ended up selling the game only days after the poor decision of purchasing it.
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waltercross - 559 days 8 hours ago
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Yeah GTA4 could have been
better, to me graphics was average
on a next gen console.

GTA4 is also plaqued by countless
bugs and glitches.
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Judge Mental - 558 days 17 hours ago
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I couldn't agree more! I think this is the worst GTA yet! I even had far more joy out of GTA 1.

The graphics are OK and the game itself is ok. The problem is when you compare this bland boring game to the others in the series.

Well, there really is no comparison.

I bought this game based of the hype of early review and cannot express my incredible disappointment. I would sell it if I didn't pay 65 dollars for it.

I would have gave San Adreas 9.5/10, and this turkey a 8/10 at BEST.
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OldGamer - 559 days 16 hours ago
7 - My main gripe with GTA IV?
The motorcycles handle LIKE CRAP!! The missions that require you to follow someone on a bike can be extremely frustrating! I wish they would have made bikes a bit more forgiving.
Everything else, I can deal with. I've mastered driving cars and copters. Brucie races are great fun and very easy once you learn to drive.

Rainy days in May are for GTAIV.
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Bigrhyno - 559 days 16 hours ago
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Haha, I can agree to that. I didn't really understand peoples complaints with driving, but ya... those motorcycle chases can be difficult.
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HelloBabe69 - 559 days 14 hours ago
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it's realistic handling.
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waltercross - 559 days 8 hours ago
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Yeah the motorcycles do handle
worse then the Helicopters even.
Never knew driving a motorcycle was
harder then flying a helicopter.

some say It's realistic, so they say so, I
find it funny though that the NPC's drive motorcycles
with no issues.

Still a fun game though, I Passed it and play
online often.
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darkstar - 559 days 16 hours ago
8 - heyheyhey
I agree, wanted levels after every freakin' mission suck. It's frustrating enough to do some mission's multiple times. Add a 3 or 4 star on to that, and thats almost grounds for controller smashing.
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Jdoki - 559 days 15 hours ago
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GTAIV is a mixed bag. On one hand I love it, but then I start thinking about Vice City and and how much more there is to do and how it fun it was.
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The Dude - 559 days 15 hours ago
10 - I'm @ 70% on the last mission.
GTA4 is a great game there is so much detail in the game. I have throughly enjoyed the 35 hours I have invested in the single player campaign. GTA4 is way better than any of its GTA3 series, I should know played them all on the ps2.
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Baka-akaB - 559 days 15 hours ago
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Lol the mere mention of "The Warriors" and awesome melee combat system is proof enough this article is a joke .
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Play B3yond - 559 days 14 hours ago
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u never played the warriors but that games one of the best games ever
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waljaber - 559 days 15 hours ago
13 - DISAPPOINTED :(((
it's over hyped,,, GTA4 deserve 6/10 really.
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hay - 559 days 14 hours ago
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GTA4 is overhyped, yeah, has major flaws, but it's still really great game.
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Judge Mental - 558 days 17 hours ago
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Agree, mediocre in every way.
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Strife Lives - 559 days 14 hours ago
14 - Awesome awesome game, except
No car customisations. . And the radio stations felt better in San Andreas and Vice City. Also. .all that child porn crap on the radio is fricken annoying. .I get sick hearing it. It so shouldnt be there. The game rocks though,and the physics are awesome.
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khellendros1 - 559 days 14 hours ago
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Why is it necessary to have an article like this for every high profile game that comes out. They did this for Halo3,GTA4 and few others and it's just dumb. Yes they were incredibly over hyped and I'm not a fan of Halo or GTA but that doesn't mean they suck. I better article would be "Top 10 reasons why they don't live up to the hype."
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hay - 559 days 14 hours ago
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Those 'x reasons' articles are all about clicks nothing more.
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Alvadr - 559 days 14 hours ago
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The person who wrote this obviously doesnt hate GTA hes just having a laugh..

Reason 5 - You cant hijack a Boeing... LOL
Reason 6 - FFS People indicate.. HA HA

I also put that he cant find Lazlow walking the streets.. Ha Ha, I actually drove through star junction just to see if he was there during his radio show, you never know ur luck and with the depth of this game it wouldnt have surprised me!
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LazySAGamer - 559 days 3 hours ago
16.1 - Thank you
I was starting to lose hope in humanity after reading these comments.

The article is satirical people, I swear most of these comments were written about the headline and now the actual article...
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ape007 - 559 days 14 hours ago
17 - man.....
this is one of the biggest dissapointments in my life.Im a pure gta fan and I trusted rockstar north (DMA, since their first classic game only few gamers knew it BODY HARVEST on the n64), and before I play this I was expecting it to be the greatest game of all time,I guess I was wrong rockstar has nearly crippled the game and took all the fun away with crappy controls,driving,poor framerate,city design,difficult cops,poor camera,annoying cell phone ,weak character,crappy missions,bikes are nearly impossible to drive in dirt or in rainy weather, bugs and glitches that rarely seen in a videogame and the city doesn't feel alive like the past gta games,the game just doesn't work, rockstar should delay this for another year (Im not kidding)
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Extra Guy - 559 days 11 hours ago
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You must have an amazing life for a small thing like this to be up there with the greatest disappointments ever.
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Jim Crowslaw - 559 days 6 hours ago
17.2 - ^^^^^^^
that was hilarious man, lmaoo
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Judge Mental - 558 days 17 hours ago
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I am absolutely blown away people believe this game is great.

IT IS NOT GREAT. MEDIOCRE AT BEST!

Why does this game bore me so much I ask? If this game is a 10/10 it shouldn't bore me should it?

Where are the bicycles, the planes, jets, dirtbikes, parachutes? Where is the adventure?

Where is the replay value? I see NONE whatsoever!

If it wasn't for the few redeeming qualities (and I stress the word few) I would have traded it in right away. Unfortunately, I paid 65 bucks for it and refuse to throw away a bunch of money on it.

Sad thing is, I haven't play it in 2 weeks. Old A$$ games like Baldur's Gate 2 are much more entertaining at the moment.
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HelloBabe69 - 559 days 14 hours ago
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I don't see how everyone says they're disappointed. At first I kind of thought it was a little boring but when i started getting into the game it became way more fun. The multiplayer is also extremely fun if you actually get into it (except when you join a free roam match with a lot of people all they do is shoot eachother). Multiplayer is pretty much all i play. Me and my friends starting cop chases are a blast. Every time I play it, I discover something new in the game. They just tried to make it on the more realistic side of everything. I don't see how so many people are dissapointed with the game when i think it really deserves that 10/10. No other game tops GTA really right now and I don't think any game will for a while, especially with all the detail. All the gaming sites know what they're talking about.
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Nevers - 559 days 13 hours ago
19 - LMAO...
Kids voices online into Japanese School girl voices pleeeeeeez!!

I think he makes a couple valid points but none of them make GTA4 suck. They are just the sucky parts. Like our "friends". The neediest whiniest gangsters ever set to digital life. I have to "sleep" my phone constantly now just so I can travel w/o interuption to the next plot point.

... I tried killing that lawyer with the bat (figured it was soundless enough) but his receptionist still busted me. I'll try a knife next time.
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