Gameplayer reviews the undercurrent of GTA IV's narrative and the message it attempts to deliver about the USA.
"Niko, however, is an outsider. He comes to Liberty City believing the dream, that he has left the corruption, savagery and rustic lifestyle of his homeland for a world of big tits, fancy cars and mansions for all. What he finds is a land equally as crooked, dirty and messed up as the one he left and his distaste for what he sees isn't held back."