DEVELOPER
Rockstar North
Rockstar Toronto
(PC)
ABOUT
•Grand Theft Auto IV is a
2008 open
world action video game
published by Rockstar Games, and
developed by British games developer Rockstar North. It has
been released for the PlayStation
3 and Xbox 360 video
game consoles, and for the Windows
operating system. The game involves a separate timeline and world than its
predecessors, starting the fourth "era" in the Grand Theft
Auto series, and is
set in fictional Liberty
City, based heavily on modern day New York City. The game
follows Niko Bellic, an Eastern European war
veteran who comes to the United States in search of the American Dream, but
quickly becomes entangled in a world of gangs, crime, and corruption. Like
other games in the series, GTA IV is composed of
elements from driving
games and third-person shooters, and
features "open-world" gameplay, in
which players can interact with the game world at their leisure. Grand Theft Auto IV also features
several online multiplayer modes.
•Two expansion packs have
been developed for the game, originally released as downloadable content for the
Xbox 360 version throughout 2009. Both The
Lost and Damned and The
Ballad of Gay Tony feature new plots that are interconnected with the main
GTA IV storyline, and follow new protagonists. The two episodes have
been released together for all platforms as a stand-alone game called Grand
Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City. A bundle that containt both the
original GTA IV game and the Episodes was also released, titled Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. The
2009 handheld game Grand
Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars revisited the Liberty City of GTA IV.
•As the
first game of the critically acclaimed series to appear on seventh
generation consoles, Grand Theft Auto IV was
widely anticipated. A major commercial and critical success, it broke industry
records with sales of around 3.6 million units on its first day of release and
grossing more than $500 million in revenue in the first week, selling an
estimated 6 million units worldwide. As of
September 2011, the game had sold over 22 million copies. Grand Theft Auto IV won numerous awards
from both gaming and mainstream press, including several recognitions as Game of the Year, and is
in the highest ranks on several professional game critic review-aggregating
websites. In late 2011, Rockstar Games announced that Grand Theft Auto V was in
full development
GAMEPLAY
•Quite like its predecessors, the core gameplay of GTA IV consists of giving the player a large, open world
environment in which to move around freely. On foot, the player character can
walk, run, jump, climb over obstacles and swim, as well as use weapons and
perform basic hand-to-hand combat. Players can steal and drive a variety of
vehicles, including automobiles, boats, helicopters, and motorcycles. Grand Theft Auto IV takes advantage of
Natural Motion's Euphoria engine,
which combines artificial intelligence, bio-mechanics and physics to make open,
non-linear environment allows players to explore and choose how they wish to
play the game. Although storyline missions are necessary to progress through
the game and unlock certain content and parts of the city, they are not
required, as players can complete them at their own leisure. When not
attempting a storyline mission, players can free-roam, giving them the ability
to do activities. Side missions such as locating and destroying criminals in
the police car database or participating in street races can keep the player
occupied for hours.
•It is possible to have many active missions running at
one time, as some missions run over the course of several days and require the
player to wait for further instructions or events. The player can also attempt
a variety of optional side missions. Grand
Theft Auto IV also contains morality choices
at many points throughout the game, which alter the storyline appropriately
depending on the player's choice. Which of the game's two different endings
occurs is determined by one of these choices.
Multiplayer
•Grand Theft Auto IV includes
online multiplayer, with 15 modes of play available. It
supports up to 16 players (32 players in the PC version) and
allows players to explore the entire city. Hosts of
the games can control many variables, such as police presence, traffic, and
weapons. The console editions of the game do not feature any split
screen or LAN
multiplayer modes, but the
PC version does have LAN support. All versions of the game include voice chat.
•The online games are split into ranked and unranked
matches. The reward for the ranked gameplay is cash,
which determines players' ranks.Players
use a customisable character in the
majority of play modes, and cash earned during play gradually makes more customisation options
available.[citation needed]
•Several different game modes are available. Team based gameplay modes
include Team Deathmatch, where
2–8 teams compete to accumulate the most kills in a traditional deathmatch; Team Mafiya Work, in
which 2–8 teams compete to complete contract work for the "mafiya",
such as escorting/killing targets or stealing cars; Team Car Jack City where
2–8 teams compete to steal cars and earn money for keeping them undamaged; Cops
n' Crooks, featuring a team of cops who must compete against a team of crooks
(which features the "All for One" variation – requiring the cops to
kill the crooks' "Boss" before he is escorted to the extraction point
– and the "One for All" variation – requiring the cops to kill all of
the crooks before they reach the extraction point); and Turf War, involving two
teams who compete to take control of designated areas of the map and control
them for as long as possible.
System requirements
Minimum Recommended
Windows
Operating system Windows Vista Service Pack 1 / Windows XP Service Pack 2 /
Windows 7 Service Pack 1 CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 or AMD Athlon X2 64
3600+ Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 or AMD Phenom X3 8400
Memory
1 GB (1.5 GB for Vista) 2 GB (2.5 GB for Vista)
Hard drive space
16 GB
of free space 18 GB of free space Graphics
hardware NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS
256 MB or ATi Radeon X1900 256 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
512 MB or ATi Radeon HD 3870 512 MB Sound hardware 100% DirectX 9.0c
compliant card Network Internet connection required for activation and
multiplayer
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