Enough can’t be said about Rockstar’s new addition to the GTA family, Grand Theft Auto IV.  You’ve all heard about it.  You’ve all read the reviews.  Yeah, IGN.com gave the game a perfect 10 for their review (a first for any title on the 360).

GTAIV is handsdown the most powerful and engaging title for the Xbox 360 to date.

You get to play as Niko Bellic, a bad ass war vet immagrant from somewhere in Eastern Europe.  Niko arrives in Liberty City in search of the American Dream (acquiring lots of money and women).

You get to work your way up from a nobody to a powerful crime figure in the city of crime.  Did I already mention Niko is a bad ass?

As far as visuals go, textures are picture perfect, models are organic and fluid, landscapes and surroundings are breathtaking, and lighting is just incredible.  As far as graphics go, GTAIV undoubtedly sets a high standard for the potential of all next gen games.

Liberty City, although smaller geographically than San Andreas, is simply breathtaking…

Many of you veteran GTA players will quickly realize that GTAIV loses a bit of the arcade feel of past titles and embraces a much more realistic edge of presentation.

You’ll quickly notice that the gameplay is much more quickly paced and that missions are not so go to point A and then B and then back to A.  Also,  much of the down/grinding time of the game has been removed, as missions are more locally based and require less long distance travel that many of us resented in San Andreas.  Also, Rockstar added a mission retry feature if you fail a mission, so that you don’t have to spend time traveling to the mission start point again.

All in all, this game is one of the best I’ve played of any genre and on any system period.

Niko is one amazing man…

In it’s first week, GTAIV amassed over 500 million dollars- a clear example  of h0w mainstream and influential the gaming industry has become (The Dark Knight has amassed 512 million dollars overall in 8 weeks).

APATHY’s rip works flawlessly and is available on both public and private trackers.

This game is a must have for any gaming library.

Links: ign
Release Name: Grand.Theft.Auto.IV.PROPER.NTSC.XBOX360-APATHY
Size: 1 DL DVD, 6.32 GB