|
Grand Theft Auto IV (PC) |  | From: Rockstar
Category: Video Games
List Price: £34.99
Buy New: £14.00
as of 1/8/2010 11:15 BST details
You Save: £20.99 (60%)
New (16) Used (20) from £6.39
Seller: Amazon.co.uk
Rating:  272 reviews
Sales Rank: 476
Platform: Windows Vista
Genre: crime-action-games
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Windows XP/Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 5053839/IN
EAN: 5026555053839
Release Date: December 3, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 2 to 4 weeks
| |
| Similar Items:
| |
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
What does the American Dream mean today? For Niko Bellic fresh off the boat from Europe, it is the hope he can escape his past. For his cousin, Roman, it is the vision that together they can find fortune in Liberty City, gateway to the land of opportunity. As they slip into debt and get dragged in a criminal underworld by a series of shysters, thieves and sociopaths, they discover that the reality is very different from the dream in a city that worships money and status, and is heaven for those who have them and a living nightmare for those who don't.
|
| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 272
 A really good game despite what everyone says July 17, 2010
Kevv10
I don't get all this hate over the game. Got a new laptop with Intel C2D @ 2.0ghz, 4GB ram and Nvidia GT130M (1gig), so decided to give the game a try. Installing it is a long process. You install, open a rockstar social club account, then install some more, wait 3-4 hours while game updates and restarts a few times, then are told that Rockstar Social Club is useless. Frustrating, yes.
However, after that, all is fine. Game opens up no problem at all, everytime. Crashed once, but that was because I was playing around with mods. With my average PC specs, I'm still getting 25 fps at medium settings and 1300x700 screen. Still very playable, no slowdowns, and still very well done and detailed.
The game itself is wonderful. The city is huge and alive, there are so many cars and weapons to try. Travelling a mile feels it. You get the usual GTA magic. The characters are very well portrayed, and the storyline very well structured. The attention to detail is simply astounding. Just to finish the missions (and exploring), I must be at over 12 hours game time.
Only drawback is the "friends". Having to go here and there, to please your friends is just boring after a while.
The only drawback was the installing process, that's why I gave it 4 stars. (without that, it would have been a definitive 5!)
Just be patient, and you shall be rewarded.
AT LAST I FOUND ONE!!!!!!!! July 4, 2010
Adam C
The game was for my Partners son, who is 14 and we had searched everywhere to find the game in PC format and no one seemed to have it.......the rest of the review is what he thought - "Realistic graphics and physics, but online is 'buggy'.
 Utter dissapointment July 2, 2010
04grimsw
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After seeing my friends playing GTA IV on their PS3s and 360s it looked so much fun so I decided to buy this PC version. The actual installation of the game was relatively quick but the activation took the biscuit. I got to the game menu and games for windows live popped up asking me to register. I registered and opened the game again to be greeted by an update which required me to restart the game. Then I opened the game again and the same thing happened, ANOTHER UPDATE. I only wanted to play the game offline.
After 3 hours of getting frustrated and playing modern warfare 2 to calm me down (which incidentally works perfectly through steam) I finally got on the game. I would have felt relief of actually getting it to work except it ran really slow even when I have over and above the minimum system requirements. I rebooted, defragged, used a registry cleaning program etc and the game was running awfully.
I then proceeded to lower the graphics quality until it became almost playable. It is only just playable on the lowest settings. This means that the graphics are so bad now that GTA: SA looks better! Even now when I get into a vehicle and accelerate the game becomes extremely laggy. As I said before my system requirements are more than the minimum that is stated and yet the game runs very poorly.
I do not recommend getting this game for PC as the games for windows live system is a joke and the game is very, very demanding on your system. The PS3 and 360 versions look like fun it's just a shame that they have completely dropped the ball on the PC version.
Probably a good game, when it works July 1, 2010
Shlo
I'm sure the game itself is very good, and if you have a console, I suggest you play the game on it. Stay away from the PC version, because it's only problems. You have to install tons of paches, updates, services, tools, then you have to register to Rockstar, Windows Live... and when you're done, the game doesn't work. It either doesn't launch or refuses to save my progression, and after many tries I'm done with it and I just want to send the game back and get my refund.
Not suitable for PC June 30, 2010
Christopher Reay (Nottingham)
I bought this game a few months ago and have now given up on it. Straight out of the box it was very broken and should never have been sold. I run a fairly high end system and the stuttering was appalling and the framerate dropped as low as 1fps on occasion. This made it totally unplayable and can only be the result of very poor coding. I patched it to version 1.0.5.0 and the situation improved considerably. The average framerate improved to around 40 with a minimum close to 30 which was much better. However it does not look particularly good - probably on a par with some of the old Source engine games so this should be hitting the vsync cap of 60 all the time. In particular there is no antialiasing and it cannot be forced on in the Forceware control panel. The jaggies and sparklies are very noticeable in this game which is simply not acceptable. I decided to wait for further patches before playing to see if anything improved.
Patch 1.0.7.0 is now out but the performance is worse than with 1.0.5.0 which is very surprising. The average and lowest framerates drop considerably even with shadows turned down a notch which seems the biggest resource hog and the stuttering is back. I could drop the settings down further but it looks bad enough already so this is not acceptable. I run a GeForce GTX285 with 2GB of VRAM and the game seems so badly coded it uses massive amounts of this even though textures which use up most VRAM are relatively poor. The latest patch is supposed to improve optimisation so you do not need as much VRAM but on my system this actually slows it down as this was not a bottleneck.
I decided to revert back to patch 1.0.5.0 and played for a few hours. I was not particularly impressed - Nico the protagonist walks as though he is drunk - I have never experienced a game where control of the character is so imprecise. You might say this makes it more realistic but this is a game - if you want realism we could have him sleeping in realtime for 8 hours at a time - where is the fun in that? Driving is even worse - vehicles seem to wallow around corners and are difficult to steer on the straight. You might say this is realistic but I have driven in the USA and I assure you their cars are not this bad. I tried using an Xbox controller instead of the mouse and keyboard and it was no better. Again these poor controls are simply not acceptable.
I then realised there was a further problem. It takes ages to load most of the time. Sometimes when you hit start on the options menu it takes about 15 seconds to load which is reasonable but on most occasions it takes over two minutes. I have 6GB of system RAM and a 10,000RPM Velociraptor hard disc so this is ridiculous. On top of all this you have to wade through the Rockstar Social Club and Games for Windows Live to get to the start menu in the first place. I have read some good reviews of the game from the gaming press but unfortunately these seem to concentrate solely on the gameplay rather than the whole gaming experience. I suspect they are playing the console version on the quiet and have never touched the pc version.
I have now given up on this game entirely as it is just too time consuming and frustrating to run. If I could put the clock back I realise now I should have returned it as not of satisfactory quality. What annoys me is that this was the highest selling console game of all time on release but the developers have either made no effort whatsoever porting it to the pc or are too incompetent to do it properly. I have just read a review in the gaming press of the standalone expansion Episodes from Liberty City and it says it runs much better than the original GTA IV. Finally they are admitting there are problems with GTA IV but it is too late now.
To summarise there may be a good game here somewhere but when the pc format has been so butchered by the developers you must be a glutton for punishment or have the patience of a saint to ever find out.
Hope this helps
Showing reviews 1-5 of 272
|
|
|
CERTAIN CONTENT THAT APPEARS ON THIS SITE COMES FROM AMAZON EU S.à.r.l. THIS CONTENT IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’ AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR REMOVAL AT ANY TIME. | |
