If GTA4 isn't a 10/10 game, why did it get reviews like it did?

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Pipedream24 said:
As several others have mentioned, the First 5 to 10 hours of GTA IV were fantastic. But once the initial awe was gone, it felt like the same GTA we had been playing for the past few years. If you were a fan of the series it wasn't necessarily a bad thing, but I personally bought into the hype and wound up disappointed.

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The only part of MW2 that was not on par with the original was the campaign. It was still good and had some great moments but it wasn't as cohesive as the first. When you add in the Special Ops mode and the Online Multiplayer (Which for me was the video game equivalent of crack for the first month...then the cheating became rampant), it was a great package well worth the price of admission.

It all comes down to different strokes for different folks. Were not always going to agree with what critics or gamers think about certain games. You have to put your personal taste first and use critics reviews as a helping hand.

Yeah, fair enough i concede i was a bit hard on Call of Duty. but its fair enough different tastes for different people.