it's a good game, but it ain't anything special.

It has quite possibly the worst camera I've encountered so far... And luckily I haven't seen worse cameras yet. Anyway, it mostly annoys me when I try to drive: it's too slow to stay behind the car when I steer but it won't stay where I put it but tries to follow the car instead. In previous games, it stayed where I wanted it and didn't try to act on its own. Also, manual aiming is horrible. But my main concern is driving camera, it was a stopper for me.

first: the reason i dont like GTA4 is because it is a pile of crap compared the PS2 games.

Two: Are you seriously talking like that? if so PLEASE try go to some English classes or something. 

your right maybe i should get the expansions before criticising it but it shouldn't have removed the feature that were added to san andreas in this game.  they took every thing that was fun out of the original game, and as for graphics, random character could do with more detail, main characters look great. tree's looked like they were drawn in a painting. I believe that they actually hired a artist for the bur they put on things in the background and the trees. rockstar really should take a look at bethesda's work this gen definitely in respect to the problems I just said. the music and yes this is all down to taste in music but the music in the gta 3 series games was better and the talk shows where really funny in the gta 3 series. I could go on making list of what was wrong with gta 4, but I will just say this it definitely wasn't worth the $100M it was estimated at and it definitely doesnt deserve a metascore of 98.

while being a good game its a bad gta...

san andreas set the standarts way up there and GTA IV could live up to that.

Well I look at it as a trade off. Some aspects were better in past games, but there have been lots of improvments that make it great. My advice is to just take it for what it is and stop comparing. You might have more fun that way.

I enjoyed the expansions because they jump straight into the action, missions are more fun, great story, and check points make the game far less frustrating. Honestly I'm not a big fan of GTAIV, but I love the expansions.

Well it was worth the 100 million because it made all the money back several times over. It'll probably be a strong seller for this entire gen. Also, the 100 million must include the game engine. That same game engine is being used in other projects (i.e. Red Dead Redemption).

definitely one of the best games of this generation, it's to bad the world of gaming politics has left some with a warped opinion.

Type of game you can pick up at anytime and just jump right in and have fun. The additional content was even more impressive and really shows how a down-loadable content should work in a sandbox game.

just completed TLAD the dlc is definitely much better still doesn't make up for the original game but it has definitely clawed rockstar back a lot of respect.

The cell phone and the annoying "missions" they spawned completely ruined the game.  Please dont ruin a game with a huge open world, great graphics, a decent story, and good combat, by making me play awkward pool and bowling every other mission.  Ugh, it makes me mad just thinking back about it. 

I still play GTA 4 its that fun especially the online with GTA race and regular race