Wow the score is astonishing..
But they say that it is the best game after Ocarina of Time..:)

Sounds very good..

Well that's a cop out haha. It's just hard for me to put any GTA game on the same level as Zelda: OOT.

10/10?

Bullshiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

It's a cop out. I mean a 10 does not mean perfection but it means pushing a genre to something far beyond ever thought possible. Pushing the limits. Zelda: OOT did that in so many ways that its hard to explain all of them. With gameplay, artistic style and graphics, story progression, and gameplay progression. It deserved a 10 in every aspect.

GTA IV definetly deserves good reviews of high calibur(9.9, 9.8. 9.7, ect) but a 10 just seems to be a cop out. I mean it pushed limits of its genre but not in the same way as other games that have received a 10. Reading the review from IGN it does seem like a cop out. Especially considering there have been other games that have done far more in their respective genres(cough Metroid Prime in the must needed FPS genre for innovation which only got a 9.8). So a cop out to giving it this for whatever reason or bias while harming ones in the past that more fit the defintion.

Wow, 10/10. I can't wait to try it.

I'm sure the game is great no matter what reviews are given....reviews are getting less and less important with each passing day; GTA IV is just another reason for review sites to exist: one to give perfect scores like IGN, and another to give out terrible scores (maybe Edge)...both are reasons just to grab attention and give meaning for their existance. And both are seen pointless as you you think more and more about their scores.

Why don't they just encourage reading comprehension to the audience and skip the rating system? 

@Zucas That may be true but you also have to consider the era that OOT was in. Back then everything was revolutionary because consoles switched from 2D to 3D. Back then revolution was the norm Goldeneye basically invented the FPS, Mario created the 3D platformer. FF7 defined the cinematic RPG and storylines while Resident Evil and Silent Hill basically created survival Horror.

Compare that to the last two gens, all we've seen is upgrades in graphics and so many FPS, and open world clones that truly revolutionary games are few and far between. Sequels that just add a tiny bit every year get old.

I guess what I'm saying is that OOT was wrong place wrong time but utterly and completely deserving of a 10 in it's own right.

10/10 for everything?

Even putting my dislike for GTA aside, this looks like a textbook-worthy example of halo effect. Kinda like when Donkey Kong Country was released, and my favorite magazine gave it full points for absolutely everything, just because they were so impressed by some parts of it.

GTA4 look like a well-polished masterpiece with no obvious faults, but this score has to mean that they're seeing everything about the game in the best possible light, simply by virtue of being a part of it.

Did that make any sense? Ok, I better get some sleep before the sun gets up now. =P

Pretty much what I suspect too. 

rasone- I really don't have a problem with it getting a 10. The thing I have a problem with is their definition of a 10. Now it's if something pushed a genre to the limits or broke impossibilities. I mean sure GTA IV has done that, but if so there are many games between Soul Calibur and GTA IV that have done this same thing, namely I can think of is Metroid Prime, that didn't receive a perfect 10 and fit that definition of a perfect score a lot better than GTA IV.

That's why I think its a cop out cause I see standards being dropped here. GTA IV from the review is deserving of top notch scores, but by their "new" standards it doesn't fit it "perfectly" but also places old titles before it with that perfect score that didn't get it. That's my main problem with this.

As people are saying review scores are becoming less and less about how good or bad the game is actually, and more about views and hits. Ever since from Jeff pulled the big one with Zelda: TP, that's what people are looking to do.