From the get-go, Grand Theft Auto IV promises to be something quite special. Niko Bellic arrives in Liberty City aboard a boat that carried him across the Atlantic, away from a horrifically scarred past and towards the hope of starting over. The supporting opening cinema is slick and brilliant, and captures the mood of an immigrant chasing after the American Dream.
Nothing is as it seems in GTA IV, and things are quickly turned around in the opposite direction. Niko was promised the good life by his cousin Roman, but Roman is hardly the successful entrepreneur: he runs an upstart cabbie business out of his dive garage and apartment. It’s not long before Niko gets involved with the various criminal underworld elements of Liberty City in order to make a living.
The GTA series has always featured over the top characters and a storyline that runs into total over-the-top ridiculousness, and this game is not so different. You’ll grow to love the spot-on voiced characters and their incredibly sharp, mature, witty and engaging dialogue.
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