Grand Theft Auto is one of the games that probably every gamer has played at least once, or at least knows what it's about. From the first GTA title released in 1998 which had a top-down view, the game evolved more and more, and finally after 10 years, Grand Theft Auto IV reached the next-gen consoles.

Once more, we find ourselves in Liberty City, a New-York-ish city with a major face lift modeled in the vision of Rockstar North's developers. This time, our protagonist is Niko Bellic, an Eastern European war trooper, who left his home in search of the American dream. His cousin, Roman, who's already living in the States, promised him fancy cars, lots of beautiful women and all the other riches of the world.

This is where the game begins. Arrived in America, Niko finds out that Roman was lying about everything, and that he's actually poor, barely making it to the next day and is in a lot of trouble with some bad people. Trying to help Roman, you end up with his problems, a situation that reveals a not so bright future. So, from the beginning, we get a total 180 degree turn, as the man who wanted to start a new life must now play along drug dealers and crime lords. And that happens in the first 10 minutes of the game alone.

Roaming through Liberty City is something that will never get too boring. High-jacking cars or a motorcycles is what GTA is all about. If in the previous GTA titles, high-jacking a moving car needed you to place yourself in the path and throw the driver out, now a moving car will almost always run over you. Moreover, if you don't leave the scene fast enough with "your new car" the knocked driver will come after you. There are also parked cars, just waiting for someone to pick them up. If they happen to be locked, Niko will smash windows and try to hotwire them. Some have alarms and will require you to press RT and LT quickly in order to shut it off before it gets the attention of a police car patrolling the area. Or if you have enough money to spare, you can just move quickly through the city with a cab which acts like an instant load to the current mission location.

Like in GTA III, every car has a radio included with lots of frequencies that play all your favorite shows and songs - they say. Well I have to disagree. Not only that after a time the radio becomes excessively annoying but it seems that it always plays the same old songs you don't want to hear.