Grand Theft Auto 4 Impressions

I didnt finish the game, so by my own system i cannot write a review.

This game caused me to abandon my 360, and cancel my gamerpass.

There is like.. Diminishing returns, on GTA4. Its fantastic right off the bat, the multiplayer is (sometimes) pretty fun but (usually) pretty gay. But the kicker was that i got it home, played it for a couple hours, and went to bed feeling as though I had accomplished nothing in the game.

The following day i repeated this process, playing for a few hours.. Feeling like I had done nothing, and then stopping.

For the next few weeks, every time I played it, I dont think I felt the grasp of accomplishment once, and it took its toll on me, as I started to play it less and less.

This brings to mind the Penny-Arcade comic where they say that when given the oppritunity to do everything.. one chooses to do nothing.. its true. Soon I had no desire to even turn the game on..

I wanted to give GTA4 a 10 like every other ass-kiss site in the world, but Epic Fails are Epic Fails, and a game that reduces the players desire to play the game loses points.

conveniently though, since I did not complete the game (was on the last line of missions though) I can't say that i would give it a 8.5

maybe Chewspitt will write a review


-Rei