GTA IV - Good or bad game?

I've just read on some norwegian news sites about the best game of the year 2008 etc. And GTA IV is on many lists there.

Then I read what people are saying in the comments.

“GTA IV sucks”, “GTA IV is more the worst game of the year than the best”, “GTA IV was to serious”, “I liked GTA SA because you could cock around and have fun!”, “I put away GTA IV halfway into the game, 'cause it was boring” (How did he know he was halfway anyway?), “The missions were okay, but after that it was dead boring”, “It's not possible to have fun in Liberty City for the third time”.

Do you know what my answer would be to those guys? Fuck you.

GTA IV was and is an excellent game. The graphics are nice, the gameplay is nice, the story is nice and the stuff you can do outside of stories are nice!

And what is this about “not having the possibility to cock around”? I for one love to walk up behind some old smug and shoot him/her in the leg and watch the person try to escape, and guess what… I shoot him/her in the other leg too. Now the person is lying there, still healthy but no possiblity to run - bring forth the shotgun!

And the cars - the controlling of the cars is genious imo. I love escaping the cops, I love e-braking around tight corners, I like driving through tight spaces between cars and I love jumping. And what is not fun about driving on the sidewalk and watch people fly in all directions and blood on your hood? I mean, I might sound psycho, but hell I think it's awesome!

And motorcycles - what's not fun about crashing in to a low car and fly hundreds of yards and bang your head into a brick wall? What's not fun about driving aroun on a motorcycle shooting people through car windows and watching the carns turn away from you just before you hit it?

And the missions - Ì loved the missions.

And getting drunk with friends, playing pool, darts, watching stand-up (hell I love Kat Williams).

Oh, and one of my favourite things to do - run in to the hospital and kill EVERYONE that sits in there and wait for the cops, just so you can stand behind a corner with a shotgun and kill them too!

There's a lot of stuff to do, and it's GREAT fun!

Oh, I almost forgot - getting drunk IRL while playing GTA IV is VERY fun!

So to all you who can say GTA IV is boring, too serious and don't have much to do - fuck you, over and over again.

- Pingu