GTA4

GTA4 was, in a word, a disappointment. It is not really a video game for the XBox and Playstation platforms, like its predecessors. Instead, it is a sort of board game that comes as a large rolled-up map that you place on your bed. You do not control an avatar, going wherever you please through a graphic-rich, 3-D environment designed to look and feel (and smell) like New York City, laying waste to cars, pedestrians and moral taboos at will. Instead, you move a sort of mini skateboard around the map, and, if you leave the skateboard in one place for long enough, a hologram image of an urban street scape will load in that area. While the hologram images are cool, they take altogether too much time to load, making the gameplay feel stilted and rather slow. In short, I got bored after about five minutes. There didn't even seem to be a point to it or a storyline to follow. Don't bother with this game, I say. Everything good you've heard about it is just hype.