Grand Theft Auto IV - Official Xbox Magazine Review

You read right - it was a review, not a preview. The Official Xbox Magazine (OXM) has just awarded Grand Theft Auto IV a perfect score - 10 out of 10. A world first. This article comes with many new screenshots, with many revealing the HUD (Heads-Up Display). Impressive - both the game and the article.

“It says something that even at the end of a three-day session, with every island and a substantial chunk of the sidequests unlocked, I was still ploughing on because I wanted to see how the story ended. And I was still finding new stuff: the way a police klaxon goes strangled and gargley if you dent the light bar, the pedestrian who had the original GTA theme as their phone ringtone, the way that headshot drivers can fall on the horn and accelerator so you’re run over by a dead man…This sets the standard for what you should expect from a truly next-gen game. You owe it to yourself to play it.”

These reasons were cited when given a perfct score of 10 to Grand Theft Auto IV: Amazingly Realistic World, Stunning Action Set Pieces, Genuinely Engrossing Storyline, Highly Entertaining Multiplayer and Vast in Every Aspect. A summary of the information can be read below.

• Skipping a taxi trip will cost more than simply sitting back and enjoying the view of the driver’s head
• The Statue of Happiness is clutching a coffee cup rather than the torch
• Some celebrity voice actors play themselves in the game.
• Like Crackdown’s Orbs, one of the collectables in Grand Theft Auto IV make a soft sound as you get close to them, aiding you in finding them all
• Your in-game email account will get spam too!
• Driving through flames will set a car’s tires on fire, causing them to burst after a while
• One mission involves traveling across town with two bodies in the trunk - if you hit a bump and it opens, you’ll have to scramble to close it again before any passers-by notice
• The mobile phone you receive at the start of the game is an old, second hand model capable only of calling and texting. You’ll need to wait for an upgrade later in the story to unlock the full functionality that people get from more modern models.

Surely, Grand Theft Auto IV isn’t at all a perfect game, but it can be said to be the most entertaining, detailed and artistic video game ever. I mean, what beats grinding the road with a burnt-out tire grooving to Smash Pumpkins while watching pedestrains cleaning windows, sipping coffee and just going about thier lives realistically?

You can live your inner musical soul in Grand Theft Auto IV too! Grand Theft Auto IV’s Soundtrack boasts 200 over tracks to be heard in the game’s 18 radio stations. One more song has since been confirmed to be in Grand Theft Auto IV - “I’m So Fly” - DJ Green Lantern (featuring Fabolous, Akon and Fat Joe). Listen to it below.

In fact, whatever much of a Guitar Hero, Devil May Cry, Burnout, Warcraft, Halo, or Call of Duty game isn’t going to replicate, imitate or even come close to the entertainment experience that Grand Theft Auto IV provides. It clearly lives up to the pre-release hype, as clearly stated by many game reviewers who have played it.

This should summarize the sheer entertainment quotient Grand Theft Auto IV packs in just a few sentences. However, if you want to read more, do read the magazine article. The scans are above, please give them some time to load (thanks to RAWRferal). Do pre-order Grand Theft Auto IV and play it on launch day! This is not something to be missed!

With so much to do in Grand Theft Auto IV, along with two downloadable episodes due to come out in August 2008 and sometime in 2009 respectively, will you ever get bored? In case you really do get bored, there’s always Midnight Club 3 ready to fire up.

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