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This is something you have never been able to do in any GTA game until now. I love games where you can take fire, and ever since Gears of War one of the coolest things to do in games is blind fire, well in GTA you can do just that (and incredibly accurately I might add), but with any weapon you have, that’s right if you choose to fire a rocket launcher over the top of a car without looking you are more than welcome to do so.

4. Fighting System

This is another area GTA got a total face lift in. Past experiences showed that it was a pretty easy fighting system which lead to button mashing most of the time, well now with some well timed maneuvers you can do counter attacks and disarms (disarms include breaking a guys arm to steal his knife). This not only raises your levels of ways to kill people, but the entertainment level of the game as well. Making it one of the cooler things one can do in the game.

3. Choices/executions

GTA seriously took every good video game and rolled it into this single accumulation of awesomeness, as much as I enjoy bioware’s choice games, I can now do the same thing in GTA IV. That’s right while I was on a mission I came across the choice to either kill the guy I was chasing or let him live (of course I killed him), this however progressed the game in a different way, and I was able to get closer to another target by gaining his trust. So the choice is yours, and that level of freedom makes any game amazing.

2. Killing Random People

It may be sick, it may be twisted but damn it all I love killing civilians in this game. I mean I can shoot them, I can blow them up, I can beat them to death, or I can even run them over, but for some reason every time I do it, I love it. Now while this part of the game didn’t change much between the last GTA and this one I will say you have to watch out because some citizens have decided that they are heros and will actually come to the rescue of someone you are beating mercilessly, of course this just gives you another target to kill.

1. Multiplayer

Now remember that whole talk about taking other cool games and rolling it into this one? Well the greatest thing about GTA IV is getting a friend online, and wreaking havoc together. I don’t know how many hours I spent yesterday raising hell with my friend Ryan, but I can tell you it was a lot. You can have one person drive while the other shoots, you can drive separate cars, you can beat the crap out of each other etc. The point is you can have as much fun as you want, destroying as much stuff as you can WITH a friend, making it the biggest reason you should purchase Grand Theft Auto IV.
So seriously what are you waiting for?