While I appreciated the colorful violence, satirical humour and sandbox gameplay of the GTA series I wouldn't say I was a fan until GTA 4. I have sledom played such a thought provoking and emotionally challenging game. Niko Bellic rocked meh proverbial socks. It takes a pretty significant departure for the series, entertainment in GTA 3 often involved how many police offices you could kill with a single kamikaze helicopter crash, but in GTA 4 you don't do that, oh you CAN but you'd feel silly.
You actually avoid pedestrians, instead of splatting them across the pavement, you try to avoid killing police if you can and it still retains it's extremely clever and satirical social commentary.
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