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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Will Support All Existing Zelda Amiibo, With In-Game Item Bonuses Confirmed by Nintendo Nintendo har bekræftet, at genindspilningen af The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time understøtter alle eksisterende Zelda-amiibo. Scanningerne ser ud til at give spillere forbrugsgenstande som hjerter, grønne eliksirer og Deku-kæppe, mens de nye Young Link- og Young Zelda-figurer også låser op for masker. Spillet udkommer eksklusivt til Nintendo Switch 2 den 5. november.

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‘Programming Is Hard’ — Epic Says It ‘Vibe-Coded’ the New Version of Its Games Launcher Epic Games har lanceret en ny version af Epic Games Launcher, som ifølge virksomheden er udviklet med omfattende brug af generativ AI. AI’en er især anvendt til kode, arkitektur og hurtigere udvikling, mens designet fortsat håndteres af Epic’s normale designteam. Den nye launcher understøtter Windows og Mac, og en Linux-version er på vej.

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Grand Theft Auto IV – The Legacy Review IGN genbesøger Grand Theft Auto IV som led i en retrospektiv gennemgang af seriens hovedspil frem mod Grand Theft Auto 6. Anmeldelsen fremhæver spillets mindre, men tættere og mere detaljerede Liberty City samt Niko Bellic som hovedperson. På trods af færre funktioner end GTA: San Andreas vurderes spillets atmosfære, realisme og bydesign stadig at holde sig bemærkelsesværdigt godt.

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‘The Library Loads 30x Faster’ – The New Epic Games Launcher Has Arrived and Its Creators Say Its Speedier Than Steam Epic Games har lanceret en preview-version af en helt ny Epic Games Launcher, der er bygget fra bunden med fokus på hastighed og et mindre ressourceforbrug. Selskabet hævder, at biblioteket indlæses 30 gange hurtigere end før, og at launcheren også er hurtigere end Steam i visse scenarier. Den understøtter Windows, macOS og for første gang Linux, mens Fortnite til Linux kommer senere.

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Borderlands 4 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X Has Hit Its Lowest Price Yet at Amazon of Just $20, a 60% Discount From Its List Price De fysiske udgaver af Borderlands 4 til PlayStation 5 og Xbox Series X er sat ned til 19,91 dollar hos Amazon. Det svarer til 60 procent under den vejledende pris og er samtidig den laveste pris, spillet har haft hos forhandleren. Tilbuddet slår også Amazons pris under den seneste Prime Big Deal Days-kampagne.

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29 New Changes in the Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake — Redesigned Puzzles, Updated Miniboss Fights, and Deeper Dialogue En gennemgang af en forhåndsversion af The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time-remaket på Switch 2 beskriver 29 ændringer sammenlignet med Nintendo 64-originalen. Puslespil, minibosser, fjender og områder som Castle Town og Forest Temple er blevet justeret, mens nye genveje og tydeligere ledetråde skal gøre navigationen mere intuitiv. Spillet udkommer 5. november.

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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake on Switch 2 is far from a 1:1 remake, instead adding depth and texture that makes this beloved adventure feel instantly fresh. IGN har prøvespillet Nintendos genindspilning af The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time til Switch 2. Spillet er ikke en direkte kopi af originalen, men indeholder redesignede baner, nye dialoger, opdaterede kontroller og en mere detaljeret visuel stil. Anmeldelsen fremhæver især, hvordan ændringer i gåder, kampe og banedesign tilpasser den klassiske oplevelse til moderne spil.

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'The Leeks Stop Here. For Now' — GTA 6 Leaker Releases New Gameplay Video Showing Snippets of the Final Missions, Declares 'The End of the Road' After Crypto Scheme Collapses Den formodede GTA 6-lækker Cyberleek har offentliggjort en ny, uautoriseret gameplayvideo, som angiveligt indeholder klip fra spillets afsluttende missioner. Personen eller gruppen hævder samtidig, at lækagerne stopper, efter en tilknyttet memecoin kollapsede, og at en påstået 200 GB-spilversion ikke vil blive udgivet. Cyberleek har dog truet med at offentliggøre flere spoilers, hvis de bliver presset af Rockstar Games eller Take-Two.

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GTA 6 Didn't Cost More Than $1.5 Billion to Develop, Rockstar Insists, but It's Undoubtedly the Most Expensive Video Game of All Time Rockstar afviser et online-rygte om, at GTA 6 har kostet mere end 1,5 milliarder dollar at udvikle, men virksomheden vil ikke oplyse det præcise budget. Spillet vurderes stadig til at være det dyreste videospil nogensinde. Rockstar har nu 4.711 medarbejdere på tværs af 12 kontorer, og analytikere forventer meget høje salgstal ved lanceringen i november 2026.

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Magic: The Gathering Prepares to Overhaul Its Universes Beyond Strategy With Darkhold Destiny, as First-Wave Marvel Super Heroes Sets Start to See Deep Price Cuts Amazon har sat flere produkter fra Magic: The Gathering-sættet Marvel Super Heroes ned i pris. Tilbuddene omfatter blandt andet Play Boosters, Collector Boosters, Commander-decks og forskellige bundles, med rabatter på op til omkring 35 procent. Artiklen fremhæver også, at Wizards of the Coast planlægger det næste Marvel-sæt, Darkhold Destiny, til april 2027.

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'God I Hate This Timeline' — Fans Slam Battlefield 6 for Skins With Way Too Many Pistols and Spelling Errors Battlefield 6-fans kritiserer nye skins fra spillets seneste battle pass for bizarre detaljer, blandt andet en soldat med fem pistoler og en stavefejl på et mærke. Fejlene har fået nogle spillere til at mistænke, at skins er skabt med generativ AI, men det er ikke bekræftet. EA er blevet bedt om en kommentar, mens fans også peger på, at de fjollede kosmetiske genstande strider mod tidligere løfter fra DICE.

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GTA 6 Developer Rockstar's Next Game Won't Take Another 8 Years to Make, It Has Promised — but What Will It Be? Rockstar Games forventer, at det næste spil efter GTA 6 kan udkomme hurtigere end de otte år, udviklingen af GTA 6 har taget. Ledelsen peger på, at motoren, værktøjerne og holdet allerede er opbygget og kan genbruges i fremtidige projekter. Studiet har ikke afsløret, hvad det næste spil bliver, selv om mange fans håber på Red Dead Redemption 3.

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Pokémon TCG: Delta Reign Booster Bundle Preorders Have Already Gotten a $25 Price Drop at Walmart — Now $55 for Six Packs Walmart sælger i øjeblikket en forudbestilling af Pokémon TCG: Mega Evolution – Delta Reign Booster Bundle til 54,49 dollar for seks pakker. Det er omkring 32 procent under den oprindelige pris og billigere end tilsvarende tilbud hos Amazon og TCGplayer. Salget foregår via tredjepartssælgeren Cataclysm Games, som ifølge IGN har en høj brugervurdering.

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Here's When You Can Play and Preload All the Different Parts of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Where You Live Activision har bekræftet udgivelsesplanen for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4. Spillere med digital forudbestilling får adgang til kampagnen 16. oktober 2026, mens DMZ åbner 20. oktober og hele spillet lanceres 23. oktober. Forudindlæsningen begynder 14. oktober, og pc-versionen kræver 115 GB ledig SSD-plads.

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Ubisoft Cuts 70 Staff From Skull and Bones Dev, Shuts Down Trials Studio RedLynx Ubisoft nedlægger det finske studie RedLynx, som blandt andet stod bag Trials-serien, og afskediger op til 52 medarbejdere. Samtidig mister Ubisoft Singapore, udvikleren af Skull and Bones, 70 ansatte, svarende til omkring en femtedel af studiets medarbejdere. Tiltagene er en del af Ubisofts fortsatte omstrukturering og omkostningsbesparelser med fokus på færre spil.

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Beloved Steam Co-Op Game Peak Appears to Be Coming to PS5 ESRB har tilsyneladende lækket en PS5-version af co-op-spillet Peak, som allerede har solgt over 10 millioner eksemplarer på Steam. En officiel annoncering ventes snart, da aldersklassificeringer normalt gives tæt på udgivelsen. Det er endnu uklart, hvornår konsolversionen udkommer, om den også kommer til Xbox og Nintendo Switch 2, og om prisen forbliver lige så lav som på PC.

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GTA 6 Is Finally Releasing Next Month: Are You Taking Off Work or School? GTA 6 udkommer 19. november 2026 til PlayStation 5 og Xbox Series X|S, og spillets lancering ventes at få mange fans til at tage fri fra arbejde eller uddannelse. Artiklen omtaler økonomiske estimater om et muligt produktionstab på omkring én milliard dollar i lanceringsugen samt virksomheder, der allerede planlægger efter den forventede efterspørgsel. En pc-version er rygtet til første kvartal 2027.

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Send in the Clown Gameplay Trailer Focuses On Its Hilarious, One-and-Only Turn-Based RPG Battle IGN har vist en ny gameplay-trailer for komediespillet Send in the Clown under IGN Fan Fest 2026. Det korte RPG lader spilleren følge klovnen Pockets, som skal redde en 12-årigs fødselsdag ved at rekruttere figurer og samle genstande. Spillet bygger op til én særlig turbaseret kamp og udkommer senere i år til PC via Steam, hvor en demo allerede kan prøves.

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K/DA Reactivates Social Accounts, Fueling Rumors of the Virtual K-pop Group’s Comeback During Worlds 2026 K/DA’s officielle sociale konti er blevet opdateret for første gang i seks år, og tidligere opslag er fjernet. Ændringerne har sat gang i spekulationer om et comeback for den virtuelle K-pop-gruppe, blandt andet i forbindelse med League of Legends’ verdensmesterskab. Riot Games har dog ikke bekræftet nye sange, optrædener eller gruppens nuværende besætning.

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The Fallout Series Is Getting a New Set of Bookends, Now Available to Preorder for a Whopping $325 Officielt licenserede Fallout-bogstøtter kan nu forudbestilles hos Sideshow for 325 dollar. De er fremstillet i polyresin, vejer omkring fire pund hver og håndmales med et antikt metaludtryk inspireret af spilserien. Levering ventes mellem november 2026 og januar 2027, mens købere har 30 dages returret efter modtagelsen.

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Xbox Labs Announced With Goal of Getting New Games and Old Playable in Regular Web Browsers Microsoft lancerer Xbox Labs, et lille team, der skal undersøge nye måder at distribuere og skabe spil på. Initiativet fokuserer blandt andet på at få ældre Xbox- og Xbox 360-spil til at fungere i webbrowsere ved hjælp af teknologier som WebAssembly og WebGPU. Xbox Labs skal udvikle produkter åbent og give flere adgang til spil, men Microsoft har endnu ikke oplyst, hvordan tilbuddene skal finansieres.

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EA Sports' College Football Franchise Reportedly in Jeopardy Amidst Rising Costs and Declining Sales Udviklere omkring EA Sports College Football frygter angiveligt, at serien kan forsvinde inden 2030, selv om spillene fortsat sælger godt. Stigende udgifter til spilleres NIL-rettigheder, licenser og udvikling presser økonomien, mens salget er faldet fra udgivelse til udgivelse siden 2024. EA har også mødt kritik for mikrotransaktioner i singleplayer-indhold, hvilket kan gøre det sværere at fastholde spillerne.

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Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight: War for Roshar Kickstarter Campaign Has Already Crossed $1 Million on Its First Day, Reaching Its Stretch Goals Kickstarter-kampagnen for strategibrætspillet War for Roshar fra Brandon Sanderson og Brotherwise Games har indsamlet over én million dollar på sin første dag. Spillet bygger på Sandersons Stormlight Archive-univers og udkommer efter planen i november 2027. Kampagnen tilbyder flere støttepakker, hvor den dyreste til 295 dollar inkluderer udvidelser, ekstra komponenter og figurer.

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Metro 2039 Is Now Available for Preorder – Here’s What Comes in Each Edition, Including Bonuses Forudbestillingerne til Metro 2039 er åbnet, og spillet udkommer til PlayStation 5, Xbox og pc den 4. februar 2027. Det postapokalyptiske first-person shooter fås i standard-, deluxe- og samlerudgaver med blandt andet udvidelsesindhold, kunstbøger og en Spartan-hjelm i den dyreste udgave. Alle forudbestillinger inkluderer desuden Specialist Pack med opgraderinger til spillerens udstyr.

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Nvidia Brings DLSS 5 to Hogwarts Legacy, But Some Fans Can't Tell The Difference Nvidia bringer DLSS 5 til Hogwarts Legacy i november sammen med en ny model, som ifølge selskabet er dobbelt så hurtig som den tidligere version. Teknologien bruger AI til at tegne dele af spilbilledet på ny, men de synlige forbedringer i Hogwarts Legacy ser ud til at være begrænsede. Samtidig kan DLSS 5 fortsat have en mærkbar påvirkning af billedhastigheden.

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Grand Theft Auto IV – The Legacy Review

IGN genbesøger Grand Theft Auto IV som led i en retrospektiv gennemgang af seriens hovedspil frem mod Grand Theft Auto 6. Anmeldelsen fremhæver spillets mindre, men tættere og mere detaljerede Liberty City samt Niko Bellic som hovedperson. På trods af færre funktioner end GTA: San Andreas vurderes spillets atmosfære, realisme og bydesign stadig at holde sig bemærkelsesværdigt godt.

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I’m taking a look back at each of the core Grand Theft Auto games and replaying them in the lead-up to the arrival of Grand Theft Auto 6. What we’ll be putting together won’t be traditional re-reviews, and they won’t come with any new IGN score, but they will re-examine what made each GTA remarkable upon the time of its release. By the end of the project, using GTA’s previously six-star wanted level, you should be able to get an idea of where each of these games roughly rank in my long-term love for this series.

Today it’s time to revisit Liberty City in Grand Theft Auto IV.

Grand Theft Auto IV is smaller than GTA: San Andreas. Significantly so, if you exclude water, as its land area is reportedly around only one-quarter the size of San Andreas’s physical real estate. GTA IV also has markedly reduced vehicle variety, with much fewer of them overall and zero car customisation. It has no asset management, less mission variety, no RPG-inspired skill system, a pretty paltry list of cheats, and the only thing you can alter about lead character Niko Bellic is his outfit. In fact, if you weren’t around for the arrival of GTA IV, I think it’s fair enough that you may actually find yourself a little confused about its place in the series pantheon. That is, how could this apparently smaller game with overtly fewer features than its predecessor have instantly become not only the highest-rated GTA in the history of the series, but one of the highest rated games of all time, full stop? Well, the devil is in the details. Countless, unprecedented, incredible details.

For all his faults as an Eastern European war veteran with a shady past and a short temper, who may or may not have spent 106 minutes trying to kill Owen Wilson back in 2001, Niko Bellic has actually carved out a place as one of the most likeable and accessible characters in the franchise. Lured by his cousin Roman’s lies of wealth and opportunity, it’s easy to both sympathise with Niko’s disappointment at his first encounter with the American Dream, and share in his distaste for the various bastards of Liberty City who seek to exploit him.

Released in 2008, GTA IV was the first game in the series to be set in the present day since GTA III. In 2026, it’s an interesting snapshot of the world just prior to the smartphone takeover – back when the internet was still a destination you took time out to visit on a computer, social media was still a novelty rather than the worst thing to happen to humanity since disco music, and your radio would always let you know you were about to receive a mobile phone call. However, despite the 18 year gulf between its setting and today, GTA IV doesn’t feel remotely as retro as something like GTA: Vice City did in 2002 – even though there were only 16 years between its setting and the time of its release. The aesthetic distinctions between the ’80s and 2000s are, of course, profound. What are the visual differences between the 2000s and now, other than the fact The Rock used to have hair? It’s not a long list. Monoculture is dead, fashion is looping, and – as remarkably detailed as GTA IV is – I don’t think there’s anything Rockstar could have done to dodge this phenomenon, Dwayne Johnson’s shaven skull notwithstanding.

Flashing Lights

However, even though the feeling I glean from GTA IV being a depiction of a specific moment in time may not be as strong as that elicited by either GTA: Vice City or GTA: San Andreas, there is no denying what a victory it is in terms of its capacity to represent a true sense of place. GTA IV’s Liberty City wasn’t just one of the most convincing virtual cities of its generation; I honestly don’t think it’s an overstatement to say its commitment to tiny details still stands up to scrutiny today.

Revisiting GTA IV’s Liberty City in 2026 – a game that my Xbox 360 play data indicated to me I haven’t touched in around 14 years – I’m immediately reminded of how fastidiously crafted every corner of this world is. Yes, it’s a smaller environment than that of San Andreas, but it’s one that is so much more crowded, dense, and dripping with depth. It’s more immediate, more authentic, and more intimate than anything that came before it – and it’s still a more credible and convincing city than those in most of the open-world action games I’ve played since.

It’s still a more credible and convincing city than those in most of the open-world action games I’ve played since.

Strolling though Star Junction – Liberty City’s glitzy Times Square proxy – I find myself in tourist mode. I’m too engaged by the fact there’s something to see, read, or admire everywhere I point the camera to be distracted by the temptation of causing anti-social chaos. Hoofing it through Hove Beach – inspired by Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach – and I’m once again impressed at how much mileage Rockstar extracts from the seemingly mundane. Garbage strewn on the sidewalks. Individualised storefronts that are faithful to the demographics of the area and are never repeated elsewhere around the city. Places with stories you’ll never get to the bottom of. Like, who is Mikey Pissroll, and how much better at pool is he than Anal Alan?

The architecture, the lighting, the lived-in grime; Liberty City here feels more than real. It feels aged. Rockstar didn’t just build streets; it built them, and then assaulted that asphalt with decades of simulated wear. As a result, those streets are a patchwork of potholes, road plates, and sporadic strips of more recently re-surfaced segments. The custom signwork, the bespoke graffiti – the fact that no piece of the city looks like any other. A multitude of elements combine to create what was an unprecedented sense of immersion at the time, and absolutely still holds up today. Sure, there’s an unavoidable murkiness to playing GTA IV on original hardware like the Xbox 360, where you’re obviously beholden to the resolution limitations of its age. It results in a soft and rather muted image, and one that’s admittedly exacerbated by the overly cool and slightly washed out colour palette Rockstar opted for. However, it’s still a stunning place to simply explore, whether walking, driving, or using public transport – which is a viable and realistic way to move around this tightly-packed urban metropolis.

One Vision

While Rockstar was committed to rebuilding its famous riff on New York City as realistically as possible within the fidelity it could muster at the time, it also placed an enormous emphasis on physical realism. The beating heart of this approach was NaturalMotion’s procedural character-animation technology, Euphoria – an animation and physics solution that completely transformed how people moved, reacted to impacts, and interacted with their surroundings. It wasn’t just a trivial technical flourish; it fundamentally altered the way the game felt to play, whether you were cutting enemies down with a barrage of bullets, or mercilessly bouncing them off the bonnet of an automobile. It reinvented GTA.

[Euphoria] wasn’t just a trivial technical flourish; it fundamentally altered the way the game felt to play.... It reinvented GTA.

Traditional animation relies heavily on pre-authored movements, with developers creating and canning specific sequences that characters will perform in particular circumstances. That is, fill them with lead and they’ll sink to the ground the same way every time. Strike them with a car and they’ll fly up and flop down identically, regardless of the forces at work. Euphoria does away with all of this and, in 2008, it felt like a stunning glimpse of the future. Ditching those pre-determined animations, characters in GTA IV react realistically – both based on the forces impacting them, and the world within arm’s reach of them. A spray of gunfire may stagger an enemy into a railing behind, which they can tumble over dramatically. A well-placed shot may cause someone to lose their balance and fall off a ledge. Clipping someone in a car will skittle them in a totally different way to clobbering them head-on. One too many drinks may make putting one foot in front of the other temporarily tricky.

The results are often wildly slapstick – like when Niko flies through the windscreen after neglecting to use a seatbelt, or when NPCs insist on clutching the door handle of your car as it begins to peel away. I still live for these moments. In fact, I’ll often hesitate before getting on the throttle to allow carjacking victims a brief window to grab on before I take them on a brief trip to destination road rash. I don’t know what that says about me. Nothing good, probably.

So much of the endless experimentation on offer in GTA IV is a direct result of Euphoria, and the fact no two encounters will ever really play out the same way twice. But it also works because it’s part of a much wider commitment to granular realism. That is, what good is a world that oozes so much character and authenticity if the people feel painted on? Like they’re skating through it rather than actually inhabiting it? Everything about GTA IV is engineered to immerse us into its world; like we’re just another living, breathing citizen of Liberty City.

Goodbye Horses

Despite the incredible critical acclaim GTA IV accumulated, it remains one of the more divisive games in the series. While I am quite partial to the slower nature of its more pragmatic story and straightforward missions as a change of pace, it wasn’t to everyone’s tastes, nor was the relationship system. It was a smart way to disseminate rewards for fostering relationships with your in-game friends, but it admittedly could’ve benefited from a larger range of activities to do with them around the city – and preferably ones that were a little more fun, too. As it stands, the relationship system is too chore-like, requiring you to repeat the same cycle: pick them up, head to one of a couple of venues, and drive them home.

Similarly, GTA IV’s extremely weighty driving physics are another controversial topic. For mine, I’ve actually always been quite partial to the feel of GTA IV, particularly in certain cars where I think the exaggerated body roll and sluggish steering makes sense – like muscle cars and beefy 4x4s. I would’ve liked some more sharpness in its range of sports cars and supercars – they should have stiffer suspension as they ought to be the cars with the firmest rides – but I do much prefer GTA IV’s approach to damage modeling over GTA V.

There also doesn’t seem to be any real consensus regarding the radio stations, either, with sentiment that swings between high praise for the outright station variety to claims the song list is the most forgettable in the series. I have to concede I lean towards the latter; coming off the immense highs of Vice City and San Andreas I remember being a little underwhelmed at the time – although the soundtrack expanded and improved quite noticeably following the arrival of The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, the two smartest pieces of DLC Rockstar ever produced.

But that’s a topic for a different day.

Verdict

Sentimentally speaking, Grand Theft Auto IV isn’t my favourite of the series – but I would say it’s the one I respect the most. It was bold to dial things back from the unhinged freedom of San Andreas in favour of a slower paced and more grounded crime saga, but it was a decision that allowed Rockstar to establish the importance of having a city so detailed it became a character itself, as well as flex a tech solution for character animation that has gone on to be a defining pillar of the series’ brand of emergent, slapstick fun. Obsessively detailed and impressively timeless, GTA IV is the prototype for modern Grand Theft Auto.