We didn't get to experience the leveling system, but it appears fairly simple. Cash is dropped by opponents and can be nabbed by anyone and is also automatically earned for performing certain tasks in the various modes. Ranks run from 0-10, with experience earned by collecting cash in multiplayer. While the options we were shown were fairly limited, new clothes and accessories unlock as you rank up. Instead, you'll create a custom character (dude or babe) from about a half-dozen options. You won't play the story mode in multiplayer. And that's what it feels like to have your mind blown. The entire city is open to you and your fifteen friends in apparently every mode. That's right - all the pedestrians, traffic and cops are there. Oh, and the entire world runs at the same time. Multiplayer is accessed from the single-player game via Niko's cell phone and supports up to 16 players. After spending a day checking out four of the MP modes, we're pretty certain Rockstar's succeeded. Here's the challenge for Rockstar: create a multiplayer experience good enough to convince players to leave the single-player campaign for a little while. That always worked well in the past, but Rockstar decided that wasn't enough this time around and added a sizable multiplayer component. He’s thrown into a world filled with interesting characters that you’ll have the pleasure of learning more about and interacting with.If Grand Theft Auto IV is anything like the previous iterations, it will offer a robust single-player experience, the kind that can last several hundred hours. Niko is so easy to root for even before events really have the chance to play out. The single-player campaign is as good as it gets for the series.
Whether it was racing cars or seeing how much money everyone could collect in a given time period, online multiplayer provided so many great memories that really took this open sandbox series in a novel direction.Īlthough multiplayer being absent is a huge hit, GTA 4 on Steam still seems worth revisiting if you don’t currently own a copy of the game anymore. You could hop online and enjoy all sorts of action in Liberty City with others. At the time, the game’s multiplayer was revolutionary. That’s not what a lot of gamers were hoping to year, especially those that enjoyed this game when it released in 2008. This makes it impossible to get new keys, which ultimately, prevents Rockstar from being able to sell the version of GTA 4 that includes the multiplayer.
You see, Games for Windows Live no longer exists. One of the most important features of any Rockstar game will be absent. There’s just one major feature missing: The online multiplayer. It seems like those have since been worked out by Rockstar, and starting March 19, the game will be available on the store again. It was pulled earlier in January, though, because of technical issues. GTA 4 used to be available on the Steam platform. Everything about him as a character is perfect, from the his accent to the way he approaches less than ideal situations. It put us in the shoes of Niko Bellic, an Easter European who’s come to Liberty City to find what he believes to be the American dream. One of the more memorable from a story-telling perspective was GTA 4. Every installment seems to be better than the last. The GTA series has been going strong for years now.