Video Games

Friday, 12 July 2013

Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA IV)

GTA IV is an open world game full with action and adventure. It’s created by Rockstar North and Rockstar Toronto Games and also it was released on the date 29^th Apri 2008. It was available on the platforms PS3, X BOX 360 and PC. It’s a 3^rd person game and also it was awarded (here's a chart to show the awards)

Year	Awards	Category
2008	IGN Best of 2008	Best Action Game	Xbox 360
			PC
			Overall
		Best Graphics Technology	Xbox 360
		Best Use of Sound	Overall
		Best Voice Acting	Xbox 360
			PlayStation 3
			PC
			Overall
		Best Story	Xbox 360
			PlayStation 3
	IGN AU's 10 Best Games of 2008	Best game of the year
	GameTrailers Game of the Year Awards 2008	Game of the Year
		Best PlayStation 3 Game
		Best Xbox 360 Game
		Best Action Adventure Game
		Best Story
	GameSpy Game of the Year 2008	Best Story
		Character of the Year: Brucie
	GameSpot Best of 2008	Best UK-Developed Game
		Best New Character: Brucie
		Best Xbox 360 Game
	Giant Bomb Golden Anniversary Year-End Awards Extravaganza Spectacular 2008	Game of the Year
		Best Multiplatform Game
	Kotaku's 2008 Games of the Year Awards	Game of the Year
		Best Writing
	TeamXbox Game of the Year Awards 2008	Best Action/Adventure
		Best Story
		Game of the Year
	Spike TV Video Game Awards 2008	Game of the Year
		Best Action Adventure Game
		Best Performance by a Human Male: Michael Hollick as Niko Bellic
	26th Annual Golden Joystick Awards	BBC 1Xtra Soundtrack of the Year
		ARVATO Xbox Game of the Year
	G4 G-Phoria 2008	Best New Character: Niko Bellic
		Best Action Game
		Longest Lasting Game, presented by Stride
	Electronic Gaming Monthly	Game of the Year
	The New York Times	Game of the Year
	Los Angeles Times	Game of the year
	Time The Top 10 Everything of 2008: Top 10 Video Games	Number 1 video game of 2008
2009	Entertainment Merchants Association Home Entertainment Awards – Video Games	Action/Adventure Game of the Year
		Video Game of the Year

 The next year they released an extra 2 episodes from GTA Liberty City Story and they were ‘’Balled of Gay Tony” and “The Lost Dammed.” But they was both released on different days “Balled of Gay Tony” was released 29^th October 2009. “The Lost Dammed” was released on 19^th February 2009. GTA IV the video game has had a total sales number of approximately 9,463,000 copies.

In the game you are a character called Niko Bellic who is fresh off the boat to America to live the American Dream. The family you got in the game is Niko’s cousin Roman Bellic. From there you meet Roman’s friends then do jobs for them, then you meet even more people while doing missions and also you probably end up being their friends  

The age rating for this game is 18 and that was the age rating they planned to do at the start from all the violence they put in the game and all the bad language they put in this game as well. The audience for this game is mostly males. I say male because men play these types of games more than female. When I say these types of games I mean games that have violence, sex, drugs and strong bad language.   







                                                              ^^^^^^Here's a trailer for GTA IV^^^^^