A major commercial and critical success, it broke industry records with sales of around 3.6 million units on its first day of release and grossing more than $500 million in revenue in the first week, selling an estimated 6 million units worldwide.
Grand Theft Auto IV also features several online multiplayer modes.Īs the first game of the critically acclaimed series to appear on seventh generation consoles, Grand Theft Auto IV was widely anticipated. Like other games in the series, GTA IV is composed of elements from driving games and third person shooters, and features open world gameplay, in which players can interact with the game world at their leisure. The game follows Niko Bellic, a veteran of an unnamed war in Eastern Europe, who comes to the United States in search of the American Dream, but quickly becomes entangled in a world of gangs, crime, and corruption. It is a reboot[citation needed of the Grand Theft Auto series, depicting a separate timeline from its predecessors and is set in fictional Liberty City, based heavily on modern day New York City.
It was released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on 29 April 2008, and for Microsoft Windows on 2 December 2008. Grand Theft Auto IV, commonly shortened to GTA IV, is a 2008 action adventure video game, developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games.
