Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition

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• Recommended Posted August 24, 2025 on Steam GTA IV holds a special place among open-world games. Its story is deep, the characters are compelling, and Liberty City’s atmosphere is amazing. I definitely recommend buying and playing it! I started this year on my Steam Deck, and it runs really well with no FPS issues. I just finished the story for the first time in 2025, and even though the game is quite old, it’s still incredible.
• Recommended Posted June 29, 2025 on Steam which ape at rockstars HQ thought it would be a good idea that you need to download rockstars launcher just to play a game from 2008?
• Recommended Posted December 3, 2025 on Steam FusionFix actually makes GTAIV playable.. I’ve tried to get this PC port to run properly since 2014. Major improvement to performance & visuals. The game doesn’t crash anymore, consistent fps- nostalgia rekindled
• Not recommended Posted November 5, 2025 on Steam Why the hell do I need to download a third party fix just to enjoy the game man, fix the gawdayum PC port Rockstar.
• Recommended Posted March 15, 2026 on Steam First of all, this PC port of GTA IV is trash. First Generation RAGE engine is fundamentally broken on modern PCs and requires a lot of troubleshooting and mods to get it to be playable. The modding community recently solved this game. Follow Gillian's Modding Guide for GTA IV to save your sanity. FusionFix and DVXK vulkan mod fixes most issues for most people. EDIT: Another tip; GTA IV breaks at high FPS. Lock your FPS to 60 and you can use Lossless Scaling to play the game at a stable and smooth 144fps or more. GTA IV as a game is considered one of the best games of all time for a reason. For the time it was a mind blowing leap in graphics and in physics, and it still holds up in 2026. It's insane that it ran on 512mb of GDDR3 on an Xbox 360 and the fact that it was only in development for 4 years. There is an incredible amount of detail in this game that rivals RDR2. As an example, you can steal an ice cream truck and it has different songs you can play like a police siren. The story and characters are the best rockstar story along with Red Dead Redemption. I don't care what anybody says, the driving in GTA IV is the best to me. Every car has different handling and weight to them, going fast and making a sharp turn can make you lose control of your vehicle, it's very realistic and satisfying. Pulling off a drift in this game is the best feeling. Also the car damage/deformation system is MUCH MUCH better than V. Cars actually bend out of shape and take damage if hit really hard, they blow up easier, and it's harder to drive a broken car because it reduces your speed and your ability to turn. It feels like Rockstar tuned back the physics and the car damage physics to streamline GTA online. GTA 4 is just a really fun game in general because of these systems. There are so many interiors in the game that you can just explore. You can go to an internet cafe, go bowling, go play pool, go eat some food to restore your health at a restaurant. it makes the city feel more alive unlike GTA V with 0 overworld interiors, 0 food vendors. You can literally go into the hospital. A lot of props are destructible as well. It doesn't feel like there is any wasted space in the city. I also swear that the pedestrians behaviors in GTA 4 are much smarter over 5, each type of ped has their own personality, every single pedestrian and cars don't run and vanish and turn into a ghost town when you shoot somebody so you can go to another street and jack a car to get away. Female peds actually fight back too. The physics in the game are over the top but crazy fun to play around with. Euphoria's implementation in this game is still top tier and never makes the game boring, and I wish more games used NaturalMotion's Euphoria. Peds don't have a default dying animation so every single gunfight is different. In fact, most peds will survive getting shot and try to get up and limp away to safety. A lot of this is just simply missing from V. GTA 4 is the best singleplayer Grand Theft Auto. I hope that GTA 6 brings back some of the charm that made GTA 4 so great.
• Not recommended Posted August 23, 2025 on Steam Hey Rockstar, got a question for ya: What does it feel like to be certifiable Dirtbags? Honestly? Because I find it to be absolutely weird that a paying customer is constantly finding themselves being inconvenienced by having to sign/ping-in monthly just to be able to play the games they paid for. I'm not constantly online. (absolutely bewildering, I'm sure) Perhaps people like playing offline, a.k.a., single-player? Wild! It's mind numbing that Rockstar Social Network is being forcefully shoveled down players' throats for "services" they more than likely have ZERO interest in. Leaderboards? Who gives a rat's ass?? I just want to play the game, and I'm 100% certain others feel the same way. I cannot be disproved. My judgement is concise and absolute - this assessment comes from life experience. Not from some 60 minute mouth breather session about who read their emails, and who had a "eureka" from their "think tank". You creatures are fundamentally bizarre. I sit here and think: "Wow, I can't even sit down for uninterrupted R & R?" Fix your decrepit business model, you clowns. You're a joke. How is it that other developers and studios can manage to respect the consumers, but you, collectively, are defiant every step of the way? That experience from 17 years ago, being able to just pop the disc in and play, ... why can't we have that experience back even with this platform despite being digital? Dirtbags....