Grand Theft Hmmmm....

Yep, GTA IV, not made me a crazed criminal nor has it taken me to the gaming nirvana the reviews seemed to indicate it would as people ran over their auntie's to slap perfect review scores onto it's box. Either that or I'm accidentally playing 'Viva Pinata : Won't Somebody Think Of The Children?'

Now did get the Room wrong here, it ain't terrible but it ain't no genie with a lamp either. It is essentially the same game it was back when it was GTA III, just as it was when it was GTA: Vice City, GTA : San Andreas, GTA : Milton Keynes, GTA : Eternia, GTA : HMP Northallerton.

It's been tarted a little bit, the vehicle physics changed (for the worse) and the on foot gunplay is now not just broken but it is dynamically the same game. Only a little less funny. Yes, the likes of Laslo are back on the air-waves with those radio phone-ins but they all seem somehow a little old and tired (and the music selection will never out-do Vice City's) and the new storyline of Niko lacks for humour, seeing as he's lived through a genocide and all.

The story shall no doubt be finished but after that this particular shiny disc of criminal instruction is going back to the store for a trade-in, so the crime can continue when they overprice it and rip off the customers, having no doubt handed over ten shiny pence to buy it back in the first place.