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Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition

PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360 • 2020

Should you play it?

Niko Bellic, Johnny Klebitz and Luis Lopez all have one thing in common - they live in the worst city in America. Liberty City worships money and status, and is heaven for those who have them and a living nightmare for those who don't.

What works

  • Deep and mature story with strong characters
  • Realistic physics and driving mechanics
  • Large detailed open world with many activities
  • Immersive atmosphere and audio design
  • Community mods improve performance and fix bugs

Things to keep in mind

  • Poor pc optimization and technical issues
  • Lack of official multiplayer support
  • No official localization in some languages
  • Mission design can be repetitive and scripted
  • Absence of checkpoints frustrates players

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition

  • Mafia

  • Hitman: Blood Money

  • Driver® Parallel Lines

  • Mafia II (Classic)

  • Prey

More fantastical

Games that feels like Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition but with more imaginative fiction

  • Cyberpunk 2077

  • Saints Row: The Third

  • Resident Evil Requiem

  • Grand Theft Auto V Legacy

  • Saints Row IV: Re-Elected

  • Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City

  • L.A. Noire

  • Red Dead Redemption

  • Manhunt

  • Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story, Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy.

Last update: 03/08/2026