Grand Theft Auto IV

Liberty City. Niko Bellic came for a cousin and a fresh start. Grand Theft Auto IV is Rockstar North's 2008 rebuild of the series on the RAGE engine with Euphoria handling the bodies. Niko Bellic arrives in Liberty City chasing his cousin Roman's stories about mansions and sports cars and finds a cab depot and a loan shark instead. The city is a tighter, denser Liberty City than the one in GTA III, modelled closely on New York, and it drops the cartoon tone the series had carried since Vice City. Cars have weight, people trip and catch themselves, and Niko's past in the Bosnian war sits under every conversation. It shipped on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in April 2008 and reached Windows that December.

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Developer //: Rockstar North
Engine //: RAGE with Euphoria and Bullet physics
Protagonist //: Niko Bellic
Released //: April 29, 2008 (PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360)
Platforms //: PlayStation 3 · Xbox 360 · Windows

22
Characters: 86
Missions: 16
Cheats

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Sections

124 entries

#01 22

Characters

Named cast, who they answer to, and how their story ends.

#02 86

Missions

The story missions two independent lists agree on, and who gives each one. Published totals for GTA IV range from 86 to 90, so a few branch-only jobs may sit outside this.

#03 16

Cheats

Every code is a phone number you dial on the in-game mobile. They never block 100% completion, but some switch off achievements.

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What it introduced

5 firsts for the series

01 Euphoria body simulation, so pedestrians react and stumble instead of playing a canned animation
02 Cheats entered as phone numbers on Niko's mobile, saved to a Cheats menu after first use
03 A friendship system where characters call you, and keeping them happy unlocks favours
04 Branching story choices that decide which of several characters live
05 Multiplayer in the open city, with sixteen players and a lobby built into the phone

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Collectibles

Flying rats (pigeons) 200

Liberty City · An Annihilator helicopter spawns on the MeTV building roof in Algonquin
Stunt jumps 50

Liberty City · Counts toward 100%; the jump must be landed cleanly to register
Most Wanted targets 30

Liberty City police computer

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100% checklist

13 requirements Tick them off →

Complete every story mission 60%
Complete the random character encounters 5%
Reach a high enough Like stat with Brucie, Little Jacob and Packie, and do every activity with each 10%
Win at pool, darts and bowling, and beat the QUB3D high score 5%
Complete all 10 of Little Jacob's drug deliveries 2%
Complete all 9 of The Fixer's assassinations 2%
Complete all 10 Exotic Exports 2%
Complete all 30 of Stevie's car thefts 2%
Win all 9 of Brucie's street races 2%
Complete 20 Vigilante missions from the police computer 2.5%
Complete all 30 Most Wanted targets 2.5%
Land all 50 unique stunt jumps 2.5%
Kill all 200 flying rats 2.5%

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Quick facts

Released: April 29, 2008
Engine: RAGE with Euphoria and Bullet physics
Director: Leslie Benzies
Collectibles: 280
100% checklist: 13
Platforms: 3

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Declassified

The cheats are phone numbers

Every GTA IV cheat is dialled on Niko's phone rather than typed or punched in on the pad. After the first use the game files it under Cheats in the phone menu, so you never have to remember the number twice.

Cheats do not block 100 percent

Unusually for the series, using cheats in GTA IV leaves 100% completion intact. Some do switch off achievements and trophies, so save first if you are chasing them.

The 555 prefix is not an accident

Every number uses the 555 exchange that North American film and television reserve for fiction, so no real line can ever be dialled by a player copying a code.