Grand Theft Auto IV

Thought GTA IV’s multiplayer was just going to be bit of co-op? Think again. We counted ten different modes, including an explosive take on the Deathmatch blueprint, all packed with superb game options. Here are our good friends at Xbox World 360 UK, Tim Weaver and Rob Taylor, and their takes on four of the best game types they played.

GTA IV is a vast game, packed with detail. For every major set-piece, or game-defining mission, there are a thousand tiny things ticking away in the background, begging to be seen or explored. As in previous installments in the series, you could spend your whole time in the universe just moving about - there’s a sense of surrounding; a sense of time and place; a sense that around the next corner there’ll be something else to

While cruising the streets of "The LC" there's a lot more going on than just traffic, hookers, and the occasional drive by shooting. Like previous entries in the Grand Theft Auto series, tiny details are everywhere waiting to be discovered. And with GTA IV, the more compact game world allows for far more density of detail than any previous installment.

Tearing aimlessly through the streets of Liberty City, we punch the throttle of our stolen ride to see just how much speed we can squeeze out of a pokey four-door sedan. The commuter car's engine hums as we drift around a corner, and a group of pedestrians wanders into our field of view. Without a second thought, we swerve onto the sidewalk and slam into a middle-aged woman, leaving a blood-splashed dent in our car's hood as the remaining

We walk away from our first GTA IV hands-on encounter with a hundred stories to tell. The two hours we spent locked away with the game at Rockstar's London HQ was abundant with hilarious, outrageous, explosive and downright unbelievable moments.