Niko Bellic, a south eastern and previous soldier migrates to America to forget all the memories from the war in his country. He comes to Liberty City to join his cousin. He comes to Liberty City to live the American Dream his cousin told him so much about. However this dream ain't true. And instead of living like a boss both of them gets thrown in to a dark underworld were they're forced to work for the mob. Niko can do anything to get what he demands - money. He is also looking for someone, and asks the mob for help. He's looking for the man who betrayed him back in the war. It seems like he lives here in Liberty City. So the dangerous journey is also a revenge mission were Niko does everything to avenge the man who killed his friends.
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Sit down at one of the in-game internet cafe computers and type www.littlelacysurprisepageant.com into the browser and you'll pull up a joke website that's every bit as tasteless as you'd expect from the GTA writers. Fair warning if you're trying to keep your wanted level clean afterward, though - leaving the computer can rack you up a five-star response from the cops for reasons that are never really explained.
A lot of players who go back to GTA IV today notice the radio isn't quite what it used to be, and there's a boring but real reason for that. Rockstar's original music licensing deals only ran for about ten years, and once they expired in 2018 a big chunk of the soundtrack had to be pulled. Vladivostok FM got hit hardest, needing a near-total replacement of its entire song list.
Early plans for GTA IV apparently included areas modelled on upstate New York and Long Island, on top of the core city. Those regions got cut somewhere along the way, and the game shipped with the more compact, densely packed version of Liberty City everyone actually knows.
Juliette Lewis was originally lined up to voice Sage, a DJ on Radio X back in San Andreas, but she passed on it because she felt the character's dialogue was too crude even for GTA. She still ended up in the series eventually, though - in GTA IV she appears as herself, hosting on Radio Broker rather than playing a fictional character.
GTA IV quietly includes the Wilhelm Scream, that famous stock sound effect that's been dubbed into everything from Star Wars to Toy Story whenever someone falls or gets thrown. It's used sparingly enough that most players will have heard it dozens of times in the game without ever clocking what it actually is.
Watch Brucie work out during one of his cutscenes and you can spot Chinese character tattoos covering his torso. On his chest is the character for 'I,' but the ones on his back translate to 'transsexual.' Given how much time Brucie spends bragging about his own masculinity, it's hard to believe this one was an accident.
