Differences Between GTA V and GTA IV

GTA is unlike most if not all game series’. The difference between GTA IV and GTA V are shocking to see. If you take a vastly popular game series like COD for example and put the two together they do not look half as different as GTA IV and GTA V are.

Grand Theft Auto games are all about attention to detail. A million little things come together to form the massive simulations we’ve come to know and love. I am about to list the little attention to detail points in GTA IV that make it better than GTA V:

1. The police in GTA IV aren’t automatically hostile to your mere existence
2. In GTA IV, you can get into more involved fistfights with NPCs. NPCs also have more tolerance, period.
3. In GTA IV, NPCs react dynamically to where, specifically, they are shot.
4. The car physics are more realistic in GTA IV in terms of handling, and also in terms of how the cars crash.
5. NPCs aren’t giant assholes to you just because in GTA IV.
6. You can shoot guns out of people’s hands in GTA IV—and, in general, knock things out of people’s hands.
7. You can carjack by pointing a gun at someone in GTA IV more easily.
8. You can pick up random junk in GTA IV and actually use it in some way—it’s not just decoration.
9. People in GTA IV react to cars trying to run them over in more ways.
10. You can climb things in GTA IV.
11. The environment in GTA IV is more reactive to explosions, scratches, etc.
12. The water physics are more detailed in GTA IV.
13. Your character reacts to the weather in GTA IV.
14. Cops stop crimes without actually murdering anyone in GTA IV.
15. There are way more interiors in GTA IV.

It’s quite obvious that GTA V is a much better game as a whole but I like the little attention to detail that the developers do in their games. I hope that this allows anyone that reads this the ability to recognise these little attention to details in a seemingly smaller game that do not exist in the bigger game of GTA V.