The Grand Theft Auto IV
Police Blotter

i was trying to get 2 achivements at on: do 5 rolls and get away from the police on 4 star it had been about half an hour in the airport i had given up on the 4 stars but suddonly out of the blue i got given both of the achivements 4 doing nothing thank rockstar 4 making such an ace game

ok so this is really wierd i had a annialator and i was on a date with sobohoe and i was not pleased with her cause she was complaning so i took her to one of the buildings and push her off so then she dies i get a phone call asking to pick her up from hospital so i say yes i go to the hospital and she isnt standing up she is just lying there on the floor so i use my rocket launcher and she goes flying but i kill myself in the process so when i respawn she is still lying there in a different place. so dont push people off buildings

i had just done the mission the master and the molotov and i decided to pick a fight in the cabaret club and then everyone dissapeard except for the bartender so i run to the roof so i can push him off and there accross the street was dimitri staring at me

Ok, so I leave the safehouse. It's late at night. It's raining. I start hoofing it around the corner to the 69th street diner. No one is around except for a guy talking on a pay phone across the street. I cross the street and stand just behind the guy, waiting to make my move. He's in mid-sentence when I kick him right in the nuts. The guy drops the phone and comes at me, it's on now. Except he pulls out a blade and bum rushes me. His onslaught is so fast it takes me by surprise. I'm trying to back away, and he's forcing me backwards into a dark alleyway. I'm trying to get my gun out, it's all happening so fast, he's too close, I can't get a shot off. He's stabbing and slashing, cursing and grunting. Next thing I know I'm down, bleeding and dying in a filthy alleyway, gun still in my hand as everything fades to black. I thought I was the most dangerous thing in Liberty City. I was wrong. The city is alive and it's hungry.

Just a helpful hint:the corvettes work very well as ramps if you are going fast enough. I was playing in the airport with my friend the other day and we both had the "corquettes" as the game calls them, I believe. I was chasing him from a distance down the runway, and he did an e-brake stop so he was facing me. As he got out of the car, I hit the front of his at full speed and flew right above his head into the hangar behind him. Try it.

I love to play like a flying taxi/rescue with the Annihilator chopper

Here's my story, Almost 2 hours after the release I was driving like a pro, drifting around corners, and even having 5 chopper jousting battles in Free Mode. Almost as soon after I gotten my 1st chopper, I crashed it and then found the biggest drivable in the game. The Tugboat. I've also learned how to do some pretty sweet tricks in the city bus. Like what happened when 5 guys and I got into a bus and we've earned 6 stars, I slammed on the brakes in effort to dodge a stray rocket shot off by another player. Instead of making a U-turn, I hit into reverse, hit top speed, and jerked over my left anolog stick while simultaneously hitting the gas to make the sweetest full speed burnout/drift I had ever seen. Before we knew it, we were going from reverse to forward in less than 3 seconds.

All together, I've earned myself these three nicknames: Tugboat King, Splatter King, Navigator, and bus Drifter.

Just yesterday, a buddy and I joined a clan, our base is the Shyster law offices in Algonquin, I stay at the receptionist's desk as a bouncer, and I protect both the buildings entrance and the "BOSS". I ask unknown members for their Name, Rank, and Division, I'm Private Neon MP Division.

I really love the Sultan RS: which is found on the northwest end of the Map behind a run-down garage on a dirt road.

Tugboat Location: Industrial complex just nerth of Statue of happiness

To Sink: Shoot at the hull with a rocketlauncher/ throw grenades at it.

To Capsize: Shoot multiple Rockets at the smokestack.

The water outside the map goes on until your icon gets off of the start menu map, at that point, it'l tell you to turn back or suffer the consequences.

To Get to Statue's beating heart: Grab a Maverick and head to the upper platform on the statue (it has 4 doors circling it) jump out of the chopper at just the right time, and once you get up, go through the only working door and climb the ladder.

Helicopters can fly without a tail boom, they can stay in the sky, but they will spin non-stop and they're not very controllable.
IM TALKING ABOUT THE BOOM ITSELF, NOT THE JUST THE REAR ROTOR

Me and a few buddies of mine decided to go into free roam to take a brake from the incredible new multiplayer and single player. We decided to get the cops on us. After driving towards the helicopter tour pads we then took a helicopter and flew to an abanndoned hospital, which looked like it was rebuilt into a crack house. Anyways, we then got the cops on us, 3 stars for me, 2 stars for one of my friends and 4 stars for the other. We had weapons, but we ran out of ammo quick. SWAT was coming at us like a bitch. We had maybe a few guns left, some health and their was a bullet proof vest inside the hospital which we would occasionally go to if we were hurt. We used our landed helicopter, a broken down car and the hospital for cover. It wasn't easy though. One of my friends gave me cover while I ran inside to get the vest. He was the first to die. Luckily for us thought, he spawned near us. Although he only had a pistol, he was still a great help. The next to go was my other friend, he was trying to run back into the hospital but the SWAT took him down before he could reach the door. Myself, I did not die through the battle, it was great and I was just about to run back and get a M4 that was laying behind my cover until... One of my friends left. He was host so he took the game with him. It was great though, but I wished we could've finished the fight.

In a free-roam game with 10 players, me and my friend were in a car and trying to get away from the cops. He took a wrong turn that led to him swerving into a construction area enclosed by two massive gate doors that can swing open. My friend died and I was forced to get out of the car and use a nearby storage container as cover as the cops stormed through the gate two-by-two. I was frantically holding them off, thinking I had no hope to live, since my friend had spawned on the opposite side of the map and I had no means of escape. Then, my in-game cell phone rang, and someone else in the room was calling me (GTA IV's form of private chat), and when I answered, he said "Need a lift?" And as he said that, his car busted through the gate, smashing all the cops in the way. I hopped in, and we drove away as we shot out of the window to kill some more cops.

Best moment ever.

Okay so i was working on the 4-star walk away achievement and i accidentaly amped it to 5-stars. I immediately hop into a luckily placed comet and and rocket down the street and see the bridge to alderney on my right. So i bolt it down until i get to the toll booths. Oh crap, completely jammed. I'm goin to fast to stop and even if i wasnt there was no way i was going to face what was chasing me. I suck it up and try squeezing my car as far as i can to the side. But whats that on the other side of the line of booths? A police SUV gunning straigh at me. I slam the car to further to the side. my car magically goes onto two wheels because of the ramped wall and i just cleared the SUV. To bad as soon as i celebrate i hit a different car, fly out of the windshield and proceeded to be ran over and shot many many times. Still awsome though.

Mr B, that has to be the stupidest idea for a game ever, why not just run them over normally and see how far they go or how much blood can get onto your car. But your game that you play "batter up" is stupid, no offense to people who like it

I'm a car guy so I like to play "Batter Up". The 1st time I played it was on Happiness Island with a Ferrari. alls you gotta do is time a powerslide to coincide with an unlucky pedestrian. to score a true "Batter Up" you have to tag the ped with your tail lights and send'em flying. Please see my comment to Ryan's article for another game variant. think airport, helos, motorcycles and meat fountain. woo hoo! this game totally rocks!

This morning I was pulled over talking to Little Jacob about going to the strip club, when another car pulled over in front of me and picked up a hooker. That was hilarious.

Alright well my favorite is suicidal but funny get a helicopter get up to a high buliding and try to take off the tail or w/e its called but when your spining in circles jump out and the propeller should kill you and send you flying far and if you did it near tall buildings you can bounce off them and it will make you churn in disgust

Is it just me, or does the statue look like it may have been modeled after one potential presidential candidate?

Hey, thanks Mitch! Always good to meet another Suiko fan.

Anyway, another GTA moment. I was piloting a helicopter with 3 of my buds right, so here we were flying through downtown at high speed. The tail of the chopper clipped a building and broke off while the rest of the chopper went hurtling towards the ground with our doom in mind. The four of us ended up bailing out at high altitude and littering the ground below with corpses. The camera gives you such an awesome sense of vertigo we all went up and did it again.

So as a end to our first night of playing GTA IV my buddy and I decided to take a helicopter ride around the Statue of Liberty. The sun was just coming when we noticed the cup of coffee in her right hand, and was blown away at the little detail that the coffee was steaming in the early morning light! Can't wait for what else is there is to find in this amazing game!

Was flying a helicopter around the statue and noticed four doors on its edge, after a few tries i landed on the balcony and tried the four 3 wouldn't let me in but one i passed right through. When I wen up stairs i nearly flipped theres a beating heart in the statue, i began to blast away with everything i had and got a pigeon when i shot rockets at it.

Just got on this morning after work. On a LIVE chat with a friend that had been playing all night. As we're talking, and I'm getting the inside scoop on some stuff in the game. I jack a nice little compact, start speeding down the road, and with not knowing the slick feel of the cars control I slide a corner, jump a little barrier, and WHAM!!! Slam nose first into a cement Pillar. Cool yeah, but the best part was seeing Nikko go flying head first out of the windsheild like a missle straight into the pillar, and as I hit the ground I notice a nice blood splatter the size and shape of my mellon on the spot I had pasted myself onto. The glass shattering, and the blood splattering was enough to make a grown man cry.
Gamers don't sleep. We just take naps between levels.
Sir Snootch

(Suikoden108, you are now my favorite person. Those games ROCK)

Seeing Dan Amrich crushed by a helicopter and gunning down Fran in an epic 1v1 shootout was awesome. For the record: I won. :)

Also, racing around Times Square on Faggios is amazing fun --- what's more fun is crushing the drivers with a truck, then being crushed by *a bus*

Just a minute ago some buddies and I were in free play. I was riding a motocycle at pretty high speed along one of the freeways and collided with another car sending my body flipping about 50 feet through the air and into oncoming traffic. Needless to say, it was awesome.

3 Stars, I was up to my knees in cops. They were all over the place and it looked liked the radius of the "cop circle" never stopped. I was trapped, I had a little 9mm pistol in my hands. What the f*** was that going to do. A chopper and road blocks were all over the place. And what for? Killing a few innocent civilians. Okay and I might have thought it would have been funny to knock a cop to the ground letting his blood pour out into the streets. I was now terrified though. However, I wasn't going to go down with out giving those coppers everything I got. It was a miracle but somehow I forgot about my RPG that was in my weapon inventory. I quickly changed weapons and aimed my sight onto the chopper. BLAM! The chopper went down with a crash. As I watched the helicopter go up into flames I soon did a beautiful cinematic look where I turned around, walked the different direction of the explosion and saw the chopper hit... three of the police cruisers that were on my a** since I was on the run. Now my death sentence just got a little bigger. As soon as the three cruisers went up into flames with the chopper another star popped up onto my screen. I then made a run for the nearest car. A few feet away. I rushed to the abandoned car and put my foot to the gas. There was no stopping for me, I had no rockets left in my RPG and a few more rounds of a 9mm. So I sped through the red lights, through the pedestrians and through the road blocks. S.W.A.T trucks were now on my tail. I then knew that it was time to give up. "F*** it!" There was no hope left in my incredible rampage. A small alleyway was in my view, I then got out of my car and with my remaining health I ran into the alleyway, turned around and gave them my last blow. In the end, I took 3 lives with me before I was shot down and was left to rot. Nikko, you did me proud.

ok, i never said i didnt like it. just said i wasnt planning on buying it. i just said i never got into the series. ill play it eventually, and once stores start having more copies of them. but i got other stuff to play right now, especially once summer comes and all the new games that im looking forward to. ill see you in a few months, liberty city....

ilikegoingsuicide in any way i can ps i am a very good navigator

cheeto, your a disgrace to the gaming world! How do you not like GTA IV!

i have done absolutely NOTHING because i have not purchased the game, nor will i any time soon. sorry everybody, just never really got into the series. im sure ill try it eventually, but theres other things on my list right now....

HIGHLIGHTS

#1: Saved Roman and ditched my date. She shunted me for a few hours.

#2: Hit a light post at the perfect angle, so the top-heavy light portion came crashing down and smooshed some homeless chap.