5 years since the date of the release of Grand Theft Auto 4 on the PC.
5 years ago, 2008 December the second there was something so expected by many fans of the series of games GTA - six months after release on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 Grand Theft Auto 4 finally released on the personal computer.GTA IV was the first game of HD universe in a series of Grand Theft Auto. The last game in the series, GTA up to the fourth part released on the PC was San Andreas, and it happened in the summer of 2005, so that the tiredness in awaiting the PC gamers is not difficult to understand. Besides the interest in the game fueled entirely positive reviews: on Metacritic.com GTA 4 got 98 out of 100 possible, Gamespot praised the game a 9.5 out of 10, and IGN gave 10 out of 10, which happens quite rarely, while noting oscar quality of the plot, amazing detail and perfectly communicated atmosphere of a living city.
It is not surprising that this GTA 4 had a huge commercial success. So the 9-th June 2010, was sold more than 17 million copies of the game on all platforms, and by the end of 2012, more than 25 million, although it should be noted that the sales of the PC version of the game significantly lagged behind the console.
Now, 5 years ago there was a release of GTA 4 for PC. Exhausting waiting, which began with the release of games on the console, lasted «only» half a year. Congratulations with the anniversary by all those who waited and waited for GTA 4, and hope that the little time left to languish in anticipation of GTA 5.