"Two weeks into the game, I've confirmed both sides of my hunch. The game is awesome, and while I've just scratched the surface, when I'm playing, the house could be on fire and I wouldn't even notice," says the publisher of GTA4. Yes, this game has been almost on the top of addicting video games ever on ps2. Every game store you see weither its at the mall or maybe just an average gamestore near you, you'd always first see the new grand theft auto games sitting there on the stands saying "Take me home! Take me home!" when the pricesurprises you. And even when you already got the games, some of the ones such as gta san andreas or vice city. These offshoots have been among the biggest digital bogeyman for politicans and pundits who want to target the video game industry as a currupter of children.

In these games, you are free roamed in a city with gangs, violence and foul-mouthed freaks. You can just play on your own pace, wandering around, looking for missns or just idling around. This game has been so popular the market sales of the game stores has been high.Unfortunately, Rockstar has brought much of the criticism in the mainstream press on itself: An epic blunder caused a hidden sex-related game to be exposed in "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas." Forever known as the "hot coffee mod scandal," it forced Rockstar to recall copies of "San Andreas" and apologize for the mistake. The company also has undercut its reputation among gamers with hackneyed misfires such as "Manhunter II," a game that earned the company criticism for bringing "Saw"-style torture horror to the video-game market.

Will "GTA IV" redeem Rockstar Games, a game studio that has made no secret of its ambitions to top Hollywood gangster movies such as "Scarface" and "Goodfellas"?

If "Grand Theft Auto" were a movie series, it would aspire to Martin Scorsese's gangster oeuvre. Bleak in their view of the human condition, the games are darkly humorous, technically brilliant, frequently underestimated in the mainstream. In almost all the "GTA" games, a small-time hoodlum rises in the criminal ranks and must make decisions based on loyalty and ambition.