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GTA 4 is not all about crime, mayhem, destruction and well… crime. In GTA 4, like in GTA:SA you can maintain relationships with other women. You can betray them, you can take them wherever you want, etc. It’s like having another girlfriend! Yes, apart from having to satisfy your real life girlfriend, now you have to worry about the virtual one too. Like life could get even harder! Well anyway, you can meet other girls through the internet on a website called Love Meet (where a humorous mission happens, you’ll see), but the first girlfriend you get is presented to you by advancing through the story. Later on you decide what to do. Betray her and get to know other girls, or keep going out with her. This relationship thing is awesome, everytime you go out with one of your girlfriends, she talks with you about the events going on in the game, and each one has a different personality. You should always consider what you’re wearing, don’t wear the same thing 2 dates in a row, or she’ll notice. To take your girlfriend out, all you have to do is give her a call and see if she’s up to it.
Apart from girlfriends, wich you can take bowling, darts, to the cabaret, etc, you also have friendship! You can maintain these high if you want by taking your friends to these entertainment places too (and to a strip club – for God’s sake don’t take your girlfriend there lol – “oh dear, where have you been?”, “ah, funny story, this girl MADE ME go through a lap dancing. Made me. Made. Me.” lol). As far as I’ve seen this doesn’t matter much, as well as the girlfriends, but they are always fun to do, and the dialogues are very funny at times.
Be careful when taking one of them to the bar though, Niko gets drunk and it’s a pain in the ass to drive! If you have motion sickness, beware, this made me sick sometimes (when the drunk level is really high). Speaking of clothing, and how you can impress the girls with this, the shops are pretty cool. You go inside (no loadings, no fade-to-black screen, just go inside, and you’re in, in real time) and walk around the store. You can get close to an item and press L1 to try it out. If you like it you can buy it. You can then change clothes in the safe-house, so, don’t worry if you buy 2 pants at the same time, the other one will be in the safe-house. This time around, the main character can only change clothes – no body building, no haircuts, no tattoos, etc. You can do this in the multiplayer though, you have a high costumization of the character in the multiplayer. I guess they made it like this because they wanted Niko to stay the same. And I don’t think it’s a big of a deal.
Also, when you go out on a date, you can choose to try your luck or say goodbye. A good time spent in the bed with the chick, or go away. I advise you try this only when you have a high percent of relationship with the girl, or you’ll get a huge NO in your face. The cutscene is funny. You can also pick up prostitutes in the street and take them to somewhere private and see it all happen. Yes, you can see it. Not explicit of course. If you get lucky, your life will replenish itself. Also, something I just found out, when you’re driving to a mission spot, when you reach the arrow your car stops by itself. This is cool because in other GTA’s I always found myself going too fast to break in time and then had to do a U-turn to get to the objective. Nice touch.
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Over and out.
