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GTA IV has comfy car physics and a very detailed worl because it came out at the qualitative peak of AAA, but it has less overall gameplay than SA becuase muh graffix and the mission design features repetitive "go kill some dude"-type missions along with escort faggotry.
It does, however, precede modern ESG "values" and is set in a parody of circa 2006-2007 Jew York and not 2012 Soy Trannyfornia.
Downsides are that the game was developed for cuntsoles which on the 360 and PSTriple meant sub-30 framerates at the best of times and on PC resulted in a joke-tier port that needs various mods+cracks to work properly in CY+9.
DLCs fix a lot of the gameplay issues the base game had, the first one has acquired this meme status among /v/ due to CuckStar's endemic hatred of Jewish biker gangs or something in GTA V and later games and the second DLC while re-adding many gameplay elements from SA also has the most pozzed plot pre-V.
GTA V I honestly wouldn't, the PC port here is (or was?) competently done with much better framerates on AMD hardware than GTA IV but the gameplay and especially the story groan under the weight of the AAAAAA open world map.
Whereas in IV the console base resulted in a shitty PC port but otherwise didn't affect the gameplay too much, many of IV's small-but-important details had to be neutered both in order to make the game playable on the 360+PS3 but also to meet the dreaded online multiplayer requirement.
Examples of this include a much less complex and flexible euphoria physics engine both for player and pedestrian movement, car physics suck balls, many objects that in IV had their own physics and would scatter around during car crashes/explosions are now either fixed or gone with hilarious results given the worse car physics, police cars only no longer spawn in regular traffic, AI is far, far worse across the board compared to the complex behaviors of IV with Police no longer trying to arrest you, always knowing where you are even at 1 star out in the wilderness, NPCs and Police are now stupidly aggressive and will attack you for microaggressions no reason whatsoever, also Cuckstar removed some tranny parody NPC in an update a few years back so there's that.
The gay nigger online focus also means that while the base game shouldn't have any problems running on moderately recent hardware the game's radio stations are bisected to shit due to loicense expiration and practically require anti-semitic pirate restoration mods, not that V's soundtrack was actually good to begin with compared to IV.
All GTA games have this issue in CY+9 but the music licenses for IV took longer to expire, most cracks tend to use older versions ripped from DVD due to better mod support.
That's not even getting into the half-finished story or poorly designed map with virtually nothing to do past the LS city limits or that the game fails as a parody because the exaggerated Soy California depicted in-game doesn't differ so much from the real one.