U can see at the sky.... It is always dark.... Gta 4 is dark, sad and connected to reality.. Man, gta 4 is the best

The worst part? Is that Niko is the one protagonist who never had any happy ending... Which makes him, ironically, the most relatable one, as happy endings are only in stories..

Niko is a soldier Niko is a criminal Niko is a lover GTA IV is the story of a man who lived a life so complicated

Niko and Arthur are the best characters rockstar have created

"War is where the young and stupid are tricked by old and bitter into killing each other" -Niko Bellic

Niko Bellic is literally my all-time favorite games character. I feel sympathy for him, especially as eastern European. The writing was so damn good and it became even better, knowing that a ever since USSR and Yugoslavia fell, a lot of eastern European nations went into difficult times, making Niko Bellic's depressive life true to a lot of people out here in different forms, not just war. The people in the countries between baltic and black seas fell into deep economical crash because of needing to restart their whole country as a whole machine. As a result the people struggled to put food on the table and mafia became the new police there. You could be shot in the head and nobody would care except for your close people. In the Balkan countries it resulted in bloody war, where entire cities would be could out from resources and such. It was truly dark. And Rockstar did hell of a job by portraying a depressed eastern European war veteran. The way he understands after the war what kind of terrible things he has done by killing innocent children in war so brutally and such and that he is a creature without a soul just hits so deep. I'd take this story over a weird silent guy, Tony Montana copy paste, black gansgter in the hood or a Hollywood style dynamic trio anyday. Those games were good, but many will agree the story of GTA IV was best.

"The war taught me a lot of bad things, but it also taught me to enjoy life."

Niko is a soldier Niko is a criminal Niko is a lover Niko is a broken man Niko is the story of man who lived a life so complicated...

"War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and and bitter into killing each other." -Niko Bellic "We can pick the game, Niko; but we can't change the rules." -Dimitri Rascalov Damn GTA IV has some great dialougues, hats off to rockstar for giving us this masterpiece.

Best Protagonist Best Theme Best Story Best Physics Best of everything this game is just🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Niko Bellic the most heartbreaking protagonist from the GTA series.

Non of the GTA stories hits hard than Nikos. GTA IV is truely a masterpiece

Niko Bellic has been, and probably will continue to be, my all time favourite Rockstar Games character.

The last story achievement:You Won! ..it didnt feel like it.

GTA IV has to be the best game in the entire series. It's the most down to earth, gritty, deep, dark and realistic installment in the whole franchise. The story is one of the best stories in video game history and it's gritty, concrete jungle atmosphere stands alone amongst the rest of the GTA games. Liberty City is the perfect setting for such a sad, gloomy and depraved storyline such as Niko Bellic's. Great game, Rockstar struck gold with IV

Despite it being dark, Niko’s the most humorous character in the game.

"War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other..." Honestly GTA 5 has all the hilarious and over the top moments that make us laugh, but this GTA introduced me to grief and reality at a very young age. A game before it's time, fantastic edit!

"You won" "I won but at what cost?" This line perfectly fits the situation. GTA 4 is a masterpiece.

Niko is the best GTA character.... He has dark quotes, tough history.... And also GTA 4 is also sad, dark.... That's why, this is the best game

If GTA IV was made into a movie this is the trailer

Niko Bellic is a type of dude that you'd really like to have as a bodyguard but hella not as an enemy. Looking from some non related to him person's perspective, Niko is very scary and dangerous hitman. Even Johnny admits that during the Museum fight. Ray was also scared of Niko. It was visible, even though he always tried to act tougher than him. Trevor is also scary, but in some way, sometimes Niko is even scarier than him.

Niko Bellic, the only Grand Theft Auto character who endured more pain in his life than everyone else and never complained about it The most amazing and dramatic GTA game of all time

niko is a soldier niko is a criminal niko is a lover GTA IV is the story of a man who lived life so complicated

Its criminal that the 3D trilogy is getting all the remaster love and GTA 5 for the 3rd fucking time but GTA 4 hasn’t had so much of a fucking port and its one of the most brutal and darkest stories Ive ever played but shit is it so much more relatable than the shit you do in 5

What I like the most about Niko compared to other GTA protagonists is that, hes the only one who actually tries to change and leave his criminal past behind him.

"Young & stupid" "Old & bitter". One of the most iconic lines I've heard from a video game.

GTA 4 taught me about the struggles of life and not about money and flying bikes

*SO THIS IS WHAT THE DREAM FEELS LIKE?* *THIS IS THE VICTORY WE LONGED FOR?*

"This is my cousin, Niko!" Why does that hit so hard?

GTA IV, is the magnum opus of Rockstar, nothing will ever top it in terms of writing,storyline and characters. Niko Bellic’s tale of an immigrant, trying to survive in the cold and unforgiving Liberty City, constantly haunted by the ghosts of his past. The American Dream that was promised to him by Roman was just that, a dream, that immigrants from Slavic countries can come to America, and make a life within the land of opportunity. The war ruined Niko, his soul crushed, and ripped out after the things that he witnessed.

Niko will always be in our hearts 💔

Every gta game before and since has looked at America from the perspective of Americans. This was the one time all of us outside the USA could see even a bit of our story. And it made the best protagonist in all of gta. This era of open world gaming we were so spoiled. Gta iv, rdr1, skyrim, fonv. When we thought the tech could only make our worlds more vibrant and filled with life. Simpler times (:

That's where a real man can cry...

No other GTA will be as emotional and heartbreaking as GTA IV ❤

this game is trully a masterpiece. We never forgot about it...

GTA IV was Rockstar's best storytelling before a certain western series came along. And even now, outside the Red Dead series, it's still stands tall as their best story to date and Rockstar's first foray into genuinely complex, mature storytelling with a layered protagonist in Niko Bellic. And an atmosphere that made you feel like you're the playable character as you traverse the almost suffocating, gray soaked streets of Liberty City.

Its dark tone is why 4 will always be my favorite. At the end, there was no true victory. Niko may have tied up loose ends, but at what cost.

Gta 5 was a game Gta Vice city was a journey Gta San Andreas was an experience Gta 4 was a life .........

"After you walk into a village and you see 50 children, all sitting neatly in a row, against a church wall, each with their throats cut and their hands chopped off, you realize that the creature that could do this doesn't have a soul."

Before RDR2 Niko Bellic was one of the best character, a realistic character, man broken from war, betrayed by everyone false hopes given by his cousin but still he didn't left him.

This is most deep story that R* created, Ever!

I rarely cry but. This made cry

He's not just one of the greatest gta characters. But also one of the greatest anti heroes ever. He's such a great character because he's so relatable and grounded.

GTA 6 will be Woke and stupid... Rockstar needs to return to this style

This edit really do justice for NIko

That one dislike is probably from Dimitri 🤣

I miss gta IV atmosphere so bad 😭

Best Gta character ever Masterpiece

I think that the part where niko talks about dead children and women, he is talking about the Bosnian war, in which 8372 women, children, and old people were brutally murdered by the army gang called "Arkan tigers" it doesnt mean that niko was a part of this army gang, he was probably one of the patrol army men that would patrol the city of Srebrenica where that happened, the part where he says he had to swim to survive a ambush is made up by the writers of gta IV's story. I am from Bosnia and this game hit hard for me, i wasnt mad at the Protagonist, or rockstar, because the game mentioned these events, i was happy that a person (Or at least a video game character) saw what was wrong and what was right. I hope for the best for my Serbian Croatian and my Montenegro neighbor's, and i dont wish death or unlucky situations for Serbs Croats or people of Montenegro, we are all human beings and we should respect each others not by their nationality, or race, we are all the same species and should threat one another the same. Thank you for reading this...

*Sits down to enjoy your lunch break* Coworker: "You know...during the war..."

Wish I could erase my memory and play this again. My god, I fell in love with these characters much more than any other GTA game. Niko was brilliant protagonist, the friends and allies were someone you could care for too. Even if they did not appear a lot like Mallory. The villains like Dimitri were perfectly made like manipulating you into killing Mikhail Faustin, making you want revenge just like Niko Bellic. This sad story will take a long time to be overtaken by another story, it will take a long time to get a better story. GTA V is good, but it doesn’t go that deep, rather looking like a game made by Hollywood.

I honestly feel like a lot of people missed how dark Niko's history really was. Most of lines about it are short and off the cuff. I mean the first time he talks about it they treat it like a joke with Roman falling asleep and shit. Plus it gets overshadowed a lot by the main plot.

The writers for GTA IV deserve a fucking OSCAR period.

GTA IV is a life lesson!

GTA 4 is most darkest of all times

Gta 5: vibrant colors beautiful city and beach. Gta 4: dark grim shithole, gray and colorless city.

Arthur Morgan and niko belic being rockstars best ever characters

GTA 4 had a plot too good for a GTA game.

Niko has more depth in his toenail than the three protagonists from GTA V combined

Most emotional gta of the franchise

I don't know if it's just me but Niko's look on his face at this scene 0:53 is so powerful. You can literally see the psychic damage, the war did to him in his dead eyes and his depressed face. Niko Bellic has got to be the best written character in the whole GTA series...

Ngl this got me a little emotional. When this game came out, it was such a simpler and very memorable time for me. I will probably never love a game as much as I do GTA IV

Gta 4 is the most emotional and touching story i had a hundred different feeling when niko mentions war. War is where the young and stupid get tricked by the old and bitter to kill each other - Niko Bellic 2008

Mesmerising. I wanted a niko cameo in gta 5 so badly but the game was beneath him I now come to realise.

Nice tribute for the best GTA protagnist. Niko Bellic is special...

"So, this is what the dream feels like, this is the victory we longed for."

Damn... I felt Niko's tragic story throughout this game. And I can agree niko's backstory and character alone makes GTA 4 my favorite GTA game of all time.

Gta 4 is a masterpiece one of the best games

The story of GTA 4 is so deep. It’s not “some revenge mission,” and it’s not a generic shooter set in a generic city. There is so much character and world building in everything. But it’s slow, not spoon fed. The missions tend to fall into a pattern of “drive here, kill this guy/these guys,” but is that a problem? “None of you will stop me from killing Jimmy P,” he had done everything he could to get buy. The amusing missions of San Andreas don’t fit in with the gritty atmosphere.

Once upon a time Niko Bellic said : War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other .

I feel like GTA IV was way ahead of it's time. If IV had been the Vth entry in the series, it would have been held in higher regard than it is. A lot more mature gamers out there these days, and IV is simply the most mature GTA game.

this 3 mins showed how much niko suffered

See? GTA IV was the most emotional one.

This is a masterpiece.

What a marvelous video. It really feels like an official anniversary trailer. The more I grow up, the more I love this game.

Rockstar games should make every GTA like that

So much better and more mature writing than gta 5

The game that turns in to a movie

GTA IV was a surprisingly competent commentary on war and the destructive path of revenge. I’d like to see a return to this kind of GTA.

Niko is the most depressed, backstabbed, suffered than any other characters from any other game

The ending is where real men cried, this game is a masterpiece and massivly underrated

this should be a movie.

The only GTA game with tragic and heartbreaking ending.

Damn this is a powerful edit if this was a movie trailer I'd be sold

The darkest gta story 🔥

Cheers to one of the best protagonists in gaming history. So far yet so relatable.

I can't believe how life changed, since I played this masterpiece. back then when I was a child I played this game for fun, for steal cars, kill people and etc. but now I realize Nikos perspective. if you play this game carefully, hear it deeply you will see that, somehow we all are similar to Niko. we all been very young and very angry and done thing that shouldn't done. yeah maybe we didn't kill people butt sometimes Our words were sharper than Knife and deadlier than bullet. 2:01 Niko said welcome to America but meant Welcome To life. 1:44 you see that betray can come from people that you love most. 1:35 Dimitry has obeyed to the rules of game and that makes him die. remember don't ever obey rules of life even it's was written by you. you can always change them. 2:20 yeah that has deep meaning, war never ends for us till we die. life is the war and its full of battles, no matter if we win or lose, war ends when we die. 3:06 he won but at what cost. I'm happy that I was part of this era and this community.

I know this may sound weird but Niko Bellic reminds me a lot of my mother, she always reflects on her past to others and is very wise and knows a lot about enemies and human nature, she's always helping family and she's always 1 step ahead of others when it comes to conflict. Just like NB.

Niko would mop the floor with Trevor and every GTA protoganists in the franchise... I mean everyone. His military training, mastering the Krav Maga and other deadly fightning styles and especially his tragic life made him an ice cold killer. But he still has his humanity, he is still a good man just like Roman said. He always wanted a peaceful life. Thats why I felt so happy when Lester said he finally retired. He deserved that. Its 2021 and he is still the best GTA character ever...

this is a beautiful edit, really represents why gta 4 has the best story of any grand theft auto

Best GTA Protagonist

What i understand from this game is that everybody needs a cousin like niko bellic

1:57 "You know, you and your cousin?" "You think this is worth it?!" "You should get out" "I'm in" That part hits so hard...

Goosebumps. This deserves more attention, it's severely underrated. Very well made and powerful.

Niko is a broken man, I hope he's living a calm and healthy life.

"Vengeance is an idiots game"-Arthur Morgan

A true masterpiece. Perfection.

Best GTA Story ever.

I love Niko. His character and his story, his loyalty to his cousin was the reason I bought and played the game. I still can't finish that last mission. I think he was the best protagonist in GTA history.

Niko Bellic is my favorite GTA character! Such a tragic hero, he deserves much better, he did everything he could to save himself and his family, especially for his cousin. Amazing Tribute! Thank you 😊