Here's a handy video to demonstrate how you can knock 7 bells out of someone.

GTA Fighting Basics

The first thing you'll need to do when fighting in GTA is target your opponent. You do this by pressing the left trigger whilst 'looking' at someone. The person closest to your line of view is locked and displays a target symbol.

A handy thing for you to be able to do in any fight is to hold up your guard and you can do this by holding down the left trigger and then holding down the 'A' button. Your guard stays up as long as you keep those two buttons down. You'll still get knocked around with your guard up, but the damage will be substantially less than if you just had your hands down.

Now the good bit: how to f*ck someone up! Kicking and punching are all controlled by the 'X', 'Y' and 'B' buttons and must be pressed whilst holding down the left trigger. Use 'X' to kick, 'Y' to throw a straight right cross and 'B' to throw a lightning left jab.

You'll have more success if you mix and match different combinations of techniques and remember to keep your guard up. Keeping your guard up after a combination is thrown is a good idea as there is often a pause that is interrupted unexpectedly by your opponent whacking you in the head.

GTA Fighting Tips

Yeah, you guessed it. Kick 'em in the 'nads. This technique is a real eye waterer and never fails to get the party started in the right mood. If you want to make a really good impression, you can even kick them when they're down too.

GTA Fighting Glossary

• Target your opponent: press the left trigger.
• Keep your guard up: hold down the left trigger + 'A' button.
• Right cross: left trigger + 'Y' button
• Left jab: left trigger + 'B'
• Kick: left trigger + 'X'

GTA 4: Niko's New Fighting Moves

Check out the:

• spinning backfist at 0.29
• roundhouse kick at 0.34

Note that this is just a basic intro to GTA fighting. Hold tight for the GTA 4 advanced fighting tutorial.

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Like other games in the series, GTA 4 is composed of elements from driving games and third-person shooters, and features "open-world" gameplay that gives players more control over their playing experience.

Grand Theft Auto IV has received overwhelmingly positive reviews, becoming one of the highest-rated games of all-time on aggregated review websites such as MobyGames and TopTenReviews.

GTA 4 Details

GTA 4 Storyline

Thoughts of the American dream fed to Niko Bellic by his cousin Roman lure him into leaving his troubled past in Europe to start life afresh in the US. Together, he and Roman plan to make their fortunes in Liberty City. However, all does not go according to plan and they slip deeper and deeper into debt. They get dragged into the shady underworld of criminals and sociopaths in a city that worhsips money and status.

Niko Bellic is a tough guy who hails from Eastern Europe. While his life was taking a downturn in Europe he received emails from cousin Roman who embellished the truth (lied) when telling of how well he was doing in Liberty City. The real motive for persuading Niko to come is that Roman is in big trouble.

After arriving in Liberty City, Roman is the only person that Niko knows, and Roman exploits this dependance.

Rockstar Games On Choosing New York

When asked why Rockstar Games chose New York City, AKA Liberty City, to be the home of GTA 4, Dan Houser responded with this:

[New York City] is an environment we felt had never been done to the level we were envisioning it in a video game. From looking at all of the locations, this was the one that really stood out to us, and really had that impact. It has all of these iconic things that you couldn’t put into a game before.

GTA 4 is the fifth game in the series to use the Liberty City as its setting. Other games to use the city were the original Grand Theft Auto in 1997, GTA 3, GTA Advance and then Liberty City Stories.

GTA 4 Episodes

There are two episodes planned for GTA 4. The first one was called The Lost and Damned and was released on 17 February 2009. The second episode of GTA 4 is due for release before the end of the year.

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