Niko Bellic is basically a nice guy, right? That's how I was playing it. He's just a nice guy who got dealt a bad hand and has to kill some people. I stayed in character. I avoided hitting pedestrians. I didn't kill people when they were crawling away. Sometimes I'd even call an ambulance when I hit someone on accident.

But something was wrong. Something felt wrong.

I decided that Niko Bellic isn't like that at all. He's a psychopath. He's a monster. I borrowed the persona of one of my favorite literary characters of all time and decided to play GTAIV as if he were the main character.



Anton Chigurh, Of course.

Now, if someone gets in Niko's way they get shot. If someone sees Niko shoot someone, they get shot. If someone insults Niko....shot. Whenever Niko meets someone in-game it's pretty much a possibility that character's life is forfeit.

I pared my weapon selection down to Shotgun, MP5, Pistol, and Molotov.

The game is a lot more fun now.