Community:GTA IV Gripes/Police

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Cops manage to shoot your tires out, even if you're going 100mph.

And they have multiple cops firing lots of bullets to shoot your tires down to stop you from running away.

Somehow, an LCPD Cruiser can keep up with an Infernus that is easily twice as fast. And then they can't keep up with a slow municipal bus.

Cops don't deploy spike strips, or utilize special pursuit vehicles for highspeed chases. Nor do they cordon off areas to trap the player.

No matter how hard players try to get away from the police's radius, cops seem to spawn near the player's vehicle. Hiding is nearly impossible, even on secluded areas.

Rockstar, I believe, was trying to make the game more realistic. It's like that in real life, too.

Yes, especially in Star Junction, there are more cops in that area around than others. Plus the police of course dispatches more cop cars around the radius to search for you.

Once the chase ends (your stars turn grey and there's no cops immediately near you), you should really pull over to jack another car or get sprayed, especially if you're still well within the wanted area.

You can't evade or outrun your wanted level in a helicopter.

It's rather difficult to run away when everybody in the city can see you flying 200 meters up in a helicopter. Don't you think?

You can evade and outrun wanted levels when they are low (i.e. 1 or 2 stars) as not as many police are searching for you.

There is a way, albeit kind of a cheap one. If you have Playboy X's safe house, you can fly low over the roof and bail out onto the balcony. Then you can run inside and save your game, which should clear your wanted level.

Cops somehow manage to stay alive even after multiple gunshots, and their weapons do more damage to the player. They seem to be bullet sponges, and still get up after a full magazine from an AK has been shot into them at medium range.

Some of them have body armor. As members of a police force they would have superior weapons and training.

I don't think beat cops wear body armor, and their weapons are exactly the same as the ones the player can use.

Undercover police officers do not appear at 3 wanted star levels or higher.

Pay and Spray has become almost useless. When no cops are around, it's easier to just outrun them. When they are around, you can't spray.

But there's more to a Pay 'n' Spray than losing Wanted Levels. They will change the paint of a car if you don't like it to the color you've driven most, and they will also repair damaged vehicles. It just doesn't make sense for a cop to be right on your tail when you enter a Pay 'n' Spray, only to ignore you when you drive out.

Those annoying pedestrians keep calling the cops whenever I do one small shove, making it harder to score a few bucks without those boys in blue knowing.

It's the attempt at realism. If someone came up to you on the street, shoved you and said "Give me all your money", wouldn't you either run or punch them, before calling the cops?

Cops do not initiate a car chase to pursue other criminals, much like in GTA San Andreas, which heavily detracts realism.

Actually cops do initiate car chases, just not as frequently. Not only can they do that, but they can also arrest unlawful pedestrians and put them in a nearby cop car. GTA IV is more realistic compared to San Andreas, by the way.

But I don't see other criminals driving and performing drive-bys to cops while being chased. All they do is peerform foot pursuit and catch a criminal only. This pulls realism away.