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Gamer finishes GTA IV in 17 minutes. Cheat or bug?

Category: Xbox 360, Posted: 05/02/2008 at 06:27PM CDT by Frank Ling, Editorial Director

gta watch Rockstar Games has a Grand Theft Auto IV Hall of Fame listing for all those dedicated gamers who have completed 100% of GTA IV-not a small feat by any means as the entire game is reported to have over 100 hours of SP game time.

Enter a gamer by the screen name of ninjaraiden2003 who had his finish time officially logged onto Rockstar's website. Did he do it under a respectable time of less than 80 hours? 50 Hours? How about 20 hours? No, keep on going down. According to the posted time, he finished the game in 17 minutes and 15 seconds.

Now three things come to mind when I read this. One, we've got a cheater here. Two, he somehow got his hot little hands on a copy of GTA IV and played the game almost to the end, and finished the last part of the game when the Rockstar Social Club went up, or three, there's a glitch on the website itself.

For comparison's sake, it took me 17 minutes just to get familiar with Niko's apartment, his neighborhood and drive to his cousin's taxi stand.

Something's not right here...

[via videogaming247]

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Posted by Mechanical R on 05/02/2008 at 07:03PM

Sounds like a bug in the system to me. I've checked my progress on that site loads of times, and it's not been up to date :/

Posted by Garcian Smith on 05/02/2008 at 07:56PM

I vote glitch. Or sad bastard. One of the two.

Posted by siggs on 05/03/2008 at 04:41AM

Congratulations 'Ninjaraiden2003', you have just gone against the whole point of GRTA in my opinion. There is a good single player, but why not use a huge, immersive, interactive world to 'go slow' and enjoy it?

Or its a glitch. ¬_¬

Posted by KindGalaxy on 05/03/2008 at 05:27AM

Unless it is like those old days of RPGs where you could skip the quest content, find the endgame boss and kill him? Hope it's not like that, I just unlocked the middle island after 14 hours of gameplay, would hate if it was as simple as "Go to G4 on your map and kill this guy with your fists"

Posted by flame on 05/03/2008 at 06:44AM

I doubt it's like that KindGalaxy, I mean it would really suck if you accidently ran over the main guy in a crazy 6 star wanted chase and suddenly the end credits started to roll.

Posted by KindGalaxy on 05/03/2008 at 08:27AM

That'd be hilarious, spending $49.99 on a game ($109.95 in my country) only to 'win' in 17 minutes.

Posted by Dr.Aaron on 05/03/2008 at 08:48AM

Or a speedrunner.

Posted by siggs on 05/03/2008 at 10:39AM

i've never heard of any guys doing a decent speedrun of a GTA game...is it possible?

*goes to find out....theres a speedrun 'practice' for San Andreas on youtube, but the first segment is 26 minutes, so i dont think this could be a GTA4 speedrun.

Posted by Archem on 05/03/2008 at 10:20PM

Crazy. No matter how he did it, it's crazy.

Posted by DKR1138 on 05/05/2008 at 01:37AM

Is he Australian? Australia got GTA4 a good 12hours+ before America.

Posted by h.e.v.zombie on 05/05/2008 at 08:22AM

Ah! I can't believe it. I can only imagine someone quickly spoil those fps games by using a variety of bugs. But i don't think games like gta can also provide chances to a player to run fast like that...