Having conquered GTA III (kind of), Vice City and San Andreas (plus Bully, which is sort of a GTA), it’s time for the definitive Back Page podcast on 2008’s Grand Theft Auto IV. Joining us to dissect the first HD GTA is beloved third host and freelance writer extraordinaire Jeremy Peel.
Jeremy wrote a companion piece to the pod.
Mission Highlights
- Final Interview
- Holland Nights
- Paper Trail
- Undertaker
- Deconstruction for Beginners
- Three Leaf Clover
Pain in the arse missions
- Pegorino’s Pride
- Tunnel of Death
- Truck Hustle
- Any time you have to tail a vehicle of any kind.
- Any mission that asks you to pursue a character and where you can reach that character clearly by killing them with your gun but the game has protected them.
- Any mission where you have to go into a very tight physical space.
Radio Stations
- Liberty Rock Radio
- The Journey
- Jazz Nation Radio 108.5
- Vladivostok FM
- K109 The Studio
Songs
- Deep Purple - Highway Star
- Genesis - Mama
- Mötley Crüe - Wild Side
- The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
- Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen
- Electric Light Orchestra - Evil Woman
- Philip Glass - Pruit Igoe
- Ray Lynch - The Oh of Pleasure
- Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses
- The Sisters of Mercy - Dominion
- Hello - New York Groove
- Elton John - Street Kids
- The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
- Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
- Kanye West (feat. Dwele) - Flashing Lights
- The Isley Brothers - Footsteps in the Dark
- Joell Ortiz (feat. Jadakiss & Saigon) - Hip Hop (Remix)