Grand Theft Auto....The Best Game Ever?

Its time again for the end of humanity to begin. Yes another Grand Theft Auto game is coming out on Tuesday, and this one promises to be the best to date. GTA 4 has had huge buzz around it since it was announced years ago, even more when Microsoft said it was coming to the Xbox 360 the same day as Sony's PS3. Big news as all previous GTA games debut on the Sony machine and then later ported to the Xbox. Even bigger news is that that Rockstar, the team behind the hit series, is making exclusive downloadble content for the Xbox 360 which will expand the rumored 100+ hours of game play. The bulk of New York City has been built into GTA 4 as Librity City. Another big announcement about the game came when Rockstar said, that for the first time on a consul version, GTA will have online multi-player options. In fact there are 16 different online modes to play. A gamers wet dream.
The gaming press has been covering this very intensely for the past month, with IGN devoting all of last week to it. Over the weekend IGN posted their review of the game giving it a 10 out of 10. They have never given a game a perfect score in all 10 years of being a web publication. Fuck, they didn't even give Bioshock, KOTOR 1 or Final Fantasy 7 a 10. While I don't believe that the gaming press takes it self that seriously they still like being called journalist and this "review" brings into question the integrity of writing a review and buying into the hype and basically running a weeks worth of advertising for a game.