ImageUnsurprisingly GTA IV faces little in the way of home console competitors this week. Expected to generate perhaps as much as $400 million in first week sales, reviews have started pouring in and they’re universally pretty fantastic - the game currently has a metascore of 100 on review aggregator Metacritic, having received a perfect score from numerous publications.

“Expectations were so high for Grand Theft Auto IV that one of the biggest surprises is that it's managed to meet them,” writes IGN, which gave the title 10 out of 10. “That it's also gone on to confound these is truly a marvel, and the game's Liberty City is nothing less than one of the greatest videogame worlds yet conceived.”