Though you start out as a hustler working on the streets, you gain access to missions that help you move up through the criminal ranks. Other immigrants immediately grab you and make you work for them in their underground world. As Bellic, you are a recent immigrant with little knowledge about the United States. The developers based the fictional city on the real one. If you think the background looks similar to New York City, you're right. The game puts you behind the driver's wheel as a character named Nico Bellic and sends you to Liberty City. Grand Theft Auto IV is one of the more popular titles in this franchise. This Grand Theft Auto IV patch fixes some of the problems that players had when using the game on their home computers.