Rockstar Announces New DLC For GTA IV 43
viyh sends word that new downloadable content will be coming to Grand Theft Auto IV this fall, called The Ballad of Gay Tony. They also announced that this bit of DLC, as well as the previous pack, The Lost and Damned, will be released together on a compilation disc later this year. The interesting part is that players won't need to buy the original game to play the two expansions. Rockstar's Sam Houser said, "This episode's focus on high-end night life contrasts with the biker gangs portrayed in The Lost and Damned, whilst giving us a lot of new gameplay possibilities." The press release describes the plot thus: "As Luis Lopez, part-time hoodlum and full-time assistant to legendary nightclub impresario Tony Prince (aka 'Gay Tony'), players will struggle with the competing loyalties of family and friends, and with the uncertainty about who is real and who is fake in a world in which everyone has a price."
Hold on, hold on, you play WHAT? (Score:4, Interesting)
FTFS: "full-time assistant to legendary nightclub impresario Tony Prince (aka 'Gay Tony')"
I will assume that he didn't get this name for being a jolly happy guy...
I dunno who'll cry louder: Censor happy stick-in-ass religious types or wannabe-gangster playing the GTA series for its "I'm so tough and dangerous... if only in pixels" image.
The partner in crime of a gay night club chief... can you imagine that and NOT grin?
Re:Great for 360 folks, (Score:4, Interesting)
I don't know.... As a PS3 owner myself, I found I spent more time playing GTA4 on it than most of the other titles I purchased for it. Even though I think the GTA series could do a lot of things to be better than it is, the graphics improvements in 4 really brought something to the series. (I know graphics are generally just "eye candy" and don't make a game "more fun" ... but I think they're a big deal in a game that relies on you exploring a 3D virtual world. GTA has always been the kind of game where you spend a lot of time just roaming around and discovering things. The cooler all the stuff looks, the more rewarding the experience is.)
The biggest disappointment I've always had in the GTA games is the relative lack of sensible AI in them. The game could get a lot more interesting if you could do things like forcing shop-keepers to hand over money in their registers, instead of only having the option to buy items from them. (Even in the fast food places in the game, if you point a gun at them, they usually put their hands up in the air and scream, but it serves no purpose. You can't take one of them hostage, or ask them to go get you money out of their safe, or .....) And no matter how many times you car-jack an ambulance (or attack paramedics trying to help someone else you just ran over), they don't ever seem to treat you differently. It's the same old routine where doing X amount of violence causes another "star" on the wanted level. It'd be interesting if ambulance drivers started seeing you coming and tried to run YOU over or ganged up on you in back-alleys or something, after a while.
All the way around, they could make the game a lot less "linear" ... As it is, you can roam all over and do all sorts of things, but all of it affects nothing in the main storyline they want you to follow. I'd like to see the story base itself around all the random stuff you do in the game. (Run over a whole lot of people on sidewalks? Suddenly, you're known as the "sidewalk mower" ... and they start using you for missions where that skill comes in handy.)
Re:Great for 360 folks, (Score:2, Interesting)