Moving from the story of an immigrant, to a motorcycle club, and then to the muscle of a gay club owner, Rockstar was able to explore their own world in detail, well past the original's release. Whether buying the episodes on Xbox Live or getting the standalone discs, this is worth your time and money. If this is the swan song of Liberty City, at least we leave the setting with a feeling for its character, and that couldn't happen with one game focusing on one story. Playing through both episodes on the disc, you'll realize why Rockstar never sticks to one hero for long they can create stories and characters with an ease that has to be the envy of lesser developers. But by creating the setting first and moving the story into the lives of different characters in radically different circumstances, Rockstar has been able to keep the game fresh and lively. When I sat in the back of a cab in the original Grand Theft Auto IV and watched the buildings and city move past my window, I had the feeling that all this was too much the story seemed much more important than how large the city was or how much of it could be explored. The retail possibilities of a Blu-ray disc that includes the entirety of Grand Theft Auto IV as well as both of these episodes should be enough to get both Sony and Rockstar excited.
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Of course, exclusives are rarely that, and there is always the possibility that the exclusivity was merely timed and down the road there will be a release of this content on the PC or PS3.
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If you haven't played either of those games and are experiencing the Ballad of Gay Tony as a standalone game you won't feel out touch-in fact the game begins with the standard tutorials-but if you've followed the series from Grand Theft Auto IV forward you'll be treated to some nice inside jokes. You'll run into people from Lost and the Damned, and of course Niko Bellic makes an appearance.
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The fun comes from bumping into story threads that characters from the past games and episodes. The slurs and racial insults are simply mixed in with the rapid-fire patter of the game, and while there is sure to be stories about those evil video games, this episode actually trusts the player to understand the language of the criminal underworld. Certain themes may be dealt with in Rockstar's usual satirical style, but this is one of the most well-portrayed openly gay characters in gaming. Luis gets as much crap for his ethnicity as Tony does for who he sleeps with. While the branding of this episode may be all glitter and bright colors, Tony's sexuality is treated matter-of-factly. You'll be blowing up boats, jumping off buildings, bare-knuckle brawling, and getting into helicopter fights before you know it. You're Louis Lopez, and it's your job to watch out for Tony's interests. Owning the most popular gay and straight bars in Liberty City should make a man happy, but he seems to somehow fall into bad situations, bad debt, and bad decisions. Releasing two expansions to take advantage of the work done on the front end, creating the miles of streets that make up the city, may seem like a money-grab, but the amount of work put into giving each episode its own character and flow shows that this isn't just a cheap cash-in. The Grand Theft Auto games feature some incredible storytelling, but more than that we see just how the work put into creating the world of Grand Theft Auto IV has paid off. A standalone disc with both the "Lost and the Damned" and the "Ballad of Gay Tony" expansions that doesn't require Grand Theft Auto IV, this is a $40 way to play both episodes without the hassle of downloading them from Xbox Live.Īfter playing both games for a number of hours, it's apparent what Microsoft paid for when it "bought" this exclusive content for the Xbox 360. The retail release of Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City is a weird beast.