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    Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City

    Game » consists of 18 releases. Released Oct 29, 2009

    The Lost & Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony are collected onto this standalone disc of Grand Theft Auto IV's post-release content.

    thegame2k2's Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City (Xbox 360) review

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    Fun Additions to GTA 4

    Rockstar Games developed both the games that released in this two game set.
     
    This is an interesting package because it contained two pretty long games on one disc. The first game being The Lost and Damned and the second being The Ballad of Gay Tony. I'm not going to get into too much detail on the plots to these games, so to keep a long story short, in The Lost and Damned you follow a biker named Johnny Klebitz and in The Ballad of Gay Tony you follow a man named Luis Fernando Lopez.
     
    The gameplay is the traditional GTA gameplay where you complete a lot missions to progress the story. The story's for both games are pretty interesting and for The Ballad of Gay Tony, i can honestly say Rockstar does pretty well on not turning Tony into the traditional stereotypical gay character you see in a lot of movies. Both games offer up to 10 or more hours of gameplay, which is pretty long considering the fact that both these games are really nothing but add-ons to GTA 4. 
     
    Obviously, the game can go much longer then 10 hours if you're the type of player who likes to roam around and there's plenty to do in both these games. There's plenty of places to go into and for The Ballad of Gay Tony, the main character is actually a bouncer at Tony's club and that's a pretty interesting feature because you can work as a bouncer every night in the game. One feature that sadly doesn't see much update is the internet feature. I'm not talking about the Online matches. In the game you can go into an internet cafe and when you get on one of the computers you see GTA's version of the internet, which contains certain articles and a dating site. Rockstar stated before The Ballad of Gay Tony's release that they had upgraded this feature from what it looked like in The Lost and Damned and i honestly don't see what the big update is because it looks like the exact same thing that appeared in Lost and Damned.
     
    Graphically, both games look pretty much the same as GTA 4 with a few minor changes. One of my main complaints with the DLC version of the Lost and Damned was that the framerate wasn't always great., especially when there was a bunch of action happening at once. Now that the game is available on CD, i can honestly say it does run a lot better. The Ballad of Gay Tony runs very well too. Visually, both games look very good. The character models and the city itself are fantastic. The many cars, motorcycles, boats and helicopters are also really well done. 
     
    My only real complaint is the same complaint i had for GTA 4 and that is the fighting physics. They are way too slow. Previous GTA games had some pretty fast fighting physics and you could throw several punches in a couple seconds. They tried to make it more realistic for the new GTA games and they just made it hard to handle and actually hitting the person your fighting is a lot more challenging as well.
     
    The controls have not been altered at all from what they were like in GTA 4.
     
    Overall, Rockstar did a fantastic job with these additions to GTA 4.

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      Double The Liberty City Fun 0

      GTA: Episodes from Liberty City combines Johnny and Luis' story together one disc for those that may not have GTA IV anymore, or have enough space to download the Episodes. 40 bucks will get you roughly 20+ hours of that great GTA gameplay, and some new modes and tweaks to the games multiplayer. Since Many have already played The Lost & Damned, I'm going to start with the Ballad of Gay Tony.   Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony  Although the title may suggest you play as Tony Prince...

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      New sides of Liberty City 0

      GTA: Episodes from Liberty City puts the two downloadable episodes "The Lost and Damned" and "The Ballad of Gay Tony" together in one disc release. You will take on the roles of Johnny Klebitz, member of the biker gang "The Lost", as well as Luis Lopez, body guard and errand boy for night club owner Gay Tony Prince.  Cmon baby, Shake those..... ehmm, arms? In The Lost and Damned, you are the Vice President of biker group The Lost, acting as president until the recently released from prison B...

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