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Rockstar has been characteristically quiet about the nature of the promised downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto IV, and the time it's taken for that DLC to come to fruition has undoubtedly allowed for much speculation as to what it would actually look like. I had personally assumed that it would serve as a continuation of Niko Bellic's story, which arguably had some pretty significant loose ends.

Now that USA Today has broke the first details about GTA IV's first DLC pack, that doesn't seem to be the case. Titled "The Lost and the Damned," this expansion will put you in the role of Johnny Klebitz, a member of the Liberty City biker gang The Lost. Rockstar's Dan Houser declined comment on any details about the story itself, or the character qualities of Klebitz, other than to say that "the story will show you a different side of Liberty City" and that Klebitz is “a very different character than Niko, with a very different background.” Either way, there hasn't been a half-decent biker story in a video game since Full Throttle, so I'm all for it.

It sounds like some of those loose ends from the main game may get tied up, too.

In the original game, Niko crossed paths with The Lost several times. This time, Niko has only a bit part, Houser says. "The story is not directly impacted by decisions you took in the main game," he says. But "tons of details and mysteries from the main story get explained, so it will add a lot of color to the main story."

The Lost and the Damned will be available for Xbox 360 on February 17th, 2009.

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