Journal #6188
Posted 15 years ago2009-11-06 23:51:12 UTC
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony
Let me start by saying, if you were smart enough to purchase your copy for GTA4 for 360, you deserve a cookie.
Like the previous expansion, exclusive only to the Xbox 360, Rockstar gives us a new playable character, with his own personality, his own story, and even his own "style" (animations, unique from Johnny, who was unique from Niko).
Again, like the previous expansion, we get a butt-load of new guns, almost all VERY cool. The auto-shotty was amazing on its own, but with the option for exploding shells? Just yes. The advanced sniper is just better than the rest were, hands down. The new smg is great, where as the gold uzi is the same, just gold. The machine gun, which will replace your assault rifle slot, is nothing to brag home about sadly, it just lasts long on ammo. Finally, the sticky explosives were and are the best part. Especially in passing the time. Tossing stickies on passing vehicles for a nasty surprise?
Cars, I'm so glad it wasn't new bikes, to be honest, as nice as the bikes were, I wasn't in to muscle bikes. The Bullet GT is just gorgeous, and takes the cake as the new most "competitive" car in the game.
Parachute... a novelty item. It's fun to mess around with, but base jumping isn't all it's cracked up to be, not to mention it's hard as hell!
Club activities are once again, a mere novelty. Something to do when you're bored. There are various other activities around the city, like the fight cages and drug wars, I won't go into detail.
The actual story itself was pretty entertaining, and at times a bit unpredictable. Certainly the best new character is Yusef. Also, it will once again tie into the original GTA4 storyline a bit, but this time MUCH more than the previous did. It was well written, but nothing more than any other Rockstar title. A new feature they included with TBoGT is replay. Once you've completed the game, you can access ALL the missions again from your cellphone, and you get percentage ratings based on criteria you will see at the end of the mission.
Once again, just like in TLaD, you have the option to call one of two friends, one who will supply you with a van including the new guns in the game (and a parachute), and one who will deliver you almost any of the new cars, and a Cavalcade FXT (the truck version).
All in all, this expansion is a great buy, running 10 hours of storyline gameplay, not including the countless hours doing various things around the city, and costs only $20. Better than spending $50-60 on any other game which will net you maybe 4-12 hours of gameplay depending.
If you have a 360, and have not played this, buy it now. If you have a 360, but have GTA4 on PC or PS3, have no fear, Rockstar released an independent game titled "Episodes From Liberty City" which includes "The Lost and Damned" and "The Ballad of Gay Tony" and DOES NOT require the original GTA4 to play.
Let me start by saying, if you were smart enough to purchase your copy for GTA4 for 360, you deserve a cookie.
Like the previous expansion, exclusive only to the Xbox 360, Rockstar gives us a new playable character, with his own personality, his own story, and even his own "style" (animations, unique from Johnny, who was unique from Niko).
Again, like the previous expansion, we get a butt-load of new guns, almost all VERY cool. The auto-shotty was amazing on its own, but with the option for exploding shells? Just yes. The advanced sniper is just better than the rest were, hands down. The new smg is great, where as the gold uzi is the same, just gold. The machine gun, which will replace your assault rifle slot, is nothing to brag home about sadly, it just lasts long on ammo. Finally, the sticky explosives were and are the best part. Especially in passing the time. Tossing stickies on passing vehicles for a nasty surprise?
Cars, I'm so glad it wasn't new bikes, to be honest, as nice as the bikes were, I wasn't in to muscle bikes. The Bullet GT is just gorgeous, and takes the cake as the new most "competitive" car in the game.
Parachute... a novelty item. It's fun to mess around with, but base jumping isn't all it's cracked up to be, not to mention it's hard as hell!
Club activities are once again, a mere novelty. Something to do when you're bored. There are various other activities around the city, like the fight cages and drug wars, I won't go into detail.
The actual story itself was pretty entertaining, and at times a bit unpredictable. Certainly the best new character is Yusef. Also, it will once again tie into the original GTA4 storyline a bit, but this time MUCH more than the previous did. It was well written, but nothing more than any other Rockstar title. A new feature they included with TBoGT is replay. Once you've completed the game, you can access ALL the missions again from your cellphone, and you get percentage ratings based on criteria you will see at the end of the mission.
Once again, just like in TLaD, you have the option to call one of two friends, one who will supply you with a van including the new guns in the game (and a parachute), and one who will deliver you almost any of the new cars, and a Cavalcade FXT (the truck version).
All in all, this expansion is a great buy, running 10 hours of storyline gameplay, not including the countless hours doing various things around the city, and costs only $20. Better than spending $50-60 on any other game which will net you maybe 4-12 hours of gameplay depending.
If you have a 360, and have not played this, buy it now. If you have a 360, but have GTA4 on PC or PS3, have no fear, Rockstar released an independent game titled "Episodes From Liberty City" which includes "The Lost and Damned" and "The Ballad of Gay Tony" and DOES NOT require the original GTA4 to play.
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While GTA4 is an amazing technical achievement, the gameplay leaves much to be desired. Borderlands is the obvious choice, TJB.
All I'm saying is, this is one hell of a $20 investment. Particularly if you like having GTA's free mode to just cause havoc, now you have more tools to create such destruction.