Xbox Live play, Leaderboards, Downloadable Content
::COST::
$19.99
::FEATURES::
720p/1080i/1080p, In-Game Dolby Digital
Good: Blur filter is gone, parachuting is a blast, best one in the GTAIV story. Bad: Graphics are dated, combat system is still etchy, more or less the same.
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony Review
The third and final episode in GTAIV’s Liberty City trip. Not only does Gay Tony bring a lot to the GTAIV world, but it also closed it out with a bang and one heck of a story.
Well it's certainly a very unpopular opinion for some reason, anyone who says Grand Theft Auto IV was a disappointment tends to get the evil eye, saying that we just didn't get it and to go back to our casual games or the Wii. Well having played every installment since III, this isn't really a case of I don't like hardcore games but rather I just didn't like Grand Theft Auto IV. I felt what Rockstar did was move the series from outlandish, over-the-top and Fun with a capital F to something more realistic, detailed and immersive at the expense of the fun. You could spend so much time doing whatever you wanted in the old games whereas in IV I felt like "yeah I could but do I feel the need to?"
The Ballad of Gay Tony is being called by some as what GTAIV should have been since the beginning. That of course is with reason; TBoGT is hands down the best in the GTAIV trilogy adding a variety of weapons, parachuting (yes it’s back!), an APC tank, clubbing, nitro and much more. In the Ballad of Gay Tony you control Luis Lopez, a right-hand man and business partner for “Gay” Tony Prince. Tony owns two clubs, Hercules and Maisonette 9 but starts to pressure in terms of money, the diamond deal that goes south, potential buyers for his nightclubs and not to mention his own drug issues.
Luis’ story explores Liberty City’s high-end nightlife as he struggles to balance the temptations of money and vice with family loyalties. Things weren’t always so good for Luis Lopez. Growing up with a strict single mother in the tough neighborhood of Northwood Heights, he managed to get himself into a lot of trouble at an early age. It wasn’t until he was 25, after serving some time and taking part in a criminal outreach program, that he met Tony Prince, the man who changed everything. Having worked his way up from doorman, the Dominican playboy now acts as personal bodyguard, confidant and friend to Tony, Liberty City’s most successful – and delusional, neurotic and drink and drug addled – nightlife impresario. Although Tony is a Liberty City legend, he is also over his head in debt to gangsters and back on a path to self-destruction, Luis now has a full-time job just trying to keep his boss, and the clubs he owns afloat.
