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Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
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- Both games are standalone releases that do not require the original Grand theft auto IV game, an Xbox live connection, or even an Xbox 360 hard drive to play.
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| ASIN | B002DC8GMM |
|---|---|
| Release date | October 29, 2009 |
| Customer Reviews |
4.5 out of 5 stars |
| Best Sellers Rank | #12,573 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games) #135 in Xbox 360 Games |
| Pricing | The strikethrough price is the List Price. Savings represents a discount off the List Price. |
| Product Dimensions | 0.56 x 5.39 x 7.55 inches; 4 Ounces |
| Binding | Video Game |
| Rated | Mature |
| Item model number | 39634 |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Item Weight | 4 ounces |
| Manufacturer | Rockstar Games |
| Date First Available | August 5, 2009 |
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Plays on Xbox 360 and Xbox One with Backward Compatibility.
Two complete Grand Theft Auto games – The Lost and Damned & The Ballad of Gay Tony – bringing the interweaving Grand Theft Auto IV stories of Niko Bellic, Johnny Klebitz, and Luis Lopez to their explosive conclusion.
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PROS:
-New and useful weapons, but not that many, like the sawed-off shotgun, sticky bombs, and grenade launcher.
-Gang wars and drug wars, pretty awesome, although there is sometimes a little too much driving or chasing down involved that becomes a pain and gets repetitive after a while.
-More missions obviously, around 50 total, but not much new or different in variety from GTA IV's missions though.
-In TL&D, you can call your crew for backup and lead them, even on missions.
-Can get a free bike or car driven to you, a gun van with discounted ammo & weapons driven to you, or free weapons/ammmo dropped off at your safehouse. ALL by just calling a friend, and you basically don't have to do anything to get these options.
-A load of racing, mostly on bikes.
-New achievemants, a total of 500 points worth. You should be able to get a fair amount of AP, at least 300/500, from one playthrough.
-Lot of little activities you can still do and more: cage fighting, racing, base jumping, playing cards, video games, pool, golf, dancing at clubs, managing clubs, bowling, darts, booty calls, etc.
CONS:
-Clunky controls.
-In TBoGT, you get rated on missions which makes it more challenging but less fun in my opinion. Some of the things you get rated on is time, firearm accuracy, car damage, headshots, etc. Also, in order to get a 45 point achievemant you have to score 80% or above in ALL missions, and 100% to get another 80 point achievemant. Possible, but not easily and not without replaying at least a couple missions.
-In TL&D, you can't run very fast or sprint for as long for some reason, and if you walk around with an assault rifle or shotgun you move even slower, which is more realistic but much more annoying.
-Can't whistle for a taxi to stop, you have to cut if off or chase it down. This pissed me off greatly.
-As far as driving goes:
1.Driving cars and riding motorcycles feels like you're sliding on oil.
2.Braking is garbage, often you won't be able to stop in time to make your turn or exit and you'll have to make a U-turn.
3.And if you decide to use the handbrake you'll spin out of control half the time.
4.It's easy to go flying off your motorcycle when your chasing someone down or racing.
-There are barely any planes, boats, or tanks in Episodes. Also, the helicopters you do fly in TBoGT are terrible to control.
-Stories and characters aren't really anything special, but new if anything.
-You cannot play online with players that own only GTA IV and have bought the add-ons on Xbox Live. Therefore, you can only play online with others who have bought Episodes.
BOTTOM LINE: If you didn't like GTA IV do not get this game, but if you're looking for a glorified expansion pack then this game was meant for you.
Perhaps because these games are shorter than GTA IV, they are more like games and less like the movie GTA IV was; I respect what Rockstar was trying to do there, but there were certainly some pacing and mission difficulty issues.
And while not much has changed as far as the difficulty goes--often escaping the police is more of the hard part--,the pacing has picked up to the point where you feel like you are playing something that maybe would have come just before GTA IV. Very nostalgic, brutal, funny, and un-PC across the board; The Lost and The Damned offers a more hardcore experience, including little side on bike gang fights that reminded me somewhat of San Andreas and the turf wars; The Ballad of Gay Tony is more eccentric, colorful, and more of a throwback even so; the colors are brighter, there is a lot more neon, the free jumping is back from the tallest building you can find......the characters are really strange, but the story, as in TLAD, is very amusing.
As always, there are lots of cool things to do; just driving around in the right car in the right weather with the right song can be fun in and of itself; Great new songs, TV shows, Radio Talk, funny billboards, great game cross references, and internet stuff. Gone for the most part are the annoying phone calls in the middle of a gunfight or the mandatory bowling date to move on.
Now if they could just move this game to a more colorful setting; I would love to see Rockstar make use of some of things you know it can already do....esp when you look back fondly on GTA III, Vice City, and San Andreas.
The Ballad of Gay Tony, on the other hand, was a very good game, and was a blast to play. Great story, Luis Lopez is a great character who evolves a lot during the story, and the rest of the characters are all great as well. Side missions on this are extremely fun as well, not to mention the amount of news guns and vehicles that are available. I had a great time with the exploding shotgun.
These expansions definitely give any GTA fan a fix until they release their next great game, especially The Ballad of Gay Tony.
At this point, I was ready to give up. I tried installing it a few more times, but it wouldn't work. I almost submitted my return to Amazon when an idea popped into my head. I thought that it was probably some weird problem with my hard drive since the Xbox actually recognizes these add-ons as GTA IV, not Episodes from Liberty City. I then deleted my installed GTA IV, and it actually worked! I installed these games on my hard drive, and now they work like a charm. Shipping was great, and the games are quite delightful in comparison to GTA IV itself. I hope this review finds those who need it.
Danny
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We've come a long way since this game so the graphics are cute compared to now.












