Official GTA IV Thread

[Kane Knight]

Jeff's the one who thinks his wife is cheating on him yeah? That was hilarious :lol:

Am now on a mission (not an actual game mission) to fool around with the swingset of death.

I just got a call recently from Jeff where he asked me to dispose of his wife's body. I loved the bit where she had an "accident" where she stabbed herself fifty times with a kitchen knife.

[MCEazy]

On top of the MeTV building in Algonquin. Go to the alleyway behind Splitsides Comedy Club, and take the windowwasher lift up. Climb the ladder, and it should be there. However, after shooting all the birds and saving and going to check it out, it wasn't there. I snagged a maverick and flew by it in the dead of night and there it was.

Long story short, this may be time sensitive.

ah ok, good to know

[Kane Knight]

Anyone hoping the DLC will offer things like clothing options and such?

[MCEazy]

Anyone hoping the DLC will offer things like clothing options and such?

Ya it'd be nice to get those coolass finger gloves niko had in the earlier trailers and maybe sum shades or something

[Kane Knight]

I'd like to see things like new activitis thrown in, too.

[MCEazy]

yeh new minigames would be nice like maybe dancing in a club or the rides actually working at the carnival.

[Kane Knight]

Maybe something entertaining.

[Xero]

Laser tag.

[Disturbed316]

Paintball

[Kane Knight]

Laserball.

[Destor]

Pretty gay the rides dont work at the carnival. Like super gay.

[Crimson]

When I first started playing I kept going back there hoping they opened on certain days :|

[Kane Knight]

BTW, someone mentioned the little touches. I noticed a while back that when you pick up Little Jacob, smoke starts comig out of your car. The first time, I thought I'd damaged it....

[Mr. Monday Morning]

http://www.gamesradar.com/f/naked-gun-intro-done-in-gta-iv/a-20080606103058468042

There might be some mild mild mild MILD spoilers in terms of character names that people might not have come across yet.

[CSL]

lol, that's great

[Disturbed316]

Meh

[OssMan]

"Hostile Management" or whatever that mission is where you have to rescue a person from the top floor. Dayum, I got to the end and had no idea what to do and had to do it again, fricken hard

[The Genius]

sorry wrong thread

[Kane Knight]

The boat chases really irritate me. Certain long missions do as well.

Also, question. Does this game do it where you can only kill a person after a certain point in a chase? Because if that's the case, I'd like to know so I could save ammo. It seems logical, even practical, that when you have a clear shot of the driver/pilot that you take them out. But often times, a well-aimed shot will have no effect. Case in point, the boat chase where Bernie is riding with you. I had several clean shots at the guys in the boat, and I hosed them. But they don't seem to be taking damage until they land on the docks. Suddenly, they drop like flies.

Actually, all the Bernie missions I've done so far seem like this. that gaytarded Motorscooter chase, the blackmailer chase, and the Russian mooks.

[Xero]

A lot of chase sequences don't allow you to kill them until the end. On the Bernie mission, for example, I even used a Rocket Launcher straight-on and it didn't do anything.

I've also noticed that depending on how close you are they will slow down/speed up. It was probably in previous games but I noticed it a lot more in IV, mostly slowing down. One minute they'd be going 60MPH+ then if I dropped back they'd be going like 30. Which would make sense if they weren't going on a straight run on the wrong side of the highway...

[El Fangel]

Any chase missions annoy the hell out of me, especially long ones when you have to do them over.

[OssMan]

I did this one bike chase a few times and kept failing and I eventually figured out his route so I just went to the spot he was gonna go to and just waited there with a shotgun for him to ride by and blew his face off

[The Genius]

ya, too many chase missions. the motorcycle ones are the worst. i only had to repeat the train and helicopter chase one time a piece.

[Boomer]

I kept waiting for some ridiculously funny missions, but didn't really get any. No big whoop, but I had hope.

[Blasted]

Not really a bad game, but I liked San Andreas alot better, it has so much to do.

Guess there is not as much side stuff to do in this, and even though there was some dead zones in SA, they were kinda fun to rip through on some fast vehicle.

I think the thing I dislike the most, is how your friends call and ask to hang out, and your like a long ways away, and you wont make it back in time, and they dislike you for being late, then like you for taking them out, resulting in a net gain of nothing

:-\

[Kane Knight]

A lot of chase sequences don't allow you to kill them until the end. On the Bernie mission, for example, I even used a Rocket Launcher straight-on and it didn't do anything.

I've also noticed that depending on how close you are they will slow down/speed up. It was probably in previous games but I noticed it a lot more in IV, mostly slowing down. One minute they'd be going 60MPH+ then if I dropped back they'd be going like 30. Which would make sense if they weren't going on a straight run on the wrong side of the highway...

Teah, that's what I was worried about.

The one that really pissedme off was when I was chasing the blackmailers for Bernie and the chase managed to not end after they ran into a Mac truck.

...Though when it plowed into me, it wrecked my car and ended the chase.

[Purgatory]

Not really a bad game, but I liked San Andreas alot better, it has so much to do.

Guess there is not as much side stuff to do in this, and even though there was some dead zones in SA, they were kinda fun to rip through on some fast vehicle.

I think the thing I dislike the most, is how your friends call and ask to hang out, and your like a long ways away, and you wont make it back in time, and they dislike you for being late, then like you for taking them out, resulting in a net gain of nothing

:-\


Yeah, SA had much more to do...but, overall, I didn't care too much for it storywise. As soon as I got the entire map open, I quit playing the missions and just fucked about with the different vehicles.

As far as GTA IV goes, I find playing online worlds more fun than the actual game. I've spent I think a total of 5 hours on Missions since I got it May 9th, and the rest has been spent online.

The cell phone DOES get pretty annoying, but you can put it in Sleep Mode to avoid getting calls. Especially, if you're mid-mission and can't be bothered with the constant ringing.

[Destor]

I gotta agree, from what I've played I like SA better. :-\

[Boomer]

If you aren't going to make it on time, you can call your friend and cancel the "date" or whatever. At least I did it one time and it worked...and I'm pretty sure they didn't get mad at me or anything.

[Kane Knight]

Question with "Spoilers," But I'm not black fonting it. So FA, shut the fuck up.

Alright, when you have the choice between killing Francis or Derrick, I killed Derrick, leaving Francis alive. He gave me the "Clear Wanted" ability. Does killng Francis give you something?

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Question with "Spoilers," But I'm not black fonting it. So FA, shut the fuck up.

Alright, when you have the choice between killing Francis or Derrick, I killed Derrick, leaving Francis alive. He gave me the "Clear Wanted" ability. Does killng Francis give you something?

Not that I remember.

[Russenmafia]

Question with "Spoilers," But I'm not black fonting it. So FA, shut the fuck up.

Alright, when you have the choice between killing Francis or Derrick, I killed Derrick, leaving Francis alive. He gave me the "Clear Wanted" ability. Does killng Francis give you something?

I killed Francis but got no special ability for doing it. Killing a cop for a smackhead gets you fuck all.

[Kane Knight]

I killed Francis but got no special ability for doing it. Killing a cop for a smackhead gets you fuck all.

There's a shock.

I basically killed Derrick because he annoyed me more. I was just curious as to whether he offered anything.

[Disturbed316]

I killed Francis because he annoyed the fuck out of me, Derrick was ok in my book. Loved the funeral mission afterwards.

I got the Clear Wanted ability from dating Kiki, so I'm not sad to lose Francis.

[Kane Knight]

I dunno. more uses=more good-er./

[The Genius]

francis sucked, he only answered the phone twice after i whacked his brother and you can forget about it if you have 3+ stars. but didnt matter since i had 100% with kiki.

[Kane Knight]

francis sucked, he only answered the phone twice after i whacked his brother and you can forget about it if you have 3+ stars. but didnt matter since i had 100% with kiki.

You can't use Kiki for 4+ stars, either, can you?

[Sepholio]

SPOILERZ

I think the most annoying mission in the entire game was the motorcycle chase where you are following the 2 bikers down into the subway. it really pissed me off when they would get to the point where they would jump off the tracks, I always either crashed the jump or got lost trying to find which way they went and would end up blocking myself in under the overpass just long enough for them to get away. Finally whacked both those bitches on the tracks to win.

Also, the catch-up mechanic on chases is awful. I cut through an alley-way and waited for those tools to come by and they instantly go from like 20 to Warp 9. Ridiculous.

[Kane Knight]

SPOILERZ

I think the most annoying mission in the entire game was the motorcycle chase where you are following the 2 bikers down into the subway. it really pissed me off when they would get to the point where they would jump off the tracks, I always either crashed the jump or got lost trying to find which way they went and would end up blocking myself in under the overpass just long enough for them to get away. Finally whacked both those bitches on the tracks to win.

Also, the catch-up mechanic on chases is awful. I cut through an alley-way and waited for those tools to come by and they instantly go from like 20 to Warp 9. Ridiculous.

The chases are basically rife with Deus Ex. You can't seem to lose people unless you're trying to, but you'll be hard pressed to catch up. They're invincible until "the game" says so. I ran over a biker with one of the NOOSE vehicles, and all it did was slow them for a couple seconds. Which was useless, since I couldn't do something like kill them.

[Disturbed316]

Yeah I hated that mission, eventually did it after I landed my bike on them when they jumped off the tracks, nasty way to go.

[Kane Knight]

The only problem I had was that I slammed into a train around one of the turns. Made for a cool death scene, though.

[Boondock Saint]

Haven't played this in a while. Seems to be a pattern with me and GTA games. Buy it, play the hell out of it, then not play for a long time. Considering I never beat Vice City or San Andreas I am determined to finish this. Just been wicked busy with work.

[OssMan]

What the fuck is the point of calling Carmen to give you a health boost when you don't get a health boost. Like that is all I can say. She says to call her if you need a health boost, so I am low on health, and call her, and nothing happens.

[Kane Knight]

What the fuck is the point of calling Carmen to give you a health boost when you don't get a health boost. Like that is all I can say. She says to call her if you need a health boost, so I am low on health, and call her, and nothing happens.

Yeah, I've only had this work once.

[The Genius]

nah, kiki doesnt do 4+ stars. and she doesnt like it if you call her to clear 2-3 stars within a short time frame. i am interested in the carmen benefit, still trying to date her again after she dumped me.

[The Genius]

tutorial tips out of nowhere???!!

so i have already beaten the game and am sitting at 75%. out of the blue i go to buy a hot dog and the text at the bottom says vendors wont serve unruly customers. yet i already bought the hot dog. then a second later i steal a cop car and get a 1 star and then text appears at the bottom saying that citizens on the street wont interact with me if i have a wanted level.

i havent seen either of these messages in the game yet but they appeared randomly now. i didnt do anything in the options either if there was a tutorial ON/OFF option.

[Xero]

You just hit the hot dog vendor or knocked something around that made him feel "attacked" and put him in no-serve mode.

As for the police car, the only "interaction" it could possibly be is picking up a hooker. You probably stopped close to one - you can't pick them up in police cars.

The messages always appear, you either never did these things or haven't noticed them.

[Kane Knight]

nah, kiki doesnt do 4+ stars. and she doesnt like it if you call her to clear 2-3 stars within a short time frame. i am interested in the carmen benefit, still trying to date her again after she dumped me.

Doesn't take long for her to show back up on Love Meet.

tutorial tips out of nowhere???!!

so i have already beaten the game and am sitting at 75%. out of the blue i go to buy a hot dog and the text at the bottom says vendors wont serve unruly customers. yet i already bought the hot dog. then a second later i steal a cop car and get a 1 star and then text appears at the bottom saying that citizens on the street wont interact with me if i have a wanted level.

i havent seen either of these messages in the game yet but they appeared randomly now. i didnt do anything in the options either if there was a tutorial ON/OFF option.

These aren't out of nowhere.

There's a blue people marker near the cop car you stole, and that's why it's telling you that. You know, the "friends" you can interact with?

And with the hot dog vendor, that happens every time you attack one of them. Same with store owners. Even iff you're 92% finished with the game and do it...First time or four hundredth.

[Kane Knight]

LOLLLLL

http://kotaku.com/5016733/the-sun-gnashes-teeth-over-gtas-locked-mock-pedophile-site

UK newspaper The Sun (http://kotaku.com/tag/the-sun/) is trying their best to drum up some British outrage over Grand Theft Auto IV (http://kotaku.com/tag/grand-theft-auto-iv/)'s inclusion of a child pageant site on the game's faux internet.
In GTA IV a little exploration at the game's cyber cafe yields LacySurprisePageant.com, when you visit the site a message pops up that it has been shut down by the game's police and that your IP address has been "cataloged" for possible future investigation. A visit also instantly maxes out your wanted level.
When I first noticed this, while playing through the game, I had a pretty good laugh, but at least one South Wales man was offended. And you know what they say: One person pissed off equals a story in The Sun.
Jason Deschoolmeester, 23, of South Wales, said: “I was looking on the internet for cheats and the name of this caught my eye as my daughter is called Lacey. This crosses the line. The makers have obviously sat around and discussed putting this in, and it’s not on. What will they do next?
“It’s disgusting. It could lead people to indulge in things like that. It is totally sick. I won’t play it again.”
While The Sun does go out of its way to point out that the game doesn't allow you to act out the role of a pedophile, they never explain how a single complaint by a gamer morphed into a story with the headline: A HIT computer game has sparked outrage by featuring a spoof paedophile website.

[MCEazy]

LOLLLLL

http://kotaku.com/5016733/the-sun-gnashes-teeth-over-gtas-locked-mock-pedophile-site

UK newspaper The Sun (http://kotaku.com/tag/the-sun/) is trying their best to drum up some British outrage over Grand Theft Auto IV (http://kotaku.com/tag/grand-theft-auto-iv/)'s inclusion of a child pageant site on the game's faux internet.
In GTA IV a little exploration at the game's cyber cafe yields LacySurprisePageant.com, when you visit the site a message pops up that it has been shut down by the game's police and that your IP address has been "cataloged" for possible future investigation. A visit also instantly maxes out your wanted level.
When I first noticed this, while playing through the game, I had a pretty good laugh, but at least one South Wales man was offended. And you know what they say: One person pissed off equals a story in The Sun.
Jason Deschoolmeester, 23, of South Wales, said: “I was looking on the internet for cheats and the name of this caught my eye as my daughter is called Lacey. This crosses the line. The makers have obviously sat around and discussed putting this in, and it’s not on. What will they do next?
“It’s disgusting. It could lead people to indulge in things like that. It is totally sick. I won’t play it again.”
While The Sun does go out of its way to point out that the game doesn't allow you to act out the role of a pedophile, they never explain how a single complaint by a gamer morphed into a story with the headline: A HIT computer game has sparked outrage by featuring a spoof paedophile website.

:nono:, people these days...

[Kane Knight]

:nono:, people these days...I'm just amazed that it's not Americans getting asshurt over something in a video game for once.

[DS]

Majority of direct complaints of the GTA series have been made by non-Americans.

[MCEazy]

I'm just amazed that it's not Americans getting asshurt over something in a video game for once.

i suppose the US is rubbing off on everywhere else now.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

The Sun barely counts as people, I wouldn't pay it much attention

[Kane Knight]

The sun merely reported it.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

The Sun reports videogames about the same as Fox reports terrorism.

[Kane Knight]

And that changes...?

Wait, it doesn't. Because the only reason that Fox News can report like that on terrorism is that our nation is laden with stupid people who eat it up.

Which brings me back to....

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Back to it takes someone to actually take the story, spin it, and then put it out there. This is a complete non-issue until they make it one.

[Kane Knight]

LOL

[Kane Knight]

I'm having trouble getting the FINSIH HIM acheivement. I'm damned sure I've done at least 10 counters in 4 minutes. I haven't done any cheats that affect it. The only thing I can think of is that stopping for a hot dog might reset the count, but that seems dumb.

I also started off doing it with a baseball bat, and I thought that they might not count weapons in with melee attacks (though it is melee). So I stopped doing that like a week ago.

[OssMan]

I got the achievement that wants you to kill a Rockstar developer in an online game. Is that rare or what, I've played like 3 games online and he was randomly in some team deathmatch.

[Kane Knight]

It's transferrable or something, so everyone who has killed someone with that acheivement is eligible.

[DS]

It's a viral achievement. As long as you kill someone who has the achievement then you get it. Thus, if someone kills you they get it.

You don't have to kill a developer.

[OssMan]

wtf, retarded achievement

[Disturbed316]

All the other GTA games I've played right to the end, but at the moment I just dont feel like doing it. Its starting to feel abit like a chore more than enjoyment.

[Kane Knight]

All the other GTA games I've played right to the end, but at the moment I just dont feel like doing it. Its starting to feel abit like a chore more than enjoyment.

Well, this game was meant to feel like a chore. By sucking the fun out of GTA IV, they have established a baseline for future GTA games.

[Boomer]

I don't see much difference between the chore of having to make sure that all the sections of the city are under your gangs control in San Andreas, but I can agree that it can get very frustrating when people keep calling.

[Kane Knight]

How bad was it in SA? I only played Saints Row, where the incursions against your turf were periodic, so I don't have much of areference point. Beyond that, I played GTA 3 and VC, but I got bored with them early on.

GTAIV is the only one that's really held my attention, despite the flaws.

[Boomer]

I just remember being on my way to driving to a mission to have to stop and go all the way back across town to keep control of the turf...and then as I was leaving to go to the same mission it would happen again. And it wasn't like you could ignore it...as I recall you had to control a certain amount of the city to get to the game's final mission.

[Xero]

Yeah, the turf collection was terrible in SA. Never liked that aspect.

Honestly, I think GTA 4 was a bit less tedious than SA. Though I think that was mainly because I used taxis to get to at least the start of at least 50% of the missions. Used them in missions too.

[Boomer]

I always loved getting cars for Brucie with cabs. The cab would stop me right next to the car, and by the time the 5 guys with bats saw me I was in the car and on my way.

[Kane Knight]

Yeah, the turf collection was terrible in SA. Never liked that aspect.

Honestly, I think GTA 4 was a bit less tedious than SA. Though I think that was mainly because I used taxis to get to at least the start of at least 50% of the missions. Used them in missions too.

Which gets tedious when there are no cabs around. It's a shame you can't call Roman more often.

[Juan]

I just completed the story mode. I finished at 60%. Pretty sick game, I gotta say. I really don't feel like going around and finding fucking pigeons though.

I really liked how easy it was to blast people. Is there a war game out there with a similar style of shooting?

[Disturbed316]

Maybe The Club. Its not a war game, but its does have third person shooting which is rather similar to GTA shoot-style.

[Juan]

Hmmm. Thanks :D

[D Mac]

The Club sucked.

[Disturbed316]

But it had the third person shooting he wanted :|

[Juan]

The Club sucked.

Any other ones then?

[#BROKEN Hasney]

If you're on 360, Gears of War is 3rd person, can't think beyond that TBH.

But yeah, The Club sucked. I miss the good Sega.

[Juan]

Yeah I'm on the 360, and since I've actually heard of Gears of War, I might just check it out. :y:

[OssMan]

The bikers in the train tracks mission was my favorite one. I beat it on the first time.


On the last mission...there is a stupid stray barrel right on the path leading up to the jetty and I hit it like 5 times and each time it made me fail. Freakin ridiculous mission. I didn't even know it was the final mission until I beat it.

[Juan]

LOL same thing happened to me.

[OssMan]

So I'm kinda bored with this after beating it, I went out with Dwayne a bunch of times cause I never talked to him once after he became my friend. Online is ok, but I need $36,000 to level up.

[Juan]

Same here. I've resorted to killing sprees.

[ClockShot]

I plan on wrapping this up by week's end. I gotta get back to Ninja Gaiden.

[MTH15]

I played this game. It is so amazing I swear. Im gonna buy an X Box 360 or PS3 just for this

[ClockShot]

Finally beat this game. I gotta say, San Andreas is a better game.

[Requiem]

lol.. Get the fuck out.

[Destor]

Finally beat this game. I gotta say, San Andreas is a better game.
Got to agree

[Boomer]

In my opinion, there is too much polish on the little things in GTA IV to say it isn't better.

[Xero]

What SA had in volume IV had in quality.

[Destor]

There just wasn't enough in IV. What they did was all fantastic, but I wanted more of everything. I didn't get my fill of any one feature the game offered. It's a really great game, but I was unsatisfied with it in comparison the standard they set after SA.

Loved it though. Can't say that enough.

[Y2Ant]

Yeah there are little things that I thought there could have been more of, but it was overall the best GTA game I reckon.

Plus there's supposedly gonna be DLC for it isn't there?

[Disturbed316]

Finally finished story mode today, that last mission was more annoying than hard. Am actually enjoying just going round doing stuff, finished the assassin missions and some of the cop ones too.

Went bowling and was one strike off a perfect game :mad:

Will probably have a proper look at multiplayer now that I dont have to worry about the story.

[CSL]

Still haven't finished story mode. Always playing online instead. Pretty addicted to GTA Race atm

[El Fangel]

Sold this shit a month ago.

[MCEazy]

Sold this shit a month ago.

same, will get it back for cheaper when the downloadable content is available (if its even worth it)

[El Fangel]

Sold my PS3 also.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Speaking of the DLC

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/23/rumor-gta-iv-dlc-brings-quarantine-zombies/

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/10/gta.iv.quarantine.490.jpg

A new Eugenics Inc. "ad" has appeared on RockStar Social Club, issuing a vague quarantine order locking down the mysterious company's compound due to a contagious disease outbreak. Eugenics Inc. is a physical location in Grand Theft Auto IV, located in Bohan, though it doesn't play into any part of the game ... yet.

The quarantine announcement is actually the second Eugenics Inc. display to appear on Social Club, following a "Sperm for Cash" ad posted in April (now removed), which, to date, has never been an actual in-game activity. Obviously, Rockstar is proliferating the company's existence for some purpose, right?

Last we heard, Microsoft confirmed the exclusive GTA IV DLC for this fall -- so, any day now. The quarantine posting has sparked some speculation that the DLC could be tied to Eugenics' mess. Namely, a potential zombie outbreak! With art assets already in place, what's to stop Rockstar from turning GTA IV into a "28 Days Later" scenario? Keep your eyes peeled.

Full text of "Quarantine" announcement:

"Contagious Disease

"No one shall enter or leave this premises without the proper documentation issued by Eugenics Inc. No person expect an authorized agent or employee of Eugenics Inc. shall alter, destroy or remove this sign. Anyone violating these regulations will be arrested and prosecuted by the federal authorities.

"By order of Liberty City Police Department / Eugenics Inc."

[Kalyx triaD]

Interesting, but not more than geographical DLC.

[BigDaddyCool]

People still play this game?

[Kalyx triaD]

Actually its at this time GTA would be cool to play online. The only people still playing are real fans of the game and all the Day-1 dudes moved on. So better games online and such. That's true for most online multiplayer games.

[BigDaddyCool]

I never played online.

[Kalyx triaD]

Well then you're probably thru with the story. That I understand.

[BigDaddyCool]

Yeah, been done with it for a couple of months. I then went on to bird hunting, but that got boring.

I might pick it back up after a while. But it gets pointless once you finished.

[D Mac]

Yeah I still have it and still haven't beaten it yet.

[BigDaddyCool]

Well you do like Sid.

[ClockShot]

Trophies for PS3 version goes up on Monday.

But you gotta go through the game again to get them. :mad:

[Kalyx triaD]

LOL

360 gets zombies and PS3 gets work.

[Xero]

I suppose it's going to be Dead Rising in a city instead of a mall...

This would explain the Zombie skins that are in multiplayer.

[U-Warrior]

This could be pretty awesome.

[D Mac]

IGN:

UK, November 10, 2008 - Grand Theft Auto IV's Xbox 360 exclusive downloadable content looks to be a little further along the horizon, with Rockstar executive Dan Houser recently stating he's 'not sure' whether it will be released this year.

Speaking upon the games launch in Japan, some six months after it released to critical applause this May, Houser told Variety blog The Cut Scene "We don't know a date. We're more focused on quality than dates, always have been. But the development is going really good. It's shaping up to be something we're very proud of."

Equally ambiguous is what form the downloadable content will take, or at what price point it would hit Xbox Live, but naturally as soon as any tangible details emerge we'll post them here for your delectation.

[D Mac]

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/11/gta4.thelostanddamned.logo.490.jpg

Feb. 17, 2009

[D Mac]

A retail chain selling downloadable content? What madness does the world find itself plummeting into now? According to a listing on Gamestop's online store, the forthcoming Grand Theft Auto IV add-on episode, The Lost and Damned, can be purchased as an Xbox Live Marketplace token card. The product page indicates that no disc is included in the packaging -- it contains only the download code (nonrefundable!) and a two-sided poster.

The chance to revisit the two-faced posers of Liberty City will seemingly cost you $19.99 when it releases on February 17th, 2009. The Lost and Damned's price has yet to be confirmed by Rockstar.

[Xero]

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/g/grandtheftautoiv/lostanddamned/

Biker storyline, not bad.

[ClockShot]

So. Who's gonna pony up the $20 and buy the add-on to this?

[Fignuts]

I prolly will, once I finish the main story.

I.E. 2011

[D Mac]

Yeah me too. Still on Niko story.

[Kane Knight]

So. Who's gonna pony up the $20 and buy the add-on to this?

New story looks hot. Too bad I bored of this before even finishing the main game.

[D Mac]

FINALLY beat it. Ending where Roman died.

Gonna try to go through it again and do things different.

[Disturbed316]

Finally got round to buying Lost and Damned, and so far done about 25% of it. Liking what I've played, although wasn't prepared for so much swearing and full frontal nudity.

[Fignuts]

Played like 5 minutes of L & D. Will probably get on that once I'm done with fallout.

[Disturbed316]

Just finished the story aspect of LaD and really enjoyed it. Took me about 8 hours overall to do it which is pretty decent for an add on, although I think it was abit over priced.

The last mission was really enjoyable but didn't really trouble me that much, think I enjoyed it more than the Niko final mission. Was good to see some of Niko's mission from a different perspective too.

[D Mac]

From IGN

May 17, 2009 - Rockstar Games hasn't forgotten it promised two Grand Theft Auto IV episodes for Xbox 360. Episode One, titled The Lost & Damned, is already out. But there's still one more to go. What that content consists of and when it might be released are still mysteries. But those mysteries are soon to be solved. This according to the official Rockstar Games twitter.

"Details on 2nd episode of GTAIV downloadable content coming soon," the May 14 update reads. That's as short a teaser one can get. With gaming's biggest annual event, E3, just two weeks away, it seems highly likely that GTA IV Episode Two is set to debut during the show. Rockstar does not have a booth at E3 and traditionally shows nothing on the show floor. What does this mean? If Episode Two is going to be officially unveiled, it would happen at Microsoft's E3 press briefing on Monday, June 1.


GTA 4 Episode 2 eh? Wonder if this will be about Niko and what happens after you beat the game, new missions and contacts and shit. That's what it should be anyways.

[Xero]

I doubt they could get the voice actors back, after they fucked them over, so I'd count anything out to do with the current storyline, unless they do it like they did with L&D and have it overlap.

[G]

I doubt they could get the voice actors back, after they fucked them over


explain

[D Mac]

Yeah

[Xero]

The voice actors who played Nikko and Roman were apparently pissed over their low wage.

The fact that Roman and Nikko had no new lines in L&D is really telling.

[Fignuts]

Would be cool if it starred the gta 3 protaginist. Forgot his name.

[redoneja]

Clyde I believe.

[CSL]

Claude

[D Mac]

I didn't even know he had a name.

[Fignuts]

Claude as the protagonist and an aging Tommy as the antagonist would be awesome.

unless they died. Never finished either game.

[Xero]

Neither died.

How do you kill off a main character in a game that doesn't have a finish?

[Disturbed316]

The voice actors who played Nikko and Roman were apparently pissed over their low wage.

The fact that Roman and Nikko had no new lines in L&D is really telling.

Yeah, it reminded me of Return of the Chef when I heard them speak.

[D Mac]

So get new voice actors.

[Matt Gingarac]

Sold my PS3 also.

turd

[CSL]

lol

Finally finished this game last night. Was kind of hoping for a better ending, a longer cutscene maybe but still, immense game

[jcmoorehead]

Rockstar has announced the second downloadable add-on for Grand Theft Auto IV, this one subtitled The Ballad of Gay Tony. Like the last episode, The Ballad of Gay Tony will be exclusive to Xbox 360 and will have a price of 1600 Microsoft points or $19.99.

The Ballad of Gay Tony follows Luis Lopez, the assistant to the nightclub manager Tony "Gay Tony" Prince. In it, players will, "struggle with the competing loyalties of family and friends, and with the uncertainty about who is real and who is fake in a world in which everyone has a price."

Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games offered this statement:

"Liberty City is the most vibrant game world we've created yet. The episodic structure has allowed us to interweave stories, gameplay and atmosphere in a whole new way," "The team at Rockstar North have yet again surpassed themselves, and made something that is both epic and very innovative. This episode's focus on high-end night life contrasts with the biker gangs portrayed in The Lost and Damned, whilst giving us a lot of new gameplay possibilities."

Rockstar has also announced Grand Theft Auto IV: Episodes from Liberty City, a disc-based release that will include both The Lost and the Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony. This disc will hit retail this fall, exclusively for Xbox 360. It will have a price of $39.99 and will not require a copy of GTA IV to run.

http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/986/986518p1.html

[D Mac]

O.......K.....

[G]

I just know after I buy this I will be regretting the fuck out of it, like TLAD.

[D Mac]

TLAD was good just overpriced.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

The stand-alone disc will finally make MS it's money back on the DLC, I reckon

[Mooияakeя™]

Fucking hope they'll release them on PS3... eventually.

They must have some sort of agreement to be able to release them after a certain amount of time after both have been completed. So once this comes out, maybe a year. It would certainly broker the price down Microsoft would of had to pay.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Fucking hope they'll release them on PS3... eventually.

They must have some sort of agreement to be able to release them after a certain amount of time after both have been completed. So once this comes out, maybe a year. It would certainly broker the price down Microsoft would of had to pay.

There doesn't have to be an eventual release clause. $50mil is a lot of bank

[G]

GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony, Episodes from Liberty City hitting Oct. 29 (http://www.joystiq.com/2009/07/22/gta-iv-the-ballad-of-gay-tony-episodes-from-liberty-city-hitti/)

by Randy Nelson (http://www.joystiq.com/bloggers/randy-nelson/) { 56 minutes ago }
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2009/07/ballad-of-gay-tony-wallpaper-580.jpg
(http://www.joystiq.com/photos/gta-iv-the-ballad-of-gay-tony/2160337/full/)
Rockstar has dated the second Xbox 360-exclusive DLC expansion for Grand Theft Auto IV (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/gta-iv), The Ballad of Gay Tony (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/the-ballad-of-gay-tony), for October 29. A disc-based retail compilation of the new episode and the game's first add-on, The Lost and Damned, titled Episodes From Liberty City (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/episodes-from-liberty-city), will be available the same day for 360. The news comes via a tweet (http://twitter.com/RockstarGames/status/2786531512) on the company's Twitter feed and two (http://www.rockstargames.com/episodesfromlibertycity/) official site updates (http://www.rockstargames.com/theballadofgaytony/).

The new DLC will be priced at 1600http://www.blogcdn.com/www.xbox360fanboy.com/media/2007/11/microsoftpointslogosmall.gif ($20) while Episodes will run $39.99 and will not require a copy of GTA IV in order to play. To coincide with the announcement, Rockstar has updated the official Ballad of Gay Tony site with a new desktop background (http://www.rockstargames.com/theballadofgaytony/downloads/index.html) -- there's even an iPhone-formatted version for you mobile mobstas.


I'm still on the fence. For me, the first DLC only lasted a couple hours and I haven't touched it since. I felt like it was a huge waste.

[Drakul]

The Ballad of Gay Tony is getting a trailer on the Tuesday 1st September. It seems the parachute will be making a comeback.

[Drakul]

Trailer:
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Looks awesome. Looks like R* are going all out for this DLC.

[D Mac]

Yeah will probably get it. TLAD has been freezing up so haven't played it at all, just got a replacement 360 so now I can play it.

[Disturbed316]

Looks good, will probably get it, although it wont be my priority at first.

[Matt Gingarac]

when is this shit gonna come out for PS3? it will sell a hell of a lot more than on XBOX

c'mon rockstar pull your finger out your arse

[Xero]

These are 360 exclusive still.

Probably a year or so before they make it to PS3, if they do.

[El Fangel]

Still have not finished this game haha

[Juan]

Can't wait

[Drakul]

when is this shit gonna come out for PS3? it will sell a hell of a lot more than on XBOX

c'mon rockstar pull your finger out your arse

Take Two will receive a whopping $50 million in exchange for exclusive downloadable "episodes" for the Xbox 360 version of Grand Theft Auto IV, the game publisher confirmed in a recent financial conference call.

The revenue will come in two installments — $25 million when the first "episodic content package" launches on Microsoft’s Xbox Live Marketplace digital delivery service in March 2008, and $25 million when the second download goes live later that year.

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2007/06/take_two_gets_5/

I can't see Microsoft spending that much money just to get DLC earlier than the PS3. It's a safe bet it's going to stay exclusive.

Checking out the trailer again, I see a lot of new things and somethings other people online have pointed out. I'm not talking about the obvious things like the new guns or helicopter.

It seems we might get nitro back for our cars. a lot of the car shots show cars blasting fire out the exaust and picking up speed.

Luis has changable outfits. We see him in his jacket, without it, in a suit etc.

At 0:27, we see Luis with a girl. Someone on GameFAQs pointed out she looks a little like Kate. It would be a bit of a twist to find out she was screwing around behind Nikos back all this time. Comparing a shot of the girl and Kate, they do look kind of alike. The girl also has a crucifix around her neck, which might be a clue.

At 0:40 The guy that lost his pants could be talking to Yusif Amir who is standing on the left of the screen. He was the guy trying to build the apartments of something and Playboy X wanted the construction stopped.
Edit: I forgot to say that people online have pointed out there is a golden Uzi on the table behind the guy with no pants.

0:53, it looks like a new arcade game. Dancing related. That would fit in with the whole dancing in the nightclubs thing.

The backpack Luis has on his back as he jumps out the plane says "Pro Laps" which was the clothing store in San Andreas. Maybe it's where Luis gets his clothes?

Some of the more interesting scans from the Spanish Official Xbox Magazine:
Edit #2: R* requested the site showing thee scans remove them, so they did. Only one seems to still appear.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v640/Deyes/GTACrew/balladoxm3.jpg
Gay Tony's club is called Bahama Mamas, we see it's name in the trailer on the club walls.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v640/Deyes/GTACrew/balladoxm4.jpg
A better shot of the helicopter that carries the train carriage.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v640/Deyes/GTACrew/balladoxm5.jpg
Tanks are in. It's technically an APC, apparantly, but still.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v640/Deyes/GTACrew/balladoxm6.jpg
A better shot of the small helicopter.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v640/Deyes/GTACrew/balladoxm8.jpg
Various smaller images.

www.GTAcrew.net to see the other images.

[DAMN iNATOR]

Surprised it wasn't mentioned, but it looks like we'll also be getting...Caddy's (Golf carts)?Would be awesome if we do.

[Funky Fly]

when is this shit gonna come out for PS3? it will sell a hell of a lot more than on XBOX

c'mon rockstar pull your finger out your arse

Kinda hard when 58976258723587235 more people have 360s than PS3s. Also, it's totally exclusive. None of this timed bullshit.

[The Mask]

Surprised it wasn't mentioned, but it looks like we'll also be getting...Caddy's (Golf carts)?Would be awesome if we do.

why? they are shite :$

[G]

when is this shit gonna come out for PS3? it will sell a hell of a lot more than on XBOX

c'mon rockstar pull your finger out your arse


lol youre funny

[G]

weren't golf carts already in a previous game? the idea of a golf cart doesn't seem "fresh" to me.

[Nicky Fives]

weren't golf carts already in a previous game? the idea of a golf cart doesn't seem "fresh" to me.

VICE CITY!..... Was my fave version of GTA....

[Drakul]

Golf Carts were fun to ride in a few times but not exactly practical. I can't see how they'll be any different from the luggage carriers at the airport. If carts are back, maybe golf clubs will make a comeback. Anyway...

Some more Gay Tony news from Xbox World 360 magazine.

•The HUD (Heads-Up-Display) is a "Parma Violet-style pink/purple".

•The Ballad of Gay Tony should feature around 20 missions (roughly the same as The Lost and Damned).

•Missions get scored out of 100% depending on your style and efficiency. You can re-play missions at any time in order to improve your scores.

•Three nightclubs are accessible - Bahama Mamas, Hercules and Maisonette 9. Luis is tasked with managing Hercules and Maisonette 9 - the two clubs which belong to Gay Tony. Hercules was off-limits during this preview.

•The golf course in Algonquin behind Memory Lanes is open for business! A golfing minigame is available.

•New websites have been added to the in-game internet.

•A new car based on a Bentley continental Convertible is called the Super Drop Diamond.

•One of the new random character missions involves "a mental ex-girlfriend of Luis' who places a bomb in his car, leading to a race to disarm it."

•Four missions were previewed during the demo, two of which we heard about in previous previews:
"Dropping In..." - Tony orders Luis to team up with Bulgarin's henchman, Timur. Bulgarin wishes to acquire The Rampage, Liberty City's ice hockey team, and Luis must storm the penthouse office and get the owner to sign his business over to Bulgarin. Luis parachutes onto the roof and heads down a maintenance stairwell before being confronted by security. At this point, alarms are blaring and the sprinkler systems go off. Luis eliminates his target by shooting him through a window, and then escapes through the window with the parachute still on his back. He lands on a moving truck, which conveniently has a mattress on its trailer. If Luis had missed the truck, he would have had to face another army of security men.

"For the Man Who Has Everything" - This mission is done for Yusuf Amir, a billionaire property developer. Yusuf is played by Omid Djalili, as many people speculated after hearing his voice during the trailer. Yusuf wants to ship a railway carriage back to the Middle East as a gift. The first objective is to jump onto a train from the nearest overpass, which is done by tapping X at the right moment (the jump itself is automated). Luis must make his way to the front of the train, as cops shoot down at him from helicopters. Once Luis has disconnected the front carriage, Yusuf lifts the carriage from the tracks using a Skyhook chopper.

"Going Deep" - This mission involves silencing detectives who have evidence on Bulgarin and Timur which could see them go to jail. The plan is to rig their vehicle with a satchel bomb in an underground car park, but the cops are already onto them. Once the attackers are dead, the detectives chase Luis and Timur.

"Sexy Time" - Yusuf wants to acquire an attack chopper called the Buzzard. It belongs to a group of arms dealers, and is situated on a yacht. Luis has to sneak on board without security seeing him and then steal the chopper. As Luis makes his way back to Yusuf's pad, Yusuf calls and orders him to go back and destroy the yacht. Some of the gangsters escape on speedboats, so the final task is to eliminate them

[Funky Fly]

Finally got around to starting this game and I'm already pissed off with bugs. :mad:

In the Concrete Jungle mission, I'm supposed to help Little Jacob kill the dealers who fucked him over then raid their hideout. During the raid, I burst in and kill everyone, Jacob says we have to bounce before anyone shows up... and then he drops dead and the mission is failed? This has happened twice. WTF????????????????

[D Mac]

Hmmm don't think that's ever happened to me.

I'm on my 2nd go around on this game, doing things different.

(spoiler)


Like Killing Dwayne instead of Playboy X.

[Drakul]

Finally got around to starting this game and I'm already pissed off with bugs. :mad:

In the Concrete Jungle mission, I'm supposed to help Little Jacob kill the dealers who fucked him over then raid their hideout. During the raid, I burst in and kill everyone, Jacob says we have to bounce before anyone shows up... and then he drops dead and the mission is failed? This has happened twice. WTF????????????????

I made it through the entire game and The Lost and Damned without a single glitch. I have GTA IV on my hard drive, though, so that may be why I had no problems. Give that a try and see if things run any smoother.

New Gay Tony Trailer:
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[Juan]

I don't often get excited about video games, but I really can't wait for this.

[Funky Fly]

Worked the 3rd time around. Haven't felt the need to install this as it loads pretty quickly.

[Drakul]

Worked the 3rd time around. Haven't felt the need to install this as it loads pretty quickly.
I installed it just to keep the 360 quiet and to stop late pop-up when I drive really fast down a long strip of road.

I bought Xbox World 360 yesterday and read their Gay Tony exclusive. It's the same article the other news came from but who ever reported the news last time missed out a few things. Here are a few things I read in the magazine:

-The SWAT tank has a real cannon and not a San Andreas style water cannon.

-There is a base jumping minigame which the magazine says we should "Expect Pilotwings-style flying through rings and the like".

-The missions can be replayed once you finish the story but it's not known how we'll access them.

-Missions are longer and harder than in GTA IV & The Lost and Damned which is why we got the mid-mission checkpoints.

-There will be a club managment minigame (as mentioned before) the article says club managment includes getting the dance floor going, pouring champagne and beating up any trouble makers. Note they said "includes" so I'm guessing there may be more to it.

And now, some screenshots. I've set them as spoilers because there is a lot of images and one stretches the page.

http://media.teamxbox.com/games/ss/2375/1253078109.jpg

http://media.teamxbox.com/games/ss/2375/1253078110.jpg

http://media.teamxbox.com/games/ss/2375/1253078111.jpg
This image reminded me: According to a few sources (including IGN in a video further down the post), the "sky cap" will be higher in the DLC meaning our helicopters will be able to go much further up. I guess it has to do wth the parachuting ability.

http://media.teamxbox.com/games/ss/2375/1253078112.jpg

http://media.teamxbox.com/games/ss/2375/1253078113.jpg

http://media.teamxbox.com/games/ss/2375/1253078175.jpg

http://media.teamxbox.com/games/ss/2375/1253078176.jpg

http://media.teamxbox.com/games/ss/2375/1253078177.jpg
Parachutes in multiplayer.

http://media.teamxbox.com/games/ss/2375/1253078178.jpg

http://media.teamxbox.com/games/ss/2375/1253078179.jpg

http://media.teamxbox.com/games/ss/2375/1253078215.jpg

http://media.teamxbox.com/games/ss/2375/1253078216.jpg
Proof the helicopter that lifted the train in the trailer isn't a "mission only" thing?

http://media.teamxbox.com/games/ss/2375/1253078217.jpg
We can walk ontop of trains now. Niko and Johnny used to just fall over.

http://media.rockstargames.com/files/tbogtpreviewscreen.jpg

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2009/258/reviews/960355_09162009_790screen002.jpg

http://xboxlivemedia.ign.com/xboxlive/image/article/102/1025269/grand-theft-auto-iv-the-ballad-of-gay-tony-20090916092650990_640w.jpg

http://www.1up.com/media/03/7/5/4/lg/606.jpg
New boat.

Video preview (no actually gameplay footage but they discuss new weapons etc.)
<embed src='http://videomedia.ign.com/ev/ev.swf' flashvars='object_ID=14323867&downloadURL=http://xboxlivemovies.ign.com/xboxlive/video/article/102/1025262/gaytonypreview_flvlowwide.flv&allownetworking="all%"' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' width='433' height='360'></embed><div style='width:433;'><a href='http://xbox360.ign.com/objects/143/14323867.html'>More Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony Info</a></div>

The twist in this episode is that Luis' missions will include optional goals — ideal completion times, ideal damage taken, bonus objectives like shooting that guy out of the window or landing on that truck. A mission can be completed without them, but Rockstar is enabling and encouraging gamers to re-launch the missions after having completed them, as players could in the DS' Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, and to strive for those goals. Rockstar reps couldn't tell me what the rewards for perfect completion might be.
Full article: http://kotaku.com/5360654/gta-iv-the-ballad-of-gay-tony-preview-crimes-for-the-crazy-rich

There are tons of previews online because the embargo lifts today so expect a flood of info and videos from here on.

[G]

GTA4 is a known problem game when it's installed. The pop ups are about 5000% worse than normal.

[Drakul]

GTA4 is a known problem game when it's installed. The pop ups are about 5000% worse than normal.

Really? I think it was the other way around for me. Maybe I"m wrong.
The one problem I had when playing GTA from my hard drive was when I froze mid-animation getting into a Police SUV. The police didnt freeze and just kept shooting me. I just reinstalled the game. Other than that I can't recall any problems.

Another Gay Tony trailer is out. A Weazel News Speacial Report. Can't watch it on the player I embedded earlier and I cant seem to embed it at all so here is a direct link.
http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/14323867/grand-theft-auto-iv-episode-2/videos/gta_bogt_trl_weazel_091709.html

[Drakul]

Meet Yusuf Amir video
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He seems pretty awesome to me.

[Drakul]

Ballad of Gay Tony achievements *spoilers*

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/images/achievements/324/UPpZUTk=.jpg
TBoGT: Gone Down - 5G
Complete all base jumps.

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/images/achievements/324/UPwpI4w=.jpg
TBoGT: Diamonds Forever - 5G
Complete the Trinity.

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/images/achievements/324/UP-7usA=.jpg
TBoGT: Four Play - 10G
Hit a flag with a golf ball four times.

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/images/achievements/324/UPw6S+Y=.jpg
TBoGT: Bear Fight - 15G
Win the L.C. Cage Fighters championship.

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/images/achievements/324/UPh4WIw=.jpg
TBoGT: Catch the Bus - 15G
Dance perfectly in both Tony's nightclubs.

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/images/achievements/324/UPmYoB8=.jpg
TBoGT: Snow Queen - 20G
Complete 25 drug wars.

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/images/achievements/324/UP3as3U=.jpg
TBoGT: Adrenaline Junkie - 25G
Freefall for the longest possible time.

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/images/achievements/324/UP3J2x8=.jpg
TBoGT: Maestro - 30G
Finish the Ballad

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/images/achievements/324/UPgHRGs=.jpg
TBoGT: Past the Velvet Rope - 45G
Score 80% or above in all missions.

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/images/achievements/324/UPnnvPg=.jpg
TBoGT: Gold Star - 80G
Score 100% in all missions.
Isn't that less achievements that TLaD?
A new trailer is coming out this week sometime, most likely Thursday.

[G]

Actually looks like more. I'm not 100% though.

[G]

There's only 5 in TLAD.

[G]

okay i'm getting this now


http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2009/10/gtaballad1014.jpg

[Emperor Smeat]

okay i'm getting this now


http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2009/10/gtaballad1014.jpg


I guess from that picture, you could say Its Raining Men :shifty:

[Drakul]

I just came along to post the screenshots and info of multiplayer. If you want the shots of deathmatch and Freemode, here is the link.
Here (http://www.rockstargames.com/theballadofgaytony//multiplayer).

If you can't click the link, because you're at work or something, the info on Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch is this:
New Weapons - Pistol .44, Explosive Shotgun, Assault SMG, Gold SMG, Advanced MG, Advanced Sniper, Sticky Bombs and Parachute

Cash for Kills - Make $25 for every assisted kill.

Kill Streaks - Kill streaks of 3, 5 or 10 gives the player health and armor bonuses. Ending other players' kill streaks you earn $125.

Deathmatch Locations - Deathmatch locations are contained areas, making for an even more intense experience. New locations include: CC Plaza, Meadow Hills, Firefly Island, Alderney Building Site, Varsity Heights, Factory, Construction, Acter Power Station, Pier 45, Castle Gardens Park, Boat House, Easton Subway, Warehouse, Hospital, Waste, Trespass, Museum and more.

Weapon Classes - Episodic, Automatic, Sniper Rifles, Explosives, Sticky Bombs.
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Info of the new race and GTA race coming soon. Also,

Episodes from Liberty City Special Feature on GameTrailers TV - Tomorrow Night, Thurs Oct 15th

Tune into Spike TV tomorrow night, Thursday, October 15th at 12:30 ET/PT for an exclusive new look at Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City featuring The Ballad of Gay Tony.

With never-before-seen in-game footage, new feature information including details on multiplayer modes, and an interview with Rockstar's Jeronimo Barrera, this is an episode of GameTrailers TV that Grand Theft Auto fans won’t want to miss…

We don't get Spike over here in the UK, so I hope someone uploads it to youtube or it goes up on Gametrailers.com right afterwards.

On the topic of free mode, who bet's it's going to consist of nothing but everyone either parachuting or fighting over the APC or Buzzard?

[DAMN iNATOR]

I don't know how you missed it, but R* covers Free Mode on the site (unless the info just wasn't up when you checked last)...


Free Mode is a long-running fan favorite mode that is truly the sandbox equivalent of Multiplayer. No rules, no guidelines, just all out mayhem and anarchy. Join in and go nuts rampaging amongst other Grand Theft Auto lunatics. Or get together with friends and and create your own original game in this wide open freeform mode. Now made more insane than ever with the addition of the nimble Buzzard attack helicopter, the devastating N.O.O.S.E. APC and even parachutes to enable you to skydive down from the top of Rotterdam Tower blasting fools from up above.
http://media.rockstargames.com/products/rockstar/screenshot%20gallery/theballadofgaytony/3/1280/1.jpg?new

[Drakul]

I didn't bother mentioning what they said about free mode because it wasn't anything we didn't know. Except, maybe, the news about shooting as you parachute.

Kill streaks, assisted kills and health/armour bonuses are new to deathmatch as far as I know. So I mentioned them.

I also linked to the site for screenshots to prevent stretching the page. You should probably go and use imageshack or something to reduce the size of the screenshot.

Looking at your screenshot though, I wonder if we shove someone off a buillding, will they still be able to deploy the parachute or will it be some weird thing where a parachute can only be deployed if you jumped from a building and not if you fell or got pushed.

[Drakul]

F!zz trailer.
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Lol at the "celebs" from "I'm Rich" appearing. I hope we see them in the actual game. Maybe give them favourable treatment in exchange for a bribe, like was shown..

[G]

i want

[Drakul]

GT TV. THey say they will how us new missions during the show but they don't. They show us one or two new cutscenes but that's it as far as mission info.
We also find out more about the minigames.
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[Drakul]

Gameplay montage
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Anyone buying the Episodes from Liberty City disc will get an exclusive radio station. Vice City FM with Fernando Martinez. A lot of people are complaining about it being exclusive and saying it's unfair they ever announced it until a week before Ballad of Gay Tony is released.
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It sucks it's exclusive but I don't think it's a deal breaker.

[Xero]

They should release the station as paid content. I'd be willing to pay for it.

Just fucked up that they're including it on a disk which has two games including one which most people have.

[Juan]

i can't wait to play this game

[Sovereigntywillpr]

isn't there a new china-town one?

[Juan]

yeah that's on the DS

[G]

which came out 7 months ago

[CSL]

There's a 'new' version coming out for PSP

[Drakul]

Yeah, Chinatown Wars is coming out on the PSP soon. Even though it was supposedly "exclusive" to the DS.

If you look at the last video I posted, there are two new videos as well. One is a montage showing the Nightlife which shows you the reward we get for dancing well. The reward is... Sex in the bathroom. What we saw in the video wasn't too explicit. The girls still clothed but we see the motions. The game trailers have all said "nudity" which could mean it goes further but I doubt it. It's just strange because doesn't it usually say "Partial Nudity" and not just "Nudity". Well, you might want to be careful who you have over at your house when you play the game. Also, Roman and Brucie are in the video. Romans still as awesome as he was in the original GTA IV.

The other is this weeks trailer, showing off the new multiplayer mode, BASE jumping.

[DAMN iNATOR]

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[Drakul]

I was going to update but you saved me some trouble. There are screenshots and other things out but it's crossed the line to pretty much being spoilers so I've stopped posting updates I find. I've found new interviews and screens and gameply footage.

I did mention the BASE jumping video was up and could be see a few posts up, though. 2 days to go.

[Drakul]

I'm not even sure if anyone reads this thread anymore.

[Juan]

I do

[Funky Fly]

Me, but it'll be a while before I ever get to the DLC.

[D Mac]

Me, but it'll be a while before I ever get to the DLC.

[Drakul]

I'll probably get it on release. It's up on the Market place this Thursday at 8:00AM GMT. Whichever time that is for you in your timezone. I think that's midnight on the westcoast of the US.

[G]

If I had the points I would get it. Gonna have to probably Goozex the disc.

[RoXer]

wtf did you spend that points card on?

[G]

Crash Course?

[RoXer]

1600 - 300 = 1300

You should have enough.

[G]

I am 560 points shy.

[G]

This is 1600 points.

[G]

And Crash Course wasn't 300 points.

[RoXer]

Really? I thought it was 1200.

[G]

GOD FUCKING DAMNIT I DO NOT WANT TO SLOW DOWN "BRO"

[RoXer]

380 or something

[RoXer]

This forum requires that you wait 25 seconds between posts. Please try again in 9 seconds. Slow down "bro"

fuck you

[RoXer]

GOD FUCKING DAMNIT I DO NOT WANT TO SLOW DOWN "BRO"

exactly

[G]

560 points or $7

[RoXer]

really?

I'm really bad at remembering shit and stuff. Things like that.

[G]

Snagged the #2 spot at Goozex. Hopefully will play this before MW2.

[Drakul]

Just a little under 2 hours until TBoGT is up on the Marketplace. Anyone who preorderd Liberty City Stories got the game early, so lucky them.
In the instruction book that came with LCS, there was an "ad" for something which everyone thinks is hinting at the location of GTA V and states that "It's over" with Liberty City.

http://media.gtanet.com/images/6379-gta-v-hint.jpg

The image seems to be pine trees, a road (though some think it's a pond) and rocks/mountains.
As usual, something like this has been rotated, inverted, mirrored and manipulated dozens of times by people online trying to figure it out.
If you mirror it, it looks like a bat which is just a coincidence. It's a tear in the page so maybe what we see is nothing to do with where GTA V will be. Maybe it's supposed to be there but it's like it was "torn" away from the ad.
Notice it says at the bottom "Opens March everywhere" which has people thinking this mean R* will announce it in March.
Then again, it could be a wild goose chase and have nothing to do with GTA V.

[DAMN iNATOR]

I've seen that. Hopefully it will be news of a GTA V title...I'd like to see one set in either Chicago or Detroit for GTA V.

[Juan]

It's 1:07 am here and still nothing on XBL. What's the deal?

[DAMN iNATOR]

Oh shit, Juan's angry. Are heads ever gonna roll now when he finds out who's responsible for this blunder...

[Juan]

Thanks for the help, funny man.

[DAMN iNATOR]

:y:

[Drakul]

It's 1:07 am here and still nothing on XBL. What's the deal?

I was thinking the same. I eventually found it by going to Add-ons, Browse, G, GTA IV, View All Downloads.
It wasn't up on the "New Downloads" list until a few hours after.

I've only played 2 or 3 missions it's alright not as awesome as hype made it seem BUT I know it'll pick up after a few more missions when I meet more characters and the story picks up speed etc.
Tried Free Mode out, can't find the APC anywhere even though I flew all over the city in the Buzzard. The buzzard is quick and the rockets are fired with X and are unlimited and can fire continously, same with the gun turrets which are used with the A button.

Some people online are hogging the Buzzards and constantly blowing up everyone that gets near another Buzzard or the Buzzard its self.
I was being stalked by at least one Buzzard most of the time I was in Free Mode but they never managed to hit me. I managed to snipe the pilot in the face once, which felt good after the hassel he was causing in the area.

[Juan]

wtf I've been downloading this game since 8 am and it's barely at 50%

[Fignuts]

that teaser likely means the return of rural areas from san andreas, if I had to guess.

[Juan]

65%

[Emperor Smeat]

that teaser likely means the return of rural areas from san andreas, if I had to guess.

Would make sense since they already used Liberty City a bunch of times, London was only used in the original GTA as a set of expansion packs, and Vice City had a "Stories" version on the PSP along with the main game.

San Andreas is the only one to not have a 2nd game so far.

[DAMN iNATOR]

hmmm...GTA: San Andreas Stories, perhaps?

[Juan]

fuck, i suck at driving helicopters. i've been stuck on the yacht mission for an hour now.

[Drakul]

You can use LB and RB to turn without banking to the side. I just did fly overs, holding down X to launch missiles constantly, turned around and flew over again doing the same. As long as you aren't too high up, it should be an easy target. 3 or 4 fly overs and the yacht is down.
The missiles fire at whatever angle the 'copters nose is pointing so if you fly over the Yacht with the nose diagonally downwards, the missiles go that way.

I'm probably telling you thing you already know.

[Juan]

yeah, i'm past the yacht, now i'm trying to get the guys on the speedboats

[Juan]

woo finally got those motherfuckers

[Drakul]

That took me a while. I kept firuing the gun turrets. I kept getting too high or too far ahead of them and had to keep turning around. I did it by flying just up above and behind them and pointing the helicopter nose down at them and firing.

Anyone that's trying to get good rating for missions, you have to drive everywhere. If you get a Taxi, it wont rank it and you can't redo it until you have finished the game.

Edit - I took way too long to reply.

[Juan]

fuck god dammit. i crashed the copter on the helipad and now I have to chase the guys on the speedboats again.

[Juan]

fucking FINALLY

[Drakul]

Tried Free Mode out, can't find the APC anywhere even though I flew all over the city in the Buzzard.

I realised why I never saw the APC as I flew around the city. It's in a garage.
If you want the APC, it's in a garage at the LCPD station on the upper right corner of the middle island. It's south of the furtherst north bridge to a bridge.

While in Free Mode I came across a vehicle I didn't know was included in the DLC. I found a police motorbike. Never seen it in single player though.

I think TBoGT is a mash up of Vice City and San Andreas. It's got the Over the Top missions of San Andreas but with the rainbow colours, clubs, partying, music and that vehicle I mentioned above, it's like Vice City. Pause the game and wait a few seconds. Music starts playing. That music plus the look of the pause screen, when the map isn't on screen, really makes it feel like it's VC.

The image saying "it's over" also appears in-game if you look at the billboards in star junction. I don't think we'll see a new Vice City or San Andreas. I think, if they revisit an old area, it will be one town from SA. Maybe Los Santos or Los Venturas and just make it a full blown city rather than a tiny area of a whole state.

[DAMN iNATOR]

Or, if you'd rather not hunt down the APC, you can spawn one by entering
2725558265 as a cheat on the cell.:y:

[Drakul]

Yeah, the cheat would work in single player because the APC isn't in the garage but you can't input cellphone cheats in Free Mode, which is when the APC is in the garage.

[DAMN iNATOR]

This cagefighting shit is so stupid. In Rd. 3 through the final you have to actually try and KO guys with titanium bats or knives. And trying to disarm those guys is a motherfucker, too, because with each round the fighters not only get faster and tougher but they can even counter you much easier with every passing round.

I could be at it forever trying to win the Cage Fighting mini-game. *SIGH*:(:-\

[Chavo Classic]

I am addicted to playing the golf mini game. Got the achievement straight away and having a blast beating this poor guy time after time.

[Chavo Classic]

fuck, i suck at driving helicopters. i've been stuck on the yacht mission for an hour now.

That was a fun mission until the speedboat chase. I'm not looking forward to using the Buzzard later in the game if I need to.

[Juan]

Yeah that mission kind of burned me out. I don't play too many video games, but spending over 2 hours on that mission really killed my momentum.

[Drakul]

So I finished the storyline for Gay Tony and it was a good end to the GTA IV "saga". I enjoyed it.
I really really liked the
Big spoiler here,
scene where we parachute out of the plane after it blew up and parachuted down with this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awD9i0Q-RPY) music playing.

[Chavo Classic]

So I finished the storyline for Gay Tony and it was a good end to the GTA IV "saga". I enjoyed it.
I really really liked the
Big spoiler here,
scene where we parachute out of the plane after it blew up and parachuted down with this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awD9i0Q-RPY) music playing.

Yeh, that was badass. One of many moments in the game that were 100% pure enjoyment along with the [spoiler] NO2 injected car race or shooting the executive in the high rise building then base jumping out of the window onto a moving truck below [/spoilers].

[Drakul]

Your spoiler tags didn't work. You only mentioned a mission that's been covered in every single preview of the game so it's not that big a deal, I guess.

Anyway, the people over at gtaforums.com are still looking into that "It's over" poster. I thought I'd update the thread with what they have come up with.
Basically, they are debating if it's going to be Italy, London or Vice City.

There is a poster in the sex shop in GTA IV which, when reversed, fits into the rip in the "its over" poster and advertises an erectile dysfuction pill called Vesuvius Citrate. Abbreviated it's VC, just like Vice City. Someone also pointed out Vesuvius is a word which progressed into the word vice.

Vesuvius -> Visceral -> Vicious -> Vice

And that Citrate is what we find in oranges. oranges are linked to Florida, where Vice City is.

Someone else says it's Italy because Mount Vesuvius is in Italy and is near a city known for it's criminal underworld.

Others say it's London because of in-game dialouge.

Here is the poster:

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/4827/volcanoposter.gif

Some think it's a clue, leading to the whole Italy/Vice city debate but a few people think it's meaningless. It's supposed to be the poster underneath the "It's over" poster and we see it because the "Its over" poster has torn. If it's meaningless, why was it reversed?

Anyone think they are onto something or agree that it's meaningless?

Edit: it's all meaningless. In an interview, Aaron Garbut from R* said this...

In GTA IV, Liberty City is much closer to New York than it was in GTA III. What prompted the decision to go for a more faithful representation?

Garbut: We've moved slowly in that direction through each Grand Theft Auto. In GTA III, Liberty City was very much its own place. It obviously had elements of New York along with other cities but there were no landmarks and nothing deliberately recognizable. In Vice City, and then more so in San Andreas, we started to take real landmarks and mix them in to our versions of the city. I think this is just us continuing down that path we had already started on. It's one of the reasons we felt comfortable redoing Liberty City. We spend years of our lives making these worlds we don't want to retread old ground and "up-res" something we had already done, that would be soul destroying. By going back to basics, throwing away the original Liberty City and building an entirely new city based on New York we were able to keep it fresh for ourselves and by extension for the people that will play it.
http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/863/863028p1.html

That was in 2008 though so maybe that's all changed. I'm hoping for a GTA in the UK. It can be San Andreas style. One huge map with cities in the south for England, cities in the north for Scotland, cities in the west for Wales and cities on an island off the west coast for Ireland. If it is the UK, it'll be London but I can't see them leaving the US, to be honest.

[Emperor Smeat]

I doubt they go outside a London if it goes away from U.S. since the London games were only meant as expansion packs and not actual GTA timeline games. Would make more sense to go back to San Andreas area or a new area like Hawaii (if volcanoes are to be used).

[Drakul]

I doubt they go outside a London if it goes away from U.S.
I can dream :(

Really though, I can see them doing one city from San Andreas. In the Ps2 San Andreas it was just a huge state with little tiny towns. If they focus on just one city and make it as big or bigger than LC was in GTA IV, great. I think Los Venturas may have the edge in that case.

[Drakul]

Good news for anyone trying to 100% a mission. When you replay it, you don't have to meet all the requirements in one shot. I did a mission and got 100% because I met 2 out of the 3 requirements in my first go and got the third one on my repeat of it. Never got all 3 at once and still got 100%.

[DAMN iNATOR]

I personally could do without San Fierro if they went the route of a San Andreas Stories game or something similar. If they didn't put in a shitload of odd jobs, side quests, and collectibles the next time, I think they could get away with putting together an excellent game focusing on just Los Santos and surrounding vicinities and Las Venturas and the plane graveyard area of the desert.

[Xero]

Just checked and I had just enough points left over from months ago to buy BOGT. Wasn't going to get it yet because I didn't really want to put money into it.

Downloading now. :cool:

[Chavo Classic]

I'm hoping it goes back to Vice City - as the original is still one of my favourite games of all time. If they also keep the 1980's element in it, I'll most likely have a heart-attack from excitement before I get to actually buy it.

[Drakul]

Am I the only person that didn't really like Vice City?

Like I metioned above, they only did Liberty City again because they felt GTA III didn't capture the feel of New York and not because it's a cycle of LC - VC - SA. Vice City captured the 1980's Miami feeling so it's unlikely we'll get it again.

Although with Red Dead Redemption having a huge map, maybe GTA V will have a huge one to, split into more than one city.

[Xero]

I loved the setting itself in terms of the 80s in VC but I felt the city was way too small.

[Fignuts]

Yeah, hoping they use the changing seasons from that in the new gta.

Also, RDR's map size is probably easier because there are probably a lot of barren areas, it being in the wild west. Would be much harder to make a city that size, with the intricate detail that needs to go into it.