GTA: The Ballad Of Gay Tony Review: Out Wh A Bang

Contents:

• GRAND THEFT AUTO IV: THE BALLAD OF GAY TONY REVIEW
• GTA IV: THE BALLAD OF GAY TONY REVIEW
• GRAND THEFT AUTO IV: THE BALLAD OF GAY TONY
• GRAND THEFT AUTO IV: THE BALLAD OF GAY TONY
• GTA: THE BALLAD OF GAY TONY REVIEW: OUT WH A BANG

GRAND THEFT AUTO IV: THE BALLAD OF GAY TONY REVIEW

And now the The Ballad of Gay Tony, which is beg released both as a downloadable episo and as part of the Episos om Liberty Cy stand-alone retail product, you play as nightclub owner Tony Prce's bs partner and nfidant, Luis Lopez. If you'd rather tt the expand arsenal agast other players than agast street gangs, you n hop to The Ballad of Gay Tony's multiplayer sue at any time via an optn on your -game cell phone. As you'd expect, there's no shortage of humor The Ballad of Gay Tony, and while plenty of the form of phone nversatns durg gameplay, a great al of is ftly livered durg cutscen that are noticeably longer than those prev gam.

Both Lopez and the tular "Gay" Tony Prce are wonrfully voiced and animated, but 's tough to ll them standouts bee there are so many other characters who are every b as imprsive.

GTA IV: THE BALLAD OF GAY TONY REVIEW

The Ballad of Gay Tony wouldn't be difficult to remend as a full retail product, so at 1, 600 Microsoft pots this downloadable ntent really is a steal. You might be disappoted that this episo don't brg much the way of new multiplayer ntent to the table, and 's te that one or two of the optnal activi aren't as much fun as they might have been, but the credible value offered by The Ballad of Gay Tony is unniable. Ri off to the sunset your new GTA IV saga clos out wh The Ballad of Gay Tony, an over-the-top, explosive $20 downloadable episo.

Like the first episo, The Lost and Damned, you'll need a py of GTA IV to play the downloadable versn of The Ballad of Gay Tony. In The Ballad of Gay Tony, you take on the role of Luis Lopez who works for the tle character. Tony Prce, owner of the biggt straight and gay nightclubs Liberty Cy, took Luis unr his wg and ma him somethg.

The Ballad of Gay Tony isn't about livg squalor. Luis' rise to the top happens before the begng of Gay Tony and jt about every actn he tak the game is tied to Tony's story, not his own. Gay Tony is more about the si characters -- who are wonrfully outrageo -- than is about Luis.

GRAND THEFT AUTO IV: THE BALLAD OF GAY TONY

Though there are a few early missns that tie to Luis' old life, they are throwaways and very quickly the story foc on the problems of Gay Tony. The real star of Gay Tony, though, is Yuf.

Of urse, bigger jobs mean bigger toys to play wh and The Ballad of Gay Tony is packed wh weapons that give a big bang. The high-flyg elements are a wele part of the Gay Tony storyle, but they should have been refed.

Along wh a bigger, badr, bolr attu, The Ballad of Gay Tony clus some wele addns.

GRAND THEFT AUTO IV: THE BALLAD OF GAY TONY

There's also Tony's gay club, Hercul, where you n dance wh some shirtls studs if that's your thg. The mos are trimmed to the sentials for The Ballad of Gay Tony. VerdictThe Ballad of Gay Tony is the perfect way to close out the GTA IV saga.

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Available as a Xbox 360 download or bundled on a disc wh another episo(as Grand Theft Auto: Episos om Liberty Cy), GRAND THEFT AUTO IV: THE BALLAD OF GAY TONY livers new game-play to the ntroversial tle, along wh new weapons and vehicl that n be ed multiplayer mos.

GTA: THE BALLAD OF GAY TONY REVIEW: OUT WH A BANG

You play as Luis Lopez, a ltle-known and seedy assistant to Anthony \"Gay Tony\" Prce, a nightclub owner and associate of the Ancelotti crime fay the fict Liberty Cy. Whether played as an appendage to Grand Theft Auto IV or as half of a standalone disc, the latt GTA stallment offers a full game's worth of a seri at s most trigug and sexual, wild ways not Week In Gam: What’s Comg Out Beyond Armored Core VIOffEnglishEnglishGrand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony arriv this week as the fal planned release of the GTA IV saga that began the sprg of 2008. The trailers and talk issued by Rockstar Gam prr to the release of Gay Tony implied that this third stallment, this new adventure starrg bodyguard Luis Lopez mtg crim for Liberty Cy's most warped and wealthy cizens, would return GTA to the dam-tonatg, beach-partyg gameplay eccentrici of Grand Theft Auto: San wildns appears durg some glor moment but never que tak over Gay Tony, which prov to be closer tone and style to GTA IV than San Andreas.

The new episo troduc some strong new ias to the seri, monstrat Rockstar's medium-leadg sophistitn character creatn and mak a se for no GTA ever havg a sgle lead character I Know The People: I don't thk I know any ld-blood killers or pill-poppg gay nightclub owners who have crossed the mob, but I know suave players who get all the girls and I know people who are cshed wh strs about money. Rockstar's characters Gay Tony — like so many of their GTA hero, villas and passers-by — feel fascatgly unreal both bee they are lorful and bee they stand out om most vio game characters by exhibg regnizable human tras. The Gay Tony st is distct and fun to be around.

In Gay Tony I was assigned jt one missn to parachute onto a buildg — one that was a repli of a skyscraper I ed to work . In another missn I was brought to a nearly perfect recreatn of Manhattan's Chelsea Piers drivg range and ma to stand almost the same spot where I wnsed Tiger Woods drive trick shots, except that Gay Tony, I was dog the golfg and the goal was more btal than promotg an EA golf if you're not someone who would regnize the hundreds of New York Cy landmarks recreated Liberty Cy — not jt the signature skyscrapers but the slop of certa streets and style of certa signs — you will hopefully feel the ways Rockstar Gay Tony to once aga explo the emotn of real geography. A leap om the equivalent of the Empire State Buildg — or a nervo wa to see whether the r that ped your helipter by drivg to a tunnel unr the Hudson River emerg on the other si New Jersey — still has the texture and tensn of somethg that feels realer than what so many other gam offer, whout feelg any ls The Sky: Of the two most mendable gameplay enhancements that Gay Tony offers to the GTA IV stcture, the affairs the air are the more likely crowd-pleaser.