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You can slap these on cars, toss them at cops, drop them as you leave the scene of a crime and then manually detonate with a press of the D-Pad. It's powerful enough to take out cars and choppers with a couple of well-placed shots. Another goodie is the shotgun with explosive rounds. You will absolutely own anyone who stands in your way with a tap of the trigger. Luis has plenty of weapons to fulfill his missions, including the P90 assault SMG, which is my new gun of choice. The high-flying elements are a welcome part of the Gay Tony storyline, but they should have been refined.įortunately, the majority of missions don't focus on mid-air confrontations.
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Why does Rockstar include a lock-on for guns when you're on foot but not when you're in a helicopter? There are a few missions that require you to do battle in the air and all are a challenge simply because it's difficult to target enemies. It's certainly faster and easier to travel in a chopper and the new ones are stocked with weapons, but mid-air battles are still a challenge.
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Helicopters play a larger role, which is both good and bad. Of course, bigger jobs mean bigger toys to play with and The Ballad of Gay Tony is packed with weapons that give a big bang. Don't worry, you have a second chute you can pull as you make your escape, landing in the back of a moving getaway truck.
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At one point, you leap out of a helicopter and parachute onto a rooftop, wax some guards, throw an innocent man out a window, then take a leap of faith from 20 stories up. And I mean strong arm in the GTA sense - out a window. So much so that he sends Luis on a few missions to strong-arm the owner. While there are still the standard crop of "these guys just betrayed you, shoot your way out" GTA missions, there are a number of others that are more over-the-top than anything in GTA IV or The Lost and Damned.īulgarin, for example, is obsessed with owning Liberty City's hockey team, the Rampage. The missions are jobs for some of the most unstable people in the city, including Tony, the ridiculous Yusuf Amir, and the bat-s*** crazy Russian mobster, Bulgarin. Though there are a few early missions that tie into Luis' old life, they are throwaways and very quickly the story focuses on the problems of Gay Tony. Many of the missions take place in Algonquin, Liberty City's version of Manhattan. Luis is uninteresting, overshadowed by the big personalities that surround him. This makes for some entertaining cutscenes, but the story itself (which follows the trail of the stolen diamonds from GTA IV to its conclusion) isn't very compelling. Gay Tony is more about the side characters - who are wonderfully outrageous - than it is about Luis. Luis' rise to the top happens before the beginning of Gay Tony and just about every action he takes in the game is tied to Tony's story, not his own. You might be wondering why this episode isn't called "The Ballad of Straight Luis." There are two reasons for this: a) Rockstar's smart enough not to give a downloadable episode a terrible name and b) This is Tony's story viewed from Luis' perspective. You live well and you work for the richest men in the city. The Ballad of Gay Tony isn't about living in squalor. Tony Prince, owner of the biggest straight and gay nightclubs in Liberty City, took Luis under his wing and made him something. Where GTA IV star Niko Belic and Lost and Damned anti-hero Johnny Klebitz are men of little means attempting to rise up in the world, Luis has already made his transition from rags to riches. In The Ballad of Gay Tony, you take on the role of Luis Lopez who works for the title character. The $40 disc contains both GTA IV episodes, but not the main game itself. For those without Xbox Live (for shame!) or who no longer own GTA IV, you can purchase GTA: Episodes from Liberty City from your local games store. Like the first episode, The Lost and Damned, you'll need a copy of GTA IV to play the downloadable version of The Ballad of Gay Tony. The GTA IV saga closes out with The Ballad of Gay Tony, an over-the-top, explosive $20 downloadable episode.