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GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony (TBOGT) is Rockstar’s love letter to all its fans who thought GTA IV was too serious, sober and boring. It’s everything GTA IV should have been, and then some more. By that I do mean it’s totally outrageous and over-the-top in every way possible be it in the form of characters or core gameplay. In TBOGT you play as Louis Lopez, a Dominican who’s just made it big in Liberty City thanks to his mentor and "business partner", Tony Prince AKA Hay Tony who’s one of Liberty City’s most successful club owners owing the town’s hottest gay and straight bar simultaneously. Sadly his rep has been diminishing in recent times and business isn’t doing too well. To make matters worse Tony finds himself embroiled with all the wrong kind of people thanks to his flamboyant, drug-fueled lifestyle. And here’s where you, Louis step in to save the day. GTA IV was all about living the American Dream. The Lost and the Damned (the 2nd batch of DLC) was a gritty look at the gang life in LC and BOGT shows you a side of Liberty City you haven’t seen before. It’s all about LC’s glamorous night life, fast cars, hot women, etc. Since you’re a business partner/bodyguard to a club owner you can visit any of Tony’s night clubs at any given point in time where you’re free to drink (in the form of a mini-game) or seduce the local women on the dance floor (a mini-game once again) with your smooth moves. Wooing a girl on the dance floor yields some highly favorable results. Missions structure overall in TBOGT is still the same but this time round they’ve been amped up tenfold. You’ll be doing some crazy stuff through the course of your 10 hour romp with the DLC that’ll make fans of San Andreas feel right at home. On the flip side there are a few highly annoying Buzzard missions that were highly exasperating. Luckily, they don’t reach GTA IV levels of frustration thanks to mid mission checkpoints implemented in TLAD. Still it’s pretty annoying since Rockstar has vastly tweaked and improved vehicular control since GTA IV but chopper control is still as stupid and annoying as ever. New to the GTA IV universe are a bunch of mini games, the first of which is Fight Club (cough*Saint’s Row 2*cough) where you enter an underground fighting ring to take on wave after wave of fighters until you land up in hospital or defeat all of them becoming reigning champion in the process. It’s nothing earth shattering but it’s a good break from "Go here and Kill X" kinda missions. |
Tags: GTA IV , Liberty City , Ballad of Gay Tony
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