Grand Theft Auto 4: The Lost and the Damned

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The Lost and the Damned is the first of two downloadable side stories to add to the overall experience of Grand Theft Auto 4. In it, you play as Johnny Klebitz, vice-president of The Lost, a notorious biker gang.

At the beginning of the story, The Lost's president, Billy, is released from prison, he insults you, kills rival gang members, insults you, drinks at the biker's bar and hideout, insults you, has sex with your girlfriend, and then, oh yeah, he insults you some more. I don't know, the amount of times Billy makes fun of Johnny and basically makes him out to be a loser piece of shit, it just kept making me think "Aren't I vice-president? Why is he treating me like some kind of new recruit?" And this keeps happening right down to when (spoiler alert) Billy gets arrested again for stealing drugs from rival gang members and being an overall miserable asshole. Then you become president, which makes sense to me, you've basically done all the work for everyone since day one. Hell, do you even need the rest of your gang?

Actually, your gang can be pretty handy. On every job except the first few you can call up your pals Tracy and Clay to help you out, and considering how many of the main missions in this game are based around just killing a whole bunch of dudes, coming into them with three people is waaaaay better than going in it alone. I recommend doing it right after every single mission briefing that doesn't already have your gang following you.

With Niko in the main storyline, I would almost always avoid stealing a motorcycle like they were infected because he would basically go flying off of them, barreling end over end through the air with even the slightest bump into the smallest child. It's much better with Johnny, you only go flying with head on collisions, and he's much better at driving the motorcycle as well. But, he's terrible at driving cars and seems to have Niko's disease of flying end over end whenever he gets in them.

I have one final complaint, and that's the number of missions. Niko had over 90 missions to plow through, here there's just over 20, what's up with that? I guess there's gang wars and races added, but it just seems like there could have been so much more.

Overall: C+, it's alright, not enough missions to make it really substantial and compared to everything Rockstar's ever done, this doesn't really stand out as a great achievement or anything. Good, passable anyway, but nothing special.