The Ballad of Gay Tony

The Ballad of Gay Tony is the last thing released for the Grand Theft Auto IV DLC. You take control of Luis Lopez, business party and bodyguard to Gay Tony, a club owner with a drug problem.

It starts off during the bank robbery that Niko Bellic is involved with in the main game. However you take control of one of the hostages during their crime. But Luis gets away safely, unlike some of the other people involved. And then you call your boss Gay Tony, who's just explained that he's borrowed money from the mob to pay for his increasingly expensive drug-addled lifestyle, and being the good friend you are, you run all over town doing missions for varying-leveled people of the criminal underworld, just like every other game in this series.

It's a fun little game though, slightly longer than the Lost and the Damned, levels capping about 25 or so. There's more side quests to do, this time you can go parachuting off of buildings or from helicopters at various points throughout Liberty City, which is fun one time, then I never wanted to do it again. The other thing is you can go on Drug Wars, which is with two childhood friends who now sell drugs and kill people. Just like you!

Something they added, which I thought was a good idea, were continue points. It's great when you die doing a mission and when you continue from your phone you start right before the point you died at. Yup, that's pretty super-duper...

Overall: C-, Okay, really this one is well made and everything, but something about it feels kind of phoned in. Like one of the folks at Rockstar suddenly realized that they had a couple of loose ends to clear up at the end of GTA 4 and decided to make another expansion. It's nothing special and I think I had more fun using a motorcycle gang, waaaaaay more fun actually. I mean, this story was interesting, had its moments anyway, and some of the new guns were pretty cool. But, at the end of the day, it's really just the same old shit.