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It took forever and a day, but PS3 owners finally have access to the two outstanding "Grand Theft Auto IV" expansions on one reasonably-priced disc. As is custom for the GTA series, the game includes a small booklet and the ubiquitous full-size fold-out poster. In addition to the disc version, the Playstation Store has both expansions available for download as well. This is an option of convenience or useful if you only want one of the expansions. Buying both, however, is the same price or more than the disc, so you might as well buy the disc. You'll get the nice poster and booklet in addition to the hard copy you can either sell or give to a friend when you're finished. The poster has an image of a party girl in a pink dress on one side and a detailed map of Liberty City on the other. The booklet contains brief paragraphs outlining the premise of each expansion, a full list of the radio songs, and the game credits. Both "The Lost and Damned" and "The Ballad of Gay Tony" are amply sized and playing through both took me around twenty hours, and this is considering I ignored much of the many interesting diversions and side-quests (everything from arm wrestling, gang wars, bike races and more) present in both. A very dedicated player could easily spend forty to fifty hours completing all the side-quests and obtaining all the trophies, making this disc a nearly mandatory purchase for PS3 owners who enjoy a good sandbox-style romp. Of course, both games are rife with the bizarre hallmarks of the GTA games. The nudity is particularly bizarre, including a scene of full-frontal male congressman nudity, which is ostensibly intended to be amusing but only elicited a furrowed brow from this gamer. This sort of thing is nothing new to the franchise or even the genre, so I'm not complaining, just making note. The language is often coarse but I wouldn't have it any other way. It lends atmosphere to the storyline, and after all, we're dealing with a biker gang and a bodyguard/drug dealer. Speaking of which, it's amazing to me how many parents complain about the content of games when specific ratings are provided on each title's sleeve and detailed content descriptions of games can often be found online. But that's another story entirely. Unfortunately, much as in GTA IV, the AI scripting for your teammates is rather weak. Occasionally they can even become a hindrance, as they get in the way during chases, and even with relatively high attributes are often unable to hit their targets (particularly if the enemy is behind cover). Another slight mark against these expansions are those missions that frankly don't even make much sense. For instance, during one mission on "The Lost and Damned", your character is to ride his motorcycle to find three rival gang vans driving around Liberty City. Once you find a van, you're to throw pipe bombs at the van until it's destroyed, all while the heavily-armed crackshot gang members are leading you with semi-automatic weapons. To be fair, the mission can be completed without resorting to the pipe bombs (I stood in the street and used a rocket launcher instead), but I just couldn't shake the feeling that Johnny Boy had taken too many knocks to the skull. Well, no one said biker gangs were very bright to begin with, right? This is admittedly a small complaint. Besides, I appreciate that Rockstar tries to add a bit of variety to the missions so that each one isn't simply a full-throttle shootout. At leRead full review
This game was good, fun and for buying used the price was right. But it didn't work properly with GTA 4. I could play either one or the other. If I played one I had to reinstall the other. If I played the other I had to reinstall the one. Also this game was 14gb which is HUGE even for today's games. Third was the "Social Club" issue. Some bozo's at Rockstar Games thought they could imitate the success of Mechwarrior and Quake if they invented an online community. WRONG! All they did was make the game harder to start and I don't know of anyone who had anything to do with the Social Club whatsoever. There is no reason to have the social club unless you need tech support and there already is tech suppport for that. So it was a huge mistake on the designers part. Still it was a good game and I enjoyed playing it. C+Read full review
This game is really cool but the graphics and controls are way better on the PS3 but aren't that bad on the PC there are 2 games in this one including "Lost & Damned" and "The Ballad of Gay Tony." Personally, I like Ballad of Gay Tony better because it has better cheats and the graphics are way better. I don't like the Lost & Damned that much because it is in grain pixels kind of like Twilight, but it shows really bad and makes the gam look very old.Overall, I recomend buying this game to any of the Grand Theft Auto fans!!
It is without a doubt one of the best games i have played this year, i would recomend it to everyone. Lots of action, Great Humour, Very good graphics and physics, The only negative about Grand it is that you can neither move the saved games to another pc nor reinstall it and keep the saved games. You should also have a powerfull graphics card to experience the game in all it's glory.
The game is a very good game, each game is a bit shorter than I expected, but here on eBay you can find a good deal. It basically follows the same story time frame as the original GTA 4 but form other characters points of view, and those characters show up in the original game as well. I say aside form being just a bit too short, it is a perfect game as I expected.
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