Posts Tagged ‘Grand Theft Auto 4’
GTA 4: The Ballad of Gay Tony available now on Xbox Live
GTA 4 fans will be happy to hear that Rockstar has unleashed the game’s latest DLC pack ‘The Ballad of Gay Tony’ onto Xbox Live for 1600 Microsoft Points. Now, I bought the first DLC pack and wasn’t very satisfied with spending the $20 but Gay Tony looks to be a lot better.
Don’t know what’s included in this new DLC pack? Head here and watch a trailer for the game.
Microsoft announces new titles coming to Games on Demand
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Games on Demand service went live not too long ago and launched with a decent amount of games in the library. Today, Microsoft has announced 6 new games that are set to hit the service in the coming weeks including Grand Theft Auto IV, Army of Two and Dead Space.
The full list of games and their release dates are below
October 13
- Grand Theft Auto IV
October 20
- Midnight Club: Los Angeles
- Army of Two
- Sonic Unleashed
October 27
- Dead Space
- DiRT
We’ll keep you updated on pricing.
GTA 4 gets patched to prevent online cheating
For the 10 of you out there that still play Grand Theft Auto 4 online (for the Xbox 360, mind you) you will be happy to hear that Rockstar will soon be releasing a patch that will prevent people from cheating online. Exactly what cheats, we don’t know, but this patch will apparently fix them.
Expect this patch to be pushed out in the coming days making GTA 4’s multiplayer ready for the influx of players that are sure to hop online after purchasing the game’s newest expansion, The Ballad of Gay Tony.
via joystiq
The Ballad of Gay Tony gets its first trailer
What you see above is a recently released trailer for GTA IV’s latest expansion, The Ballad of Gay Tony, called ‘You’ll Always Be The King Of This Town’.
Some interesting things to make note of from the trailer are the introductions of UFC style cage fighting, sky diving and a whole lot of awesomeness.
Grand Theft Auto IV’s The Ballad of Gay Tony will be made available through Xbox Live on October 29th for 1600 Microsoft Points. Alternatively you can pick the expansion up with The Lost & Damned as part of the Episodes From Liberty City retail bundle which will presumably ship around the same time.
GTA IV: Episodes From Liberty City box art
If you didn’t know, Rockstar is gearing up to launch a GTA IV DLC retail bundle called Episodes From Liberty City that is to include both The Lost & Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony. The bundle is reportedly hitting store shelves this fall for $39.99 and will not require gamers to own the original GTA IV game.
Anyways, what you see above is the recently released official box art for the bundle for you to feast your eyes on.
First Ballad of Gay Tony screenshots hit web
It’s been a while since we heard of anything regarding GTA IV’s latest expansion, The Ballad of Gay Tony, so Rockstar has decided it is time to release the first batch of screen shots.
As you can see, The Ballad of Gay Tony will expand on Grand Theft Auto IV’s already insanely intricate game play making for a must buy. These screen shots showcase a few new vehicles and a chrome mini UZI.
Check out the rest of the screens in the gallery, below.
via GTA4.net
GTA IV Xbox 360 Anniversary Bundle
Believe it or not, Grand Theft Auto IV was released exactly 1 year ago today. You know what that means, right? An Xbox 360 bundle, duh!
Word has recently gotten out that Microsoft is prepping to launch the above pictured Xbox 360 bundle to coincide with GTA IV’s 1 year anniversary.
According to Kotaku, the bundle will feature an Xbox 360 Elite, along with GTA IV, and 2 limited edition stickers; one featuring the game’s logo and one featuring the Liberty City Swingers logo. Unfortunately Microsoft left out the first DLC episode, The Lost & Damned, bummer.
No release date or pricing has been announced but we’ll keep you posted.
Lost & Damned numbers speculated
Well, they are by no means official numbers but analyst Jesse Divnich has a hunch that the following numbers are at least predictably accurate.
Anyways, Divnich says that the GTA IV expansion, The Lost & Damned, raked in less than $3 million dollars at brick and mortar retailers while raking in up to $18 million over Xbox Live.
While these numbers are not straight from Rockstar, it makes it easy to tell that the Xbox Live method of aquiring The Lost & Damned was much more favorable than the physical counterpart.
However, if the expansion’s content had actually been released on a game disc as opposed to getting a code to download the content over Xbox Live, these numbers probably would have been a lot different.
Read (Joystiq)
Grand Theft Auto 4 Game Review–Sheer Option Overload
I confess, I was looking forward to the release of Grand Theft Auto Four–it was all a lot of us could even talk about. Every time you opened a game mag or watched a video, every time you read a game blog, or even if you were one of the couple dozen people who still watched X-Play, you were sure to hear something about this game, and the inevitable word was a series of slobbering superlatives as commentator after commentator fought all over themselves to see who could praise it the fastest, the loudest, and the most sincerely.
And now that it’s about to get a major new expansion pack, The Lost and the Damned, I figured now would be a good time to go back and talk about the original. I, however, will NOT be using a lot of flowery language.
First, a recap of the plot for those few of you who haven’t yet tried it–you play as Niko Bellic, a recent transplant from an Eastern European country fresh off the boat in Liberty City. He, like a lot of other immigrants, has come in search of that great American Dream: life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, a fresh start, and all the gusto you can grab. Yes, it’s the kind of thing that makes you believe in America again…at least until things start going south for Niko right away. He’s come for his cousin, Roman, whom he believes has made good already in the land of hope and dreams. But Roman’s tales of wealth and success were gravely exaggerated–Roman’s up to his eyes in debt, and he’s desperate for an edge: an edge shaped suspiciously like his cousin Niko. Thus, Niko will be working as his cousin’s protector and enforcer as the two of them try to make their fortunes in Liberty City.
Let me make one thing perfectly clear from the get go. A lot of the flowery language this game got is well deserved. The graphics are amazing, the gameplay is spectacularly fluid and intuitive, and that plot is straight out of some of the best of literature. Anton Chekhov himself might well have written something like this if he’d been alive to see it. Perhaps best–and yet, perhaps worst, more on that later–is the incredible variety of missions and options you’ve got to work with in this huge monster of a game.
This may be the biggest problem of Grand Theft Auto 4: sheer option overload. Of course, you’ll have the full array of missions–kill this guy, kill that guy, kill all THESE guys, get this guy here, run protection, run the rackets, and so on and so forth. A veritable criminal encyclopedia is available in this game, and you’ll get to try it all. When you’re not out engaging in the criminal lifestyle, you’ll have a panoply of options to try out in Liberty City proper–strip clubs, comedy clubs, bowling alleys, bars, or just drive around. Going to a strip club and getting a lap dance isn’t just a cheesy exercise in pointless graphic titillation anymore, kids–lap dances will now cause your controller’s vibration function to work in sync with the dancer.
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