A gay is Tony? This question was asked by people who saw the first name of the second supplement to the nationally adored GTA IV. But who is he did this, this, Tony? That one brutal man? Or the other, wearing glasses?
Collection Episodes from Liberty City allows people who have no access to network services Xbox Live, get both a complement to GTA IV. One of them, The Lost and Damned, published long ago and told the story of the brutal bikers Liberty City. Others, The Ballad of Gay Tony, very fresh, immerses players in an atmosphere of nightlife, trendy clubs, parties and issues, Tony Prince, who - we will not weary the reader for a long time - really gay, this shall be reported directly to the threshold. Nevertheless, the game offers his bodyguard Luis Lopez, but from soulful conversations, this substitution of the actors still do not save.
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In The Lost and Damned there are armaments, as trim a hunting rifle, shotgun and automatic rapid-firing single-shot grenade launcher. The Ballad of Gay Tony adds new types of weapons: rapid-fire pistol, Explosive Shotgun, Assault SMG, Gold SMG, Advanced MG, bombs and so on. Each weapon type is represented strongly in the appendix, and in the original game will not appear.
 | |  | Louis does not get tired to remember how much Tony had done for him: people brought in, made a new life, has helped solve many problems | | Oh, do not afford such gestures in communicating with the city's most dangerous gang, whose leader has just been released to freedom ... |
People are used to treat occasional supplements as something optional, by-products. In other words, in the traditional sense, fly-ons - that add fuel to the fire weakening: for a moment the flame will is stronger, but soon after all fade away. However, in the case of two episodes from the life of the glorious city of such a comparison is hardly appropriate. It seems that the ideas embodied in the addons originally wanted to develop a stand-alone games, but for some reason put off until better times.And now, developers have learned them from the closet, put in order, modified, have drawn up and lowered into the water - say, look, no one Niko Belik terrified to Liberty City, were in the city and the other heroes. And after a bright acquaintance with two very different scenes story of the original GTA IV seems not afraid of this word, boring, monotonous, if not formulaic.
In the intro The Lost and Damned, while Nico performs a walk through the city, Johnny Klebits in the company of fellow bikers on the bike cuts under the appropriate music. And now the player is introduced to date, give to shoot a short-barreled shotgun, and will soon entrust a miniature grenade launcher and will be another smash gang of motorcyclists. Will chase and shootout, and - where did without it! - Ritual races on bikes through the streets of the city at night. Very quickly gets sympathy for the protagonist, you start to really hate the ringleader of his gang and ... everything. Just what we sow destruction, and now are forced either to aimlessly wander the outskirts of or include multiplayer. Unexpected ending mixed feelings, and attempt to comprehend their likely make you forget about the multiplayer mode, immediately grabbing the second story. And it is something he just will not leave anyone indifferent!
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"Ballad of a Sweet Tony" - the second and the latest addition. It tells how the owner of several nightclubs Tony Prince laid his business to two different people and what consequences that resulted. Despite the uncharacteristic for GTA theme, this addon is much more interesting and more of the foregoing, and the original game. First, the mission is planned very precisely - gamer immediately understood that he needed to do. Secondly, well-placed checkpoint separating every difficult moment of the mission. We got to the boats, but the hero was killed during a chase? It does not matter, play with the same moment. Finally, the third, the dialogues themselves, staging each scene, just a situation in which get Luis and Tony - all done in the best possible way. In addition, events are placed in the plot outline is extremely tight, and not once during all the passage does not arise "windows" - situations where a player simply pulls the circles of the city, awaiting the appearance of the map a new job.
 | |  | In the club you can dance, drink, chat with the guard, to hear what you think about the drunk girl and her boyfriend. Both are allowed to give in person as soon as they decide to leave the crowd | | To glue the girl, try to take part in clandestine fist fights. Or in the pouring champagne. In any case, whatever worked Louis, Tony will immediately understand, he spent the night with a girlfriend or not. There's always a girl! |
The first footage The Ballad of Gay Tony recalled all the advantages and disadvantages of GTA IV.You do not forget the episode with a bank robbery, when Nico, along with fellow-Irish, was forced to shoot from the police in the city center? Luis Lopez in the day was in the same bank - to withdraw money for your boss to finally give them some extortionists. The plot immediately indicates the differences between the two episodes: before we met with the company demanding guys whose attitude to the boss, on the one hand, commands respect, and with another - lack of understanding. Here we see how Tony appreciates his bodyguard, Luis and without question taken on any job, if only the two of them are not slapped on the neck with the Russian mafia. Was told to drive on the golf course - the sailors are no other questions, let's go. One of the "partners" boss yells Louis, that he struck a blow to its crown tied at the other end of the field a loser right in the groin? No problem, just do it. After that - check the city on little golf carts, chase boat and the mistakes that almost destroy Tony and Louis. Of course, shoot a frame and Nico Belik, and all bikers are the same - and never a player does not ask why they are here, each occurrence of past heroes complements the "general" history and adds narrative excitement.
Without guile, Episodes from Liberty City may be recommended to all fans of GTA, and even those who have downloaded one of the episodes and has already managed to pass it through. The main motive in this case could serve as the fact that the disc version was also more comfortable and stable. Firstly, when buying DLC to monitor hard drive space: additions weigh a lot, and install both of the standard 20-gigabyte hard drive not afford one. Secondly, Episodes from Liberty City is devoid of minor technical problems that are inevitable and simultaneous additions and disk space "framework» GTA IV, because for a start do not need the original game, nothing will be asked to install, and if you decide to install Episodes on the HDD in order to reduce downloads, everything goes like clockwork.
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The duration of each episode depends mainly on the skill players. The developers have prepared are not many story missions, compared to episodes with high-grade games, but the passage of each particular job can take anywhere from half an hour or more. Just because it is unlikely that all will turn right (this should be noted that The Ballad of Gay Tony offers detailed tasks, prolonged, and in addition, significantly less complex). Thus, the passage of each of the two plots can take anywhere from five to ten hours. But it should also be understood that GTA would not be a, if not a huge number of additional stretching fun fun. As for comparisons with earlier releases of the series, the first impression does not deceive: the scale are not the same, and each episode can be called a kind of "mini-GTA». In the sense that the game is excellent and has all the merits of the original but the content in general, including story missions, yet not enough.
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