![]() ![]() Upon release, Liberty City Stories received generally positive reviews. Set within the fictional Liberty City (loosely based on New York City) in 1998, the game is a prequel Grand Theft Auto III, and follows the exploits of mobster Toni Cipriani, who becomes involved in a power struggle among the city's Mafia families while attempting to rise through the ranks of the Leone crime family and earn the respect of his boss, Salvatore Leone. A port for iOS, Android and Fire OS devices was also released in December 2015, February 2016, and March 2016, respectively. At the time of release, the recommended retail price of the PS2 port was around half the price of the PSP version, because the PS2 version does not feature the custom soundtrack ripping capability of the PSP version. A port for the PlayStation 2 was released in June 2006. The ninth installment in the Grand Theft Auto series, it was initially released as a PlayStation Portable exclusive in October 2005. While The Lost and Damned offers mainly rock songs, The Ballad of Gay Tony brings lively electronic tracks one may expect to hear at a night club.Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories is an action-adventure game developed in a collaboration between Rockstar Leeds and Rockstar North, and published by Rockstar Games. As it has became a standard in the series, a great feature of the game comes with the expansion of the radio stations, which received new kinds of broadcasts, new commercials and licensed tracks for the player to listen to. In case of The Ballad of Gay Tony, the player visits night clubs many times and travels through the subway tunnels. In The Lost and Damned, the player can enter a few previously inaccessible warehouses, and they visit the headquarters of the titular motorcycle gang. However, the metropolis was slightly expanded and improved since then. The stories of both the DLCs are set in Liberty City – a place we have already visited in the base GTA IV. Additionally, the game offers simple and different mini-games related to the protagonist's visits at Tony's clubs. ![]() Importantly, parachuting was implemented, which is invaluable when the player wishes to reach the ground safely. The Ballad of Gay Tony features luxurious limousines and yachts. A new helicopter was added, some powerful weapons as well (mainly an assault rifle, a shotgun firing explosive bullets and remote explosives). Among these, adding golf carts deserve to be given notice, for this vehicle appeared first in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. ![]() Apart from Tony, the player meets many peculiar characters, such as the eccentric Yusuf Amir.Īpart from the main storyline, The Ballad of Gay Tony features some important improvements and additions. The story is full of fast-paced combat sequences taking place both in the suburbs and city centre, as well as in different clubs. For the most part, the protagonist spends their time at Tony's clubs, trying to keep him alive, for as it soon turns out, Tony is indebted to a wrong kind of people, and they are trying to get their money back at all cost. He is both a typical gangster and a personal assistant of Tony Prince – a night-club king nicknamed Gay Tony. In The Ballad of Gay Tony for PC and PS3, the player is put in the shoes of Luis Lopez from Dominican Republic. The multiplayer was improved and enriched with new modes such as Club Business (riding with other gang members and completing various assignments), Lone Wolf Biker (a player has to escape over a dozen enemies riding motorbikes) or Witness Protection. The Lost and Damned features new activities and mini-games, such as arm wrestling. It offers new vehicles as well, mainly over a dozen of motorcycle types and some new trucks. The Lost and Damned introduces new weapons into the game, including mainly a grenade launcher, a combat shotgun, a pool cue and a sawn-off shotgun. Also, the protagonist is not on his own, for the members of The Lost support him during many missions. New missions are what the expansion is made of mostly, and in most cases, these require the player to ride a bike. Moreover, the player meets many characters from the core game, including Niko Bellic himself. To a certain degree, the story in The Lost and Damned overlaps the events from Grand Theft Auto IV. Valuable alliances Johnny has established are being broken, and a competitive gang – Angels of Death enters the crime scene fighting for control over different areas. When Billy Grey – the former leader of The Losts returns from prison, everything becomes more and more complicated. ![]() Until recently, the protagonist was a temporary leader of the group, watching over the actions taken by the gang. In The Lost and Damned for PC and PS3, the player assumes the role of Johnny Klebitz, one of more respected members of the titular The Lost motorcycle gang. ![]()
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