The sticky bombs cause a satisfying amount of damage – especially when heaped in a cluster – but can be fiddly to use at times, as they don't always land on the target they're aimed at we gave up using them in one mission involving a fleeing jet, and used a missile launcher instead. There are also several missions involving to sticky bombs, which can be placed on stationary targets or hurled onto moving targets from the window of a speeding vehicle. Lopez also has access to a new selection of machine guns, including a light P90 assault rifle, an augmented machine gun and Tech 9. The missions are complimented by the new weapons on offer top among these is the auto-shotgun loaded with explosive rounds – fire this baby at an approaching vehicle and it leaves the target looking like it was punched by a grizzly bear. The new additions to the game's radio stations are a mix of high-energy disco and cheesy pop classics from the 1980s you haven't lived until you've shot down Liberty City police helicopters in a gold-painted chopper while listening to 'Breakout' by Swing Out Sister. (An exchange with Luis during which Yusuf describes himself as a 'flying cobra' is laugh-out-loud hilarious.) The story's overall tone is far more optimistic than either that GTA 4 or The Lost And Damned DLC while Lopez and Prince are constantly under the hammer, there's never a doubt in the player's mind that everything will turn out all right for this particular odd couple. The best new character is the story's incredibly spoiled billionaire, Yusuf wonderfully voiced by British-Iranian comedian Omid Djalili, Yusuf is easily the most likeable person in the game due to his shameless behaviour and bullet-proof self-belief. Lopez seems fairly easy-going for a self-confessed 'murdering maniac', while Prince for his part is a highly strung, tantrum throwing drama queen without the sense God gave goats. The characters in the new content, with one or two exceptions, come across more like spoiled buffoons than genuinely nefarious criminals. The dour pallette of the Lost And Damned has been ejected, and even the pause menu takes on a Day-Glo font. The location is far more glamorous as most of the DLC's action forsakes Liberty City's dour ghettos and docile suburbs for the glitzy island of Algonquin (or Manhattan to you). At the same time Lopez tries to prevent Prince from doing himself in with a cocktail of pills, booze, drugs and hysterical fits.ĭespite the grim set-up, The Ballad Of Gay Tony is an altogether more upbeat affair than The Lost And Damned. Lopez soon finds himself lent out as muscle to a series of shady criminals – as well as a couple of certifiably insane dilettantes – as a means of paying off his and Tony's debt. The Ballad Of Gay Tony starts with Prince admitting to Lopez that the financial backing for their nightclubs came from Liberty City's underworld, and now the pair of them are in debt to some extremely dangerous people. However, the new DLC's story feels more like a bookend to the themes of the main game's plot than its predecessor whereas GTA 4 documented Niko Bellic's rise up Liberty City's social food chain, The Ballad Of Gay Tony follows the efforts of nightclub managers Luis Lopez and 'Gay' Tony Prince as they try grimly to hang onto their positions at the top of it. Like The Lost And Damned, the narrative of The Ballad Of Gay Tony exists at the periphery of Niko Bellic's story in GTA 4, and once again, it occasionally overlaps with it.
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