GTA IV The Ballad Of Gay Tony

[TH]

http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/986/986532p1.html

The Ballad of Gay Tony follows Luis Lopez, the assistant to the nightclub manager Tony "Gay Tony" Prince. In it, players will, "struggle with the competing loyalties of family and friends, and with the uncertainty about who is real and who is fake in a world in which everyone has a price."

[Dan]

Sounds like one of Jin's acquaintances.

[BarnDoor]

I wonder if you'll have to blow the manager at some point? They could turn it into a minigame.

[Sho]

More will be revealed in tonight's E3.

[Dan]

http://boards.ign.com/grand_theft_auto/b5257/184384250/p1/?10

Trailer on Tuesday too.

[Gun_Runner]

exclusive to 360?

[TH]

Yup.


http://www.rockstargames.com/2.0/files/gta-eflc_debuttrailer.jpg
http://franchisemedia.ign.com/wiki/grandtheftauto.ign.com/default/uploads/3/31/Gta_luis_base_jumping.jpg
A member called WWKD05 on our forums has posted details on a recent playable demo of The Ballad of Gay Tony which he had access to on Wednesday (with pics to proof it). It was at a Las Vegas held GameCrazy convention. See a cropped pic below, clearly showing the ability to base jump (as per hinted yesterday).


Here are the original mission details as posted by WWKD05:
Mission #1:

Playing as Luis i got into this small helicopter equipped with a machine gun turret and rpg launcher with infinite ammo. Now the person running the demo skipped a bunch of the cutscenes and driving sequences by way of computer so i could only play the action and not see what the story was involved. But basically i took the helicopter of a big yacht in the middle of the ocean and flew towards the city, then i got a call from the owner of the yacht and he said to quickly come back and to destroy the yacht, it was under attack, so i flew the helicopter back to the yacht and began opening fire, now the helicopter is fun but a little difficult to manuever. i blew up the yacht and then had to destroy the remaining fleeing boats. i failed the mission but it was still fun.

edit: the helicopter WAS different than the normal attack helicopter, it was very small.

Mission #2:

again using the computer to immediatly skip all driving and cutscenes i started off high above algonquin in a helicopter with this guy named Tamir. I had to jump out and parachute on to this building, yes parachute. It was extremely fun and even better than saints row 2 and even san andreas. I landed on the roof and then had to infiltrate the building and kill a bunch of people. it was fun and hard and i had 3 new weapons, a hand held maching gun, its hard to explain but if you ever played goldeneye for n64 it looked alot like the rcp-90. a big like turret machine gun, and 2 i think satchel charges or mines, i didnt use them. I failed this mission too, but it was lots of fun parachuting an d using the new weapons.

[Dan]

http://media.gtanet.com/images/6189-gta-iv-ballad-of-gay-tony-screenshot.jpg

http://media.gtanet.com/images/6190-gta-iv-ballad-of-gay-tony-screenshot.jpg

http://media.gtanet.com/images/6191-gta-iv-ballad-of-gay-tony-screenshot.jpg

http://media.gtanet.com/images/6192-gta-iv-ballad-of-gay-tony-screenshot.jpg

[TH]

Looks nice, lots of explosions!

[Dan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QXo-ktJdYA

Some nice looking stuff there.

[TH]

Very nice, looks like the dancing game from SA might be back and some other things from the game!

[HH]

Join GSF ThierryHenry14!

[Sho]

Looks mad.

[TH]

Join GSF ThierryHenry14!

Come again?

[BarnDoor]

Looks great, but I'd hope stuff like parachuting, the new interaction with trains and the crane being destroyed were non-mission specific.

[Baddar]

I wonder if you'll have to blow the manager at some point? They could turn it into a minigame.

I'm quoting this from way back, but just saw it. :D

I think I like BarnDoor even more now.

If this is 360-exclusive, have R* confirmed whether or not PS3 will be getting any?

[Sho]

Way back they said it 36o exclusive fella.

[TH]

Doubt they'll do any DLC like TLAD+ TBOGT for the PS3 after this DLC.

[TH]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v640/Deyes/GTACrew/balladoxm5.jpg

EPIC!

[Dan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-dyX8LJeXA&feature=channel_page

I'm looking forward to this more than any other game out this year.

[TH]

Wow looks amazing can't wait, shame they had to save all the fun stuff for a DLC a year and a couple months after release.

[Baddar]

Wow looks amazing, shame they had to save all the fun stuff for a 360 DLC a year and a couple months after release.

Fixed, sadly. :(

[BarnDoor]

Thing is, at this stage it's impossible to tell what is cinematics, what is mission only, and - most importantly - what you can actually do during the non-mission parts of the game.

[Sho]

True say mate.

[Dan]

Sounds like one of Jin's acquaintances.

There's actually a gang on this called the Messina's. Mind = Blown.

[harley85]

whats the releasedate for ps3?
anyone knows it?
thx

[smudger2008]

Has anyone been playing the GTA add-ons? What do you think?

Thought the lost and damned was terrible, real grainy image quality spoiled it for me.