TBOGT 's Luis Lopez operates from a different perspective. As the missions get more and more deranged - the time I lured a police convoy through a petrol station purely to blow it up springs particularly to mind - his bewildered but bullish approach to life is easy to get behind. Johnny's worldview syncs up nicely with the jobs the player is given. Chucking The Lost's chapter boss Billy back into the city sets off a confrontation between Johnny's practicality and Billy's heroin-influenced thoughtprocesses. The motivation for joining a gang like The Lost - a tendency to see the outside world as a cruel joke - is particularly apt in Liberty City: a place where that assumption is entirely correct. Johnny is given licence to smash, taking deadbeats and posers out with the uncontained rage of a man expected to shoot police helicopters out of the sky with automatic shotguns on a daily basis. GTA IV 's Niko cameos, which helps tie the stories together, but also serves to highlight his relative drabness as a character. Luis Lopez, protagonist of The Ballad of Gay Tony, has a stint in jail to lend him an authoritative air. The Lost and Damned 's Johnny Klebitz is the sensible deputy commander of biker gang The Lost, but still embodies the kind of nihilism that enables GTA 's brand of pissabout mayhem. Our new heroes were born there, and they know it inside out without having to slowly unlock access to its three islands.
They're already set up with a supporting cast and an existing set of values, and as such are free to get stuck into the minutiae of the city. The protagonists in the Episodes ' are free from the drudgery of forging a new identity in Liberty City, and the obligation of wasting time with new friends. GTA IV was po-faced, plonking you in the shabby shoes of a shabby man and making you live a shabby life. Unlike the drugs almost every character in both of these stories snorts, smokes, or injects, EFLC 's ingredients are uncut: get a habit, and you're mainlining bike gang shootouts, helicopter-jackings and explosions at every juncture.įortunately, the game is all the better for it. The two tales are presented without mixer, without the dull filler that made GTA IV look more like an astounding technological achievement and less like a world you wanted to live in. These Episodes - both The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony - are Grand Theft Auto served neat.
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