Sep 16 2009
Ballad of Gay Tony Everything GTA IV Should Have Been
I’m very excited for Grand Theft Auto IV’s upcoming DLC The Ballad of Gay Tony. Mostly because this is being planned to offer all the fun larger than life stuff that GTA IV just doesn’t. I almost lost the faith with Rockstar over GTA IV, because of the realism factor. Realism is all well and good, but I also like the fact that GTA games in the past haven’t taken themselves too seriously, affording you opportunities to do crazy things. GTA IV’s main storyline didn’t really feel that void that San Andreas had filled so well.
IV opted more for realism in almost every aspect of gameplay, and that was cool for a while, but I really like the GTA games of the past for their tongue-in-cheek view of the world. Something I’ve turned to the Saints Row games for in the wake of my boredom with GTA IV. But Ballad of Gay Tony is promising to remedy that, with plenty of awesome moments, the likes of which GTA fans like me have been missing.
Starting from the premise in which you take the shoes of Luis Lopez, in his bid to protect his employer Tony Prince from the hands of more than a few crooked gangsters. Promising to fill that skyscraper skydiving, tank street driving madness that Niko just didn’t partake.
So as this is being pumped up to be, Ballad of Gay Tony is everything I wanted GTA IV to deliver. Too bad it’s only a 12 hour jog through the GTA universe, like Lost and Damned before.
