GTA: The Ballad of Gay Tony coming this fall
GTA goes gay for the holidays.
(Credit: Rockstar Games)This isn't an April Fool's gag. The next installment of Grand Theft Auto is on its way, and like The Lost and Damned and Chinatown Wars, it's still set in the massive world of GTA IV. Rockstar has unleashed a surprise announcement with The Ballad of Gay Tony coming this fall for $19.99, or 1600 Microsoft Points.
The character in focus this time is Luis Lopez, an assistant to Gay Tony, or Tony Prince, Liberty City's premier nightclub entrepreneur. The glitz-addled world could be a little dose of Vice City-style mayhem. According to Rockstar Games founder Sam Houser, expect a "focus on high-end night life." And, according to the press release, expect "uncertainty about who is real and who is fake in a world in which everyone has a price."
Also announced was the release of both The Lost and Damned and Gay Tony episodes in a single standalone disc-based game called Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City. At $39.99, it will cost the same as both DLC (downloadable content) episodes, plus it will have a physical disc and box, and will not require GTA IV to dig into its seedy pleasures.
Together, those almost add up to a GTA IV sequel. Perhaps this really is the future of game publishing: build a world once and populate it many times over. On a side note, we wonder if this bit of pre-E3 info is a sign of E309 to come. Will the lousy economy equal more DLC and less standalone content? We shall see soon enough.
Scott Stein, a New York Jets fan and CNET senior associate editor, has written about tech, entertainment, video games, and viral culture for outlets including Laptop, Wired, Maxim, Esquire Online, Asylum, and Men's Journal. He also appears on the Digital City podcast. In his spare time, you might see him performing improv in New York City (when he's not being a dad). 
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I agreed wholeheartedly!
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a GTA V or for the PS3 games to get any better 360 just took some of the flagship games for PS consoles (did you watch 360's E3 presentation at all). I am a huge fan of Sony except the PS consoles, the only reason they became so popular was because at the time all other mayor companies where in some sort of crisis and, well, Sony freeloaded all the Japanese audience, but they were never powerful nor innovative. Now with a true champion of video games technology/innovation, PS3 successors may never see the light of the day. Maybe abandoning Nintendo 64 was not such a good idea for Sony.
I suggest if you have a friend or know someone with an TLAD on their XBOX, give it a try and you might understand where I am coming from.
And I can't wait to hear what the new city will be once they release GTA V, there is tons of rumors and tons of speculation, yet nothing official, but I have my bets on either San Andreas or Vice City.
I think they should start gearing the game to where you can either create/customize your character or pick from the cast of a set storyline, then instead of doing a whole DLC for one character in the same city, I would create a whole new city with the continuation of whatever characters remain alive.
Hopefully it goes that way and they bring all the good features missing from San Andreas in GTA IV.
Your a ****** bag, did you really need to post a morinic comment like this? You are paying for anything you are interested in paying, so why do you make it sound like were getting the short end of the stick... You just sound bitter because you can't play the new episode. I already have Lost and the Dammed, so 20 bucks for this add-on is a really good price, I'm looking forward to it for sure. I can't get over how stupid your comment is, for what's essentially an add on? LOL You make it seem like they are protraying it as something else than an add-on.. Bit ****** bag!
- by jdnihill October 28, 2009 4:03 AM PDT
- Been hanging out for a new DLC. So much so I tried to download it a day early. FFS
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