Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony Announced
Honest to god, you couldnt make this up.
Rockstar Games have announced the second DLC episodic expansion for the Xbox 360 version of Grand Theft Auto IV, called The Ballad of Gay Tony. It comes out in the Fall for 1600 MS points and is released side by side with a disc release called Episodes from Liberty City for the Xbox 360, which has this new episode as well as previous episode, The Lost and Damned and unlike when you download the expansions you need to have GTA IV to play them, this wont need GTA IV and will work standalone.
But download from Marketplace, you’ll need GTA IV.
The press release is after the jump, the news came as Take Two started their Q2 earnings conference call.
We’re not joking, we’re astonished.
Rockstar Games Announces Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony for Download on Xbox LIVE® and Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City Available on Disc for Xbox 360® this Fall
By: Business Wire
May. 26, 2009 04:01 PM
Rockstar Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), is proud to announce the fall release of both the second episode of Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony – exclusively for download on Xbox LIVE® online entertainment network, and Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, which will include both episode one The Lost and Damned, and episode two The Ballad of Gay Tony together on a single disc exclusively for Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.
“Liberty City is the most vibrant game world we’ve created yet. The episodic structure has allowed us to interweave stories, gameplay and atmosphere in a whole new way,” said Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games. “The team at Rockstar North have yet again surpassed themselves, and made something that is both epic and very innovative. This episode’s focus on high-end night life contrasts with the biker gangs portrayed in The Lost and Damned, whilst giving us a lot of new gameplay possibilities.”
Grand Theft Auto IV’s second downloadable episode, The Ballad of Gay Tony injects Liberty City with an overdose of guns, glitz, and grime. As Luis Lopez, part-time hoodlum and full-time assistant to legendary nightclub impresario Tony Prince (aka “Gay Tony”), 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.
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City delivers two games on one disc – the all-new episode The Ballad of Gay Tony and the first episode, The Lost and Damned – together on disc for the first time – for Xbox 360 for $39.99 and will not require a copy of the original Grand Theft Auto IV to play.
The Ballad of Gay Tony will release on Xbox LIVE this fall for $19.99 or 1600 MS points and requires players to have Grand Theft Auto IV for Xbox 360 and Xbox LIVE membership to download.
For more information, log onto www.rockstargames.com.
May 26, 2009 at 10:55 pm
For those of us basic XBox 360 owners who are “luddites” without harddrives and who prefer getting physical copies of the games, the announcement of “Episodes of Liberty City” is great news, not just for “The Ballad of Gay Tony” but also for “The Lost and the Damned”, which is something I had already written off as something I’d never get to play.
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