GTA IV: The Lost and Damned (Out Now; £14)

Last edited by KK on Wed Feb 18, 2009 4:18 pm, edited 5 times in total.

Release date: Tuesday 17th February 2009 at 8am, exclusive to Xbox 360
Price: 1600 points (£13.60)
File Size: Strong rumour is 2gb.
Website: http://www.rockstargames.com/thelostanddamned/

Story

Johnny is a veteran member of The Lost, a notorious biker gang. Johnny has been creating business opportunities for The Lost in Liberty City, but his first loyalty must be to the patch he wears on his back and to Billy Grey, the club's President. However, when Billy returns from rehab hell-bent on bloodshed and debauchery, Johnny finds himself in the middle of a vicious turf war with rival gangs for control of a city torn apart by violence and corruption. Can the brotherhood survive?

Info and whats new

It will take between 10 and 20 hours to complete the main storyline.
Some missions can be restarted at halfway points.
There are NO additions to the Liberty City map.
There will be more buildings with interiors, mostly linked to new missions.
Bike handling has been tweaked so it's harder to be knocked off.
New Multiplayer modes
New Side-missions
New Music
New Weapons
New Vehicles
New Achievements

Trailers

Screenshots

http://www.rockstargames.com/thelostand ... creenshots

Reviews

Not out yet.

Single Player Previews

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/grand ... d-hands-on
http://uk.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/g ... id=6203484
http://uk.xboxlive.ign.com/articles/947/947267p1.html
http://www.gamesradar.com/xbox360/grand ... 4323586065

New Multiplayer modes, these will feature new character models along with the new weapons and vehicles from The Lost and Damned.

Mulitiplayer previews

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/gtaiv ... d-hands-on
http://uk.xboxlive.ign.com/articles/953/953076p1.html

New Side missions

New Music

New Weapons

New Vehicles

New Achievements

(A big thank you to Monkey Man for putting this lot together)

Turning GTA into a zombie outbreak = win. I so hope the rumours turnout to be true about this one

KKLEIN wrote:
Eurogamer.net wrote:Rockstar bigwig Dan Houser has said he doesn't know when the downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto IV on Xbox 360 will be released.

In an interview with Variety, Houser was asked whether the DLC will be here by the end of 2008. He replied, "I'm not sure. It's going well, but we don't know a date.

"We hope to be announcing that in the next few weeks," Houser continued. "We're still figuring out a few things. We're more focused on quality than dates, always have been. But the development is going really good. It's shaping up to be something we're very proud of. That was our goal."

Don't get too excited, though - Rockstar wouldn't want you to be disappointed when the DLC finally gets here.

"We want to give people a rough idea so their expectations are roughly in line," said Houser. "We don't want them to imagine it's this enormous thing that it can never be."

It's new territory, the Rockstar bossman went on to explain, and not just for Rockstar. "No one ever game out with major DLC for a major game like this before... We're making it up a little bit as we go along."

Microsoft can't be happy to learn the DLC might not be out until 2009. Back in September the company was promising it would be available "this autumn", and that Xbox 360 would be "the only console with new Grand Theft Auto IV content available this Christmas". Wonder if they kept that receipt.

Exclusive, eh? More like Elusive.

Will anyone actually care by the time this thing comes out?

360 owners will.

It is getting to the point where I will have long traded this in for something else.

This was one of the factors that made me choose the 360 over the PS3. Don't let me down Rockstar.

F-Heonix wrote:Turning GTA into a zombie outbreak = win. I so hope the rumours turnout to be true about this one

This.

Having not heard anything for month I think this story should actually read 'Exclusive GTA IV DLC may be out this year'.

Anyway if its out in December, great (could be a good Christmas release). If we have to wait till Jan or Feb 2009, still great.

I'd rather them get it right than rush it out in time for Christmas.

Oh man, if it's taking this long, it's going to be epic. I'm guessing, we're gonna be getting Vice City. :mrgreen:

We are so going to be let down :lol:

This is why I don't really get into DLC that often. When it comes out a long period after the original release you end up being finished with the game and no longer care that much.

Eurogamer.net wrote:"We're making it up a little bit as we go along."

That excites and discourages in equal measure. It really could be something utterly fantastic, bordering on revolution. Alternatively, their ignorance in developing DLC may end up to be disasterous, with the content being an utter load.
No rush for it, though.

Eurogamer.net wrote:It's new territory, the Rockstar bossman went on to explain,

Now if the above could be taken literally...

I'll care, if it's worth buying. The wait will be worth it if the DLC is substantial enough and the extended development time and huge sums of money involved suggest it might be fairly large.

Microsofts biggest gaffe so far I'd say. The lack of a backlash either shows we're all 360 fanboys, or we don't really care about DLC.

abcd wrote:
KKLEIN wrote:
Eurogamer.net wrote:Rockstar bigwig Dan Houser has said he doesn't know when the downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto IV on Xbox 360 will be released.

In an interview with Variety, Houser was asked whether the DLC will be here by the end of 2008. He replied, "I'm not sure. It's going well, but we don't know a date.

"We hope to be announcing that in the next few weeks," Houser continued. "We're still figuring out a few things. We're more focused on quality than dates, always have been. But the development is going really good. It's shaping up to be something we're very proud of. That was our goal."

Don't get too excited, though - Rockstar wouldn't want you to be disappointed when the DLC finally gets here.

"We want to give people a rough idea so their expectations are roughly in line," said Houser. "We don't want them to imagine it's this enormous thing that it can never be."

It's new territory, the Rockstar bossman went on to explain, and not just for Rockstar. "No one ever game out with major DLC for a major game like this before... We're making it up a little bit as we go along."

Microsoft can't be happy to learn the DLC might not be out until 2009. Back in September the company was promising it would be available "this autumn", and that Xbox 360 would be "the only console with new Grand Theft Auto IV content available this Christmas". Wonder if they kept that receipt.

Exclusive, eh? More like Elusive.

Will anyone actually care by the time this thing comes out?

360 owners will.

I'm not so sure anymore.

I, like everyone else, was majorly hyped for this and I was gutted to be missing out on DLC. Now I don't even care about it as the missions in the game were hardly interesting. I've yet to complete that final mission, it's not like I can't. I just couldn't be arsed.

Saints Row 2 does all the stuff that I really wanted in a GTA expansion pack - more side missions, activities, customisation etc, so I just can't be arsed with this now.

Kinda guessed this when they didn't show anything at E3 or even mention it.

Cropolite wrote:
abcd wrote:
KKLEIN wrote:
Eurogamer.net wrote:Rockstar bigwig Dan Houser has said he doesn't know when the downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto IV on Xbox 360 will be released.

In an interview with Variety, Houser was asked whether the DLC will be here by the end of 2008. He replied, "I'm not sure. It's going well, but we don't know a date.

"We hope to be announcing that in the next few weeks," Houser continued. "We're still figuring out a few things. We're more focused on quality than dates, always have been. But the development is going really good. It's shaping up to be something we're very proud of. That was our goal."

Don't get too excited, though - Rockstar wouldn't want you to be disappointed when the DLC finally gets here.

"We want to give people a rough idea so their expectations are roughly in line," said Houser. "We don't want them to imagine it's this enormous thing that it can never be."

It's new territory, the Rockstar bossman went on to explain, and not just for Rockstar. "No one ever game out with major DLC for a major game like this before... We're making it up a little bit as we go along."

Microsoft can't be happy to learn the DLC might not be out until 2009. Back in September the company was promising it would be available "this autumn", and that Xbox 360 would be "the only console with new Grand Theft Auto IV content available this Christmas". Wonder if they kept that receipt.

Exclusive, eh? More like Elusive.

Will anyone actually care by the time this thing comes out?

360 owners will.
I'm not so sure anymore.

I, like everyone else, was majorly hyped for this and I was gutted to be missing out on DLC. Now I don't even care about it as the missions in the game were hardly interesting. I've yet to complete that final mission, it's not like I can't. I just couldn't be arsed.

I wouldn't say someone who didn't even enjoy the actual game is best placed to answer that question. :fp:

I'm a 360 owner, I enjoyed GTA IV a hell of a lot, I'm looking forward to the DLC.

why the strawberry float don't they just give us some concrete details about the DLC? Why all the secrecy?

Drunken_Master wrote:why the strawberry float don't they just give us some concrete details about the DLC? Why all the secrecy?

That seems to be the norm for Rockstar and the GTA Series.

Anyways, this news doesn't really bother me, I still need to finish the game - haven't played it for ages.

How long does it take to make 3 new costumes and a pair of shoes

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