Grand Theft Auto IV -- It might feature crime and prostitutes.

also if i can be bothered with it will i need to have the original cause my bro broked it?

well it's available. can't help you with the other question though.

but yeah, surprised nobody has mentioned anything on here yet.

i. is available
ii. need the og disc
iii. I sold my copy so no chat from me
iv. ps3lol

hmmmm

really wasn't overly enamored with GTAIV yet still quite fancy playing this.

I say I wasn't overly enamored yet I finished it within about 3 days so obviously I didn't hate it or anything. Just that on reflection it wasn't quite what I had hoped for.

there's full frontal male nudity in this!

http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/JTHomeslice/there-s-full-frontal-nudity-in-gta-iv-lost-and-damned--121845.phtml

zomg

am dling this now. but my connection is slow. will get back to yzall tmrrw once its done.

xpost. PRICELESS.

anyone played this yet ?
I've also finished gtaiv although I thought it was at bit boring/repetitive after a while.
but it's been a long time and I'd be glad to have some more fun in liberty city.
is this supposed to be like the equivalent of a new island quantity of missions ?
you're not niko bellic this time, right ?

According to Gamespot, it's best if you have finished IV before you start L&D, because the storylines crossover. Yeah, you're not Niko.

I'm going to wait until I give up on Fallout before I try this.

okay, and this is important, but the choppers in lost & damned multiplayer shoot killer explosive ammo. once you get one you pretty much win - cue hilarious game last night, where every time i respawned i haired off towards heliport, only to get NAPALMED driving over the bridge.

are bikes really easier to drive than in gtaIV ? I am really bad at driving these (so the missions where you have no choice were a drag).

ha been playin thru this, ok so far, only felt compelled to post upon getting to the naked dude. do they need controversy that bad?

I'm kinda impressed by this so far. They really concentrated their development time on the storytelling and on creating cool scenarios. It has a different feel than GTA IV did, even though it uses the same map.

yeah, i'd agree. most missions include some little twist in the gameplay. and they're HARD! finally

v/o is really good too

I finished L&D. I think it was the most satisfying GTA experience I've had, maybe. One awesome mission after another, no babysitting, no taking dudes out to drink or to strip clubs ... just a bunch of well-orchestrated hyperviolent battles, and with well-written characters who never annoyed me.

hyperviolent battles doesn't sound good to me because the combat was never the heart of GTA games and is really not very good in GTA IV :(

the problem with combat is when combatants get too close to me, especially whilst still in hide mode, nico just fails to be able to respond to close range attacks without performing some random action.

Also on top of that is the horrendous frame rate slow down on the ps3 when there's more than 3 explosions on screen.

having said that i'm still having heaps of fun with this game even now, and last night i successfully stole and saved my first fbi car! i sneaked to the top of a chimney tower for a snipe, at the same time i blocked the bottom of the ladder off with a car so cops couldn't climb up. waited for an fbi to turn up, slid down the ladder and in a hail of angry gun fire off i went. a bit too excited i flipped the car and had to get in another car to nudge it upright again.

a bit too excited i flipped the car and had to get in another car to nudge it upright again.

I'd never think of doing that, I'd just be like "ah shit another car wasted" and go steal something else.

The next GTA incarnation needs a recovery service where you can phone some dude to pick up your trashed cars and fix them up and run up a tab for you.

i don't normally do it either but it was a rare fbi buffalo

san andreas had an impound section in some of the police stations, your last car would be saved there before your arrest. it was underground and i remember seeing a helicopter there on a few occasions lol.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=210301

some chat in the comments about what the second episode may contain... multiplayer on L&D is ace, though everyone seems to be V GOOD at it, thus making me feel like a n00b...

got this yesterday, 2000 xbl points cost me £17 and what I've got left after buying the game isn't really worth anything, so essentially I've just paid £17 for something a third the length of a normal game. Colour me stupid.

this was aiight, but it was http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/H45121a3549.jpg

It was longer than Halo 3 1p I think.

i hate on Halo.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7957863.stm

!ban dlc L&TD

I just got this last week. It is so good! Is it me or is this much easier than previous GTAs? I find I complete most missions first go and usually I am terrible at GTA. My last mission was that amazing warehouse shootout after Dmitri kidnapped Roman, the shooutouts are way more controlled and much more strategic.

Also been using the dating service, was pretty funny last night, I went on a date with "Lawchick" aka Kiki and it was going well, really felt we had a connection, then after we caught a nice show at the comedy club this random car came out of nowhere and ran her over, killing her! Oddly she emailed me a few days later saying she felt better and it wasn't my fault and she'd like to see me again.

My radio station is The Vibe. If anyone is still playing this please feel free to share your stories here.

Oddly she emailed me a few days later saying she felt better and it wasn't my fault and she'd like to see me again.

ha! robust programming, that

oh i'm still playing this, its the only ps3 game i keep coming back to.

three leaf clover seems to be quite a trial. i think you actually have to be good at the game to win this mission.

which mission is that?

the one with the bank job, and subsequent dramarama.

oh yeah that one's fuckin wild.

wanna know a cheap way to win it?

I did that first time, not being a bragging douche, but a lot of people I talked/read posts of on forums had trouble with it.

I did find this easier than I seem to remember finding older GTAs, although SA was fucking years ago so I'm not sure how true this is.

yes pls goole!

i got SA for xbla and the cars handle so easily its not really so much fun. i love the realistic physics of GTA4, even if it means the cars are (initially) harder to drive.

no initially about it for me, i was still shit at driving when I finished Lost and the Damned!

switch to 'behind the windshield' view if you can, is much easier, and funner too

yah i did the whole game driving 1st person. i never got used to the slightly-off-to-the-left 3rd person cameras

ok, that bank mission: 1st make sure you're all armored up and have plenty of the m16 ammo. grenades are handy too. for most of it there's no trick, you just have to shoot dudes in the head and keep moving etc. after you get into the subway and then "have to" come out again is the cheap part. the game wants you to jack a car and evade a 3-star wanted level, but you can just walk back down into the subway with your crew and jog north out of the flashing circle. it takes a while. once you get rid of the stars, come out at the nearest stop, hail a cab and go home.

GOOLE U R GENIUS

for the record, i got as far as leaving the subway, before cops mash up me wheels while i was trying to kiki my wanted level down, heavy sigh

that kiki sounds like trouble

chinatown wars is a gorgeous little game

for the record, i got as far as leaving the subway, before cops mash up me wheels while i was trying to kiki my wanted level down, heavy sigh

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The worst is when they shoot your tires. I always think, wow, why don't cops do that in real life more often?

Also, whenever I see Briggs bank security trucks leaving a real bank when I'm getting out of work, I think, wow, if only I had a rocket launcher and enough time to avoid the cops...

at the moment i'm enjoying standing in the baseball field on Bohan, and throwing grenades up onto the expressway above.

last night. a muthafucking pigeon

(9 to go)

you really get to see much more of the city with the in car view.

its the only way i drive now (though motorcycles are oddly vertigo inducing)

can't do the motherloving nightclub mission :( failed on it numerous times a while ago, keep going back, and keep fucking it up, lots of times failing right at the last.

steam is satan

Does the DLC in this add the new weapons and games to the original GTA game? Haven't finished it but would like new stuff.