Rockstar has just announced the next next episode of their Grand Theft Auto IV content, “The Ballad of Gay Tony” will be coming exclusively to Xbox 360 this fall.
Players will take on the role of Luis Lopez, a “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.” The episode will run you 1600 MS Points, or $19.99 when it does launch.
Also announced is a retail release called Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City which will feature the content from “The Lost and Damned” as well as “The Ballad of Gay Tony” on one disc for $39.99. This will be a standalone disc, and will not require Grand Theft Auto IV to play.
It’s already been confirmed that Rockstar doesn’t intend to attend E3 proper this week, but we’d be surprised if “Ballad of Gay Tony” didn’t make an appearance at Microsoft’s press conference next Monday. Rockstar is promising more info in the “coming weeks and months.”
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
New York, NY - May 26, 2009 - 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.
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3:11 PM on 05.26.2009
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Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Standalone disc, eh? Interesting.
Awesome news!
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I wonder if we're gonna be able to pick up man-whore and have violent sexual intercourse with him while beating him with a baseball bat.
I love Rockstar North >_>
But that's got to be the most angular and fugly title for a game I've ever seen. "The Ballad of" worked for "Ricky Bobby", because the name itself is ridiculous. Plus the title card? Come on. So NOT fabulous you guys. Seriously.
That said, there'd better be some Streisand, Britney, Madonna and Lady GaGa up in this piece. Just sayin'
Here comes the controversy.
Also, I'm surprised Microsoft didn't get them to hold off on the announcement till their E3 press conference.
but im pretty happy about the retail disc they're putting out. Too bad there's no GOTY edition like Fallout 3
....just....
....wow....
REALLY looking forward to the controversy train on this one. Good show, Rockstar.
I don't know if this is the most presumptuous thing I've ever seen, the best marketing campange ever, or both.
Campange? Like Champagne?
As in come into my suite, dear lady, and enjoy a fine multiplayer co-op campagne?
continental lolz
The Lost and the Damned was great, I'm going to get episodic content for GTA4 everytime, the single player is simply too good to miss.
PS: "The Ballad of Gay Tony". Best DLC name so far.
PPS: I was really hoping for an DLC with Irishmen,"A Four Leaf Clover and Blood". It would be awesome.
Obligitory: FAAAAAAAAABULOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUS!
Also, I think it's incredibly narrow-minded that people accuse everything GTA of being controversial for the sake of it.
They are almost as bad as Family Guy.