Today’s newly announced Ballad of Gay Tony episode for Grand Theft Auto IV was only half of Rockstar’s GTA news. The other half could usher in a new approach to downloadable content.
Rockstar announced that the fall-slated Ballad of Gay Tony and the February-released GTA IV episode The Lost and Damned will be released as a complication disc for the Xbox 360.
The disc, entitled, Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City, will retail for $US39.99.
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 $US39.99 and will not require a copy of the original Grand Theft Auto IV to play.
By contrast, the downloadable versions of the episodes will require that gamers own a copy of GTA IV. Requiring that players own the core game has been the tradition for post-release DLC of major console games. Rockstar’s announcement today signals is the first prominent experiment with a second approach, that treats add-on content as a standalone expansion playable on its own.
Weresmurf
May 27, 2009 at 8:35 AM
LOVING THE TITLE!!!!!! Awesome Rockstar! LOVE it!!! lol!
Report PermalinkBrewer74
May 27, 2009 at 11:07 AM
What about this DLC coming to the PC version? I really prefer the experience on the PC, and these episodes seem to be pretty decent. Any news on these ever coming to PC?
Report PermalinkChristophomicus
May 27, 2009 at 12:41 PM
This is good news for me; I’d rather not use up all the space on my shitty little 20 gig hard drive. Inbetween Fallout 3, Rock Band 1/2 and GTA, I’m stretched fairly thin as is!
Bit of a jip that I’ll have to pay more for Lost and Damned when I already have it, but I s’pose you can’t win ‘em all.
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