Fansites Get The First Gay Tony Screens, And They’re Fabulous

@GoonerVance: But part of the humor of the game is the spoof adds. And IMO, it is all done so well that it immerses you into the world even more. "Sprunk", "Cluckin' Bell", etc. Even the car names. It's all undoubtedly GTA. If we saw "Sprite" and "Taco Bell" people would all be up in arms that Rockstar sold out for product placement.

DJ Magneto

What are you talking about?

@behemothjackal: Well I could say the same thing, but the game just drags on and on, not to mention it got quite boring and tiring towards the end.

*cough*vehiclesections*cough*

WE NEED MORE VEHICLES.
a parachute would also be nice.

@Mr.Wilson: i cant tell if you're being sarcastic or not.

Is 'Gay' his first name, nickname or title or is he actually a gay?

panikt

Hmm, so you guys are telling me the less popular console is getting a DLC that looks like it's the boomfest I'd love to have in my copy of the game, and it's being sold under a title that'll probably make most the ignorant gamers steer clear of it....
Is it just me, or does Rockstar seem to be trying to cause trouble to Microsoft as well as Sony now?

Mr.Wilson

@mikekearn just found this feature: Oi!! Call of Duty 4 had indestructible trees too, and I don't see anyone getting all indignant about Modern Warfare.

GoonerVance

I always thought Liberty City would be the perfect place to have real world advertisements. Just load a little 2 second packet with new Ads every two or so weeks and wala more immersion and more of a living, breathing city that seems current.

GoonerVance

@Alex_Mexico: Right analog stick is to control the camera...

@Alex_Mexico:

I'm not usually one to judge, but seriously L2P. The controls were great, and the game is easily beaten in less than 30 hours.

I've invested 36 hours in GTA4 since I bought it back in April 2008 and Im only a little over 50% into the game. So no, Im not really excited about this DLC since I cant bring myself to finish the original (long as hell) game.

Also, whats up with the fucking controls on that game? I cant tell you how many times Ive dies do to poor camera while driving and running trying to find cover.

Really be nice to see this come to the ps3 since I didn't get this for my xbox360. This is actually the only exclusive I have been disappointed I didn't get gta4 for the xbox.

@ConfusedCartman:

Ha. I guess that's what it comes down to, and I suppose as they say any press is good press, so the articles about banning openly gay gamers is still attention to the Live service.

I just find it an amusing contradiction. I'm not gay and none of the gay folks I know play Xbox anyway, so I have no personal stake in the matter.

jcb231

Ugh.

Steven Harris

@Pious_Augustus: I'll take it you aren't over the age of 12 based on your comment. This DLC has nothing at all to do with gay rights or GLADD; it just so happens that one of the main characters in GTA IV is gay. And Table Tennis was nothing more than a RAGE Engine test so... fail.

Steven Harris

@John-irl: You got a point. But, if they are, I need to know how to have the same graphics here, because even running in a properly set and "tuned" Samsung Full HD 52" (on HDMI) I can't remotely have graphics as beautiful as those. Maybe they are just illustrations and not real "in game" screenshots?

Rod_Z

@shufflemoomin:

i'm broke. :(

Even if I am still sad about this Xbox exclusive. I do love some GTA. I have been playing Red Faction and it makes me want to play GTA.I realize that its the style over the gameplay that I like. Hope this and the Lost come to PS3 soon.

@ConfusedCartman: Zing!

@Pious_Augustus: Lol @ guy that doesn't know that the Table Tennis game was a test for their engine.

Are all those explosions possible? I mean, Whenever I try rampaging in GTA IV (PS3 version), the frame rate drops too low. I wonder if they are tweaking stuff up along with all these DLCs.

Or maybe.. they're part of cutscenes.. controlled to get good framerate (less calculations)

@tunedwn15: Yeah, and those indestructible trees were great. Er, wait-

@Lazarus_Ledd: You have a really colorful copy of Prototype. Can I borrow it? All the brown and gray in mine makes my eyes hurt after a while. The red helps, though.

@haran_elessar: You DO play as the guy on top of the train.

SexeiAlexy

@Pious_Augustus: Good. Morons don't deserve to play good games.

SexeiAlexy

This first association to me was...Prototype?!?! =D

@John-irl: A rep on the net? Where? Every article I have read has always had a link direct to the source at the bottom of the post.

SKYDIVING

joeloliol

@Red Dustpan: Genius. Pure genius.

@Pious_Augustus: What bloody age are you?

shufflemoomin

@Akmed: What's wrong with exclusives? No one's stopping you owning both consoles, especially when they've both just had a price drop.

shufflemoomin

I see a huge difference. The graphics look nothing like that on the console versions. I wish they did.

shufflemoomin

@Boom-Chicka-Ah: Here to Create a Star Commenter Empire: LOL! rofl.

I say, that helicopter... LOOKS LIKE A ROFLCOPTER! no end punctuation

Can I have a star now?

homosexual anthony

@Ryūkot: Wow, that is tasteless.

searanox

@TookiGuy: Luis something. He's the guy in the parts Dragonis said.

@mikhailian: That or he didn't know the name of the type of helicopter it is. It's an AH-6 little bird. At least I think it is.

K1NG EV1L

Following up to what many people said about their disappointment at GTA IV: I was a bit underwhelmed by the gameplay itself, but overwhelmed by the dynamic physics and attention to detail, especially for a game that size. It was a big step forward in gaming. This includes being able to take cover anywhere and walking down each step. Water is the best I've seen in a game, and it responds to the weather system in the game. I loved the depth of the characters more than the story, I will admit. I enjoyed TLAD more than the original game.

tunedwn15

@John-irl: I agree with you re: the original GTAIV. I am _not_ one of the game's fans, and I feel it's far inferior to its predecessors.

However, bored on a weekend and in a gaming lull, I picked up the Lost and Damned DLC shortly after release. And I have to admit, I really enjoyed it. Perhaps it's because the weakness of IV's story was, in part, its length: it fell apart in the 3rd act as a function partially of too many characters and too many plot points.

As a more focused, themed storyline, the GTAIV style of storytelling actually functions MUCH better as a DLC. So it's not worth discounting out of hand.

All of this is assuming you've played Saints Row 2 in coop already, of course. Because if not, there's no reason to play anything else, ever, until you've remedied that.

mwoody

@Frank: lol at mercs2 reference

mikhailian

@Modus_Operandi: -cough-

Soyerzzz

looks AWESOME. Nice explosions...and a yacht!

rockstar just take my points now...

radster

@Pious_Augustus: who cares if there are gay characters in it...its a rockstar gta dlc...end of story

radster

@Sabbatai: Emm..nope, i meant Kotaku, they seem to have a bit of a rep on the net for not citing, especially sources on pics they use.

@John-irl: Yeah, providing a link to the site that contains the pictures and only rarely forgetting to cite a source isn't like Kotaku at all.... nor is it like Kotaku to remedy this 99% of those rare cases after a reader mentions it.

/sarcasm

I think you meant to say IGN instead of Kotaku.

Sabbatai

@Pious_Augustus: You sir are an idiot. This isn't based on GLADD or gay rights. The owner of the night club happens to be gay. WTF is your problem?!

@nerdwa: Id be more keen to see them expand on the city, or to some new area. Story expansions just seems like a cash in on an existing game. (i know story episodes aren't free to make, but seem like a waited opportunity to expand the game)

@John-irl: Like make use of the airport and fly to San Andres. One of the billboards advertises that.

It may be just me but the story in gta:4 a bit...shit. So more story based content seems pointless to me, I'd like to see rockstar expand on the game properly rather than just extra chapters.

@Rod_Z: Surely these are 360 graphics, since this is only coming out on 360...?

Fuck yeah Universal Petroleum gun-copter.

@iRobot Zombie: Also unusual for kotaku to say where they got them instead of claiming them..

@jcb231: When's the last time a self-professed gay gamer made Microsoft any money?

I enjoy how the guy with Pious in his title isn't gonna buy the game "cuz you have to go gay". What a dumb shit. Obviously he doesn't understand that the character you play as has nothing to do with sexual preference.

Either way these screens are looking amazing, i think Rockstar has put alot of good work into this DLC. I hope the story is even longer than the L&D one.

Jarvgrimr

@ToastyUterus:

we won't know til it comes out, but i think i see rockets on the bottom of it, and it would make more sense too. considering the Annihilator took a while to blow up a car.

also, the Uzi looks golden.

i got a PS3 so it doesn't matter. Rockstar had to be gay and make it exclusive.

@WhatTheFrag: If only Jem and the Holograms were in GTAIV. It would in fact be truly, truly outrageous.

Mastrix

@JoJitsu4u: Yeah the original chopper looked more like an Apache.

KaneBaker

@ThreeOneFive: Check your local Game Crazy (if you have one...). They just dropped the price of any remaining collector's editions to $25.

Woden501

I love it, i love it that Fansites get a break from Rockstar. its not often you see a big news site saying, i found these breaking images, hot off the press, from a Fansite. Brilliant! And, its nice of Kotaku to say where they got them from instead of claiming them.

They make it look like as if it was GTA5 or somethin.... >_>

@Akmed: i think the explosions are just from cars blowing up, not rockets

@jporter313: yes, i still remeber that garage explosion you do for faustin the first of its kinda near the beginning of the game, amazing.

@TrIp13G: haha I just thought the patties were really thick

this actually looks cool.

i like the new chopper, it has rockets on it!

too bad it's exclusive.. freakin gay.

@Gaunt: yeah, but that's for sure a new chopper. Those are for sure missile pods.

d3ath_fly

The explosion in that first shot looks phenomenal.

Were the explosions in vanilla GTA4 that good?

jporter313

wOw! They are fabulous! Owen, you are so guilty for sharing such FABULOUS screens! You hear me?! GUILLLLLTTTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY......

@Pious_Augustus: Agreed.

But not just that.
I'm not buying it because GTA IV was a garbage game in comparison to its predecessors.

Gay Tony for some bizarre reason (most likely due to the first image of the lady in pink, from an article announcing the release date) makes me think of Jem and her 'Truly Truly Outrageous' intro.

WhatTheFrag

I won't be buying it, thats for sure.

This whole we got to go gay is annoying. Screw GLADD. This is like when Rockstar made a Table Tennis game because of the Hot Coffee scandal

Pious_Augustus

I'm looking forward to this, but still think its funny that MS is allowing an expansion called "The Ballad of Gay Tony" while at the same time banning gamers that refer to themselves as gay.

jcb231

@Orionsaint:

Oh yeah, I keep forgetting he's hispanic.

To bad it is exclusive.

@Rohit: Shit, you mean TLaD wasn't?! I bought the PC version a month ago after selling my 360 copy a few months prior. I have to say it looks so much better than its console counterpart, but if the DLC isn't available then I might just go back and buy a used copy. :/

Gay. So gay.

Modus_Operandi

I was sorry to hear that it was banned from XBOX Live because it was gay.

UsernameOfTheDead

I forgot how good this game could look. The third shot with the guy on top of the train looks like great fun. I guess the player we'll be on the chopper but it'd be great to be the one on top of the train, although tech wise that is much harder.

@Boom-Chicka-Ah: Here to Create a Star Commenter Empire: It's more like "cheese-patty-patty-cheese-patty-patty-ch...."

It's no Bacon Explosion, but it'll clog up a heart good all the same.

Is he related to CJ?

I just hope Tony is a chick and she's gay.

This makes me want to finish killing all of those flying rats.

TheNthDegree

Hope the DLC comes to PC one day.

@Darlan: The improved bike handling was awesome, and the gang mechanic was well implemented, but yeah the missions still suffer from that sameness feeling that this genre can't seem to shake off. Liberty City is just too awesome though, and I can't wait to have another excuse to roam its streets again.

@SuperTongue: The helos in these screens look more like one of the many variants of the OH-6, or "Little Bird".

That is to say in, "the real world." In game the helo in the first two screens was not available at the airport. There is a beefier attack helicopter-that I recall at least having machine guns-available there.

JoJitsu4u

The day it releases, MS's "gay censor" will make it undownloadable. :)

Covenant

@TookiGuy: I know it by the name Littlebird. And no OP, it's not in GTA IV. There are Blackhawks with measely guns (which were beefed up in TL&D), but nothing like that Littlebird covered with rocket pods.

Can't wait :)

Footage of the protagonist in action.

@SuperTongue: Oh, didn't notice that. It's a "Little Bird", I believe? Damn, I spent my childhood playing too many war games.

It shall be bought.

Trowble (XBL/PSN)

@TookiGuy: Luis Fernando Lopez, the latino who steals the diamonds, is a hostage at the bank and who comes to collect Gracie.

SexeiAlexy

@TookiGuy: Erm, well the huge one is in GTAIV, but I don't believe the one in the top screen is. Looks much smaller as compared to the regular one.

@ddhboy: Skydiving? Seriously? That's the biggest thing I miss in GTA. Awesome.

@thesircuddles: The choppers found at the Airport had guns.

Gaunt

@thesircuddles: No, they were there. Hard to come by, except in multiplayer(EUGH), you can find a couple in the airport.

The parachute is back!

And really, did you miss the big new yacht?

SexeiAlexy

The first three screens wreak of all sorts of awesome.

Or did I miss the attack choppers in the original GTA:IV?

@hot_heart: I wish I could star you for that you clever, beautiful man.

@TookiGuy:
I forget his name, but the main character is seen at least twice in GTAIV. He's the guy in the bank that tells the other guy not to do anything, and he's also the one who jumps in on the diamond deal in the museum.

The newsletter Rockstar sent out shows screens from the trailer being released Tuesday. it seems that they're bring back sky diving from San Andreas. I'm guessing that Luis is going to be doing some missions for UL Paper and that's what's up with the new helicopter.

ddhboy

I wish my Xbox or PS3 could show such nice graphics. At least, they could have an option to increase image resolution if plugged to a LCD Monitor.

The same thing happens every time I see images of Fallout 3 for PC. The graphics are so much better than they are on my 360... :-(

Rod_Z

Gay Tony is angry.

Can't wait to play more GTA IV

So finally, it's gay Tony that blows up the boat in the end of Saint Rows... wait am I confonding the 2 titles here ?

Still, the DLC looks cool and if it is the same price than the LaD one, it is a day-0 buy.

slimky

@Boom-Chicka-Ah: Here to Create a Star Commenter Empire: And that's the advantage of not loading one's game with real world advertising; being able to parody everything.

Etheris escapes via Town Portal

Not. Gay. Enough.

@NumberOfIcarus: An inb4 by any other name, wouldst smell as lame.

mintycrys is HOT for Bayonetta

@Darlan: The same? Yeah, you could say they're pretty homo. =p

@Boom-Chicka-Ah: Here to Create a Star Commenter Empire: If you really look at it though, there's eight of them. Holy shit.

Automatic day one purchase.

bluedeviltron

Looks good to me. The third shot in particular makes it look like some big shit is going down. Can't wait.

kylenalepa

Who's the main character, though?

I deleted my profile, unfortunately. Wish there was a way to attatch the save files to another account.
Oh well.

Also, I don't get how THIS is called overrated, though. Yeah, I get it with Halo, FFVII, but THIS?
I don't think so.

PS - I can't believe the explosions made me want to buy this.

New heli, with missiles!!! YEAH!

Its gay!!!

ramz888

What's different?

Excessive use of smoke and fire? There better not be a 1000 gallon gasoline explosion in this DLC.

Lol at the Heart Stopper AD with the cheese burger with like 4 patties in between the bun.

As much as critics lauded the value of The Lost and the Damned, I found myself really disappointed to how little was actually added to the game (as in, interactive parts) itself. The new story and cut scenes were cool, but I was bored to tears with the actual missions because I'd already done the same thing a billion times in the main game.

It's much too early to make a judgment call, but these screenshots look an awful lot like the same deal.

Darlan

I'm loving the look of that tiny attack chopper.

Yikes. That all looks SUPER GAY.

dnafarfan