Episodes From Liberty City and The Ballad of Gay Tony are out now, and some of the Rockstar North team have taken time to talk about some of the story and design choices that went into creating the two action-packed episodes that conclude the Grand Theft Auto IV storyline.
At NowGamer, Senior Level Designer Neil Ferguson discusses the inspirations behind Liberty City's nightclubs, and how a focus on nightlife opened up new gameplay opportunities.
"We were drawing from many different eras of New York nightlife, from the crazy days of disco in the late-Seventies and early-Eighties up to the celebrity-obsessed, super-exclusive clubs of today," explains Neil.
Read the full interview here.
Over at CVG, Associate Producer at Rockstar North, Imran Sarwar pulls back the curtain on the “Impossible Trinity” - the interweaving stories of protagonists Niko Bellic, Johnny Klebitz and Luis Lopez.
Why these three characters? How long were the episodes in planning? These things and more are discussed in this revealing interview...
"Anyone who's played The Lost and Damned ... can tell you that the interactions Niko has with Johnny significantly change your understanding of Niko's role in Liberty City. He's never as safe or in control as he thought he was. We wanted to provide that sense that there is always something happening on a deeper level than what's revealed to the player."
For the full interview, have a read here.
By the way, Why did the Playstation 3 version of GTA IV have the impossible trinity trophy? :P
The sooner you announce it, the sooner we can love you more.
We are getting bored of waiting for the inevitable.
-PS3 fans.
;)
Can you guys have a patch for Gta Ballad Of Gay Tony because people already modding the game and cheating. have a patch that percent cheating and modding and block bypassing.
Have a patch for freezing too
and graphics go up little too.
If want a download content to come to ps3 tell Sony to pay rockstar games 30 million dollars.
Why dont you stop whining about cheaters, And go ask Microsoft to make a system that cant be hacked...
(Just giving you a taste of your own medicine)
Last I checked the graphics were much better. You need to change your settings. Max out saturation to get the full color of the graphics. If that doesn't work then either your eye sight is bad or your TV is bad. And the modding thing is old. It's Microsoft's fault cause they allowed the 360's to connect to the PC's. R* already tried to patch it and people still find a way around it. Just let the modders be. They're just making themselves look bad by modding. Means they have no skill and have no balls to play the game(s) straight up.
@ Omega0
No, it's not true. Yall won't be getting it. Sony didn't want to pay before so why would they want to pay now??? Microsoft will make them pay more money than what they gave R*. Yall just chose the wrong system to own. If you have both systems then you chose the wrong version of GTA 4 when it was known before the game came out.
Announce it already, Rockstar...
R* confirmed that DLC not come to PS3, but about PC no one word...so chance is.
Sry for english
Sad......> 。
But I think we'll see those exclusive stuff soon on another platform... maybe even the Wii...
You have your head up your ass dude. Go back to TBoGT site and scroll down past the videos to look at the cover of Episodes From Liberty City. It still has the exclusive tag on it.
-PS3 FAN
But if there is no news within the next couple months about it I would say it wont be coming.
There seems to be alot of hints towards it being timed...who knows though.
I can almost certainly promise you this will be on the PS3 and PC.
Microsoft paid for exclusive DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT. NOT a stand alone game.
EFLC is a STAND ALONE game that does NOT require GTA IV and doesn't even come with GTA IV music.
You can ONLY download it as an ADD ON tp GTA IV from microsoft, nowhere else. But EFLC is NOT an add on to GTA IV - it is a STAND ALONE GAME.
It is NOT dlc when it is pressed as a disc thus it is NOT exclusive.
Remember my name, I will tell you way more than worthless video game news.
@the actual post/interview:
You people are geniuses. I know where you are going with this and I wish I was a part of your campaign. Congratulations R*N, you are the future. See you in Vice City.