Rockstar Games made gamers run a mile for Grand Theft Auto IV's first downloadable episode The Lost & Damned which claimed to have broken sales records. The Lost & Damned DLC episode was available to download at $20 (Rs. 960 approx.) on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace. The second episode set in realms of GTA IV is dubbed as The Ballad of Gay Tony and first screenshots of the same were showed off.
Rockstar will release this episode on Oct. 29 at Xbox LIVE for $19.99 (Rs. 960 approx.) or 1600 Microsoft Points. This download requires Xbox LIVE membership and Grand Theft Auto IV copy installed to play it.
Luis Lopez is the main character of this episode. He is a hoodlum and also the assistant to Tony Prince aka "Gay Tony", a legendary nightclub entrepreneur, The Ballad of Gay Tony adds more glitz, grime and guns to the world of the Liberty City in the Vice City style. Lopez will struggle 'with 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'. Sam Houser, Rockstar Games founder, said that gamers can expect "focus on high-end night life".
Rockstar also announced that it will release both the episodes The Lost & Damned as well as The Ballad of Gay Tony on a single disc titled - Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City. This disc will be priced at $39.99 (Rs. 1,900 approx.), which is as much as the price of both the downloadable content together. GTA: Episodes from Liberty City would be playable separately and won't require GTV IV game copy to play it.
This looks like an interesting propaganda of the Game developers to publish one big world in game and then release episodes related to the events taking place in the larger world. As the name clearly suggests, this notorious game is bound to have something controversial.
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