There’s no hindrance in not scoring well, but once the game is complete missions can be replayed via your mobile phone, letting you attempt to improve upon your previous score. Perhaps there will be an expected number of headshots, a time limit to finish within, and a maximum speed to have reached in a speedboat.
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You are scored after each completed mission, graded against a series of targets of which you are not aware before you begin. However, this time there’s a possible penalty for not completing them in one attempt.
Once again these missions are extremely well checkpointed, meaning the lengthy sequences need not be completely repeated to progress. These feature alongside Tony’s main mission thread, as well as other standalones here and there. There’s a brief (but peculiarly abandoned) story about Luis’s mother early on, alongside tales of the murderous Russian Ray Bulgarin, short-arse cretin Mori Kibbutz, and the previously mentioned loony, Yusuf Amir. Similarly to the original GTA IV, TBOGT has multiple mission paths open throughout. This isn’t the grey, washed-out world of Niko or Johnny. One particularly excellent shoot-out takes place in a funfair.
Later he’s leaping out of helicopters to grab people mid-air, taking part in land, sea and air races (all at once), and helping the ridiculous Dubaian, Yusuf Amir (voiced brilliantly by stand-up Omid Djalili), to steal a variety of unlikely (and sometimes massive) vehicles.
An early mission has Luis at a multi-storey driving range, aiming golf balls at a man strapped to a golf buggy on the grass below. However, this is contrasted by the circumstances he finds himself in, and the absolute lunatics he ends up working for. Tony is pissing his life and career away, his childhood friends are losers, his mother is a fool, and his job has become picking up the pieces after all of them. Luis is a calm guy, smart – too smart – and aware that he could be living a better life. Unlike Vice City, this continues Rockstar’s recent theme of avoiding the rather tedious “Hey, look at us! We’re committing crimes and banging hookers!” tone that undermined the previous games for me. But despite these apparently dark themes, it’s the most colourful and plain daft game since Vice City. Luis’s story sees him struggle to help Tony out of his mess, both by keeping back those who wish to claim their money, and by getting himself involved in even more murky areas of the city’s underworld. That his current boyfriend is keeping him well supplied in drugs isn’t helping, either. He’s sold his business to two different unsavoury groups, and has no idea how he’s going to get out of this mess. Gay Tony, nicknamed for not exactly complicated reasons, is in a lot of trouble. Luis Fernando Lopez is a business partner, bodyguard and muscle for Tony Prince, owner of two of Liberty City’s biggest nightclubs. The Ballad Of Gay Tony is by far the better of the two, but it’s here that this attempt to create other Niko Bellic-alike feels most conflicted.
When introducing yesterday’s The Lost And Damned WIT, I mentioned that I think a possible mistake made in these two excellent additional episodes for the GTA IV world was to repeat the downbeat, reluctant central character both times. Having played it from beginning to end, I feel rather equipped to let you know Wot I Think. Today it's the other half, The Ballad Of Gay Tony. Yesterday I told you wot I thought of the first half of the GTA IV: Episodes From Liberty City, The Lost And Damned.
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