Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
- Brings the interweaving Grand Theft Auto IV stories of Niko Bellic (main game), Johnny Klebitz (The Lost and Damned) and Luis Lopez (The Ballad of Gay Tony) to an explosive conclusion.
- Contains The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, on one disc. These were originally digital content releases for GTAIV that were unavailable to PC players.
- Both games are standalone releases that do not require the original Grand Theft Auto IV game, or an Internet connection for their single player campaigns. (multiplayer modes are online)
- Complete your Grand Theft Auto IV experience with powerful new weapons, vehicles, music, features and new mission types.
- Each episode contains both a single player campaign as well as a variety of online multiplayer modes specific to the storyline of each.
Get ready to experience the Liberty City of Grand Theft Auto IV on your PC like never before. Originally created as supplemental episodic content for Grand Theft Auto IV, but not available to players on the PC platform, Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City is now available to all pertinent platforms introducing new characters, new weapons, new online multiplayer challenges and two new stories. Available as two standalone games on one disc, these two episodes, The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony do not require the original GTA IV game disc to play. Powerful new weapons, amazing new vehicles, diverse new music, never-before-seen features and all new mission types Each episode contains both a single player campaign as well as a variety of online multiplayer modes specific to the storyline of each
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June 1st, 2011 at 11:03 am
GTA IV: EPISODES FROM THE …BlueScreenOfDeath,
I have thousands of PC games and, over the years, I have had both good and bad experiences – and everything in between. I can now say that GTA4-EfLC has secured its place amongst the worst gaming experiences I ever had.
GTA III was excellent, the best of the series. GTA IV was not a bad game but, similar to the original BIOSHOCK, it was not worth its idiotic DRM scheme troubles. Hoping that ROCKSTAR had cleaned up its act I made the mistake in giving in to compulsion and buying this from STEAM, where it was on sale. Unfortunately, no matter how cheap one buys a worthless product, it is already too expensive.
I have a year old gaming system at home (i7 920 on a MSI Eclipse with 3GB of DDR3 RAM and a GTX260 nVidia, running WinXP SP3) on which I hardly had any problems running games, old and new alike. It took some hours to complete the download and installation of the about 16GB(!) required for this installment of GTA IV. Since I already had a WindowsLIVE and a Rockstar Social Club Accounts, I just logged in and waited for the game to start. But that was not in the cards. The draconian and convoluted DRM scheme made sure of that. The game kept crashing – over and over!
Writing to STEAM only got me a “we do not offer support to third-party products” reply. Cute. They just sell the stuff, why should they make sure it works as promised, right? And by writing to ROCKSTAR I received a cut&paste “hit the help fora and see what crawls out” response. No much, it turns out, when it comes to effective advice.
I tried cleaning my registry and temp folders as suggested by some fellow gamers to no avail: the game still crashed just past the initial character-slides/loading screens.
I tried updating all of my drivers, DirectX and Windows Frameworks and this piece of shiit still kept crashing.
I even tried uninstalling numerous programs that might conflict with the DRM, such as PowerISO (as SecuROM is known to be…nervous in its company) – and was rewarded by a BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH! That sure brought back memories, I hadn’t had one of those for years!
After deleting the local content I thought about having my credit card company cancel the transaction on the basis that the product I bought never worked. Instead, I decide to pay my bill – to help me remember.
Remember NEVER TO BUY ANOTHER ROCKSTAR PRODUCT AGAIN.
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|June 1st, 2011 at 11:35 am
More GTA Excellence Presented in Better Graphics!,
For those of you familiar with the Grand Theft Auto series, you’ll know right away how fun this series can be. It’s an open world and you can do everything from carjacking people, to doing hitman missions for various powerful criminals (sometimes mafia types and that sort of thing) in the city. You can even visit virtual strip clubs in the game, and listen to the radio while you drive around the city, or even watch TV on the game on the TV in your character’s apartment!
There is a huge amount of content here to play with and enjoy. In Episodes from Liberty City (commonly referred to as EFLC), you get two somewhat smaller GTA games set inside the very same Liberty City you may have gotten to know when you played Grand Theft Auto IV – and you may even spot your old character and some other people you know and recognize from GTAIV as they conduct their own affairs and pursue their destinies in Liberty City!
Now that you know a handful of reasons for why you SHOULD buy this set of games, I’ll highlight two issues that might make you reconsider and decide not to purchase. First, the game incorporates the same old SecuROM DRM software that GTAIV had. If you played GTAIV and didn’t care, you shouldn’t mind this. But if you thought SecuROM in GTAIV was a real pain, you’ll encounter the same issue with this game, unfortunately.
The other reason you might reconsider purchasing this game is that the very same bug that plagued GTAIV (some kind of annoying memmory/texture leak issue) remains present and unfixed in this game. Basically, after a while of driving around, doing missions, and in general having fun and raising **** as is customary in GTA games, you might encounter a bug where some of your in-game textures get replaced with lower-resolution textures, and ultimately disappear entirely. While it is a real shame that Rockstar didn’t fix this issue, it is worth noting that it is fairly easily addressed: just restart your game every couple missions or so, and the problem is remedied.
On the whole, these new additions to the Grand Theft Auto series (this game pack and GTAIV) are wonderful and worthy additions to the series that enhance the gameplay with updated graphics and physics. As such, as you should expect, you’ll need a reasonably modern system to run them well.
My system specs:
Phenom 9850 BE Quad-Core Processor @ 2.5 GHZ
NVIDIA 9600 GT 512mb
4GB DDR2 1066
Windows Vista 32bit
On this system of mine, I ran GTAIV and EFLC at 1920×1200 resolution on medium settings, and the game looked and ran fine most of the time, with the only exception being the easily remedied memory leak issue I discussed earlier in this post. Most people tell me your processor and memory are what you really need to watch to run this game well, and the reviews I’ve read suggested that, with the good multi-core processing support this game offers, you’ll want a Quad-Core, or at least a fast dual-core to run it nicely.
In the tradition of the Grand Theft Auto classics that preceded this and GTAIV such as GTA: San Andreas and GTA: Vice City, this game is a quality addition to the overall lineup of games in the Grand Theft Auto series, and offers direly needed graphics and physics updates. All in all, this is arguably a game you shouldn’t miss, especially if you liked the other Grand Theft Auto games and you have a good enough system to run it.
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|June 1st, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Very good game overall,
I’ve owned this game on the PS3 for a long time and I finally decided to get the PC version. There were a few differences between the PS3 and PC versions. The PC version has extremely better graphics than the PS3 version (depending on how good your computer’s performance is) and offers you customization of the game’s graphic performance. The home screen before you start loading the actual game will display the latest news on Grand Theft Auto and has some user content as well. One of the biggest cons of this game is that it forces you to use the Xbox 360 Controller for Windows and absolutely does not allow any other controllers except your standard keyboard & mouse.
The Ballad of Gay Tony’s storyline gave you extra options like managing a nightclub, dancing, air hockey minigame, etc. One of the new weapons is a shotgun with bullets that explode on impact. There are a few new vehicles including a helicopter that fires bullets and rockets. Overall the storyline was pretty entertaining.
The Lost and the Damned’s storyline I thought was awful. It was about a biker gang and thats really all i can remember because it was so boring I couldn’t pay attention to it. It gave you options like calling backup, have you gang members follow you on bikes, and using a shotgun in drive-bys (only on a motorcycle) but that still didn’t make up for the boring storyline.
If you want to play online you will have to sign up for Windows Live which is free. The online play was really good and the Windows Live gave you a drop-down menu anytime during the game to display friends, messages, current time, etc. The only problem I had with the online play is that very few people actually play online.
PC Version of EFLC Pros & Cons:
Pros
-Extremely better graphics than console versions
-Windows Live is Free
-Home screen shows latest GTA news
Cons
-Forces you to use Xbox 360 Controller for Windows (or standard keyboard & mouse)
-Very few people play online
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