Rockstar Games Announces Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony
for Download on Xbox LIVE® and Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty
City Available on Disc for Xbox 360® this Fall
By: Business Wire
May. 26, 2009 04:01 PM
Rockstar Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software,
Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), is proud to announce the fall release of both the
second episode of Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony -
exclusively for download on Xbox LIVE® online entertainment network,
and Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, which will include
both episode one The Lost and Damned, and episode two The Ballad of Gay
Tony together on a single disc exclusively for Xbox 360® video game and
entertainment system from Microsoft.
“Liberty City is the most vibrant game world we’ve created yet. The
episodic structure has allowed us to interweave stories, gameplay and
atmosphere in a whole new way,” said Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar
Games. “The team at Rockstar North have yet again surpassed themselves,
and made something that is both epic and very innovative. This
episode’s focus on high-end night life contrasts with the biker gangs
portrayed in The Lost and Damned, whilst giving us a lot of new
gameplay possibilities.”
Grand Theft Auto IV’s second downloadable episode, The Ballad of Gay
Tony injects Liberty City with an overdose of guns, glitz, and grime.
As Luis Lopez, part-time hoodlum and full-time assistant to legendary
nightclub impresario Tony Prince (aka “Gay Tony”), players will
struggle with the 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.
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City delivers two games on
one disc - the all-new episode The Ballad of Gay Tony and the first
episode, The Lost and Damned - together on disc for the first time -
for Xbox 360 for $39.99 and will not require a copy of the original
Grand Theft Auto IV to play.
The Ballad of Gay Tony will release on Xbox LIVE this fall for
$19.99 or 1600 MS points and requires players to have Grand Theft Auto
IV for Xbox 360 and Xbox LIVE membership to download.
For more information, log onto www.rockstargames.com.