Review: The Lost and Damned - Grand Theft Chopper

Mike Bantick
Monday, 23 February 2009 14:40

Entertainment

Much or the story missions are played out cruising with The Lost.  A mini game forces Johnny to ride in formation to heal his ride, and unlock further expletive laden conversations between gang members.  On the dialogue, though it is well delivered, let’s just say the vocabulary range is not wide. 

Your brothers are important as well, protect them in a fire-fight and they will level up in a limited RPG style introduced with this download.  The brothers get tougher and more capable to face the perils of the end game.

There is still a bit of travelling around the city to be had during missions, but at least the checkpointing is forgiving.  Which is handy, the mission variety does not range too far from shoot-out and then escape the cops, but the difficulty does – I lost count of the number of times I saw that hospital exterior.

The bike physics have apparently be rejigged, but from time to time Johnny will be decked by an invisible obstacle where once was flat road – this is extremely frustrating when trying to elude the law.

So the story plays out, about ten hours of core content, many side quests, a bunch of races and turf war missions and some new multiplayer options.

Multiplayer includes the humorously titled Chopper VS Chopper, pitting bike against helicopter.  But the reality is that the best new multiplayer mode is “Own the City” territory war.

I didn’t think it was possible, but The Lost and Damned adds yet another layer of grit to the Grand Theft Auto IV world, thank god the radio works on your chopper, the ever present radio stations of Liberty City add a light to the gangs ever present shade.
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