![]() On the other hand there are a few mission structure tweaks made which are well executed and fill a needed gap found in the original engine. That chopper might look nice on the ground, but flying it is a real pain The lost and the damned (TLaD) is almost entirely exempt from this design flaw, but The Ballad of Gay Tony (TboGT) is plagued with helicopter sections that are much worse than they should be. In terms of new editions, we ought to set one thing straight. These were annoyances that really spoiled the gameplay for me and were often hard to ignore. Also I found the squidgy nature of the trigger action has always bugged me, but that’s the controller design more than anything. I personally found using these buttons so frequently was rather uncomfortable considering how far back they are. I found this wasn’t a problem on the Xbox version but the PS3 controls decide to use the R2 and L2 buttons as your primary triggers for both driving and shooting. On a similar point the use of the triggers is always a little off. Why do I have to hold A to run?! It seems like a pretty weak point to pick up on I realise, but it perverts the whole experience and it requires you to constantly contort your hands in weird and wonderful ways just so you can run and move the camera simultaneously. The intense mayhem and seamless transition between third person shooter and driving mechanics remain, but are still riddled with mediocre gun play, uninspired mini games and a questionable control scheme. Not a huge amount has changed from the original GTA 4 formula, both for the good and the bad. Let’s start with the gameplay tweaks that have been made. Here it has a chance to redeem itself as I set out to review the two DLC chapters: The Lost and the Damned and the Ballad of Gay Tony, recently released on a single disc. In spite of the almost unanimous critical praise and exceptional sales, I felt the fourth Grand Theft Auto slowed down its usually snappy pace to accommodate a lukewarm story that lost the comic over the top nature of the classic PS2 trilogy. ![]() It is thus that I must very sheepishly admit to you that when GTA 4 was released back in 2008 I was very unimpressed by the whole affair. We gamers, as a bunch, have a stark tendency to be very bad at dealing with any kind of controversy.
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