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The long awaited expansion pack to "Grand Theft Auto 4" has finally been released and it's not really for everybody. "The Lost and Damned" is primarily a story expansion to the game, telling the tale of a biker named Johnny. He isn't a new character in the game, rather he participates with Niko in a couple of missions during the main story, and that really is the entire point of the expansion. Rockstar North wants you to play a side story to the main game that every so often connects with Niko's path.
The downloadable expansion is available only on the X-Box 360 and costs 1600 points (20 dollars) to download. The expansion tells the story of Johnny, a member of a biker gang known as the Lost. The president, a guy named Billy Ray, has just gotten out of prison and the story follows the violence and betrayal that occurs afterward. It took me just over nine hours to play through the storyline, without messing around the city, so Rockstar North did a pretty good job of providing the content for the dollar. The story itself is actually pretty decent, and the ending manages to be both exciting and conclusive, without being the kind of downer that Niko's ending was.
The problem is the fact that not everybody is really interested in the story "Grand Theft Auto 4" had to tell. A lot of people simply played through the storyline until they had the entire city available to them, and then stopped with that and started with the random carnage. For those people an expansion that had new weapons, new vehicles or new locations would have probably been for the best, but "The Lost and Damned" doesn't really have that. There are no new locations to explore; Johnny spends his time driving around the same Liberty City that Niko had. There aren't any new vehicles either. There are only two new weapons: pipe bombs and rapid firing shotguns. Either way, the rocket launcher was already available, so it's hard to tell whether the new weapons really are that much more intriguing.
There's always going to be a lot of trouble in deciding whether any downloadable content is worth the price. Some companies think tossing a couple maps for ten bucks is fair measure; other companies want to throw in as much as they possibly can. "The Lost and Damned" is somewhere in the middle, being a decent expansion to an already excellent game. Rumor has it that another expansion is in the works to be released later this year. The question is, will it still be fun to return to Liberty City a third time?
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