Typical GTA amusement
posted by Metoo999 (NEW YORK, NY) Aug 30, 2010
Member since Aug 2007
GTA Episodes provides some good sandbox action with a few caveats.
The Lost and Damned is the less interesting of the two games. The characters are ugly and dirty-looking, and have screechy voices (with which they yell all the time). Its mission are typical GTA missions: "Ride for three minutes and then shoot someone who's making trouble for you." The first mission almost put me off from the whole disc. They give you a garbage shotgun with (obviously) no range, so I used the cheats for some decent firearms. Thankfully the cheats didn't punish the player.
I basically went through the main missions as quickly as possible after finishing BoGT because I wanted to get my rental's worth. The story here is a big bore and I skipped most of the cutscenes.
BoGT is a lot more fun and engaging mostly because of the funny characters and good writing. The missions are crazier and more varied here. The first mission has you hitting golf balls at a guy, then escaping in a golf cart to safety. It leaves a nice first impression. Other missions involve base jumping from helicopters.
The game is at its strongest when you are involved with Tony, but in the second half, you're more involved with other boring gangsters. Elizabeta provides some comic relief though.
It's nice to finally see a non-straight character in a video game not portrayed as an unflattering stereotype. Kudos to Rockstar for having the maturity not to look down on their audience. Unfortunately most of the characters besides Tony are unlikeable, drug-addicted, violent jerks, but it's a gangster game anyway.
Recommended for BoGT, but TLaD is only for major GTA IV fans. Each game has around 15 hours of gameplay.
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