If not, you will have to sacrifice quite a lot of fidelity to enjoy a smooth experience. If you have a powerful machine, this is a beauty. Even on lower settings I had some framerate drops during cutscenes. Liberty City only looks spectacular with the graphics settings high and that still leads to some framerate dips. Some of this has been fixed with patches, but even with a heavy duty rig (Core i7 320 GHz, 6 GB RAM, GeForce GTX 260 with Vista 64), I still had some issues. When GTA IV released on PC, it had some performance issues. It would be nice if all three were merged into one. Each world has its own set of multiplayer modes, weapons and vehicles. If your friend is playing GTA IV and you are playing The Lost and Damned, you won't be able to meet up. The multiplayer works the same as it does in GTA IV, except each episode's online world is self-contained. The new content offers the same recording features so you can take clips of your adventures and upload them to Rockstar Social. It's a hell of a deal regardless of how long it's been since GTA IV came out.
Between the two, you get more than 50 new music tracks, new radio stations and DJs, TV shows, vehicles, weapons and online modes.
Those episode are finally available for PC in one package, extending the GTA experience with some excellent additive content.Įpisodes from Liberty City is a stand-alone disc containing new multiplayer modes and two new single-player campaigns: The Lost & Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony. Two downloadable episodes were made exclusively for Xbox 360, each big enough to qualify as an expansion. The main game coupled with the expansions offers a massive amount of content, so old time fans better dust off those discs and revisit Liberty City.It's been nearly a year-and-a-half since GTA IV hit PC without a whiff of new content. GTA 4 might not have aged particularly gracefully, but it's a fantastic installment of this legendary franchise. This is a straight giveaway, not a competition, so you don't actually need to do anything to win, merely enter on the Social Club's events page here.
While only one winner can take home this prize pack, 10 runner-ups will win the mousepad and the license plate. While you can't quite make out the shirts from the promotional image, it seems like 2 are variants of the GTA 4 logo, one is the Lost MC emblem, one with the Chihuahua Hotdogs logo, one with the Angels of Death emblem and a shirt with the LCPD shield emblem.
well, statue, and a collection of 6 T-shirts. The pack includes a GTA 4 branded dartboard with special darts sporting art from the game, a special 2-part screwable pool cue, a "GTA1V" Liberty City license plate (definitely not road legal, unfortunately), a mouse pad that definitely won't make you look silly in public, a miniature Statue of Happiness. To celebrate this release, Rockstar Games is giving away a pretty sizeable gift package of physical merchandise that you'd be hard pressed to find anywhere else - and even if you would, it would cost a fortune. While GTA 4's dull color scheme and somewhat dated visuals were points of criticism, its story and overall gameplay experience were praised, and certain fans maintain that it's superior to GTA 5 to this day. If you own an Xbox One and never played this previous installment, this is as good a time as any to do so. This might be great incentive for players who only jumped into the franchise with GTA 5 on a newer console.
If you started the adventure of Niko Bellic on the 360 but didn't have the chance to finish, you can pick right up where you left off on your new Xbox One. What's more, if you've got save games for either GTA 4 or Episodes from Liberty City uploaded to the cloud, they will sync up with the backwards compatible versions of the games. If you don't own the game in any form, you can grab it from the Xbox Store.
If you own a physical copy, just slide the disc in and the download will commence. If you already own the game digitally, all you need to is navigate to your game library on your Xbox One and download. The games adhere to the typical format of backwards compatibility. That said, the lack of an ancillary subtitle pretty much ruled this out. Some who hoped for a remaster argued that GTA 4 initially released on 2008, and younger games than that have been remastered already. Of course, most people assumed correctly that this is merely a backwards compatible release instead of some kind of remaster. Since this discovery predated the official announcement, speculation ran wild.