Of course, bigger jobs mean bigger toys to play with and The Ballad of Gay Tony is packed with weapons that give a big bang. What do you get for the man who has everything? How about stealing an attack chopper or a subway train? Or maybe you construct the tallest building in Liberty City? Money is no object to Yusuf and Luis has no objections to killing for cash. He just wants his Arab Sheik father to be proud of him. The real star of Gay Tony, though, is Yusuf. Don't worry, you have a second chute you can pull as you make your escape, landing in the back of a moving getaway truck. At one point, you leap out of a helicopter and parachute onto a rooftop, wax some guards, throw an innocent man out a window, then take a leap of faith from 20 stories up. And I mean strong arm in the GTA sense - out a window. So much so that he sends Luis on a few missions to strong-arm the owner. Bulgarin, for example, is obsessed with owning Liberty City's hockey team, the Rampage. While there are still the standard crop of "these guys just betrayed you, shoot your way out" GTA missions, there are a number of others that are more over-the-top than anything in GTA IV or The Lost and Damned. The missions are jobs for some of the most unstable people in the city, including Tony, the ridiculous Yusuf Amir, and the bat-s*** crazy Russian mobster, Bulgarin. Though there are a few early missions that tie into Luis' old life, they are throwaways and very quickly the story focuses on the problems of Gay Tony. Many of the missions take place in Algonquin, Liberty City's version of Manhattan.
Luis is uninteresting, overshadowed by the big personalities that surround him. This makes for some entertaining cutscenes, but the story itself (which follows the trail of the stolen diamonds from GTA IV to its conclusion) isn't very compelling. Gay Tony is more about the side characters - who are wonderfully outrageous - than it is about Luis. Luis' rise to the top happens before the beginning of Gay Tony and just about every action he takes in the game is tied to Tony's story, not his own. You might be wondering why this episode isn't called "The Ballad of Straight Luis." There are two reasons for this: a) Rockstar's smart enough not to give a downloadable episode a terrible name and b) This is Tony's story viewed from Luis' perspective. You live well and you work for the richest men in the city. The Ballad of Gay Tony isn't about living in squalor. Tony Prince, owner of the biggest straight and gay nightclubs in Liberty City, took Luis under his wing and made him something. Where GTA IV star Niko Belic and Lost and Damned anti-hero Johnny Klebitz are men of little means attempting to rise up in the world, Luis has already made his transition from rags to riches. In The Ballad of Gay Tony, you take on the role of Luis Lopez who works for the title character.
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