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Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony box front: Luis Lopez in sunglasses pouring champagne under magenta club lighting.

HD Era

Episode

Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony

October 2009Rockstar NorthLiberty City

The second GTA IV episode, following Luis Lopez through Liberty City's nightclub scene. Markedly louder than the base game, and the episode that reintroduced parachutes and explosive weaponry to the HD era.

The record

Publisher
Rockstar Games
Era
HD Era (2008–present)
Type
Episode

Platforms

  • Xbox 360
  • PlayStation 3
  • Windows

Platforms it was released on. The date above is the first release; later versions arrived on their own dates, which are not listed here.

The story

Missions

26missions

Tony Prince's nightclubs are the centre of gravity, and they are going under. Luis Lopez guards Tony and owns part of both clubs.

The creditors queue round the block. Rocco Pelosi collects for the Ancelotti family and believes throughout that he is in charge; Ray Bulgarin, a trafficker with an interest in everything moving through the docks, is worse, and the back half of Tony's story is spent trying not to be noticed by him.

The complete GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony story: 26 missions.

8 mission givers

In the order the campaign first meets them. Missions with no named giver are not counted.

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Every story mission in order, and 26 mission pages behind them.

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On the dial

Radio

10stations

Every station you can pick up in GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony — 8 music stations and 2 talk stations.

  • Electro-Choc

    Electro house

    Electro house presented by François K.

  • K109 The Studio

    Disco

    Presented by

    • Karl Lagerfeld

    Disco presented by Karl Lagerfeld.

  • Liberty City Hardcore

    Hardcore punk and metal

    Hardcore punk presented by Jimmy Gestapo, and a death metal show from Max Cavalera by the time of The Lost and Damned.

  • Liberty Rock Radio

    Classic rock

    Classic rock presented by Iggy Pop.

  • Radio Broker

    Alternative and indie rock

    Alternative and indie rock presented by Juliette Lewis.

  • San Juan Sounds

    Reggaeton and Latin

    Presented by

    • Henry Santos

    Reggaeton and Latin music presented by Daddy Yankee.

  • The Beat 102.7

    Contemporary hip hop

    Contemporary hip hop from DJ Mister Cee and DJ Green Lantern.

  • Vladivostok FM

    Russian and Eastern European

    Presented by

    • DJ Paul

    Russian and Eastern European music presented by Ruslana, turned over to house and Eurodance under DJ Paul in The Ballad of Gay Tony.

  • Integrity 2.0

    Talk radio

    Presented by

    • Lazlowplayed by Lazlow Jones
    • Jorge

    Lazlow on the streets of Liberty City talking to whoever will stop. It joins the dial only once the story opens Algonquin.

  • WKTT Radio

    Talk radio

    Conservative talk radio, with Richard Bastion's show on its schedule and new shows added by each episode.

Every dial in the series

Enter the world

Liberty City

The places, the people, the vehicles and the weapons of Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony. Follow any of them in.

Locations

The places

All 17 places
Liberty City at night from the air, Algonquin's lit towers packed along the water.

GTA IV

City

Liberty City

The series' stand-in for New York, and the setting of eight Grand Theft Auto titles. The 1997 original drew it from overhead as one of three cities; the 3D era built it as three islands, opened one bridge at a time; the HD era rebuilt it from scratch as four boroughs with the state of Alderney across the water.

Characters

The cast

All 20 characters
Luis Fernando Lopez, as they appear in GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony.

Protagonist

Luis Fernando Lopez

Bodyguard and business partner to a nightclub owner whose empire is collapsing under its own debts. Competent, exhausted, and pulled between the club, his family in Northwood and everyone owed money.

Vehicles

The garage

All 65 vehicles

Weapons

The armoury

All 25 weapons

Vehicles

Garage by class

All 65 vehicles

65 vehicles across 4 classes listed for Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony, in the game's own classes. Pick one to browse it.

Weapons

Armoury by category

All 25 weapons

25 weapons across 10 categories listed for Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony, in weapon-wheel order.

  1. Melee3 weapons
  2. Handguns3 weapons
  3. Submachine Guns4 weapons
  4. Light Machine Guns1 weapon
  5. Assault Rifles2 weapons
  6. Shotguns3 weapons
  7. Sniper Rifles3 weapons
  8. Heavy Weapons2 weapons
  9. Throwables3 weapons
  10. Equipment1 weapon

Across the series

Shared with other titles

The titles that share the most with Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony on this site. Each row counts the vehicles, weapons, characters and locations listed for both that title and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony.

  1. Grand Theft Auto IV

    • 52vehicles
    • 16weapons
    • 12characters
    • 17locations

  2. Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned

    • 55vehicles
    • 17weapons
    • 10characters
    • 8locations

  3. Grand Theft Auto V

    • 60vehicles
    • 18weapons
    • 4characters

Counts are of what this site lists for each title. Neither list is complete yet, so a gap in a pair is ours, not the games'.

In the series

Related Releases

How GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony sits beside the rest of the franchise.

Base game

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