Grand Theft Auto IV - The Lost and the Damned World Premier - Spike TV Trailer

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Witness Protection
One team is cops, the other team is bikers. One of the cops is in a bus and must drive to random spots in the city to drop off government witnesses, while the other cops drive alongside the truck and provide defense against the bikers. The bikers are just trying to blow up the bus or kill the witnesses as they get out. It?s pretty frantic but very fast paced, since everyone spawns in a bike or a cop car when you die. Our well-organized team of cops will be able to keep the bikers at bay, but when the sides switched, our opponents managed to flip the bus on its side within the first 5 minutes. Whoops!

Race
Unlike GTA 4, Lost and the Damned limits racing to just bikes. The difference, though, is that everyone is equipped with a bat and can take out other racers by hitting the left or right face buttons. You can even charge your swing by holding down the button. The comparisons to Road Rage are pretty hard to ignore, though I did find it a little tough to knock someone off their bike, as each player can take at least 3 good swings before they go down.

Lone Wolf Biker
Think Kill the Carrier but everyone has bikes. Once you become ?it? you have to stay alive for as long as possible. If someone kills you, they become ?it,? gaining 15 seconds of invincibility to make their getaway. This was a blast, though it did end up a little ridiculous once everyone drove off into the water to chase after the ?it.?

Own the City
Sections of the city are divided up and you must control them by taking out all the AI soldiers in that area. Once they?re taken out friend AI?s will populate and try to defend against the enemy team. You can boost up your AI fighters by driving a weapon van around, giving them better gear. To make things more interesting, you can?t take a territory until all of the enemy team members are out, leading to some intense bike chases.

Club Business
A lot like Mafia, but with club leaders and more tasks. I didn?t actually get to play this, but if you?re played Mafia you probably know what to expect.

Chopper vs. Chopper
Quite possibly my favorite mode of the bunch, and definitely the easiest to explain. It?s 1 on 1, with someone on a bike and someone else in an attack helicopter. The biker is just trying to survive through X number of checkpoints (or time) while the helicopter pilot is trying to kill the biker. The key here is to stay in places with a lot of cover, tall buildings and the like.

All in all, a good time was had. Even if you?re kinda burned out on GTA multiplayer, the new modes should give you at least 5 hours of new fun. New biker-centric clothing for your avatar should encourage ranking up, at least until the Loster and the Damneder comes out.
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there's new MP?! lol i had no idea

does anyone know what time it'll be available for download?
 
I want to know too. Getting pretty hyped.

Hoping to roll back from the pub at about midnight to find it fully downloaded and ready to play. :E

Although I'll also accept an early morning release so I can play all day.
 
Chopper vs. Chopper sounds excellent if only because in a free roam game with three friends I stole one of those army helicopters and chased my two friends round who were on one bike. Over highways, kicking up the asphalt with machine gun fire, across parks, over railways and inbetween Liberties highest, most busiest streets. It was crazy fun.

I would get this tomorrow but I don't have GTA anymore and - I kid you not - I haven't seen a single copy of GTA for the 360 in about a month. Seriously.
 
The miniguns on the shopper are shit though... They're like mp5's that you can barely aim
 
Always been pretty good for me. With a bit of practice using the chopper (and really, all I did in GTA, be it SP or MP, was rob helicopters) to get a steady hand for the guns, I thought they were devestating against unsuspecting folk.

That said, the miniguns aren't the only weapon the heli has. Personally I'm a big fan of Tomorrow Never Dies'ing it up a notch, and you can always get a guy in the side with a AR or sniper, but that relates somewhat to getting some practice, a steady hand and a side gunner that has similar skills.
 
Someone lend me money. I can't afford it. ;(

The money I set aside for it has mysteriously disappeared from my account.
 
played about 3 hours today
so far so good
i really like the improve bike physics... makes riding them considerably less frustrating
plus, races are alot more fun now that you can beat guys off their rides with a baseball bat :)
 
The Bike fights remind me of the Road Rash series. I loved those games.
Well, hopefully this will come out on the PC too. It's Microsoft after all. If not, the modding community will come up with something eventually. I doubt that we will see a PS 3 port of it though.
 
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