

Story-wise, The Lost & Damned is as rich and involving as we have come to expect from GTA, and the missions focus on combat and riding motorbikes. Naturally, the psychotic Billy soon returns, to undo all your efforts to bump the game up the organised crime ladder. It takes a gritty approach (enhanced by a clever visual filter), focusing on a biker gang called The Lost Motorcycle Club, in which you play Johnny Klebnitz, the gang's number two, but in temporary charge while club president Billy Grey is in rehab. Of the two episodes, The Lost & Damned is the most familiar, having been available for download for some time. Consisting of the second and third instalments of Grand Theft Auto IV – The Lost & Damned and The Ballad Of Gay Tony – packaged on a single disc and available, in a coup for Microsoft, exclusively to Xbox 360 owners, Episodes From Liberty City is sufficiently meaty to be accorded a status not far below a full-blown new GTA release.

I f any lingering doubts remained as to the true relevance and importance of downloadable content, Episodes From Liberty City will finally blow them away.
