By Ned Jordan

Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City gives you two downloadable games for Grand Theft Auto IV, The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, on a single disc.  There's no difference between the downloadable versions and this disc-based one other than that you don't need to own Grand Theft Auto IV to play Episodes from Liberty City and Episodes from Liberty City won't eat up any of your precious limited hard drive space.  When you play, you just put in the disc like you would for any other game, a menu asks you to select The Lost and Damned or The Ballad of Gay Tony, and then you begin playing whichever game you've selected.  There's no need to play them in any particular order, or even to complete one before playing the other.  If you've never played Grand Theft Auto IV you won't be at any particular disadvantage as both games give you in-game help when you begin playing.  I won't go into reviews of each episode here, as they have both already been reviewed on the site and can be read here and here.  I will say that Episodes from Liberty City is a highly recommended game if you haven't already downloaded the two episodes, and it comes down to a decision on which way to get the games is less expensive and how tight your Xbox 360 is on disk space.

In The End, This Game Hath Been Rated: 94%. Two great tastes that taste great together.