{"id":1961,"date":"2009-03-13T01:27:52","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T07:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamesanityblog.com\/?p=1961"},"modified":"2009-03-13T01:27:52","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T07:27:52","slug":"gta4-the-lost-and-damned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/13\/gta4-the-lost-and-damned\/","title":{"rendered":"GTA4: The Lost and Damned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1962\" title=\"gta1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamesanityblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gta1.jpg\" alt=\"gta1\" width=\"137\" height=\"64\" \/>I&#8217;m a pretty big fan of Rockstar&#8217;s work. Bully is a game that should be checked out by any teen, and Grand Theft Auto is the pinnacle of, well, the genre best known for Grand Theft Auto. Given the overt sex, gore, violence, drugs, crime, murder, car-jacking, cop shooting, bystanding smashing, other gang killing, corrupt politician bribing, awesome music selection listen &#8230; er&#8230; listen to-er&#8230; okay, I&#8217;m done.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been playing The Lost and Damned and boy are my morals tired!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lost and Damned takes us out of the well worn shoes of Eastern European immigrant Niko Bellic and into the motorcycle boots of a bald biker badass. There&#8217;s trouble in The Lost biker gang as your character clashes with leader\/lout Jimmy. The story is great, feels like an epic biker film, and the way they weave this story in with Bellic&#8217;s GTA 4 adventure is thrilling.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got to keep the gang happy with social visits, gang wars, and small favors. They&#8217;ll gain experience and often will come ride with you on an adventure. See, these guys (heck, maybe all biker gangs) use terms like President, V-P, etc., to denote rank. And you&#8217;re a good vice-prez&#8230; which means, basically, you&#8217;re a very bad man.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1963\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1963\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1963\" title=\"gta3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamesanityblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gta3-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Hawgs handle like a dream\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gta3-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gta3-500x281.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gta3.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hawgs handle like a dream<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>KID FACTOR:<\/h2>\n<p>All of the above plus really bad language, the emphasis on crime, the fact that the hookers have a heart of lead. Oh and they&#8217;ll simulate sex (clothed) all over you for a small fee. Blood sticks to the bumpers, reminders of a reckless run from police that left 40 people killed. The ability to basically just start shooting people and cops until you get 5 stars or they take you down in a hail of bullets. A storyline that involves sex (hetero and homo), drugs, greed, murder, perversion and more. And explosions so cool&#8230; it&#8217;s fun to cut loose and make &#8217;em happen. Nobody gets hurt and the stress relief is unparalleled.<\/p>\n<p>I found Niko to be rough but generally pleasant company. He had a knowing\/mocking way and the mystery of his past and war experiences gave him depth beyond the evil acts he performs. This guy is more shallow, more stupid, less likable and sports a buzz cut. A buzz cut? On a hawg-driving Hell&#8217;s Angel type? Excuse me?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1964\" title=\"lost_and_damned_2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamesanityblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lost_and_damned_2-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"lost_and_damned_2\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lost_and_damned_2-300x162.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lost_and_damned_2-500x271.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lost_and_damned_2.jpg 807w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Good add-on at a nice price, lots of GTA4 madness and carnage, interesting multiplayer makes for an adult size dose of guilty pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>Liberty City, again, a fun place to visit but you wouldn&#8217;t want your kids living here!<\/p>\n<p>I disagree with the ESRB.<\/p>\n<p>Rate this one 18+<\/p>\n<h2>KID FACTOR EXCEPTION<\/h2>\n<p>Since GTA IV is contains adult themes, so do the movies\/TV shows it is based on. If you allow your kids to see movies featuring sex, nudity, drugs, explosions, hookers, bikers (realistically portrayed), mayhem, cop-killing, grand theft auting (auto-ing?), ok that&#8217;s enough. If you let your kids revel in the adut stuff at an early age &#8211; there&#8217;s very little compelling reason to prevent you from allowing this one.<\/p>\n<p>Your Call.<\/p>\n<p>-GamerDad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a pretty big fan of Rockstar&#8217;s work. Bully is a game that should be checked out by any teen, and Grand Theft Auto is the pinnacle of, well, the genre best known for Grand Theft Auto. Given the overt sex, gore, violence, drugs, crime, murder, car-jacking, cop shooting, bystanding smashing, other gang killing, corrupt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}