The Ballad of Gay Tony: nightclubs, the parachute and Luis Lopez's 26 missions

If The Lost and Damned shows grimy Alderney through a biker's eyes, The Ballad of Gay Tony is glamorous Algonquin: penthouses, VIP rooms, helicopters. Luis Lopez is a Dominican from Northwood, a former dealer who now works as bodyguard and partner of Anthony "Gay Tony" Prince, owner of the Maisonette 9 and Hercules clubs. Tony owes money to the Ancelotti family and to loan shark Mori Kibbutz, and Luis works off those debts while helping his old friends Armando and Henrique, who deal drugs.

The most generous employer is real estate developer Yusuf Amir: for him Luis steals a Buzzard attack helicopter, an APC and even a subway car. The final villain is Ray Bulgarin, the real owner of the diamonds that run through all three stories. Luis is voiced by Mario D'Leon, Tony by David Kenner.

The episode launched on October 29, 2009 on Xbox 360, both as a $19.99 add-on and on the Episodes from Liberty City disc together with the first episode; the disc does not need GTA 4. PS3 and PC received both episodes on April 13, 2010 (April 16 in Europe).

There are more side activities here than in the base game, and almost all of them count toward 100%.

Luis's friends help outside the fun too: Armando sells guns from his Cavalcade, Henrique delivers a car of your choice.

Order per GTABase. Every mission ends with a percentage score for accuracy, headshots, time and special goals. The score doesn't change the story, but you can replay a mission to improve it.

What missions unlock: Practice Swing - golf, Momma's Boy - cage fighting, Corner Kids - Drug Wars, High Dive - the parachute, BASE jumps and explosive shotgun rounds, This Ain't Checkers - triathlons, No. 3 - Henrique delivering the Bullet GT and F620.

The episode goes for military-grade firepower. New: the Pistol .44, the Automatic Shotgun (with explosive rounds after High Dive), the Assault SMG, the Gold SMG, the Advanced MG, the Advanced Sniper and Sticky Bombs. On top of that comes the parachute, which brings jumps from buildings and helicopters. The new weapons are sold only by Armando or spawn in Luis's apartment after every 10 Drug Wars; a cheat for the advanced weapon set also works.

The best-known vehicles are the Bullet GT (the fastest car in GTA 4 by the game files), the Buzzard attack helicopter, the APC, the Stretch E limo and the Akuma and Vader bikes. Speed tables and locations are on the GTA 4 vehicles page, and the episode's nine phone codes (APC, Buzzard, parachute, explosive punches) are in GTA 4 cheats.

On top of the activity table above, three more items: all 26 story missions, meeting the three random characters (Arnaud, Daisy Cash-Cooze and Margot Summers) and every hangout with Henrique and Armando - air hockey, darts, drinking, eating, golf, pool and the strip club.

Seagulls. Same collectible as in The Lost and Damned - 50 birds - but placed differently. You find them by their cry and glow. The reward is an APC at Yusuf's construction site in Castle Gardens (per GTA Wiki, after the mission For the Man Who Has Everything). The base game's pigeons are not here; they stay in Niko's story - see GTA 4 pigeons.

The 100% reward is the option to buy unlimited ammo for every weapon at the normal price. Known issue: the extra ammo disappears after you reload the save. For comparison, the base game checklist is on the GTA 4 100% completion page.

• The bank robbery. Luis is lying among the hostages in the Bank of Liberty when Niko and the McReary brothers rob it in Three Leaf Clover. That is where the episode begins.
• Diamonds at the docks. In Frosting on the Cake Tony buys $2 million worth of diamonds, but The Lost ambush the deal - the same scene from Johnny's side is Diamonds in the Rough.
• The museum. In Not So Fast Luis ambushes the exchange where Niko and Johnny carry the diamonds - in GTA 4 that's Museum Piece, in The Lost and Damned it's Collector's Item.
• Gracie's ransom. Niko kidnaps the Ancelotti don's daughter in I'll Take Her, and in Ladies Half Price Luis and Tony bring the diamonds as ransom; Bulgarin wrecks the exchange.

The Ballad of Gay Tony is where the diamond storyline of all three games ends. Who's who is on the GTA 4 characters page, and all of Niko's missions are in GTA 4 missions.

There is no separate purchase on PC: the episode is part of GTA IV: The Complete Edition on Steam and is picked from the main menu. The regular price is $19.99; on November 13, 2026 there was a 70% discount - $5.99. On Xbox One and Series X|S the Xbox 360 version works - as a GTA 4 add-on or as Episodes from Liberty City. On PS3 it's the disc or an old purchase only; there is no PS4 or PS5 version. Console prices and version details are on the GTA 4 page. As of November 2026.