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|publisher=Rockstar Games |distributor=Take-Two Interactive |writer=Dan Houser Rupert Humphries |series=''Grand Theft Auto'' |engine=RAGE |released=Xbox 360 17 February 2009 PlayStation 3 & Microsoft Windows |genre=Action-adventure |modes=Single-player, multiplayer |platforms=Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 }} ''Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned'' (originally known as ''Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned'') is the first of two episodic expansion packs developed for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC versions of ''Grand Theft Auto IV'', developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It was first released for the Xbox 360 on 17 February 2009 and on PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows on 13 April 2010.〔 It is the third expansion pack game in the ''Grand Theft Auto'' series (the first since ''Grand Theft Auto: London, 1961'', released in 1999), and the twelfth release overall. ''The Lost and Damned'' features a new protagonist, Johnny Klebitz, who is Vice President of the Alderney chapter of one percenter motorcycle club The Lost MC, a club which is featured in missions throughout the course of ''Grand Theft Auto IV''. Dan Houser, vice-president of creative development at Rockstar Games, claims the episode shows "a different side of Liberty City". Jeronimo Barrera, Vice-President of Product Development for Rockstar Games, has said that the episodes are experiments because they are not sure that there are enough users with access to online content on the Xbox 360. Take-Two Interactive's Chief Financial Officer, Lainie Goldstein revealed that Microsoft was paying a total of $50 million for the first two episodes. A combined standalone disc-based package titled ''Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City'', which does not require the original ''Grand Theft Auto IV'' game to be played, was released and contains both ''The Lost and Damned'' and ''Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony''.〔 〕 ==Gameplay== Perhaps the biggest new feature in ''The Lost and Damned'' is the availability of mid-mission checkpoints. The player is thus spared repeated trips to a given location to trigger a failed mission again — an often criticised aspect of the ''Grand Theft Auto'' series. Checkpoints are only available by retrying the mission after it has been previously failed — going to the mission start point begins the mission from scratch. ''The Lost and Damned'' otherwise features similar gameplay to ''Grand Theft Auto IV''. Additions to the game include new weapons and vehicles, such as Johnny's custom-made motorcycle. However, his way of handling vehicles is less proficient than the way he handles any motorcycle. The player is able to telephone various members of the Lost to provide assistance. Terry, for instance, will drive to a location near to Johnny and sell him weapons and armour, while Clay can deliver a bike of the player's choice to him directly. Another addition to ''The Lost and Damned'' is gang wars. Once the player has completed a certain amount of them, weapons spawn in either the clubhouse and/or safehouse depending on how far the player has progressed in the story, and every subsequent 10 gang wars up to 50, a new weapon will spawn. During some missions and gang wars, Johnny is accompanied by a team of bikers. As each biker takes part in more missions, they will gain fighting experience. If, at any time, a biker is killed in a mission or gang war, they will be replaced by another in the next. In an interview with IGN, the president of Rockstar North stated that ''The Lost and Damned'' would have a third of the number of missions of ''Grand Theft Auto IV'', placing its length at approximately 10–15 hours, depending on how focused the player is on the storyline. The multiplayer modes are: * Witness Protection - One team is The Lost biker gang and they must try to eliminate a bus carrying witnesses while the other team is NOOSE who try to protect the bus as it delivers the witnesses to police stations around Liberty City. * Races - Racing on bikes with racers carrying bats and smashing each other, similar to the video game ''Road Rash''. * Lone Wolf Biker - Free for all style mode where one player is the Lone Wolf and all other players must chase and kill that player to become the Lone Wolf. At the end of the game, whoever was the Lone Wolf for the longest time, wins. * Own the City - Try to gain control of the city section by section, based on San Andreas' gang wars. * Club Business - Like the original Mafia mode in ''GTA IV'', but with a total of 8 players riding together as one gang. The player receives calls from Angus who tells you to carry out certain tasks for The Lost. * Chopper vs. Chopper - Helicopter vs bike. Bike rider tries to get through checkpoints while the helicopter tries to stop the biker. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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