Lone Wolf Biker and Witness Protection are the two strongest multiplayer modes in LAD. It may have been fun if there were a whole pack of bikers to shoot at, though. It sounds good on paper but shooting targets, much less moving targets, with the helicopter has never been particularly easy so it doesn't quite gel. Chopper is a head-to-head match in which one player controls a helicopter and must kill another player on a motorcycle who's trying to drive through checkpoints. Race mode, for example, is just normal street racing except that players ride bikes and wield baseball bats (which they can use to hit other players). Race, Own The City, and Club Business are basically just GTA IV multiplayer modes with a fresh coat of paint. There are six new multiplayer modes in LAD: Witness Protection, Race, Lone Wolf Biker, Own The City, Club Business, and Chopper vs. There's also four new weapons (machine pistol, grenade launcher, automatic shotgun, pipe bombs) to play around with, which freshen up the somewhat tedious "target and hold down the fire button" combat. That being said, there are some fun battles in this game, such as one especially fun ambush scene on a bridge.
I just wish there was more interactivity between you and your leather-clad foot soldiers. Your gang members' fighting skills increase after they survive fights but again, you can't control what they do in fights and their survival's a complete roll of the dice so you don't feel very attached to them. It's not as though you can direct your gang members in combat either so you'll end up fighting the same way you would if you were alone.except that enemies will probably be too busy fighting your friends to notice you. Again, there's some basic excitement from having a whole gang at your side but these large battles are very taxing for GTA IV and on a few occasions there were big drops in the game's frames per second. The turf war repeatable missions and many of the story missions feature massive shootouts between the Lost and some rival gang or the police. Rockstar tries to liven up the commute by having fellow gang members occasionally race you to your next objective but there's no stakes involved in these competitions so they fail to entertain. You'll definitely feel cool riding in a pack through the streets of Liberty City but if you've gotten used to taking a taxi to your missions, it's a little tedious to have to drive the entire distance now. Whereas most of the GTA IV missions were solo affairs, Johnny is often accompanied by his gang on jobs. While yes, there's some pretty irrelevant missions here, LAD's campaign just stays on point for a greater percentage of the time. You know what I mean - the segment of the game after you leave the first section of the city and you're just bouncing between random crime bosses doing tasks with little to no relevance to the greater story itself. First, LAD avoids the meandering middle act that plagues pretty much every GTA game. The campaign's about a third of the length of GTA IV's and this shorter length has two advantages. The Lost's leader, Billy, has just returned from a stint in rehab and his reckless, aggressive attitude immediately conflicts with Johnny's desire to keep the gang below the radar and out of trouble.
The expansion adds an all-new single-player campaign starring Johnny Klebitz, second-in-command of the biker gang The Lost.
However, the fact remains that LAD is as long as some $60 games. The exact amount of time you spend on it might be lower or higher than that depending on how much you enjoy the repeatable side missions (bike races, turf wars with rival gangs) and the new multiplayer modes. Yes, TLAD costs 1600 Microsoft Points ($20) but you're getting about 10 hours of new content, here.
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