At the same time Lopez tries to prevent Prince from doing himself in with a cocktail of pills, booze, drugs and hysterical fits.ĭespite the grim set-up, The Ballad Of Gay Tony is an altogether more upbeat affair than The Lost And Damned. Lopez soon finds himself lent out as muscle to a series of shady criminals – as well as a couple of certifiably insane dilettantes – as a means of paying off his and Tony's debt. The Ballad Of Gay Tony starts with Prince admitting to Lopez that the financial backing for their nightclubs came from Liberty City's underworld, and now the pair of them are in debt to some extremely dangerous people. However, the new DLC's story feels more like a bookend to the themes of the main game's plot than its predecessor whereas GTA 4 documented Niko Bellic's rise up Liberty City's social food chain, The Ballad Of Gay Tony follows the efforts of nightclub managers Luis Lopez and 'Gay' Tony Prince as they try grimly to hang onto their positions at the top of it. Like The Lost And Damned, the narrative of The Ballad Of Gay Tony exists at the periphery of Niko Bellic's story in GTA 4, and once again, it occasionally overlaps with it.