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Genre: Action

Reviewed on: Xbox 360

Available for: 360

Publisher: Rockstar Games

Developer: Rockstar North

Rating: 18 (BBFC)

The Lost and the Damned is like a Cadbury’s Double Decker – you know it’s bad but you’ve got to have it. Its smooth dreamy exterior is enough to make people drift to a far off place whilst the crispy cereal and nougat centre is both substantial and plentiful, delivering a different mixture of tastes with every mouthful. It will leave you satisfied – guilty, but deeply satisfied.

Also like Double Decker, The Lost and the Damned is great value. The expansion only costs 1600 Microsoft Points (around £13.60) but provides a whole new campaign mode, new multiplayer modes, 50 new music tracks, 20 new vehicles and a fistful of new weapons.

Players take on the role of Johnny Klebitz, the temporary leader of The Lost and the Damned motorcycle gang. But there’s trouble in paradise for Johnny as the official leader Billy Grey is released from the slammer and wants to run things differently - recklessly even. Players get the opportunity to help Johnny get through this ordeal and hopefully regain his respect.

Johnny's character is easier to warm to than Nico Bellic ever was, he's less of a secret and not so cold-hearted. But people have built up a bond with Nico over their 100's of hours of playing and will be happy to learn that Nico pops up in the occasional mission, just as Johnny popped up during Nico's story.

The campaign mode really is quite large because it doesn't just offer extra mission but players are able to unlock new turf wars to show off their firearms at and new races to expose their choppers in.

So a couple of questions we should all be asking ourselves; who's the next GTA IV episode going to centre on? Have we met them already?

And now with Liberty City being larger than it’s ever been before – there's never been a better time for player to get both lost and damned in GTA IV.

SCORE: 9/10