Yup. You actually play alongside Niko a couple of times. You also do missions for Ray Boccino and Elizabeta Torris.

I don't really see a reason to play the expansion. I might play it if my brother downloads it but otherwise nah.
I got sick of GTA4 quite quickly and switched to Saints Row 2, so that might explain it.  Saints Row 2 was superior since there were two very important differences. It doesn't treat you like a retard who must learn how to hail a cab, shoot things or drive a car, and it doesn't have your cousin. (or any other fucker who wants to hang out with you all the time.)


Then again, the expansion does look pretty cool. The main character sounds more likeable and being able to pick up a mission at checkpoints is definitely a plus.

Fucking hell, I can't get the DLC to load up for some goddamn reason. I've tried loading up a new game in 2 different profiles, and it still won't work. Who do I have to sacrifice to get it to work?

Nope, downloaded it onto my 360 from home. I keep reading about how you access it by starting a new game, but it doesn't come up for me.

I didn't get that message because I didn't have the game in at the time.

I'm trying to avoid re-downloading it, due to download limits on my broadband.

Never mind; turns out that I needed to play the game while still hooked up to Live so that it could install an update.

Downloadable Content is tied to a console by its serial number.  This means that if you retrieve your Gamertag at a friend's house and download a new map pack on his 360, his 360 is seen as the owner of that DLC.  People can freely use the DLC on that 360 all they want.  If you go home and retrieve your Gamertag on the 360 at your house, you can download the DLC all you want, but you must be connected to Xbox Live in order to use it.

There is a function on the Xbox web site to consolidate all of your DLC to one serial number but I think you can only do it once a year (I did it recently to transfer the rights of all my Rock Band DLC from my little brother's 360 to mine).

If your cousins downloaded the Flashback Map Pack on your Xbox with their gamertag, and then downloaded it to their Xbox using the same tag and you're trying to play System Link, it's not going to work.  You've only got one 'legit' copy of the DLC and it's on the box you originally downloaded the DLC on.  If they originally downloaded it to their own Xbox then I'm not sure what the problem is.

Yeah, that's it. I'll try the license transfer on Microsoft website, thanks.

At least once. I mean, in order for there to be a walkthrough, I imagine at least one person would have had to hunt through the entire game to find each and every one of them. Something I am still failing to accomplish. I get through about 3 pigeons before the shooting of them has raised my level to the point I have to flee. It's time consuming as hell. Knock out a few pigeons, lose your level, rinse, repeat. My buddy who did it in one sitting told me it took him about 5 hours, doing ONLY that, and with a walkthrough.

Put it back in your pants, I'm a dude.  I just have a fondness for denim-clad rump.

But to your other point:

GAH!  See? that's what I'm talking about.  5 hours WITH a walkthrough.  To accomplish this without outside help would mean dividing each city block into a grid and then walking it like a crime scene looking for the red glow of a pigeon.  That doesn't even approaching something that resembles fun in my book.

And I suppose you have a point that SOMEBODY must have done it at some point.  I don't know whether to admire their tenacity or pity them.  I guess I just assumed the official walkthrough was written in conjunction with the game developers (who obviously knew where all the pigeons were) and then all subsequent UNofficial walkthroughs were cribbed from the original source.

I guess that's what I wanted to know:  Has ANYONE actually done this unaided?  Or at least KNOW someone who's done it unaided?