PSP Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories review:4 stars (Must-have fun for the PSP) - Finally, GTA is here for the PSP. If you are still deciding whether to get this or not, I say go for it. While GTA: LCS is not the "killer app" that GTA 3 was for the PS2, it's nonetheless tons of fun and endless excitment, coupled with lots of handheld violence and one-person mayhem.
There's no doubt that this is simply the best PSP game so far, and it takes full advantage of the PSP's processing and graphic powers. The graphics is fantastic on the PSP, and the framerate for the most part excellent. A couple times you'll notice some choppiness, but otherwise it's just like on the good ol' PS2. The controls are mostly good, except this game inherits the maddening aiming scheme from GTA 3, so when you are in the middle of a Godfather-like shootout, you'll wish for better aiming controls. But that's just a minor complaint.
What stopped me from rating this 5 stars -- my inclination is to give it an overall rating of 4.5 stars (90%) -- is the level design is just too similar to GTA 3. You are back in Liberty City, with pretty much the same layouts. Neighborhood names have changed, but otherwise the environment and the characters look (and sound) exactly the same. The gameplay is also pretty much the same, which is great but at the same time a little, shall we say, hackneyed.
Still, this is a must-have title for any PSP gamers.5 stars (Can someone please answer my question?) - I have a PSP and I want to get this game really badly. But I read in previous reviews for this game that the system software has to be at least 2.0 or higher to play this game. The system software on my PSP is 1.50! So my question is, can I upgrade my PSP by using the GTA umd?5 stars (Liberty City Stories) - A mini crime opera, complete with pint-size bottles of blood, micro-chipped caches of street-smart lingo, fun-size dollops of violence and doggie-bag portability. A veritable miracle of compression, perhaps the best complement to LCS is that it is easily on a par with the first PS2 GTA game, brought out in 2001.
Yes, there are compromises, owing to the diddy size of UMDs and -of course- the PSP itself. The radio stations are cut down, there are less missions, and the lack of a right analogue stick means that operating the camera manually is a bit more of a hassle than on the PSPs bigger, older brother. And of course, as the game uses the same game environment fro GTAIII, there is always the feel that this games is abit like an expansion pack for the PS2 versions...But you can't expect three cities and hundreds of missions, apart from anything else because the PSP is a pick-up-and-play kind of device that is best suited to short-term kicks.
But, hey, when you expect a facsimile of a games on a home console, you know that expectations are high for the game and these minor quibbles and basically a distraction from how brilliantly the small unit handles the epic action.
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