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 Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories - PSP
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Rockstar |
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11/08/05 |
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I've been playing LC Stories a lot lately, on account of it being one of the few worth while PSP games on the market. Its a pretty snazzy little title for a handheld, but in this post San Andreas era, I feel a bit let down.
Liberty City Stories is basically Vice City Lite. The improvements over GTA3 are those which were seen in Vice City (graphics, motorcycles, multiple weapon sets, asset completion) but even then are less fleshed out.
In the case of assets, there aren't specialized missions as was the case in most of the Vice City asset missions. You basically just do quick errand missions more in the vein of taxi missions. There are some snazzy little side missions here and there, but nothing new to say the least.
When I say they skimmed off the top of Vice City, I mean it. While there are helicopters that look like you should be able to pilot them, you never will. They'll only ever be pilotd by NPC's, usually carrying a group of jerks to gun you down. I looked in to the missing aspect of flight and found that Rockstar couldn't figure a way to render the city from flying altitudes, so they left it out. I'm taking that as a half assed excuse.
Did you enjoy swimming, customizing cars and wooing the ladies in San Andreas? I admit, I did, which only added to my disappointment when I found that all of these features were left out of Liberty City Stories.
The game is even lacking the classic GTA pollish when it comes down to production values. The graphics are superior to Vice City and GTA3 in most aspects, save water, but the voice acting isn't as grand as it was in the past games. Liberty City Stories doesn't boast a cavalcade of stars lending their pipes to the characters. Rockstar Leeds didn't even get MIchael Madsen, the original voice of Toni Cipriani, to do voice work for this game in which Toni's the star.
At the end of the day, its a fun game, and possibly even an exceptional handheld game, but that's just what it feels like. When you look at the other spin offs and ports that go to handhelds, they always feel a little forced and out of place, and Liberty City Stories tends to follow suit. I would have expected more from the company that's sold so many games in this series and is currently releasing gems like The Warriors, but I guess they're just a little to busy for their smaller scale game.
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| Posted: Nov 10th, 2005 at 5:45 pm |
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| That is a good point but you have to remember, this is the first time ever that a portable system has been able to play a huge massive game like GTA. Plus, leaving all of this stuff out just gives them more stuff to add for the next one ;) |
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| Posted: Nov 10th, 2005 at 11:04 pm |
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| I agree with what lazy gamer said. Its just like gta 3, they left alot of stuff out, but its good for whats going to come later on.
But give them some slack, they had to created it in maybe under one year, with gta:sa being released and all.
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| Posted: Nov 23rd, 2005 at 11:57 am |
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| both of them are right. other than them leaving some things out, the game seems pretty cool. i was a huge fan of GTA 3 and VC,(never got to play san andreas bcuz of parents and the gay people who had to cry about the Hot Coffee Mod) so im gonna have to go pick this game up when i get a chance |
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| Posted: Dec 7th, 2005 at 9:39 am |
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| Yeah,it was a cool game,even though they let stuff out.You gotta give em credit for wat they did right away after the psp came out |
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| Posted: Dec 28th, 2005 at 4:01 pm |
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| well done :-) |
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| Posted: Jan 12th, 2006 at 8:34 am |
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| this is the best game on psp man |
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| Posted: Dec 15th, 2006 at 5:43 am |
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| Funny how tom reviewed it with a lot of critics and still rate it as a "B". When I was reading this review I thought he was gonna smack down a "C" or "D" with blood all over it. I think this review is a reality check. But you can't compare PS2 games with PSPs. Its totally in a different league. People say PSP is a dumbed down version of the PS2. But I beg to differ. Even if titles come from the PS2 to the PSP we shouldn't compare it. We should see it as a totally different game. Good review by the way. |
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| Posted: Mar 26th, 2008 at 2:52 pm |
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| Bad review ! |
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