Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (PS2)

Advantages: Addictive / Interesting Political Issues
Disadvantages: No Online / No Multiplayer / Square Graphics / Offends easily

...no secret how successful the Grand Theft Auto games have become since the GTA III on the PS2. Liberty City Stories is in fact the seventh instalment in the GTA series and is available on both the PS2 and the PSP, where it is the best selling game of all time for the handheld. Why release it though onto the PS2? Is it really any good? Has it got anything original to bring compared to the other plethora of GTA titles already available? The game itself ...
...and society. Visually, Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories follows in the footsteps of its predicessors and I've got to be honest that's not a great thing. At basic level the game works quite well visually allowing for a fair amount of detail to be invloved in every item, object and building but in terms of quality im afraid it simply just shows itself up. The main problem for me is the ernourmous amount of pop-up that reminds you of the old PSOne ... Read review

Advantages: New GTA missions and storyline, good design, great driving sections, cheap
Disadvantages: Old GTA problems - combat, no helicopters, few in-door locations, technically dated

...notable one – a new Grand Theft Auto game, which no doubt will have softened the blow somewhat. The fourth PS2 instalment of the mega-successful GTA franchise sees you controlling Toni Cipriani, a man who has returned to the Leone crime family after a time in exile, where he finds a chaotic struggle developing between crime syndicates over control of the city. The location in question (as you might well have guessed from the title) is Liberty City ...
...of 2001's Grand Theft Auto 3, though LCS is set slightly earlier in 1998. There's good news and there's bad news. The good news is, it's a decent enough conversation of the PSP edition and represents decent value as it was initially released at the budget price of £14.99 and for that, you get a full-sized GTA game complete with fifty-odd new missions. The bad news is, those expecting the next chapter in the series evolution post-San Andreas (or ... Read review

Advantages: Huge free roaming area, Days of gameplay, loads of missions, custom soundtrax!
Disadvantages: Price for PSP, Same islands as 1st 3D GTA

---STORY--- There are a million storys in liberty city. This one changes everything. Once a trusted wise guy in the leone crime family, Toni Cipriani was forced into hiding after killing a made man. Now he's back and it's time for things to be put right. The streets of liberty cityare in turmoil. Warring mafiosi vie for control as the town begins to self-destruct under waves of political corruption, organised crime, drug trafficing and union strikes. ...
...up the mess of the city's chaotic underworld. Deranged hit men, morally depraved tycoons, cynical politicains and his own mother stand in hi way as Toni tries to bring the city under leone control Forced to fight for his life in an odyssey that will shake liberty city to its foundations, Toni must use any means necessary to secure his place in the leadership of the leone family in a town up for grabs. ---COST--- If you are buying this on PSP it ... Read review

Advantages: long life, great game play, addictive
Disadvantages: not a truely new GTA title, some "fogging"

...mean not only is the Grand Theft Auto name probably the most well known and popular series at the moment, this is the best game available on PSP to date. However that may all change when the latest version (Vice city Stories) is released in about a months time. I suppose I should try to start with a description of exactly what the game is about and the types of game play involved. However that is almost an impossible task in itself because this ...
...play the role of a young, low life mafia thug (Vincent Vinchetti I think but i may be wrong) that lives in liberty city. Your task (at least to develop the plot of the game, theres more to the game than this but i will come onto that later) is to complete a number of missions given to you by local mafia bosses and low life scum. These mission vary in their difficulty and diversity but generally can be considered as either driving missions or killing ... Read review

Advantages: Gameplay of a handheld game
Disadvantages: lacks a few features

...cheats like they were in grand theft auto san andreas. Its an ok game for the PSP console on its ow and i first game but its not original and it would be terrible if they brung out this new vice city stories that everyone is talking about tho. The graphics are pretty sharp for a first game aswell and the cars look very nice. There are new cars and 1 of the best and simple new features added to this game was the feature of motorbikes which was pretty ...
...that unfortianly. Grand theft auto liberty city stories for PS2 is not going to be very good. If its an exact remake of grand theft auto liberty stories for the psp then it will be waay to simple as the psp only has 1 analog stick and they ps2 2!! its going to be way to simple. Grand theft auto liberty city stories is really the main reason i bought my psp and im sure its the reason most people bought a psp but that fact is ruined now as the announcment ... Read review