Rockstar provided us with an early copy of the iOS port, and it makes me want to send a message back in time to my 2005 self that says, “Hey, deal with the ghosting and load times, this game is great.'Īs you’ve probably guessed, Liberty City Stories takes place in the same Liberty City as Grand Theft Auto III ($4.99), but what’s extra cool about this visit to Liberty City is that the game got the upgrades the rest of the series saw over the years including indoor environments, motorcycles, better camera movement, and other quality of life improvements that we just sort of take for granted now. Severe ghosting on the screen of my first-generation PSP made the game real hard for me to enjoy playing, and while from a critical perspective it was received incredibly well, I never really got that far into it. Compared to other games in the series, Liberty City Stories was never that memorable to me. The top down Grand Theft Auto Advance felt particularly dated, sandwiched in between the launch of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas ($6.99) and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, which both (obviously) were full-blown 3D titles. Sure, there were GTA games on the Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Color, but those games totally embodied the whole early handheld gaming scene, as they were toned down versions of GTA in every way the game could possibly be toned down and as a result of that really just weren’t that great. Originally released for the PlayStation Portable just a little over a decade ago, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories ($6.99) was the first “real' portable GTA game.

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