My. God. This. Game. 0wnz.
Seriously, I had this game in my hands about 1 hour after waking up and have found it difficult to put down. The PSP's battery eventually winning out and dying.
Normally, when you convert a series or game to a handheld medium, you tend to shrink it down too. Stuff is stripped from it, it's made more simple and in general quite a deal worse.
None of that has happened to GTA on the PSP.
In fact, what they've done is taken the core of GTA 3 - the main character and the city - and crammed a bunch of San Andreas into it.
Gone is the clunky graphics of GTA 3, the fudged physics, the empty streets, the unworkable HUD and all the aspects that makes GTA 3 almost impossible to play after San Andreas.
Everything feels much more polished and the graphics are genuinely lovely - only a few dodgy textures remind you that you're dealing with a game on a lower power than San Andreas.
It's classic GTA, it's portable and it's very, very playable. This is easily the title that ALL PSP owners must have and a fantastic reason to get one.
They even crammed in a multiplayer function for the first time - although it's not online. Had it been online, the game would have been even more perfect.
All we can hope for is some sort of Warpipe system for it...
Seriously, I had this game in my hands about 1 hour after waking up and have found it difficult to put down. The PSP's battery eventually winning out and dying.
Normally, when you convert a series or game to a handheld medium, you tend to shrink it down too. Stuff is stripped from it, it's made more simple and in general quite a deal worse.
None of that has happened to GTA on the PSP.
In fact, what they've done is taken the core of GTA 3 - the main character and the city - and crammed a bunch of San Andreas into it.
Gone is the clunky graphics of GTA 3, the fudged physics, the empty streets, the unworkable HUD and all the aspects that makes GTA 3 almost impossible to play after San Andreas.
Everything feels much more polished and the graphics are genuinely lovely - only a few dodgy textures remind you that you're dealing with a game on a lower power than San Andreas.
It's classic GTA, it's portable and it's very, very playable. This is easily the title that ALL PSP owners must have and a fantastic reason to get one.
They even crammed in a multiplayer function for the first time - although it's not online. Had it been online, the game would have been even more perfect.
All we can hope for is some sort of Warpipe system for it...