GTA: Liberty City Stories +17

It plays decently, and it's just as fun as I remember it on the PS2, though I tend to recall the colors being a whole lot more dazzling on there. While the sun glare is still very much present in this game, I think graphically speaking, the game was way more impressive on the consoles back then [obviously, seeing as this is a mobile port after all].

Unlike III, Vice City, and San Andreas however, this one has yet to be fully optimizied for the M1 computers, so you may or may not face issues regarding performance or crahses. I'm experiencing significant heating, as it takes roughly 50% of the GPU while playing, which is extremely unnecessary. It shouldn't require that much horse power. An optimization patch/update should hopefully fix this issue.

Lastly, for anyone choosing to play this on their computers, this has no mouse & keyboard support, so you need a controller in order to play the game properly, preferbaly a licensed one that can support the game all the way through the end.

I am running the latest IOS for iPhone 7plus. I had no issues with “Calm Before the Storm” glitching or crashing, however after getting to the second island and doing a ton of missions, it decided to crash after I completed the last mission for Leon McAffrey and received a call from Donald Love to go meet him. The “D” appeared back on the map - then it mysteriously disappeared, and I can’t complete anything else. Only icons that are showing are the Church bell, gun shops and my apartments. I can’t even do the Church Confessional missions, the app just closes. So now I’m stuck with money and guns and nothing to do except drive around and listen to Reni talk about nipple clamps (not I don’t love her commentary, but still.) I saved my game to the Social Club slot. I deleted the app and re-installed it and still no luck. The game was fun and brought back the memories from when I had it on my PSP... now it’s just a big disappointment. I have no issues with bugs or crashes with San Andreas on my iPhone, but this game is so frustrating. I am giving three stars in hopes that this can be fixed with some kind of update and because the game is fun - until it crashes.

Edit: Bugs/Crashes are gone, I am updating my review two years later but hey, why not. Five stars for a great nostalgic game!

This game is beautiful, from the graphics to the mechanics. It almost feels like I have this massive CPU on my phone; by how well the game is well run. However, there’s a lot of little/big things that need to change. For example, if the game is so greatly defined on graphics and gameplay, there should definitely be more in-game settings. There’s really only three options, besides the restore function. There should definitely be an auto save option. Which it definitely needs considering if and when this game crashes, everything you did 5 min prior to the crash, is non existent. Another flaw this game carries is when you fail a mission, you aren’t given the option to restart it, not even to your last “checkpoint” or a retry function. If you fail, you have to die, in order to get the taxi to restart your mission… and last but not least, the screen view position. How is it that your analog sensitivity is synced with the view position? I have to slide my finger in the center of the screen a hundred times, to get him to look 90 degrees. If I turn up the sensitivity, my movement analog then gets altered as well. That needs to change too. I think it’s something we deserve considering we have to download the app, than make a in-game purchase to play. Other than that, this game is 90% well put.