Great For What it’s Worth
Tue Feb 11 2025 OverKillExpertFor a game that is under $10 and ported to a phone platform, this game over performs. This is an underrated entry into a much beloved franchise, and delivers a nostalgic experience within Liberty City. With over 50 vehicles, many special outfits, and an expansive storyline, it is baffling that people complaining are taking for granted the fact that this is a fully fledged GTA title that functions on a mobile phone. Another reviewer mentioned they purchased this game after GTA 3 DE was removed from Netflix, and I cannot emphasize enough that Liberty City Stories is not a remastered or definitive edition, but rather a port of the original 2005 PSP title. Although the game can be dated and clunky often times, the amount of content and fun that you can have within this pocket sized GTA game is beyond impressive. The performance of the game is outstanding on more modern iPhones such as the 14, and features controller support which I would highly recommend for smoother gameplay. The touch screen control scheme still offers more accessibility for those who don’t own gamepads or are traveling. All in all, I think most of the bad reviews here are from people who don’t understand or appreciate the original 3D era GTA titles, and or folks who played the game for maybe 10 minutes and didn’t give it enough of a chance.
Slight heating issues
Mon Sep 02 2024 CrycassIt 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.
Crashing crashing crashing.
Fri Oct 09 2020 KerryoopsI 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!
Amazing graphics, in settings bugs
Wed Jan 10 2024 MaxxOnTheBeatThis 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.
Beautiful Game
Fri Dec 30 2016 ianaarongrapesryanivanThis game was really well done 5/5 with a great story, good characters, and intensely beautiful remastered graphics. I love the 60 fps which makes the gameplay amazing, the things that you can do in the game are endless, the outfits are really cool. I think the superhero outfit is suppose to reference the marvel superhero "Daredevil" because the outfit is mostly yellow which daredevil's suit used to be yellow, the outfit has a holster which sticks would fit inside since Daredevil uses sticks, the outfit has a letter on the chest which Daredevil has 2 D's on his chest, the outfit's mask has the mouth uncovered exactly like Daredevil's mask, the outfit's model is exactly like Daredevil's ,but except missing the horns, and Daredevil is in New York while this game is set in Liberty City which is coincidently based off New York. Overall this game is a masterpiece, it is better than GTA 3, and I recommend buying this if you want to experience what a masterpiece feels like in the palm of your hands.
Great game.
Sat Jul 16 2016 Minecraftlover1111111111111This game is very good if you own a new device. If you play on a iPad 2 or something like that it runs like garbage. Once you do the game you can do side missions or get hidden packages. Only one complaint is there is no multiplayer, on the psp there was and it was fun. Could free rom,race,and pvp. So in a update or even vice city story's you could add this in. Even if it is just local, online would be amazing, just playing that hunter mode or playing around. Can't wait for it. I would play that all day. Thanks for reading. That is why the Mobile games where so fun. If you had someone to play with you could do a lot of things, kinda like gta online. Bluetooth or even lan is great. Made them special for having a real multiplayer where we can move where ever unlike gta sa where your stuck on one screen and have to be near each other. Adds hours of game play to a already fun game.
Awesome
Wed Aug 24 2022 PopTartIVI actually think this game is a perfect re-make of the original. I didn’t have any problems with it crashing except if I was trying to jump out of a vehicle that was on its side and I was up against the wall. And even then it didn’t crash it just had me stuck in the air and I could not do anything. But I went right through it beat it and started doing the little side missions in races. I do wish rockstar would go ahead and put out the remaining games they had in the past so we can play it on iOS. especially red dead pistols.? I think that’s what it was called. It’s the first in the series of red dead redemption. I want to say it was on a PlayStation 2. anyways this is a great game of beating the other ones they have redone now I’m lost without any more GTA on my iOS. Please add more.
Great Port from PSP! Looks Amazing!
Sat Dec 24 2016 BobaaganooshI remember having this game on my PSP back when they first came out. It was the first game I ever had for it. It looks even better on my iPhone 7. I really don't remember the game looking this good on my PSP back in the day. It looks reeeeallly good now on here. To me, this one is better than the original GTA 3. The mission are better, the graphics look good, and the characters are more likable.
There's more side stuff you can do like be a care salesmen to make some extra money on the side. You can also change your clothes in your apartment. If you're a fan of the GTA series at all in the slightest, get this game. It's worth every penny. Now all we can do is hope they release Vice City stories.
Mission Bug
Fri Sep 18 2020 MiniPekka19I bought this game one week ago and everything went well until I start a mission for Maria or Leone. When I start the mission, the game crash, and one time I spend 10 minutes just to see if the game comes back to normal but not. I paid $5 just to play a game that crashes during the missions. I have to do the missions to unlock the full map and besides that, the game is not playable without any missions because it doesn't have a multiplayer option. I don't know if Rockstar Games is gonna fix the bugs in these games because I think they quit updates them and that's sad. They focus more on Grand Theft Auto 5 multiplayer updates and forgets about the games on iPhone/iPad/other androids.
Hopefully, an update will come sooner or later, looking forward for any advice regarding how to fix this bug.
Hopefully, they will add Grand Theft Auto Vice Coty Stories because that's the only GTA missing from the pack. Grand Theft Auto 4 & 5 won't be for a long year's, that's for sure. I gave 1 star because I want to get Rockstar Games' attention or anyone else attention.
THIS HAS TO BE A PS4 GAME!!! NO BS!!!
Mon Oct 05 2020 junebugg luIma be honest I’ve played all the grand theft autos on computer psp ps3 Nd ps4 and the only real reason I’m actually impressed with this game is because of the graphics hands down idk how they did this updated but I feel like the graphics are better then ps3 and when I’m playing This game I literally feel like I’m playing a ps4 so I wana thank thank rockstar company for supporting real life rockstars with great games like this and I do pray in the future your guys release another rockstar bundle which would have the rest of the grand theft auto games such as vice city stories if not I’m hoping that there will be some kind of crazy awesome update that will ad grand theft auto vice city stories on to this bundle
