Introduction to the GTA: Liberty City Stories we went wrong. "Yes, car is sliding, as ice" - slashed the truth-womb dedicated programmer Alexander Trifonov and gave the console to your submissive. Pokorny started the game again. Tony climbed into a black gang chlenovozku, started the engine ... and a couple of seconds to put on the car head angled mound marking the very first road in the game. The machine stood. Neither there nor here. "Well, hello, Liberty City - thought humble - how many years have passed, and I see you, have not changed."
 | Speaking of boring missions |
This attractive Chainsaw Massacre, which we anticipated with genuine lust, was one of the most boring missions. Total business and that he climbed into the hold of the ship and shoot a score of hired killers with chainsaws. The easiest way to do this by running them in circles. Any mistake - a cruel death and the need to overplay the job.
 | |  | Motorcycles in Liberty City Stories is, and no bike. The police, you know, has imposed a ban on the pedal means of transport. | | A wide selection of weapons and methods of its application - the traditional dignity of the game series Grand Theft Auto. |
GTA there for so long, and enjoys such incredible popularity that seems to have ceased to fit into a genre framework. No long been surprised that the characters instead of palm stump that doors and windows are painted on the facades of buildings that special forces goes through the city in tanks, and animation characters varies between mediocre and very bad. On the other hand, we are accustomed to not notice a lot of conventions and in other games: for example, soldiers in MGS see five feet ahead, and the characters Soul Calibur, pierced through with sharp iron things, only losing a small piece of health. Developers GTA perfectly mastered the science of vending the same game over and over again. GTA: San Andreas is not much different from GTA: Vice City, which is vaguely reminiscent of GTA3. Portable GTA as two peas similar to the non-portable.And the question is: what to write in the following sentence? "Hurrah, yet another GTA!» Or "stagnation and skukota?
| Up in the Air |
In Liberty City Stories is a helicopter, and you often have to deal with them. For example, in one mission to the earth to follow the bandit to the helicopter. And if you're serious pull out a police, they also necessarily cause for backup from the air. But here's the rub: most to sit behind the steering wheel and soar to a height of bird flight is impossible.
 | |  | Back in Liberty City from time to time starts to drizzle rain. It would seem a trifle, but it is through such small things GTA has achieved international recognition. | | You can steal any car, whether it's "Hammer", pozharka, ambulance or multi-ton tractor. We are waiting for that happy day when the GTA will mixer. |
Hurrah, yet another GTA! Toni Cipriani! Toni returns to Liberty City to serve your favorite mafia boss! Tony travels through the familiar streets, participating in street racing, delivers whores on clients, trades in sabotage, petty hooliganism and hired killings. Worthy of admiration for what the developers have managed to build a virtual city on the handheld console. The game loads a few seconds, traveling at areas of the city never stops screens Loading, and the only music from UMD is a tiny delay when the hero gets into the car and turns on the radio. Tony is arsenalische assault and sniper rifles, grenades, rockets, pistols, machine guns (and true baseball bat). Tony is the house where he can change, persist and stuff ... sorry, to be treated. There is a garage where you want to keep the machine is Paint'n'Spray and Ammunation and - attention! - Map of the city right in the main menu. And the world Liberty City Stories in a perpetual rich in adventure. You can pass plot tasks, deliver passengers a taxi to catch criminals in a police wheelbarrow to collect the secret packages, perform crazy stunts, and goodness knows what else. And roll around town with a deflated left rear wheel (the car lurches to one side, bad listening to) a cacophony of police sirens as fascinating as any other incarnation GTA.
| Neverending GTA |
In the latest financial report of the representatives of Take-Two Interactive did just two unexpected statement on GTA, a place which - in the news column, but not in the review. Firstly, GTA: Liberty City Stories will be released next year on the PlayStation 2, and secondly, the company is developing "an entirely new» GTA for the PlayStation Portable. Not a word more of the bosses of Take-Two to squeeze failed.
 | |  | Boats and water job in the game only for the mind. Sail, aimlessly, you will not be allowed. | | If you look closely in the background you can see a repeating texture - on the wall. |
On the other hand, sometimes you catch yourself thinking that the Liberty City Stories Do not let "Chinese imitation of GTA», but as a derelict to stardom. In San Andreas, each second mission completely demolishing the roof. In Liberty City Stories majority of jobs fit into the familiar framework of "Go and fetch". Mafia pals like Tony and good, but remember how crazy hippie drug dealer from San Andreas, so once someone is missing. Another very unpleasant when Tony falls into the water ... and drowns. It would seem that we all took a long time ago. Office turned out to be not so pleasant, as promised, and intractable camera no-no, yes bring Tony to death in the most violent missions. Avtopritselivanie avtopritselivaetsya anywhere, but wherever you want, but the shooting look like this: Two gangsters are the pillars opposite each other and devastate shops as long as one does not throw skates. Artificial Intelligence atrophied not only enemies, but friends who also heroically take to the breast all intended them to lead. The frame rate no-no and yes fall nizhi dozens, and riding a motorcycle can accelerate faster than the speed podgruzki and for a moment to fly to the ghost region of shoe boxes, painted windows which have not yet managed to transfer from UMD in memory of the console. Songs, talk shows and on radio reklamki repeated too often. The game is not optimized for the handheld console, you can only remain in the house, Tony, and if you play, for example, public transport, then rasprobovat did not really have time, as it will be necessary to go out.
| How broke PSP |
Urgently in the room! Hackers have cracked protection on firmware version 2.60 (latest at the moment). And they did it with GTA: Liberty City Stories. Executable code stored on the memory card under the guise of saves for GTA, then loaded into the game, and voila! Instead, the streets of Liberty City, you see, say, a self-made Tetris for the PSP. Exactly the same manner previously been compromised protection in firmware 2.01 and 2.50.
And then there's multiplayer, which tries to force one in ten owner Liberty City Stories. Playing online is not supported, the management is not adapted to duels together on huge maps do nothing, but to find their friends among the six virtual criminals can not everyone. It is a pity that the multiplayer game, for which were invented by several different regimes, remain largely ignored.
For all this, GTA: Liberty City Stories - it's definitely not a cheap attempt to cash in on the famous name. This skillful, interesting, confident game. Forgive us the lack of enthusiastic lines and declarations of love. Liberty City Stories, like an electron, combines two sets of quite different properties. It is both a "just the usual GTA on PSP» and "wow, this GTA on PSP». It hit that stole experienced Grand Theft Auto, and one of the best games for the PlayStation Portable. And that's probably worth looking to not remember the dozens of small "but". One of the best games for the PlayStation Portable. Point.
| Who calls the tune? |
In Liberty City Stories can upload their music tracks. But some unusual way. You need to download the program from the official site Rockstar Custom Tracks, which then converts tracks from audio CDs legally in the format recognized by the game. Use the tracks recorded on a memory card for PSP, it is impossible. Use of audio discs recorded on CD-R blanks, you can not. Use MP3, abundantly stored on a computer each, also impossible. Only legitimate discs. Of the sport by yours truly tried out the program in action, putting the disc from the personal collection.And what do you think? It works!
 | |  | Boot screen in GTA: Liberty City Stories are decorated in the typical style of the show. That such peasants decorated. | | When you play in GTA, you might get the impression that all women - hysterical whores. In fact, it is not. |
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