Metareview: GTA: Liberty City Stories

By James Ransom-Wiley

Immunity? Inflation? Politics? What is it that's keeping Liberty City Stories at the top of the review chain? Sure, we're still awaiting a more diverse verdict, but as of this morning, not a single mainstream review has dipped below a 90%—and they're all full of complaints! The Legion of Rockstar has some kinda grip on this industry. We applaud the guys for making the transition to the PSP (there's no denying that achievement), but to not address the same bugs after four successive clones just isn't acceptable.

Say what?!...

  • OPM (90/100) – "...will have you seething
    with anger at fairly regular intervals..."

  • 1UP (90/100) – "Sadly the
    game's biggest issue is the combat system. It still suffers from basically the same problems that we saw in
    GTA3..."

  • IGN (90/100) – "...the lesser than cool objectives sit near the beginning. And by less-cool, you should understand that they're mind-devastatingly bad."

[via Metacritic—be sure to check out the user comments... "This one is quite underwhelming."]

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