Grand Theft Auto III Coming to iPad 2 and iPhone 4S

[Dreamer2go]

"the limitation makes some sense."

Fragmentation!!!!!!

how is that fragmentation...
you used this word wrongly there.......

 

[jmpnop]

playing that on a touchscreen is going to be a nightmare

maybe on the ipad it can be pulled off but not on a 3.5 inch screen

I'm sure Rockstar will optimize the controls for touchscreen, its going to be really good

 

[peperoni]

I wonder how crappy the controls will be... I remember GTA3 using about every button on the PS controller. There's just ain't no chance mapping those to a touch screen and being joy to use at the same time. Maybe they will just make it less capable.

 

[Albright]

Yes. GTA 3 for PSP is indeed called Liberty City Stories. "GTA3" is just shorter

GTA3 and GTA:LCS are different games, actually. Same city, and the storyline interweaves with that of the other games of the GTA3 series, but you play as a different character with a different plot doing different missions. Likewise with GTA:VC and GTA:VCS.

At any rate, have any of you played the Gangstar series? I've played them on my iPad and I think they did a very good job of capturing the feel of a GTA3-like game - far more so than the actual GTA iOS app. Granted, that was on an iPad and not a smaller device, but if Gameloft can pull it off, I'm sure Rockstar (or whoever is making the port) can too; at the very least, there's already a successful series of games they can crib off of.

 

[mattpreston11]

Using the logic that it took 10 years for a ps2 game to run on iphones.

Will we be playing full blown COD on our iphones in 2020?

 

[Xenc]

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Games like this are interesting on the iPad for a few minutes until you realize how awkward it is to play it with the iPad's controls.

I dunno man, Chinatown Wars for iPad was a really enjoyable game. I had to set the controls to analog and tweak the display settings a bit, but the payoff was well worth it!

 

[frozencarbonite]

I'm just really not a fan of playing these type of games on mobile platforms. I've tried the GTA knockoffs that are currently in the app store (and while I understand that Rockstar is capable of porting GTA III to iOS,) I just didn't like the controls.

I'd rather play casual games on iOS and leave games like this for the consoles.

 

[Dhelsdon]

What's the status of this?

Rockstar's website still says it's going to be released in the fall..

 

[mattpreston11]

What's the status of this?

Rockstar's website still says it's going to be released in the fall..

Also really eager to know the status of this. Will download it as soon as it hits.

Must be the 3rd or 4th time I've paid for this game..

 

[Cloudsurfer]

Look how far we have come.

I needed a super pc to play this game 10 years ago. Now I can play it on a phone. Do you know what games we played on our phones 10 years ago?

Monochrome 8-bit Snake.