Here's what the game looks like without the "Top-Down" perspective.



And the Graphics are beautiful compared to the DS version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75XOKIRQ9xQ

quote Epsilon Freak

I think this game will bring us back to the roots of the series

For my taste, they went into roots that are just a little too far back for my taste. Sorry, but GTA: Tetris just seems a little lame. They should have made it 3D.

What exactly do you mean by 3-D? Did you see my pictures? It is 3-D.

Watch these videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HaIlgGZQoc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cg0H7L3Olk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp2GG3l-EPQ&feature=channel

This game is the real deal.





This message was edited by Epsilon Freak on Oct 31 2009.

quote Lukaeu

No, like I said it's 2D/3D graphics. However the more I watch, the less I like. :<

having a high-angle camera doesn't make a game 2d >__>

i'm playing this one far more than i've ever played the other psp GTAs, i don't get why everyone is hating it so much.. it's way more fun than the others imo :\

You know, in the first two GTA's the buildings were 3-D, but peds, cars, boxes, and even explosions were 2-D.

quote BANDITO ATTACK

having a high-angle camera doesn't make a game 2d >__>

No, but it makes the gameplay 2D, at least in all the ways that matter to most gamers, myself included. I messed around with GTA I and II, which I have for the PS1 and the games play on my PS3, and it was absolutely Godawful! I am sure it was great back in 1995 before real 3D sandbox games could ever be made with the PC's and consoles of that day, but now? When we have FULL 3D capabilities in all the consoles and in even the worst current PC's?

I don't get it, not for the PSP, which both LCS and VCS proves is capable of a lot more. I understand doing this crapfest "Isometric" (glorified 2D) view for the DS, which is not capable of rendering a world the size of Liberty City in 3D. So I can see grading the game on a curve for that platform. But to port it over and KEEP IT 2D (iso-crap-metric) in a console that is not limited like the DS is absolutely criminal.

quote ChiroVette

No, but it makes the gameplay 2D,

good point. :0

tbh i think this port was made to recoup any losses which mave had occurred by putting this game on the DS in the first place. if I remember correctly, it sold poorly, while the psp has a bigger gta audience. there didn't have anything to lose with a quick port (tho it may look a bit better on the psp) for some extra income from a failed project.. this was NOT a game made with the possibilities of the psp in mind, and it probably would have been quite a hassle re-scaling all of the objects and textures to work in a 3rd person view, then adding all the necessary mechanics and whatnot to go with it just for a port. i don't think they were really trying to do all that work when they already had a very functional game.

Yeah and I am sure it is an okay game for "what it is," but for me that just doesn't cut it. It's like Rockstar has lost the focus on what I will now call the GTA middle-ground most of the fanbase loved. Look at the order of events:

1. GTA IV comes out with a horrendous focus on graphics, a morbidly depressing storyline, and absurdly limiting gameplay featuring realism over fun.
2. Many fans like me revolt and no longer consider ourselves "GTA fans" because of the loss of what we loved about GTA.
3. Rockstar then releases a primitive, backward, horrible excuse for a GTA game on the PSP that looks more like GTA: Colorforms than a bonafide sandbox game, as if sticking our noses in our complaints that GTA IV was "too realistic" by making this 2D top-down crapfest labelled as GTA.

What? Was that supposed to be funny?

i hate top view games. it hurts my eyes and makes me dizzy, period. the game looks pretty fun, but imma have to skip it. i don't want to be having seizure or anything like that.

then that makes some of u here r hater cause rockstar took and maded a new of 2D and 3D to make a to make a new kind of game think about it

I got this game, It is very fun, I got used to the high angle camera right away, the city was well done, there where all the land marks; Star Junction, Middle Park, The Statue of Happiness, The 69th Street Diner, very accurate to GTA IV's Liberty City or so I thought,