The iPhone’s got its first GTA title, and it looks pretty great. As teased before, this is a top-down GTA, and it’s a near-direct port of the Nintendo DS version, albeit with better graphics, and more awkward controls.
Touch Arcade’s had some time to run/jack/drive/murder their way around the game a little bit, and here’s what they noticed:
• The graphics are much better than they looked in the early screenshots, falling closer to the PSP version of the game than the DS version.
• The plot and writing are classic GTA, which is to say decent, and gratuitously profane. In a good way!
• The controls aren’t as awkward as they look. Note: they look very awkward.
• It’s a full-fledged GTA title, with integrated minigames, hours of gameplay and an appropriately high price: $13.
GTA: Chinatown Wars is live in the App Store. [Touch Arcade]
Steve
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 2:37 AMHigh price? That’s $13 for a game that would likely cost at least double that on either of the other consoles on which it’s available for. Sure that’s a high price compared to the plethora of $2 games on the App Store, but that’s not a very relevant comparison in this case.
Matt
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 10:00 AMPrice is fair considering the quality of the title and length of the game. Only question is I wonder how much play time you’d get considering the iPhone’s battery life?