Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (2005) (VG)

User Rating:

8.4/10   

Director:

Navid Khonsari

Writers:

Lazlow Jones (radio station scripts) and
David Bland (writer)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller

Plot:

There a million stories in Liberty City. This one changes everything. Toni Cipriani, a once trusted guy...

Plot Keywords:

Mafia | Car Crash | Mob Violence | Criminal | Blood Splatter

Cast

Frank Vincent	...	Salvatore Leone (voice)
Danny Mastrogiorgio	...	Toni Cipriani (voice) (as Daniel Mastrogiorgio)
Will Janowitz	...	Donald Love (voice)
Joe Lo Truglio	...	Vincenzo 'Lucky' Cilli (voice)
Fiona Gallagher	...	Maria Leone (voice)
The Greg Wilson	...	Joseph Daniel 'J.D' O'Toole (voice) (as Greg Wilson)
Ron Orbach	...	Leon McAffrey (voice)
Peter Appel	...	Ray Machowski (voice)
Hana Moon	...	Toshiko Kasen (voice)
Peter Bradbury	...	'Father' Ned Burner (voice)
Sondra James	...	Ma Cipriani (voice)
Joel Jones	...	Giovanni Casa (voice)
Keenan Shimizu	...	Kazuki Kasen (voice)
Duccio Faggella	...	Massimo Torrini (voice)
Chris Tardio	...	Mickey 'Hamfists' (voice)

Also Known As:

GTA: Liberty City Stories (International: English title) (informal title)

Country:

USA

Language:

English | English

Color:

Color | Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

UK:18 | Australia:MA | Ireland:18 | Singapore:M18 | USA:M

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Rockstar Games

Trivia:

Was originally released on the Sony PSP in October 2005, and later released for the Playstation 2 in June 2006.

Goofs:

Plot holes: In the mission "Snappy Dresser" Toni is supposed to make photos of Giovanni Casa in the woods wearing diapers. When he tells his mom about it, she replies: "Is this how you spend your time? Sneaking in the woods taking pictures of men?" Ma Cipriani couldn't know of Casa's and Toni's stay in the woods without seeing the photos.

Quotes:

Vincenzo Cilli: Oh, it's YOU!
Toni Cipriani: Yeah, how 'bout that. It's me, what do you know?

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)

Soundtrack:

Living For the Future (FBD Project Remix)

Not as good as Vice City or San Andreas but still worth getting.

Rated M for Violence,Language and Sexual Content.

I recently got a PS2 which came with a controller,memory card,3 PS2 games and 1 PS1 game for a good price.I didn't play the GTA series when it first came out starting with GTA3 in 2001.I started loving the series in 2005 when I got GTA Vice City for Christmas.I loved it.I then got San Andreas and thought it was the greatest video game of all time.I had GTA2 as well.Now with my new PS2 I play Liberty City Stories which was originally out for PSP.This game costs $30.00 and it is definitely worth it.Remember this is a PSP port and PSP is not as good as PS2 so the game is definitely not as good as GTA San Andreas or even Vice City actually but it is still a good addition in the series.Liberty City Stories takes us back to Liberty City(where GTA3 took place).The year is 1998 and you play as Toni Cipriani.During the game you do various missions for different people just like in the other GTA games.When you are not playing missions you can steal cars,kill people and just plain be a cold-hearted criminal.The storyline in all the GTA games are good with Vice City having the best one.The storyline in this game is pretty good as well.There are some parts of the game that are not too good.First of all the soundtrack.Just like in Grand Theft Auto 3, aside from the classical music station and the 1980's station the other music is re-created.Not real music.It is re-created well but we want music that was popular for the time.Actually out of the whole series, this game has the worst soundtrack.Flashback FM is the best radio station in my opinion but there aren't that many good songs there either.Even in GTA3 the only good station was Flashback.It had some good songs from the Scarface soundtrack but there were so little songs.I like 80's music and GTA Vice City provided the best radio station with actual songs from the 1980's.San Andreas had classic rock from the 70's and great rap and rock songs from the early 90's.If the soundtrack was better the game would be on-par with GTA Vice City.Anyway Liberty City Stories is a good addition in the GTA series but don't expect that much since its a port from PSP.

10/10