GTA III 10th Anniversary Ed announced for iOS, Android

LONG LIVE GRAND THEFT AUTO III. *puts fist in the air*

Agreed! Although it’s going to be tough to get it working with touchscreen controls in an intuitive fashion mind you =/

Blimey, how far we have come in such a short amount of time!

Jesus. I must’ve thought at some point “imagine if you could play this on a phone”.

Damn future, you scary!

Just think about it. In another 15 years or so, GTAIV will probably be a freebie on the Android Market, with ads between levels to generate income.

Lawl.

Insane how this isn’t coming out on the experia play?? :O

Controlling this is going to be a bitch, but this could be the first game i pay for off the android market
Galaxy S2 FTW

@5, i can see that being a reality in much less then 15 years.
Soon enough we’ll all be walking around with I7′s in our pockets

@2&@6 Why? Chinatown Wars is pretty decent to control on my iPad.

@7

Yeah, but the perspective is entirely different. Chinatown Wars is top down, whereas (if they attempt to do a like-for-like port) GTA 3 will take a third person perspective behind the character.

@8 yeah, I know. I assume they would do it the CW way but who knows …

GITS, only the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S run this? STUPID!

Here’s me hoping they’d bring it to Windows Phone 7

@10 Anything less than those two iDevices probably don’t have enough memory or processing power to run it. There’s probably some heavy emulation going on, so the specs aren’t going to be 1-to-1 with the PS2 original.

Most of the Android devices in that list are pretty high end too.

@11

Indeed, the common factor amongst their target platforms (both iOS & Android alike) is the Dual-CPU architecture it seems.

Hence why the likes of the iPhone 4 and Xperia Play are excluded.

Getting the game onto the platform is no problem, just look at Liberty City & Vice City stories on the much weaker PSP, the problem would be the touch controls. While emulating controls on-screen can work, it’s still too poorly implemented for me to consider 3D gaming, I’d need a gamepad. I don’t know why Google, Apple (& to a lesser extent, Microsoft) have left mobile-gaming peripherals virtually unchecked.

I guess it doesn’t really matter when most of us who actually want to play 3D games on the go will end up grabbing the PSV, which will hopefully receive all the premium games that iOS & Android receive, I’d rather conserve the already insignificant smartphone battery life for it’s intended purpose, phone calls.

@13 The PSP had the benefit of having internal hardware architecture similar to the PS2. It was very easy to port stuff from the PS2 to the PSP, and vica versa.

@14, Still, if the PSP had enough power to display games of that quality, why don’t current smartphones offer many games as detailed as those? Sure some look pretty good, but I don’t know of many 3D sandbox games comparable to GTA VC/LC Stories.

@15 Because the smartphone market appeals to people who want low cost, casual experiences – pick up and play stuff that you can enjoy for a few minutes when you’re bored.

A €30 epic is not going to sell on a smartphone.

Casual pick up & play experiences can still sell for a lot of money, just look at Move, Kinect & the majority of DS & Wii games, many of which being lower quality than high end iOS & Android games.

“It was, without any shadow of a doubt, the first true open-world game of its kind.”

Apart from Elite. And Mercenary. Et cetera.

Tch, kids!

I honestly couldn’t give a flying f*** about this, and that’s me putting it nicely. I would much rather go back and play my PS2 version again.