'Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories' on iOS: Rockstar Promises 'Shorter, Streamlined Mission' for iPhone and iPad Gamers
Developer Rockstar Games has announced a new "GTA" game that is now available to play on mobile devices. iOS device owners can now download "Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories," while Android and Amazon device owners need to wait a while longer for their versions.
Rockstar has remastered the original game for the iOS, designing it with mobile gameplay in mind. The game provides players with "shorter, streamlined missions" running in 60 FPS and with the following features:
- New high resolution textures and character art
- Real-time lighting and shadows
- Enhanced draw distance
- Rebalanced controls for touch-based gaming
- Cross-platform cloud saves via the Rockstar Social Club
- 3D Touch support for multiple control options
- Custom soundtrack support
- Physical controller support
- Native retina screen support including the iPad Pro
- Create and listen to a custom playlist while playing
Rockstar is also going to give away a I Heart LC t-shirt as part of a promotion for the newly released mobile version. To get it, players need to download the game and sign into the Social Club. The shirt is free at any GTA Online clothing store.
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Set in a fictional New York, "Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories" introduces players to the ability to change their character's clothes and ride motorcycles. The original game released on Sony's PSP handheld device 10 years ago.
"Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories" is the latest game in the series that has been made available to mobile devices. Other "GTA" games already available on mobile include "GTA: San Andreas," "GTA: Vice City," "GTA: Chinatown Wars," and "GTA III."
The game can be purchased for $6.99 at iTunes for iPhone 5 and 6 series, iPad Pro, iPad Air/Air 2, iPad Mini 2/3/4, sixth-generation iPod Touch, and fourth-generation iPad. "Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories" will also come to Android and Amazon devices "soon."
