I played GTA 3 Vice City on the ps2 not that long ago. The draw distance was horrible. Not that much different then the average Gangstar game on most devices. The graphical pop-in of San Andreas for the Ps2 is pretty bad too. I expect that the Xbox would have performed better in this regard because it had more power underneath the hood. I'm just saying, if the draw distance of the port is so-so, you have to remember that the technical limitations of open-world games 10 years ago. I would expect the graphics and draw distance to be an improvement over the Ps2, to be honest. The controls, if they are decent, I'll be happy with that.
Okay I played the german version a bit and can answer the points. But before a side-information, I have set my iPhone to US region and language to US english, so if there is multilangual version it normaly gives me the english version then, can't stand the common german spelling errors in the german texts of the most translated apps So the small chance would be that GTA3 could be with english text and english violence, but sadly this version stays strictly german in text... ...and censoring, sadly to report, I attacked a citizen, he fell down without blood, and my figure kept fighting to the air horizontally, I killed 2 persons with the hidden machine gun, no blood at all. I had no blood when driving over citizens, no money left to collect up. Anyway, it is still fun in the german version even with the missing elements, and looks much better than my PC CD-ROM version, so I am going to keep it.
From papi jump to this in just a few short years... This is a landmark night for iOS gaming. I'm shocked at the low price point as I know most people would gladly pay $10 for this, but I'm not complaining.
This game runs so smooth on the ipod touch 4g, im seriously starting to think they have a vice city and san andreas port in the works.
I have both LCS and VCS from the german PSN store, if you set your german activated PSP to english, you have blood and stuff (Money from corpses) in the games, why didn't have Rockstar the balls to bring an uncensored german GTA3 version to iOS? They could even have it re-rated from the rating boards in germany costs maximum 12000 EUR if you have to appeal more than once until it's done, normaly less than 12000 EUR
Anyway, here are some screenshots from my iPhone 4S: The title screen: The loading screen: Classic intro: Gameplay impressions: Map impression:
On my 4S draw distance is pretty good, you are not seeing the landscape being built up on the horizon. Also there is nothing like a hard cut where everything after 40 meters ingame (or whatever) everything gets soft, like in Gangstar 2. However, there are very small texture pop ups, from small plants or small elements, these are not main pop ups, only small elements, doesn't disturb at all, after 10 minutes playing you won't notice it anymore. Yes, it is definitely universal, I have it here on my PC in iTunes under "iPad and iPhone apps". In the game it takes long until you get to serious weapon dealers or can finally buy armor in the shop, my tip, use on the first island the spot with a hidden machine gun and armor, respawns both after time:
Were the textures this ugly even playing on the PS2? Maybe I never noticed since I was playing GTA3 on a SDTV back then.
hmm bummer. Not sure if it´s worth it to set up another account for an uncensored version. Is money hard to get, if you can´t "rob" people by driving over them?
Corpse-money was never a source of main income, of any GTA game, you could try to bomb a money transport in GTA4, but generally persons in GTA, never give you relatively to taxi missions, other vehicle missions, or main game missions that much money. Cash pile with corpse-money takes way too long, doesn't make sense to rely on that. That's why I can get over it, that it's censored in the german version, because it's not important to the main gameplay.
The bad thing is that the game has 4.3 version ! My iphone has 4.0 and I will not upgrade the firmware for this game that I already played !!!
