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What you can expect when someone is shooting you?
While one can't expect Rockstar Leeds to use an analog stick that doesn't exist on the PSP, they did, however, include a free-aiming mode. To use this mode, you'll have to hold down the right shoulder button and then press down on the d-pad. Let me illustrate how well this does not work:
 "Look someone who wants to kill me! I'll just press and hold the right shoulder button, only now I'm facing the opposite direction (because the game decided that this unarmed pedestrian was my intended target). No problem, I'll just press down on the d-pad and switch to free-aim. Oww! Now my armor is gone. Still turning around, but I've almost got his head in my sights! Damn, I'm dead. I've lost all my weapons and I'll have to sit through two loading screens before I can start this mission again - and I'll have to drive to where the mission started. Well, my break is over, guess I'd better get back to work."
A loss of $50 bucks?
When you get past the déjà vu feeling of being in Liberty City again and accept the fact you're playing a console game on a handheld—with all the annoyance that decision brings with it—you can't help but be amazed that you're actually playing Grand Theft Auto on a handheld gaming system. Everything you've found in the past will be here to find again: packages, jumps, drugs, and even health bar friendly hookers. I dare say that Liberty City Stories will give you the best dollar per hour of entertainment ratio of any PSP game out there.
My problem is that I can't recommend this game to anyone who doesn't own a PSP because for the price you'd pay to pick up a PSP and a copy of Liberty City Stories, you could instead, pick up a PS2 and San Andreas. Nor can I in good faith recommend this to people who actually own a PSP because it's a disappointing handheld game. Liberty City Stories is a great Grand Theft Auto game, but it's really not going to be fun unless you have the time to sit down and dig into it. If you're going to do that, you might as well play either of the San Andreas console iterations and enjoy all the gameplay additions that we've become accustomed to in the last four years.
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