Grand Theft Auto 3 17+

this is probably my favourite pedestrian splatter game besides the first carmageddon for iOS. I mean in vice city peds don’t seem to spawn when your driving and they only seem to appear when you slow down. and in San Andreas it feels more realistic where you tend to slow down when running into somebody but this game truly masters the gore effects and the music is really nothing special but there is some hardcore cheesy hip hop and half of the scarface soundtrack to keep you going! and it runs perfectly for the most part but does tend to glitch out at times when you’ve gotten half way through the story and have to lose all your progress because you can get out of a vehicle or your character won’t move. which is why I’m going to start using cloud storage but like I said it seems to be a problem with the vehicles like the beach buggy (Bf injection) where I was in the car and turned the game off only to come back the next day and found that when I tried to exit the vehicle the game crashed. but hopefully that can be fixed

If you didn’t play GTA III back in the day, this is a fun game with a tonne of missions, decent touch screen controls and a good way to kill time on your phone.

If you played GTA III back in the day, it’s all here for you, plus some added extra control features for the touch screen:

*Map accessible by touching top corner
*On-foot camera rotation
*Vehicle camera rotation
*Better textures and effects

It loses a few of the PC updates, the most noticeable being the aim function - your character simply shoots whoever is closest to them when pressing fire.

The game also supports wireless controllers, and I have been playing on a PS4 controller with my iPhone connected via HDMI to my TV with the official Apple Lightning HDMI Connector. There’s no lag and the game runs smoothly. When playing via controller the additional touch screen features of the control scheme aren’t accessible, meaning that you just play the bog standard PS2 version. I’m not sure if the ability to camera swap was available on PS2 - if so they should add that function to the controller.

Overall I haven’t quite left the first island yet after about 5 hours of playing, but so far the experience has been a good one!

The game itself is the classic of course. The main thing is it feels more arcade physics than before. The controls for mobile platforms are intuitive however, when using a controller it needs a customise button functions. These days the controls feel more natural unlike in the classic games. A button for acceleration is a little annoying now for hand positioning/coordination.
A custom controller configuration would go a long way. But all in all, fantastic to get these games on a phone to take with you everywhere.