GTA: Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories deserve the Definitive Edition treatment

GTA: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition’s launch in 2021 was dreadful. That we can all agree on. But the fact remains that Rockstar didn’t abandon the re-release and ended up delivering three years later even if many disgruntled fans moved on long before that work was done. With GTA 6 still missing a firm 2025 release window and hype through the roof, it’s not strange to think about replaying some past entries, and perhaps it’s time to bring back two underrated handheld installments.

Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories, released in 2005 and 2006 respectively, are among the best PSP games of all time. The pitch back when Sony’s handheld was the hottest piece of portable hardware on the market was having fully-fledged 3D Grand Theft Auto games on the go. That sounded like utterly insane talk before LCS was first unveiled, but it somehow happened and was great. Far from being downgrades of what we’d experienced with GTA 3 and Vice City, they added new places, storylines, and even mechanics to locations we’d already visited on home consoles and PC. You just had to be there.