Failures often occur in the gaming industry when a large company commissions a younger brother to make a spin-off that does not claim to be the main game in the line. There are plenty of examples, my favorite is Uncharted: Golden Abyss by Bend Studio. But the collaboration between Rockstar Leeds (the main development studio of GTA: LCS and GTA: VCS) and Rockstar North (the main developer of the series, helped Leeds with Stories) cannot be considered one of these.
LCS - the background game of GTA 3 - has become a worthy portable GTA. The authors managed to preserve all the laws, genres, traditions of the series and at the same time add something of their own, new.
The game tells the story of Toni Cipriani, the same one who will be one of the bosses in the third part, several years before Clau… Read full