It’s hard to believe it came out ten years ago, but when it first popped up on the PlayStation 2 back in 2001, Grand Theft Auto 3 was a revelation: the very first true 3D open world game, filled with fast driving cars, casual gunplay, irreverent humor and an obsession for low-brow thuggery for which Rockstar Games has become famous.
From Grand Theft Auto III, a whole series of games was born, including Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Grand Theft Auto IV.
Now Grand Theft Auto III is coming to iOS on October 28th. It’ll only work on an iPad 2 or iPhone 4S, and time will tell how Rockstar handles the controls, but this is exciting indeed. iOS already has a GTA game in Chinatown Wars, but as excellent a game as it is, it isn’t a 3D open world.
Me? I’m just hoping this heralds the release of Vice City or San Andreas next year. The former’s my guilty favorite, and the latter GTA4 didn’t even come close to matching.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
12 responses to “Grand Theft Auto III Is Coming To An iPad 2 Or iPhone 4S Near You!”
how about just getting it into the mac app stores in all countries? Oh, I hate the german App Store Censorship -.-
The PSP has done mobile GTA for years now in full 3D and you’re telling me the iPhone 4 or even the 3GS couldn’t pull off the graphics?Â
I don’t understand why this wouldn’t work on the iPhone 4 or iPad Mk 1. The hardware for the original Playstation wasn’t much. Heck it ran well on my 600 Mhz Celeron maxed out with 256 MB of RAM when it came out for the PC. UT2k4 engine based Infinity Blade has much more complicated graphics and it works great on the iPhone 4. Luckily I’m going to get the iPhone 4S but it is ridiculous that this game couldn’t be released earlier.
*sigh* I love this idea, but frankly all FPS gaming I’ve tried on the iPhone/iPad just sucks. Nobody has really thought up a good way to turn “keyboard/console” games into enjoyable play on a touch device. Example battlefield bad company 2, and have to find all those little on-screen controls with your finger all the time, just was not fun.
Yer i’m with you on that, there needs to be a external controller for the iOS devices to replace the touch screen. it (the touch screen) is better for some games but not for FPS’s.
1 reason I can think of is as its a port it will need higher specs EG with Aspyr Games for Mac needing higher specs.