As you can see, there are times when the game looks stunning, but for every beautiful sky line there is a moment when the games looks dreadful. One thing I noticed in my time with Gangstar is that the presentation in the game is very uneven. Taking time away from the sometimes irritating missions to go skydiving, or on a murder spree with a flamethrower, provide a fun distraction. Besides the missions, the game has the the typical creatable insanity that makes Grand Theft Auto so fun on consoles. With some challenging missions (not helped by the controls), the game can get quickly irritating. A feature that is annoyingly missing, however, are mid-mission checkpoints. The story is not really original but exciting enough to have you keep going from mission to mission.Īnd there are a lot of missions, 75 in total, and the variety is impressive. And in the footsteps on many a Grand Theft Auto protagonist, he does this by becoming insane powerful people's errand boy.
Johnny is in pursuit of his brother who has gone missing in an bizarre alternate version of Miami where every fifth building looks the same and cloning has become widespread (okay maybe not but it seems like that). The story revolves around Johnny, a no-shit taking badass who looks like Sawyer from Lost. Boats are fast and more fun to drive, making you want to go by boat to your next objective more often than not. Helicopter and motorcycle suffer from the same issues, and the helicopter doesn't offer any alternate control scheme. Thankfully it is easy enough to change the driving settings to the vastly superior wheel option. Tilt to drive controls just don't feel right it feels like the game thinks you're holding the iPhone in a different way than you are, making over (or under) turning far too easy. But when you get behind a vehicle the issues with the controls rear their head. Shooting and taking cover feel fine (if a little unimpactful) and the virtual D-pad works surprisingly well. It makes the game look and feel more console-like, but the controls don't feel like they take advantage of the iPhone. And while Rockstar employed an top down view in its iPhone release, Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars, Gameloft has taken the risk of using an over the shoulder, third person camera here. Gangstar (that is a horrible name) Miami Vindication is an open world shooter in the vein of a Grand Theft Auto. Now, is your most recent game, Gangstar Miami Vindication, going to be among your better games, or did I just waste another 6 bucks on you? I've bought more of your games then I'd wish to say, and though about half of them have been complete crap I keep doing it. You seem to be the Asylum of iPhone games, copying the original games onto the iPhone hoping someone buys them out of the novelty of "CONSOLE GAME ON IPHONE WHAAAA". It seems that if your not making licenesed games for Ubisoft, you're ripping off console games and cramming them onto iPhone. Ah, Gameloft, have you not one original idea in your body?
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