

"🚨 🎲 Ready to roll the dice on a life of crime? Then the city of Las Vegas is waiting for a gangster like you! Upgrades Controls Android, iOS Microtransactions The game world may be traversed on foot or by vehicle. Just don't expect a comparable experience when it comes to overall quality.Gangstar Vegas is a third-person open-world action-adventure video game the graphical perspective is capable of being panned.

Of course, Gangstar Rio: City of Saint's other irksome shortcomings haven't been addressed en route to Xperia Play, but if you're a fan of GTA and crave something along the same lines, it's worth taking for a ride. Walking and driving are now mapped to the left-hand analogue pad, and other controls are assigned to proper buttons.Īs a result, Gangstar Rio: City of Saints controls like a dream, and this definitely makes a difference when it comes to user enjoyment. Mercifully, the Xperia Play's physical interface eradicates much of that frustration. On iOS, it felt as if you were constantly at war with the touchscreen - simply guiding your nefarious avatar around the streets of Brazil's second city was a little too similar to pulling teeth. While the original, and disappointing, iPhone version's (which Keith reviewed not so long ago) penchant for morality-free shooting sprees remains intact, one thing this Xperia Play edition does solve is the pitiful control system. Gameloft has no such talent with jokes, unfortunately, and as a result its clone comes across a little too straight-faced - something which is exacerbated by that aforementioned pre-load warning.

Killing is fine, but swearing? Don't do it, kids.īut, then the maker of the Gangstar series has always had trouble deciding just how far to take its GTA copycat routine, and while Rockstar's franchise 'boasts' similar levels of carnage to the Gangstar instalments, Rockstar is savvy enough to throw a bit of humour in there, too. It's a bizarre admission, especially for a game which promotes the wholesale slaughter of innocent bystanders and generally revolves around filling people with so much lead it's a wonder they don't magically morph into pencils. Upon installing Gangstar Rio: City of Saints on your Xperia Play, you're greeted with a sober warning stating that the game contains rude words which should not be reproduced in the real world.
