[TempEcho]

Click here for orginal (Dutch) article!

The dutch gaming site Gamez.NL has a news item about a PSP version of GTA. Confirmed is that it will be set in Liberty CIty.

But it will NOT be a direct port. All missions will be new. Rockstar expects to release the PSP version "somewhere in April , 2005" the dutch gaming website say's.

April , 2005! That's only like 4 months! I think that's because they can just use the same map and engine , because the PSP is allmost as good (processor / grapic card) as the PS2.

I hope that this time they will give it a reasonable ammount of marketing , we dont want it to be like GTA:Advance. I can allmost see myself sitting in the bus to school , giving some inocent people a new hole in their body

EDIT , here is a translated article , translated by : vALKYR:

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Rockstar surprised the world with the announcement of Grand Theft Auto for the PSP. Until now, more information of the game was released to the public. After the announcement, Rockstar made people think it was going to be a whole new story but that isn't completly true. The PSP Version of GTA is going to based on the very successful Grand Theft Auto 3. To call it a conversion of the original game might be wrong. All missions in GTA for the PSP are new. It is still unknown what elements of the other games (VC, SA) have been implemented in the new GTA. Distributor Take 2 Interactive wants to release the PSP Version of Grand Theft Auto somewhere in April 2005.

This post has been edited by TempEcho on Thursday, Jan 20 2005, 16:00

[Luke15]

Ahh kewl. So it will be set in Liberty city, but there will be much more things to do.

Nice find tempecho .

[GameMaster90]

Sweet, the best place of the GTA Series will now be portable, and probably 3D too.

Nice find, but I wonder who the main character will be? Maybe, it will be CJ, since he was in Liberty City before he went to San Andreas. I hope they add all the new features of the new GTA as well, that would kick arse.

[agent_1138]

QUOTE (GameMaster90 @ Jan 17 2005, 18:17)

Sweet, the best place of the GTA Series will now be portable, and probably 3D too. Nice find, but I wonder who the main character will be? Maybe, it will be CJ, since he was in Liberty City before he went to San Andreas. I hope they add all the new features of the new GTA as well, that would kick arse.

CJ in Liberty? That would be rad. I could go for more Claude missions too. Maybe an option to pick your character might work well on a hand-held.

You would assume that R* would take advantage of the wireless multiplayer and have some kind of racing or deathmatch in there somewhere, thus necessitating multiple player skins.

[Kanney]

Cool news, this is great. Nice find TempEcho!

[dex]

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Uitgever Take 2 verwacht Grand Theft Auto voor de PSP ergens in april uit te brengen

Er.. Take 2.. um.. GTA... erm... PSP.. uhh.. april..

GTA on PSP in April? lol

[Direct!]

You are correct.

[TempEcho]

Thank you , thank you! Well , you are right dex. ANd I hope GamerZ is right. It is a respected gaming site.

[Thorpe]

April isn't that far away. Wooo!

[shangrula]

yeah this game will be the reason I get a PSP, if I can afford it that is...

[vALKYR]

PlayStation Portable
PSP Version Grand Theft Auto based on GTA3
Rockstar surprised the world with the announcement of Grand Theft Auto for the PSP. Until now, more information of the game was released to the public.

After the announcement, Rockstar made people think it was going to be a whole new story but that isn't completly true. The PSP Version of GTA is going to based on the very successful Grand Theft Auto 3.

To call it a conversion of the original game might be wrong. All missions in GTA for the PSP are new. It is still unknown what elements of the other games (VC, SA) have been implemented in the new GTA.

Distributor Take 2 Interactive wants to release the PSP Version of Grand Theft Auto somewhere in April 2005.




Translated for you

-vAL

[TempEcho]

Thank you , I'll add it to the main post , was to lazy to translate the whole article.

[GameMaster90]

QUOTE (agent_1138 @ Jan 17 2005, 14:40)

CJ in Liberty? That would be rad. I could go for more Claude missions too. Maybe an option to pick your character might work well on a hand-held. You would assume that R* would take advantage of the wireless multiplayer and have some kind of racing or deathmatch in there somewhere, thus necessitating multiple player skins.

Didn't R* mention not too long ago that they were thinking of adding online multiplayer function for their next GTA Game?

Well, technically speaking, this is their next game. I mean, they gave us a little preview in San Andreas of what GTA is ala multiplayer looks like. Maybe they'll had 2-Player Wireless Rampages, or maybe even 15! I mean, the PSP is almost up to PS2 level, I'm sure R* would be able to squeeze some multiplayer features.

But, all we can do is wait.

[GTA Life]

I knew this for a month now tell me somthing I don't know.

[rippa]

well, gta 2 was multiplayer online, so they can accomplish it, thats for sure. lets just hope that they dont say [on april 1st] that it has super great features etc, then say april fools

[Sprunk Addict]

Haha! I wouldn't put that April Fool's prank past Rockstar! They like to screw with us.

It'll probably be a great game. I'll get the PSP just to play it, just like I did with the PS2.

[TempEcho]

GTA2 wasn't developped by the same people , or am I taslking bullsh*t now?

[Luke15]

No... youre not talking bullsh*t.

It was developed by the makers of Gta3.

[Sprunk Addict]

They did it under a different name, didn't they? Didn't Rockstar North used to be DMA?

[Thorpe]

I thought they purchased the company.