THE PSP

Bottom Line
The PSP is an elegant portable device that excels at playing games and is a good music player, video player, and photo viewer. Regrettably, Sony continues to rely on propriety removable media formats to deliver the content.

Pros
Portable multimedia and gaming device that is well designed and easy to use. The 4.3-inch widescreen TFT LCD is simply beautiful. Built-in Wi-Fi for playing games against friends (or enemies).

Cons
Sony continues to rely on proprietary technology such as the Universal Media Disk (UMD) and the Memory Stick Duo format. System volume doesn't get loud enough. Lacks features found on dedicated music/video players.

Good roundup; although i'm not partiularly attracted to handhelds. The Games are't too innovative on the PSP, and the ports are dissapointing.

Grand Theft Auto is a series renowned for being a ‘gamers game’. That is to say, the game’s graphics have been largely unchanged since the revolutionary GTA III in 2001 – and Rockstar North, understanding that these graphics were perfectly adequate, then focused their attention on making the game itself better. This series was never about anything other than making very good games.

This is the first 3D GTA that hasn’t forged ahead with the expansion of the series – at least geographically. Many of the better improvements of the series have been dropped (perhaps out of necessity) such as airborne vehicles, and the RPG elements of San Andreas. This seems, at first, to be a worrying bit of GTA padding.

Make no mistake - this feels and plays just like a GTA game should; but Liberty City is too familiar. It feels like a game that’s already obsolete, but given a superficial face-lift. I already know the shortcuts from nearly five years ago, so I don’t feel like I’m exploring anymore.

However, after a while, you begin to ‘get’ it. Whilst it’s undoubtedly a step back for the series to re-use an old city, it does something all the other GTA games only do in passing. It adds to the characterisation of the overarching story. It makes you feel less like this is a one-off game and more like this is a part of something bigger – a universe in itself. At the end of the day? It's up to personal taste.