Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories review

Portability has its advantages, too. In a first for the franchise,Liberty City Stories throws in no fewer than seven multiplayer modes, all courtesy of the PSP's built-in Wi-Fi. Of these, Liberty City Survivor (a traditional deathmatch that lets up to six players tear around Liberty City and try to off each other) is easily the most fun, followed by Tanks for the Memories, in which players race to find a single tank and then try to blow up whoever gets in first. There are also a few variations on tag and capture-the-flag, a straight-up racing mode and a scavenger hunt where players try to find a marked car and bring it back to a goal.

If you get tired of listening to the game's licensed-but-obscure music (and its absurd talk-radio station), there's even a custom-soundtrack feature. But if you're thinking of listening to the MP3s stored on your PSP, think again: The only (official) way to get custom tracks is by downloading a program from Rockstar that rips and encodes music tracks from store-bought CDs. Way to stick it to the man, guys.