GTA and Midnight Club 3 Come to PSP

That's right - Rockstar's biggest properties are cruising their way to PSP.

The Grand Theft Auto series is undoubtedly the success story of the current hardware generation and now it's coming to the PSP. Rockstar has announced that it is working on a portable instalment for Sony's new handheld that will again take place in Liberty City.

GTA on PSP will be set in GTA3's Liberty City,
but Rockstar is promising an all-new adventure

But while the location is the same, it's not clear whether Grand Theft Auto for PSP will be a remake of Grand Theft Auto III or if this will be a new game based in the same city, perhaps set at a different time.

The announcement does, however, refer to it as a "brand-new iteration of Grand Theft Auto".

Another of Rockstar's successful franchises is Midnight Club, a racing series that lets you focus just as much on modifying your cars as on racing them. The latest series instalment is Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition, which is now headed to PSP in addition to PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

Stay tuned for our upcoming Midnight Club 3 hands-on!

"Bringing two of our most successful game franchises to this thrilling new platform not only gives us an opportunity to create a new dimension for these already extraordinary series but also allows us to begin to explore the full potential of the PSP handheld system," said Sam Houser, president of Rockstar Games.

Both games will be available around the same time as the PSP. They are being developed at Rockstar's studio in Leeds, which will be working with the original designers of the Grand Theft Auto and Midnight Club series to give gamers the best experiences possible.

And despite the added pressure of working on such high-profile games, Gordon Hall of Rockstar Leeds is not fazed: "We understand that gamers' expectations will be very high for new PSP handheld system titles and we are confident that we can deliver exhilarating experiences that will set the standard for what a PSP game can be."

Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo Games