A top-down GTA, built entirely around the DS touch screen, Triad crime in your pocket.

The profile by criterion leans toward sensation. The soundtrack lands ahead of 72% of titles and controller feel ahead of 70%, both on few votes but pointing the same way, a snappy game that sounds right. Fun follows, a touch above average, rediscovery right in the middle. Against that, the isometric art style stalls at the bottom, ahead of only 23% of games, and attachment stays shy. The grain of tension is there, you latch onto the driving and the sound, less onto the image and the bond.

In the series, this is the portable, atypical entry, and you feel it. Far from the sweep of a console GTA, it bets on instant replayability over the immersion that clings to your skin.

So, who is it for? For you if you love GTA for its snap, its short missions and its sonic energy. Much less if it is the visual punch and the bond with the world you came for.