West Coast Hustle (Gang$tar)

Gameloft, as many of you know, are one of the best mobile game developers in the world. Their high quality games, such as Asphalt 5, Assassin's Creed: Altair's Chronicles, NOVA, and much more show just how much of a threat they are to many developers.
Like the rest of Gameloft's other graphical 3D games that only work on high end phones, Gang$tar is no exception. The graphics are amazing compared to most mobile games. It has plenty of missions/side missions and takes about 70mb in your SD card and about 10 in your phone's memory. The first thing you'll notice when playing the game is how similar it is to Grand Theft Auto. It practically is a carbon copy of the classic 3D GTA games, but not quite.

The game is quite fun, but as a person who has enjoyed the Grand Theft Auto series, there is a lot left to be desired. One of the first things that Gang$tar is missing is the ability to listen to your own tunes while driving a car. I know what you might be thinking, "why not just launch the music app in the background?". Well, the thing is this, since the game takes a lot of space and has a lot of content, it will have to load once you go back to it after minimizing the game. And for someone who would switch between music or their playlists, this can be a huge hassle. Another one of the flaws are the small variety of weapons. As some of you may or may not know, this game is based on Gang$tar 2: Kings of L.A. and the story is practically the same but with a lot of changes to game play, graphics, etc. There are 6 weapons(excluding your hands) to choose from which are a pistol, an Uzi, shot gun, AK47, Sniper Rifle, and a Bazooka. And....yeah, that's about it. No grenades/bombs, no melee weapons, no chainsaws.

Although the weapons are based off the ones in Gang$tar 2, the grenade seems to be gone in travel West Coast Hustle. Other features taken off from Gang$tar 2 is the ability to climb(which can be very frustrating at times) and one of my favorites, sliding on cars(where to you run up to cars and slide from the hood to get to the over side). Why Gameloft decided to take these features, I do not know and I feel that it was a mistake to take them away. Yet another flaw I found in this game is switching between weapons. For example, if you switch from your fists to an Uzi, but want to use the pistol, you'll have to switch from the whole list of weapons you have rather than just going backwards. This can be annoying when you're taking on a gang of thugs and want to use your ideal weapon. Although the game uses multi-touch in areas such as the map, you cannot change around the camera angle when walking/running, and did I mention you cannot sprint in this game?

you can download the application here