Rockstar has launched the companion website for their upcoming and much-anticipated PSP title, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, the game that some publications are already calling the "killer app" for the PSP.
Killer app or no, the website is limp, using some sort of bizarre email inbox navigation scheme that takes a good 10 Mississippis to open a single email. Here's a sample from one particularly prophetic email: "The internet is unambiguous evil. The only things worse than the internet are computer games and liberals." Yes, true, but the author of that email forgot to mention horribly bloated and slow flash navigation as a chief source of the Internet's evils.
Recommendation: skip the emails (as amusing as they are, they just take too long to load) and jump straight to the links in the footer of the site for the screenshots, a movie, and other information about the game. (Side note: The Warriors website is much better. What gives?)
Update: turns out that the site is much more tolerable on a faster connection and is actually a joy to explore once it plays nice and loads quickly. There are some nice easter eggs hidden on the site, one of which a reader posts in the comments section below. If the site was bogged down when you visited it earlier, try again now. It's worth a second look.
For a more detailed preview of the title, check Eurogamer.
