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Fun Only as a Rental

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: May 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I rented this title because there was so much hype about it. I played GTA3, was midly impressed, and figured a rental on this new one would be worth a try. What a waste of money! They didn't even bother to redesign the game engine and give us an entirely new experience. It's GTA3 in the 80's. If I owned both these games, I'd be pisst. What the hell is the difference?

Yeah, so now you can steal motorcycles and helicopters....whoopie! The controls (especially while driving) are still unresponsive and difficult. The only thing that remains fun is causing havoc with the cops and seeing how far you can take it. I'd estimate that 70% of people who bought this game didn't finish it. But why bother? The whole point was to make you feel like you were in The World's Scariest Police Videos. All the talk about the game being too violent and shocking.....come on! There wasn't a single moment in this game that shocked me. I'd seen it all before (in tv, movies, even books).

If you're between 8 and 14, yeah, this game is going to rock. But if you're older than that, there are tons of PS2 titles more worthy of your time and skill. If you already have GTA3, don't waste your money on this updated version. I recommend you rent it first. After a week of playing I gaurantee you'll be bored. It's the same thing as GTA3, and that game was only fun when your friends were around.

Well, almost...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: March 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Don't get me wrong, this game was fun to play. Well, for the first twenty minutes, anyway. One can only take an overused plot and the comcept of killing civilians for no particular reason so far. There was no plot to this game, except for what follows:
"You are supposed to negotiate a drug deal. It is a setup. Your boss is mad at you. You kill people. You drive a motorcycle, then kill people. You continue killing people until you actually play long enough to 'finish' the game. Then you kill people."
This game is exactly like GTAIII, except with bikinis, motorcycles, and more weapons. There is no substance to this game. If you are looking to get an action game, at least shoot for a plot. This isn't action, it is stupid. I was sickened at the number of ways to kill people in this game - not so much by the concept, but more by the fact that people think that this is quality entertainment. And this is coming from a veteran of Soldier of Fortune and Tenchu. Those were good games, because they had substance. This game's only saving graces were the shallow humour of the talk radio stations, and the great musical line-up (Ozzy, Maiden, David Lee Roth, etc.)
All said, if you are thinking about purchasing this game, make sure you a) have less than 15 functioning brain cells, and b) there is a serial killer in your ancestry. Armed with this information, you may be able to successfully justify playing this game.

-PumpkinFreak

Been there done that

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 36
Date: November 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Owners of GTA III don't be fooled you have played this game before. If you don't own GTA III than you would love this game. Personally I actually think GTA III is more fun. Music is great but I don't buy games to listen to the radio. A few differences here and there but not breakthrough. Set in the 80's i would like to end with quoting PE "Don't believe the hype"

Do not buy this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 66
Date: December 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Unless you are a hard core gamer, this game is too hard, needlessly so, for the casual gamer. The "Demolition Man" mission is nearly impossible. The third assassination mission also is too linear and doesn't allow for any variation from the script. Other missions are so simplistic that a five-year old could complete them. Despite what the manufacturer says about open-ended play, the missions are completely linear. There is only one way to complete a given mission.

If you just want to drive around and rob people or do the insane jumps, the game is playable, but it gets boring pretty quickly.

Hope they dont hold back...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Screen shots for GTA:Vice City are already available in several gaming magazines. Game looks much brighter and crisper. Plus, the fighting will be enhanced as well as 40 weapons this time (instead of 12). Including a machete.

I think Rockstar Games programmers should develop an NC17 version of this game. Sorry, tykes. With more language, blood, rape, and pillaging. Like the scarface movies. I think you should be able to go into buildings and hold the place up.

Hands Down, the BEST GAME EVER

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Take all the great gangster movies, 80's memorabilia, Miami Vice, freedom, and attitude you can get, mix them together, and drop them in 1980's Miami- out comes Vice City. First off, Vice City is an entire, fully functional, totally realistic city. It's a few square miles big, has cars, helicopters, boats, pedestrians, etc. The detail is amazing: you can go inside many buildings, the cops chase other criminals too, gang wars break out on the streets, rollerskaters glide down the sidewalks. This game would be awesome if all you could do was walk around the city.
However, there is of course your duty to become a crime boss. The missions are creative, challenging, and a whole lot of fun to play. There's an infinite number of ways to complete every mission. Now, you can buy businesses and complete missions for them so that they earn you a constant supply of money. As a professional criminal and crime boss, you actually do get to own the city. You even get your own "street soldiers" to help keep you safe.
Vice City is as realistic as it gets, and plenty bloody, too (so don't buy it for your 5th grader and complain about it later). It falls under most game genres: action, adventure, driving, role playing, shooter. If you ever wanted to be a part of The Godfather, Scarface, or Miami Vice, or if you just want jack cars nicer than what you'll ever have, or if you just can't afford that vacation to Miami but still want to go, this game is for you.

Same violent fun with a nice old-school twist...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

2001 was, of course, the year that one of the most tragic events to ever affect America took place with the destruction of the World Trade Center. Just 2 months later, as the nation continued its recovery from the tragedy, Rockstar Games released the game that would not only shatter sales records all over the world but also spark severe controversy for its glorification of the dark side of humanity's need to survive, Grand Theft Auto 3.

Flash forward 2 years later and Rockstar released the virtually inevitable sequel to GTA3, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (also considered to be GTA4). This volume of the GTA series takes place in the middle 1980's, when "Miami Vice" was popular TV and "Scarface" had yet to achieve the cult status it has now.

In GTA: VC You take on the role of Tommy Vercetti (voiced by Ray Liotta), a small-time thug who just got out of prison for doing a little jail time for his boss. Tommy is sent to Vice City (think Miami in the 80's) by his boss to help secure a stronghold in the town by running several errands (missions) with the help of several savory and rather unsavory characters. As the game progresses, Tommy learns that his boss is clued in to the fact that Tommy is getting a larger share of the business in VC and is now coming down to take it from him one way or the other. Do you think that Tommy is going to give in and surrender? Not without a serious fight.

As with GTA3, VC features famous actors and actresses voicing several of the characters Tommy meets along the way, including Burt Reynolds as an unscrupulous property owner, Phillip Michael Thomas of "Miami Vice" as an ally of Tommy's (talk about poetic irony), and Jenna Jameson as a popular porn actress (not much of a stretch, huh?)

The violence is slightly ramped up for VC, with a brand new assortment of weapons for you to unleash on the populace of the city, including remote detonation bombs, a chain gun, a katana, a Magnum handgun (perfect for a one-shot kill), and more.

Also, motorcycles and boats, which weren't available to you to ues in GTA3, are now yours to get for missions or just cruising around and enjoying the huge scenery of the VC area. Also, the graphics are cleaner and more detailed for VC than the slightly blocky graphics of GTA3 (The effect of seeing someone fall off of a motorcycle if you shot them is priceless). Alas, the game does suffer from the fatal flaws of a severely long lag between loading missions/cutscenes and a flawed targeting sistem (woe be you if you try to target a random stranger in the street and inadvertently target a cop, which pretty much gets you an automatic 2-star Wanted level).

Now that the game is considered a Greatest Hit and is available at a lower price (or for those that really want to build their GTA collection in case their copy of GTA3 is a little worn the duo of GTA3 and VC are available in a Double Pack), those who were itching to play it but didn't have the cash to get it can finally afford it. Also you can get in your practice in anticipation of the release of GTA: San Andreas by playing at least one of its predecessors. Believe me when I say that this is one vice (city) that you won't want to give up.

A 1980's Classic...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Vice City was released in late 2002, and after the whole Grand Theft Auto 3 obsession, this was going to be the best game out there. And it was. This game still is the best out of all of them, even though San Andreas you can do everything. As everyone knows, this game was supposed to take place in the 1980's. The cars, clothes, hair and music was all transformed into one package and became the best game.

So, why was this the best game ever? Like every worried mother out there, the whole concept of the game is to go around killing people. There is a storyline, unlike some of these baby games where you go around doing chores for people. You can go around and kill people, but they are pixalated little people that re-spawn and the same looking guy comes walking down the street again. Okay, so there is some bad language. But saying that you shoot someone and they fall into a puddle of blood is that violent, then you out of watch some more horror movies.

Anyway, you can really do anything. You can do the old taxi driver missions and fire-truck missions, but now you can deliever pizza on a cheap little bike, sell "ice-cream" to the locals and enter NASCAR type races. You can buy property, like the Malibu and other "clubs". You take over a mansion and you can run around in it. New things like bikes and more boats make this game great.

But, this game has some problems. They took out most of the glitches, but it does get annoying if you are falling into green hell all over again. (To people who don't know what green hell is, you keep falling and falling and falling into this green background.) The graphics are pixalated and cartoonish, and sometimes you lose health by just walking off a curb.

Well, besides the minor bad things and the horrible gaphics, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is still an instant classic, and being that the controllers and whole game is just GTA3 with an 80's style, you think of it as Grand Theft Auto: Expansion Pack.

Masterpiece Part II

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

About twenty years before the events of GTA III Tommy Vercetti arrives in Vice City. An extremely open ended game lies ahead. An enormous ammount of cars, guns, and locations to purchase are available supported by the addicting storyline. It's just a great game, and the music only makes it better. Espantoso is the best, hands down.

GREAT!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Grand Theft Auto Vice City is one of the best in game history. This game has a lot to offer like more freedom then ever able to buy places, it's not as big as GTA 3 but it's enough to satisfy anybody. Also you get to drive boats helicopters and one of my favorites, MOTORCYCLES. Again you play as Tommy Verceti which has just escaped from jail but now wants to take over Vice City but he can't do it by himself so he has to ask for some help but have to do some things for them first. This game is one of the best so if your mature enough get this game you won't be dissapointed. If Vice City wasn't enough of a challenge get the new Grand Theft Auto San Andreas But it might be sold out so good luck......

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