Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
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Man, I am sick of people mentioning the violence and cursing and sex that's in this game. DUH!!! This is as redundant as saying the sun is bright and hot. I don't even see what the big deal is. The gore in it isn't exactly realistic (the blood splattering and gushing isn't that great-looking) and I've seen much more "disturbing" games. The violence is almost like cartoon violence in some ways. It isn't really that big a deal. There is some very moderate cursing and there's some sex. Yes, you can pick up hookers. No, you don't see any action. Yes, there's a strip club and sluttily dressed women but these aren't exactly real-looking people. Just lighten up. If you don't want your 8-year-old exposed to it then don't buy it for him but I better not see your hipocritical a** buying him an R or even PG-13 movie! This really is no different than watching some PG-13 movies and any R movie. In fact, they may be worse. I think you should relax if the kid is 12 and that's being generous.
Now enough with that bulls**t! On to the game! It's great. What else do you expect? You could play this game for hours and never get bored. You can do whatever you want: steal a car, speed around town, run over people, do drive-bys, rob a store, kill a person for no reason with a variety of weapons, see how long you can evade the law, do a mission, do a sub-mission (such as the paramedic), pick up a hooker and get some health, etc. etc. etc. There's plenty of side missions to do and those are what'll take up the most time, not any of the storyline or asset missions. The hardest ones are the paramedic, vigilante, firefighter, Brown Thunder and Pizza Boy missions as far as I am concerned because there you have a time limit and if you're vehicle blows up you're f**ked and have to start all over again. You'll take a long time getting all the Hidden Packages, Rampages and all that stuff but that's not so hard because it's not something that's really "hard". Just tedious. There's also some race missions that are tough but they can be done with some persistence.
The controls are great. The driving's excellent and so is the on-foot ones. The auto-aim works easily enough though you sometimes target the ones you don't want to, but you can get around this without too much difficulty. The boats are harder to control though and the helicopters can be tricky. But the boats are the worst since they have a habit of over-accelerating and over-steering. But the controls in general are good enough so that you can pretty quickly get used to them, and before you know it, you'll be cruising around town like a pro.
The graphics are quite nice. The cars are very realistic-looking. In fact, after playing this if you go outside and look at real cars they'll remind you of the ones in the game. You'll even feel like driving them like you did in the game! But obviously you won't because you're not as stupid and f**ked up like that guy who killed those cops and then like a p**sy blamed the game for making him do it. Don't listen to those a**holes. It's all a bunch of crap. The only complaints I have would be on the people. They could look better and the blood could be a little better too, especially when it gushes from someone you shoot. I would like to see more blood too.
The camera angles are the main flaw of the game. Sometimes you'll want it to point in a different direction so you can see what you're shooting at. Another problem is when you're in the helicopter. That can get screwed up with you turn around and the angle has to catch up with you. On foot if you're not auto-targeting you you have a button to adjust the camera angle to where you're facing but when you're in the vehicles not so. The only time this really is a problem though is in the chopper.
The sound is excellent. Even the sounds themselves are nice. You have great voice acting by some well-knowns and even nonwell-knowns, but it's all fantastic. The dialogue is fantastic too. You'll hear people on the street talking amongst themselves and they'll do stuff such as tell you to move, sometimes not so nicely, when you park a car in the middle of the flow of traffic. They'll scream and plead for their lives or even taunt you when you point a gun at them or attack them. Your character will even say things to people, like when he steals their car or kills them, such as, "My need is greater than yours," or, "It's only money." It's great!
The humor value on this game is top-notch and that has a lot to do with the sounds I mentioned above, as well as how fun it is to kill people for whatever reason, if there's a reason, but also with the RADIO! I can't believe more people aren't commenting on this. This is one of the highpoints in this game just like on GTA3, only this time they don't make up all their own songs, which is bad or good depending on how you look at it. I love cruising around town listening to KChat, VRock or VCPR, that latter of which is the funniest of all. I usually listen to these because they are the funniest (talk radio is obviously funnier than music stations even though there is talk from the DJ's and call-in listeners and the commercials) and because I like rock music and they play actually good bands like Iron Maiden and Anthrax. They do make up some of their own music. I know they make up an in-game band, which you actually can do missions with, called Love Fist, a group of drunken Scotts. But the radio is hilarious, not just the talk radio but the commercials especially as well ("'Knife After Dark'--Rated R for 'Retarded'.")
The game has some flaws but overall it's d**m near perfect. The makers of the game basically took all they did in GTA3 and added to it but failed to really fix these few flawss I mentioned. But they're nothing in comparison to the overall fun this game provides. There is at least over 100 hours, even if you're familiar with the over-all gameplay from GTA3, if you try to do 100% or at least something close to that (I have no idea how I'm gonna complete all those submissions). Look, this is one of the easiest decisions you'll ever make in your life. Just buy the d**m game.
And if that's not enough to convince you, as one of the radio characters in the game, Jeremy Robar, says, "Just listen to these endorsements. And remember, these people volunteered. They aren't being paid much."
Rating: -
After playing Grand Theft Auto III, I thought there was no way Rockstar could top themselves. In fact, when the advance word for this game got out, I actually thought this was nothing more than an ADD-ON for GTA3. Stupid thought, I know; on the whole, GTA:VC is bigger, badder, and more audacious than GTA3 ever was.
So, here's the story:
In 1986, Tommy Vercetti -- a hitter for the Forelli crime family in Liberty City -- is finally released from prison. Sonny Forelli, his boss, immediately sends him down to Vice City to close a major drug deal being handled by Ken Rosenberg, a shyster lawyer and the Forellis' contact. No sooner is the deal closed than gunmen break it all up, kill everyone but Tommy and Ken, and take both the drugs and the cash. Now, Tommy has to recover the money for Sonny...but before long, he decides to make a name for himself in this town.
The setting is pure '80s excess, through and through. If you take the bottomless amoral corruption of Scarface, the day-glo polyester fashion of Miami Vice, and the innate cheesy greed of Ronald Reagan's 1980s American culture, you'll have Vice City. You'll see it in the fashion sense of the citizens, the local architecture, and the cars tooling around on the road. You'll even hear it in the radio stations, which boast an array of heavy metal, dance, Latino, and bubblegum pop music the like of which you haven't even thought of since the '80s. I swear; try listening to one of the radio stations and see if the memories don't come flooding back.
The voice acting is, as usual, superb. Ray Liotta did an outstanding job bringing Tommy Vercetti to life, and in making an otherwise loathsome sociopath into a strangely likable character. And there are others as well; Burt Reynolds, Dennis Hopper, Gary Busey, Lee Majors, Fairuza Balk, and Robert Davi all turn in great performances. But Philip Michael Thomas, who played Don Johnson's partner Tubbs on Miami Vice, gets special mention; in more ways than one, his character -- Lance Vance -- is the one to keep an eye on.
While the main story missions only take up a third of the game itself, it's the addition of a new feature that not only rounds things out, it also adds length to the game, and really makes you feel like you're establishing a criminal empire. They're called asset properties. At a certain point in the game, you have the option of buying certain businesses. Once you buy one of these asset properties, and you complete its mission strand, that business will start generating a daily amount of money for you to pick up. Some of them are perfectly legitimate, such as the taxi company or the nightclub. Others are a little sketchy, like the boatyard or the strip club, but others are absolutely illegal, like the protection rackets, the "ice cream" company, or the car showroom. They add a great amount of depth, and they let you establish contacts across town. Needless to say, once Sonny Forelli comes to town to "check up" on you, make no mistake...he's now in YOUR town.
So, if you feel the need to get away from it all and indulge your inner Tony Montana, book a trip to Vice City. Like San Andreas, it's a great place to visit and unwind...and also like San Andreas, you'll be glad YOU don't live there.
Rating:  -
I may not be the typical game player as a 36-year-old woman, but I love driving games, and this is one of the best driving games ever for the PC. There was something a little crazy about enjoying speeding through the Miami streets, running over pedestrians, taking missions as a hit(wo)man, and eluding the law. The game has definitely stirred up a lot of controversy, but it's just a game ... an ADULT game!
I loved the whole '80s Miami Vice theme, and one of the most enjoyable parts of the game is speeding around town listening to the awesome radio stations in the car. You can also create your own radio station with your MP3s. The graphics of downtown and the cars are great, but the characters can be a little stiff at times. However, this does not detract considerably from the fun factor.
Some of the missions are too difficult, and trying to get through them over and over again became so tedious that I had to find some cheats online. A more liberal save feature would have been nice. As a result of some of the missions, I still haven't finished the game, but perhaps that's the beauty of GTA Vice City ... it's huge and you get your money's worth. There's nothing I hate more than buying a game and finding it so simple that I finish it in a couple of days ... there's no risk in that with this game.
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My older cousin has this game it is so fun! It was very fun but inapropprite
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THIS IS ONE GAME YOU NEED YOU WILL NOT GO WRONG WITH THIS GAME THE BEST PARTS ARE THE GUNS MUSIC SUNTS SEX I LOVE IT SO MUCH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD BUY IT NOW
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