Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Rating:  -
This is by FAR my favorite game that I have EVER played. Next to like Halo 2 but anyway. This game is even more awesome if you have plenty of cheats. You can get a ton of different weapons from brass knuckles of RPGs and miniguns(my two favorite guns). I'm only 12 but this is still a great game. You can buy a lot of different properties which I reccomend because then you have more places where you can save which is good if, like me, you are trying to sneak in as much time as you can. BUT, WHY CAN'T TOMMY SWIM?!?!?!?!That's what pisses me off about this game! All of this water and I cant swim in any of it unless I'm walking and it is less than 2 feet deep!! And all these stupid checkpoint missions. Like "Checkpiont Charlie" at the Boatyard. If you miss one of the jumps by the docks its completely over! There is no way to save your self. And I wish that you could save while in a mission. Like right before you go to kill Lance the trader and Sonny. Truly it's a great game even though it is a little lengthy and has some bad missions.
Rating:  -
This is a mature game, definitely not for kids.
You are Tommy Vercetti, fiercely, good-looking guy, just released from Liberty City prison after 15 years. You were in the slammer because instead of making a deal with the D.A. for a lighter sentence, you chose not to squeal on your mob bosses. In return, the mob (located up north in Liberty City) "gifted" you with a suitcase full of cash so you can start a business of your own down south, in Vice City. Truth was, the mob's wary of you and wanted you as far away from them as possible. They planned to bump you off once you succeeded in Vice City and take over your business.
So much for mob loyalty.
You get a suitcase chuck-full of cash from Sonny Forelli, your boss with instructions to make a drug deal in some Vice City dockyard. And so you go down south a small-time bad guy, with no money of your own, no guns, and no goons.
You went to the docks to complete the deal, but as you know in Murphy's Law, if something can screw up, somebody will screw it up! And screw up it did! In the docks, all hell broke loose as the SWAT ambushed and killed some of the dealers and you barely escaped with your life. But the bigger problem was that you lost the drugs and money, Sonny Forelli's money! Sonny was naturally livid with anger and after threatening you, he promised to give you a break for old time's sake (he won't kill you yet) provided you get his money back. There's a corpse hanging by a meat hook in his room as he told you this over the phone.
This is where the introductory video cut-scenes stops and where the fun really starts! You get to control Tommy now as you make money by doing various missons described elsewhere in other reviews. At first you thought you were just getting money to pay Sonny at the same time making a name for yourself as a psychotic killer and drug dealer. Then you wised up. In the final showdown with Sonny Forelli you will learn his true intentions. But don;t be in a hurry to finish the main storyline. There's lots to do besides and these other side missions will kind of lose their thrill if you already reached the end of the main story. (Yep, the game will not end with the final showdown. The game would still be open!)
CONS:
1. At times the PC version isn't so helpful in giving you tips to control vehicles. One notorious example was the "Demolition Man" mission where you get to fly a remote controlled chopper. It took me a long time to finish it because the game hints never said that you can move the chooper using keys 9 and 6! Like the other reviewer, I only learned about it in the Net.
2. Likewise, the mission "Dildo Dodo" involved flying a sea plane which at first I couldn't take off because the game hints didn't say I could control the pitch with keys 9 and 6!
3. Too short, hehehe. This game is so exciting that I found the main stryline missions too short. They should add more!
PROS:
1. Freedom. It's amazing how the developers of this game provided the player with enormous freedom to do as he pleases. Go on the storyline mission and advance into the game's main plot. Forget storyline mission and go on a rampage instead. Forget rampage and go on street races (six of them); forget street races go on vehicle stunts. Be a good boy and do vigilante and ambulance missions. Or see how fast you can take passengers in taxi missions. And so on and so forth...!
2. You get to race vehicles, fly a sea plane and six choppers including the Hunter, Vice City's equivalent of the Apache attack helicopter!
3. Motorcycle and 4-wheel car stunts.
4. Absolutely hilarious spoofs in the radio!
5. The violence you will be doing in this game is just so ridiculous, it's so entertaining!
6. The game runs on older, very modest PC systems specs without any problem. Not once did the game hang my P3, 900Mhz pc with 128MB video and 512MB SDRAM.
7. Cinematic view! Press V several times and watch your chopper fly from various camera angles! So cool!
8. Your main character Tommy Vercetti is perhaps the coolest bad guy around. From the dialogues in the cut scenes you'll learn he's a smart leader, kind to his friends and brutal to his enemies. He is never rattled by his enemies, nor scared by Sonny's constant threats. He thinks and keeps his word. He dotes on the women, like when he offered Mercedes a role in an adult film which the latter accepted as long as its cheap and sleazy, heheh.
This game's a keeper. Two, three years later, I know I will still enjoy this game!
Rating: -
this is quite possibly the most anti-establishment game ive ever seen.there are hours and hours of fun to be had just cruising around and raising hell.you can run people over,get into fist fights,steal civil servent vehicles and do thier jobs,shoot stuff up............then you realize after weeks and weeks of this that theres actualy a game in thier with a storyline.here it is.........you are a bad man who does highly illegal things for crime bosses.things like stealing faster drug boats,shooting rival dealers,running over his unfaithful wife,shooting up buildings,intimidating witnesses.........and much much more!the really cool thing is that beyond all this,theres really hilarious talk shows on the radio.the music is all 80s all the time but from many genres.but,guess what?if you play it on an x-box,you can actualy program one station with all songs you put in!its awesome!so my advice is,put on a song that makes you tremble with frenzied aggression.crank it all the way up.then rip the knobs off your tv and go on a rampage thatd make the la riots look like candyland!you can and its all in this abselute milestone in video game history!gta!
Rating: -
This controversial game is probably the most fun you will ever have with a pc game. I have been playing it every now and then for the last couple of months and I am having a great time. The dialogue and cut scenes are hilarious. I like this game so much I bought the first one also. I find that if I do not have much time to game then I can pop this in and play for 30 minutes and be satisfied. Car jacking someone off of a motorcycle and speeding down the street is a lot of fun. I have found myself just exploring the city on the motorcycle.
PROS
Simple controls.
The environment is awesome (the sun sets and rises, rain, etc).
Missions do not have to be done.
CONS
I personally do not like killing cops and in this game you have to kill a lot of cops.
Graphics are dated (but still good).
No multiplayer (if I could set up a server where me and my friends could drive around and terrorize the citizens that would be very cool).
I highly suggest purchasing this game. It is for the mature gamer. I would not let my kid play it.
Rating:  -
Grand theft auto vice city is, as you may know, one of the most lauded computer games of all time and you will find no shortage of enthusiasts singing its praises on amazon. While there has also been a great deal of negativity about this game, and moral condemnation, it has usually been from people who don't much actually play computer games and from many who did not take much time to see what this game is about or understand its context. That doesn't mean these people are entirely wrong, but it does mean they are mostly wrong, and, actually, one of the very clever things gta vice city does is actually lampoon the hypocrisy of its critics. This, along with some excellent music, is done on the game's brilliant radio stations that play randomly in any of the cars you steal. I was a little surprised that the in game radio was perhaps my favorite thing from the game.
Anyway, that's a pretty wordy preamble. You maybe just want to know what I thought of the game, so I wont go into an essay on morality in computer games. I'll tell you what I thought. I thought the game was all kind of a joke, which is fine, just, it was a mean joke. Its meant to be played as a mean joke. I didn't like that so much. From here I'll just rank it according to some categories I devised reflecting issues important to me.
Story: C- never very great in computer games, but, taking that into account it was pretty nicely done, ridiculous at times, the free roaming thing integrated well with it, you sort of intersect with different lines of the story as you like, still linear- don't know how you could have a story without that- but, like I said, it's all a bit of a mean joke and I got tired of it. I cant say how well it developed as I only managed to play about a quarter way through this game.
Characters: C- clever, very well voice acted, colorful types but completely lacking in any emotional connection whatsoever.
Gameplay: C here is where I really expected this game to be so great but was surprised it wasn't. The variety of things to do was good, driving, shooting, very different kinds of missions, etc, but mainly I never much liked the shooting stuff. I thought it had a stiff jerkiness to it, found it unnatural and not as good as an average shooter. The city was neat but I never felt like it was very satisfying, like, you could really only be a thug and that's it. I guess that's the point, you could do a lot within that, just, there wasn't any feeling of richness or depth, just breadth.
Graphics: C- again disappointing. I was expecting something terrific, but was surprised to find that, though the city was beautiful in its way, the character modeling was pretty unimpressive and seemed sort of out of date (even more so now). The stylish, cartoony characters of the box are not a fair representation of the more graceless figures in the game.
Dreariness factor: D+ personally mugging people and shooting and vandalizing and stealing my way to power kind of brought me down. It was nice to do it by the ocean though.
Technical issues: did not have problems. That's just me.
Learning factor: C+ the game helps you along pretty well with a while-you-play sort of tutorial. But quite a few things you're left on your own to figure out and controls for keyboard on certain missions (like an awful remote control helicopter) were very difficult to learn and handle.
Product materials: D+ a good example of stylish but sort of useless. Just tell me in detail about how things work and about controls and stuff. All too often in pc games I get either almost no info or, like this, a bunch of setting the stage. Cute, but useless.
Chore factor: F see below
Difficulty: F yes, I am all alone in this maybe, but most games are too hard! Difficulty levels are god's gift to a diverse population! Especially useful difficulty levels. This had none whatsoever. Some things you do are easier, some are hard and, SINCE THERE ARE NO IN GAME SAVES, you (I) have to do them over and over, from the start.
Game saves: F no. there are these save places you can go to or you can sort of lose a lot of stuff and just come out of the police station or hospital, but either way creates quite a bit of tediousness, often involving a bit of a drive just to get there.
Other: if the concept of this game sort of leaves you cold but you're curious because its such a well reviewed game I really say, don't bother. If it sounds hilarious to be a rising young tough driving around `miami' in cars you stole I do sincerely recommend it. It totally got the whole weird pulp fiction gangster movie amoral thing pretty well.
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