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Well, after getting GTA Vice City last Wednesday, I have so far clocked up about 8-9 hours play, most of which was this weekend. Just didn’t have time in the week with work and all! To be honest it would have been more but Tony Hawk 4 is very distracting indeed – the levels are huge and very well designed! Anyway, I never really played GTA3 much, but have no problems proclaiming Vice City to be the best PS2 game this year – here are a couple of reasons why. DON’T WORRY, NO SPOILERS…
1) Motorbikes – the handling is excellent, from the nippy mopeds (called ‘Faggio’) to the more power PCJ 600 they are all amazing! And nothing beats popping a wheelie down the main beachfront ‘strip’ of Vice City.
2) The in game music. Whoever had the idea to license real 80’s songs should be made a director of RockStar – utter genius. Driving through Little Havana while listening to ‘Cars’ by Gary Newman, or ‘Atomic’ by Blondie, or even ‘tempted by the fruit of another’ by Squeeze (I think) is just soooo cool.
3) The radio stations. Vrock is pure class, with Lazlo doing his best to sound like a hard drinking, fast living rocker, the guy is just as funny as he was in GTA3. Plus Fernando Martinez is back, he has his own radio show on a station called Emotion – some good songs on here and he’s still trying to sell the same ‘love’ (or pimping) ideals as before!
4) Being able to buy new property. I have just bought a plush two-story pad in the Southeast of the city, complete with pool and garage. You can also buy a nightclub (called the Malibu club) and a strip joint. Not allows to buy these yet, and haven’t got the cash anyway. ;-)
5) The new weapons. Far to many to mention, but the screwdriver, katana and hammer are all cool. The hammer is also very good for smashing up cars! The guns a also cool, and with an assault rifle you can use a first person view to take enemies out. Weapons like guns and stuff can be bought from Ammunation, and the more household style weapons can be bought from a shop called ‘Screw this’ – class!
6) THE CHAINSAW! Wow, cool or what. Only had this once, you are given it quite early on in the game as asked to go a take someone out with it (saying no more so I don’t spoil it) and you keep it after the mission. Unfortunately I got busted and lost it. However, it’s just so cool man. You can’t take limbs off as I initially thought, but you can take heads of and once you’ve downed someone, you can attack them on the ground! Tommy plunges the chainsaw into the guy lying on the ground in a flurry of blood and sparks as the chainsaw rips through the person and onto the tarmac. Amazing stuff.
7) The missions. Much better than GTA3, with more variety and some clever tasks. Fly above the city in a chopper, which your mate (Lance Vance) is flying, while you attack with the huge gat gun is a good example of how varied the missions are.
8) Being able to go inside shops. Go into a fast food restaurant and buy a meal to boost your health. Go into the shopping mall and take out some shoppers with an Uzi, go into the nightclub and cause some trouble. Very cool.
9) Speeding along on a motorbike and then bailing off the back then watching the motorbike speed on into a group of pedestrians! The same can be done with cars and if you get the car on fire first, the ensuing explosion in the midst of a crowd is so sweet!
10) The loading sequence! Before you even get to the game, the titles or even the intro, RockStar North’s class really shines through. The initial load sequence will being memories flooding back to anyone who ever loaded a game on a C64 back in the day. And I never thought I’d see the phrases - ‘Press play on tape’ and ‘searching’ again! Just wait guys, it’s sooo cool!
The only problems are a few issues with the spooling of the textures from the DVD, if you drive through the city fast and have a radio station on, the game can have problems loading the texture in quick enough and you even get a ‘loading’ message sometimes as the game catches up. Doesn’t really spoil it, but annoying non-the-less. But this could be because I have a US import – dunno! Hmmm, and other than that I guess you could say that there aren’t enough gun/hardware shops, but that’s being very, very picky ;-)
Any questions, that you’d like to know, fire away.
A truly great game! RockStar, you should be saluted. A job very well done.
1) Motorbikes – the handling is excellent, from the nippy mopeds (called ‘Faggio’) to the more power PCJ 600 they are all amazing! And nothing beats popping a wheelie down the main beachfront ‘strip’ of Vice City.
2) The in game music. Whoever had the idea to license real 80’s songs should be made a director of RockStar – utter genius. Driving through Little Havana while listening to ‘Cars’ by Gary Newman, or ‘Atomic’ by Blondie, or even ‘tempted by the fruit of another’ by Squeeze (I think) is just soooo cool.
3) The radio stations. Vrock is pure class, with Lazlo doing his best to sound like a hard drinking, fast living rocker, the guy is just as funny as he was in GTA3. Plus Fernando Martinez is back, he has his own radio show on a station called Emotion – some good songs on here and he’s still trying to sell the same ‘love’ (or pimping) ideals as before!
4) Being able to buy new property. I have just bought a plush two-story pad in the Southeast of the city, complete with pool and garage. You can also buy a nightclub (called the Malibu club) and a strip joint. Not allows to buy these yet, and haven’t got the cash anyway. ;-)
5) The new weapons. Far to many to mention, but the screwdriver, katana and hammer are all cool. The hammer is also very good for smashing up cars! The guns a also cool, and with an assault rifle you can use a first person view to take enemies out. Weapons like guns and stuff can be bought from Ammunation, and the more household style weapons can be bought from a shop called ‘Screw this’ – class!
6) THE CHAINSAW! Wow, cool or what. Only had this once, you are given it quite early on in the game as asked to go a take someone out with it (saying no more so I don’t spoil it) and you keep it after the mission. Unfortunately I got busted and lost it. However, it’s just so cool man. You can’t take limbs off as I initially thought, but you can take heads of and once you’ve downed someone, you can attack them on the ground! Tommy plunges the chainsaw into the guy lying on the ground in a flurry of blood and sparks as the chainsaw rips through the person and onto the tarmac. Amazing stuff.
7) The missions. Much better than GTA3, with more variety and some clever tasks. Fly above the city in a chopper, which your mate (Lance Vance) is flying, while you attack with the huge gat gun is a good example of how varied the missions are.
8) Being able to go inside shops. Go into a fast food restaurant and buy a meal to boost your health. Go into the shopping mall and take out some shoppers with an Uzi, go into the nightclub and cause some trouble. Very cool.
9) Speeding along on a motorbike and then bailing off the back then watching the motorbike speed on into a group of pedestrians! The same can be done with cars and if you get the car on fire first, the ensuing explosion in the midst of a crowd is so sweet!
10) The loading sequence! Before you even get to the game, the titles or even the intro, RockStar North’s class really shines through. The initial load sequence will being memories flooding back to anyone who ever loaded a game on a C64 back in the day. And I never thought I’d see the phrases - ‘Press play on tape’ and ‘searching’ again! Just wait guys, it’s sooo cool!
The only problems are a few issues with the spooling of the textures from the DVD, if you drive through the city fast and have a radio station on, the game can have problems loading the texture in quick enough and you even get a ‘loading’ message sometimes as the game catches up. Doesn’t really spoil it, but annoying non-the-less. But this could be because I have a US import – dunno! Hmmm, and other than that I guess you could say that there aren’t enough gun/hardware shops, but that’s being very, very picky ;-)
Any questions, that you’d like to know, fire away.
A truly great game! RockStar, you should be saluted. A job very well done.
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ReDdY²°°2 wrote:
> One question, why aint you on it now!!
Well seeing as it's now 11 and a half hours since he posted here I think you can safely assume he's playing it now :-)
Lucky git!
> One question, why aint you on it now!!
Well seeing as it's now 11 and a half hours since he posted here I think you can safely assume he's playing it now :-)
Lucky git!
is the handling on helicopters good?
ECHELON, What happens when a plane or a chopper is flown into abuilding, do they just bounce off or do they explode?
wow, both at the same time...
Possum in a bottle wrote:
> ECHELON, What happens when a plane or a chopper is flown into
> abuilding, do they just bounce off or do they explode?
Don't know, haven't been able to fly a chopper yet :-(
On one mission you are in a chopper, but as i said somewhere else in this post you buddy (Lance Vance) is flying it, you are maning the gatlin gun that is fitted to the chopper taking out bad guys before landing and storming a mansion. So don't know. Although when the police send choppers out after you, which happens at 3 stars, you can shoot these down with a few well placed shots with the sniper rifle, so i guess you are going to be able to crash choppers - but not sure. Spend about 20 mins last night driving aorund Vice City airport, trying to find a chopper or plane i could get in and fly, but couldn't find one - there were planty of Jumbo jets and private jets on the tarmac but non you could get in. It was raining quite bad at the time, so visabiliyt was poor, but i did have a good look round, but nothing.
Oh and i top feature i forgot to mention in my original post. When you are in a car or on a bike the police/enemies can shoot out the tyres! When a wheel blows on a car it skids on the rim, with sparks and everything! And when a wheel is shot out on a bike, you are basically knackered - very tough to control and turning is impossible! You can also shoot out tyres, which is handy when you're trying to stop an enemy in a car! Very cool feature indeed!
> ECHELON, What happens when a plane or a chopper is flown into
> abuilding, do they just bounce off or do they explode?
Don't know, haven't been able to fly a chopper yet :-(
On one mission you are in a chopper, but as i said somewhere else in this post you buddy (Lance Vance) is flying it, you are maning the gatlin gun that is fitted to the chopper taking out bad guys before landing and storming a mansion. So don't know. Although when the police send choppers out after you, which happens at 3 stars, you can shoot these down with a few well placed shots with the sniper rifle, so i guess you are going to be able to crash choppers - but not sure. Spend about 20 mins last night driving aorund Vice City airport, trying to find a chopper or plane i could get in and fly, but couldn't find one - there were planty of Jumbo jets and private jets on the tarmac but non you could get in. It was raining quite bad at the time, so visabiliyt was poor, but i did have a good look round, but nothing.
Oh and i top feature i forgot to mention in my original post. When you are in a car or on a bike the police/enemies can shoot out the tyres! When a wheel blows on a car it skids on the rim, with sparks and everything! And when a wheel is shot out on a bike, you are basically knackered - very tough to control and turning is impossible! You can also shoot out tyres, which is handy when you're trying to stop an enemy in a car! Very cool feature indeed!
G®åpô²ºº² wrote:
> check out www.vicecityradio.com for all the radio listings
Wow - even Nena's hairy armpits are in there !!
> check out www.vicecityradio.com for all the radio listings
Wow - even Nena's hairy armpits are in there !!
I don't want to buy this straight away otherwise i won't be able to leave my house at all. Tekken 4 was holding me back and now i'm getting into TOCA race driver. GTA:VC will just be the final blow. Save me!
So tell us something that hasn't already been said in magazine reviews or other websites. Face it, you don't own this game yet, and are just ripping off comments from other sources in an attempt to make others jealous...very sad indeed.
If you are just going to post tripe then go and do it elsewhere you fool.
Read the posts - he got the game on import.
Read the posts - he got the game on import.
Heh, that told you, you nasty little thingy...
And I feel sorry for your kids Nev :O
And I feel sorry for your kids Nev :O
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