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"Back to Vice City"

Well since I played San Andreas, I got all in the mood to play Vice City again. Almost forgot how polished the graphics are in this game. ;-) Mind you, SA does point out some faults in the other two. No control of the camera angle, locking onto the right targets is a pain in the backside and of course the area in SA is just so much bigger.

Plus of course you can't swim and stuff in the other two games. Shame they didn't have those faults sorted out from the start. A Florida setting with a big map similar in size to SA woulda been great. ;-)

Well since I played San Andreas, I got all in the mood to play Vice City again. Almost forgot how polished the graphics are in this game. ;-) Mind you, SA does point out some faults in the other two. No control of the camera angle, locking onto the right targets is a pain in the backside and of course the area in SA is just so much bigger.

Plus of course you can't swim and stuff in the other two games. Shame they didn't have those faults sorted out from the start. A Florida setting with a big map similar in size to SA woulda been great. ;-)

I dug out GTA 3 a few days ago.

I tried to bust this guy out of jail but finding all the 'lose the police' markers was quite hard, especially as there's no large map to help, it would have been better if I could have lost them through driving skill like in True Crime (which also has a map of the whole game area).

Had to steal 3 cars from 3 different gangs, I got one and spent 30 mins looking for the others. Then I got bored and turned it off.

I really should continue with Morrowind.

Is Vice City much better then? GTA 3 bores the pee out of me.

Its better than GTA3, but there are still some issues. The fear of being anywhere near water grates after awhile cause its instant death. And the shootouts get annoying from the combination of crap targeting system and no way of controlling the camera.

To swing the camera round, you have to stand still, use the right thumbstick (which puts you in first person view), then move in the direction to face that way. Not a wonderful idea when you have several people shooting at you.

Great game though - just hard to go back to those ways when you've been playing San Andreas.

Yeah I heard San Andreas' targeting is much better and I like the sounds of the character development they've implemented.

I still want to get my money's worth out of the double pack before I get San Andreas.

Mabye I'll just trade it for the Halo 2 expansion disc.

I think GTA3 was better for impact and originaliy etc

Whereas Vice City was the same thing but more boring (in my view). Alas, San Andreas was a vast improvment.

Yeah

Don't know why, but I've always prefered GTA 3 to Vice City. It felt a lot smoother for one thing.

That said however, San Andreas overshadows both nicely.

GTA3 had that really nice dark gangster/mob feel to it. Whilst Vice City did not.

OddToe wrote:
> GTA3 had that really nice dark gangster/mob feel to it.

San Andreas is great but R* were, I think, a little too ambitious with the size of the playing field. Not that I mind loads of room, but I would like the console to be able to handle it better, without loads of pop-up. Which is why I still reckon GTA3 had the better designed city, and as you say, it did have a really good atmosphere around it, very dark and gritty, just like the criminal underworld.

I've got the urge to get back into Vice City now that I've conquered San Andreas.

Vice City had by far the most character of the three games, and Tommy Vercetti was the epitome of cool. Just a shame that I'll have to avoid water like the plague again.

*Shoots Vercetti with water pistol*

*Vercetti dies instantly*