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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. ;-)
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 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.
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.
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.
Whereas Vice City was the same thing but more boring (in my view). Alas, San Andreas was a vast improvment.
Yeah
That said however, San Andreas overshadows both nicely.
> 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.
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.
*Vercetti dies instantly*