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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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Yeah very proud! Well done markos! Will you be able to find your PS2 under the dust, it must have been a while since you used it, what with you CS addiction :-)
To be honest, you won't need any other game if you get VC, there is just so much to it. Did you have a C64 Markos, or a speccy for that matter, just wait till you checkout the loading sequence, the coolest thing i have seen for a long time dude.
To be honest, you won't need any other game if you get VC, there is just so much to it. Did you have a C64 Markos, or a speccy for that matter, just wait till you checkout the loading sequence, the coolest thing i have seen for a long time dude.
Its gonna be the one game I actually buy this year! Are you proud of me!
Darkus wrote:
> Echelon_vs_Lightforce wrote:
> Well, after getting GTA Vice City last Wednesday,
>
> Simon, you are a scumbag. I hate you.
>
> :)
Thanks Markos, love you lots to!
Si
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> Echelon_vs_Lightforce wrote:
> Well, after getting GTA Vice City last Wednesday,
>
> Simon, you are a scumbag. I hate you.
>
> :)
Thanks Markos, love you lots to!
Si
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Echelon_vs_Lightforce wrote:
> Well, after getting GTA Vice City last Wednesday,
Simon, you are a scumbag. I hate you.
:)
> Well, after getting GTA Vice City last Wednesday,
Simon, you are a scumbag. I hate you.
:)
cipro wrote:
> I read somewhere you can even decorate you're own houses and choose
> which clothes to wear so you can escape better from the cops, is this
> true?
>
> Also back playing GTA3 the rest of the week, just in anticipation for
> Vice City's release, it's going to be ace.
Hmm, not sure about the 'decorate you're own house' bit - not saying you can't do this, but i certainly have not been able to do this, or even see how i could do it. Dunno, when i bought my one and only (so far) property you can go inside but only to save, this is the same as the hotel you start in - this ones one on the main strip of Vice City and is basically your hideout until you have enough cash to get a better one. you can't decorate this either. So i'd say no, but i will check tonight.
Yes you can change clothes, and yes when you do, your wanted level goes down. However, your outfits aren't just at your hideouts! For example, you start in a blue Hawaiian shirt, blue jeans and white trainers, but on one of the very first missions you are told to get some new clothes from a shop called Rafaels, this outfit is your Miami Vice style suit, blue pastel colour with dark loafers, and no socks, of course.
Now if you want to change back into your original outfit you’ll have to head back to the first safe house, which is a hotel on the main strip, and go up into your room. Here you’ll find an icon which when touched will change you back to the original outfit. If you want to change back into the Miami Vice outfit, you gotta’ head back to Rafaels and the icon to change is outside. So far I have the two outfits mentioned above, plus a workman’s outfit and a golfing outfit – both were used as part of a missions and once the mission is complete the outfits can be used in the future. You can change into the workman’s out fit by going to the north mall, heading inside and going to the hardware shop. The golf outfit is found, not surprisingly, at the golf club. Basically, I guess the idea is to have the outfits dotted around the city so If you need to change and get rid of the cops, you’ve never to far away from a change.
> I read somewhere you can even decorate you're own houses and choose
> which clothes to wear so you can escape better from the cops, is this
> true?
>
> Also back playing GTA3 the rest of the week, just in anticipation for
> Vice City's release, it's going to be ace.
Hmm, not sure about the 'decorate you're own house' bit - not saying you can't do this, but i certainly have not been able to do this, or even see how i could do it. Dunno, when i bought my one and only (so far) property you can go inside but only to save, this is the same as the hotel you start in - this ones one on the main strip of Vice City and is basically your hideout until you have enough cash to get a better one. you can't decorate this either. So i'd say no, but i will check tonight.
Yes you can change clothes, and yes when you do, your wanted level goes down. However, your outfits aren't just at your hideouts! For example, you start in a blue Hawaiian shirt, blue jeans and white trainers, but on one of the very first missions you are told to get some new clothes from a shop called Rafaels, this outfit is your Miami Vice style suit, blue pastel colour with dark loafers, and no socks, of course.
Now if you want to change back into your original outfit you’ll have to head back to the first safe house, which is a hotel on the main strip, and go up into your room. Here you’ll find an icon which when touched will change you back to the original outfit. If you want to change back into the Miami Vice outfit, you gotta’ head back to Rafaels and the icon to change is outside. So far I have the two outfits mentioned above, plus a workman’s outfit and a golfing outfit – both were used as part of a missions and once the mission is complete the outfits can be used in the future. You can change into the workman’s out fit by going to the north mall, heading inside and going to the hardware shop. The golf outfit is found, not surprisingly, at the golf club. Basically, I guess the idea is to have the outfits dotted around the city so If you need to change and get rid of the cops, you’ve never to far away from a change.
Echelon_vs_Lightforce wrote:
a couple of weeks ago i finally got hold of a UK test PS2
> machine, which plays all regions -
Damn double phoney :-Þ
a couple of weeks ago i finally got hold of a UK test PS2
> machine, which plays all regions -
Damn double phoney :-Þ
Ach, I can't play it because I only have a PC and a PS1. Stop teasing me......
I read somewhere you can even decorate you're own houses and choose which clothes to wear so you can escape better from the cops, is this true?
Also back playing GTA3 the rest of the week, just in anticipation for Vice City's release, it's going to be ace.
Also back playing GTA3 the rest of the week, just in anticipation for Vice City's release, it's going to be ace.
Flanders wrote:
> He's a phoney with an import from the good old U S of A.
Hey, a phoney implies that i have a copied/pirate version of the game. Not true dude! I paid for my game just like anyone else has to, i just am lucky in the respect that i have someone i know in the USA who can send it to me. With postage it cost about the same as the UK retial price, as the US price is always a little cheaper. Yes i have a chipped machine to play the game one, but this is also now a mute point as a couple of weeks ago i finally got hold of a UK test PS2 machine, which plays all regions - damn i'm glad i got offered somemore working freelance work :-D
> He's a phoney with an import from the good old U S of A.
Hey, a phoney implies that i have a copied/pirate version of the game. Not true dude! I paid for my game just like anyone else has to, i just am lucky in the respect that i have someone i know in the USA who can send it to me. With postage it cost about the same as the UK retial price, as the US price is always a little cheaper. Yes i have a chipped machine to play the game one, but this is also now a mute point as a couple of weeks ago i finally got hold of a UK test PS2 machine, which plays all regions - damn i'm glad i got offered somemore working freelance work :-D
***Nå†ßu©***
So whats this about the buying properties things? Can you buyh any house or just set ones for the storyline? Also do you go to a property agents to buy it? Cheers :D:D:D:D:D
No, no property agents are invloved - they'd only take a 10% cut for doing nothing anyway. No you cannot just by ANY property you want. Certain buildings, like the strip club, Malibu club, Sea view appartment etc have icons outside them, the icon is a little house. You simple walk onto one of these and it'll tell you how much the property costs, and you then tap L1 to buy it, if you have enough cash that is. However, you can't just buy any property from the start. If the little 'house icon' is green you can buy it, if you have the cash, if it's red then you have to wait till later in the game. For example i cannot buy the strip club or Malibu club yet :-(. I guess as the storyline goes forward these 'locked' properties will become available, but once they are available, you can buy any property you wish, if you have the cash. Each property basically gives you somewhere else to stay, get a chnage of clothes etc.
***Monkey_With_Attitude***
So should I go to the shop Friday morning and buy it?
I certainly want to :-D
If you have the cash YES! ;-)
***Flanders***
Can I join the mutual hate for The King / Echelon or whatever name he now has club ?
This game is sounding too damn good..
Oh come on, lets have less of this hate club it's just not fair LOL ;-)
***RM18***
Before I faint with anticipation, may I ask how come you have a copy so early when we mere mortals have to wait?
Got an import copy last week mate. My GF's brother is currently at uni in the US so i got him to Fed Ex me a copy when it was released. :-D
So whats this about the buying properties things? Can you buyh any house or just set ones for the storyline? Also do you go to a property agents to buy it? Cheers :D:D:D:D:D
No, no property agents are invloved - they'd only take a 10% cut for doing nothing anyway. No you cannot just by ANY property you want. Certain buildings, like the strip club, Malibu club, Sea view appartment etc have icons outside them, the icon is a little house. You simple walk onto one of these and it'll tell you how much the property costs, and you then tap L1 to buy it, if you have enough cash that is. However, you can't just buy any property from the start. If the little 'house icon' is green you can buy it, if you have the cash, if it's red then you have to wait till later in the game. For example i cannot buy the strip club or Malibu club yet :-(. I guess as the storyline goes forward these 'locked' properties will become available, but once they are available, you can buy any property you wish, if you have the cash. Each property basically gives you somewhere else to stay, get a chnage of clothes etc.
***Monkey_With_Attitude***
So should I go to the shop Friday morning and buy it?
I certainly want to :-D
If you have the cash YES! ;-)
***Flanders***
Can I join the mutual hate for The King / Echelon or whatever name he now has club ?
This game is sounding too damn good..
Oh come on, lets have less of this hate club it's just not fair LOL ;-)
***RM18***
Before I faint with anticipation, may I ask how come you have a copy so early when we mere mortals have to wait?
Got an import copy last week mate. My GF's brother is currently at uni in the US so i got him to Fed Ex me a copy when it was released. :-D
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