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MASSIVE article on GTA Vice City. Over 100 vehicles, over 40 weapons, 9 hours of radio, 8000 pedestrian comments, 8 hours of scripted dialogue, an hour and a half of cutscenes. Vice City is double the size of Liberty City, with improved textures, streaming and animations.
The star is not the guy from GTA3, and he actually speaks. Waterways, swamps and beaches, with a big selection of boats. You can visit clothes stores to change clothes. Over 60 'internal' locations - some are simple like AmmuNation, others are places like nightclubs - full internal areas, with things to do inside. The article describes 'Tommy' (the main character) leaving a shop to find someone about to make off on his bike... at which point he rams a screwdriver into the hijacker, who falls off the bike - and tommy switches to a hammer to finish him off.
Targeting has been improved, and you can now crouch when shooting. Improving on the drive-by aspect, on bikes and boats you can now shoot forwards! You can shoot drivers or passengers through the car windows now, and shoot out tyres. Pedestrians are more varied and do more than just walk about, and other criminals also get chased by the cops - so if you hear a siren, they may not be after you!
Oh, and there's a big screenshot of 'Tommy' flying a helicopter...
Elsewhere, there's coverage of Knight Rider, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, The Sum of All Fears, Big Mutha Truckers, Reign of Fire, Twin Caliber, WWE Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth.
Reviews of The Thing (83), Turok Evolution (71), Eggo Mania (40), Ferrari F355 Challenge (67), Ninja Assault (68), Conflict: Desert Storm (78), Legion: Legend of Excalibur (70), MX Superfly (72), Riding Spirits (70), Onimusha 2 (89), Tekken 4 (90), Disney's Stitch (64), Lethal Skies (63), UFC Throwdown (75).
On the DVD there's footage of Shinobi, Minority Report, Colin McRae 3, True Crime, WWE Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth, Burnout 2, and plenty more. Over 3.5 hours in fact - though I haven't watched it yet!
It's worth getting the mag just for the GTA Vice City coverage though! And NEXT month, they'll have video of it on the DVD. :-)
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Any idea when it is in the shops. I guess this means we should see the next edition of OPS2M, maybe this weekend.
MASSIVE article on GTA Vice City. Over 100 vehicles, over 40 weapons, 9 hours of radio, 8000 pedestrian comments, 8 hours of scripted dialogue, an hour and a half of cutscenes. Vice City is double the size of Liberty City, with improved textures, streaming and animations.
The star is not the guy from GTA3, and he actually speaks. Waterways, swamps and beaches, with a big selection of boats. You can visit clothes stores to change clothes. Over 60 'internal' locations - some are simple like AmmuNation, others are places like nightclubs - full internal areas, with things to do inside. The article describes 'Tommy' (the main character) leaving a shop to find someone about to make off on his bike... at which point he rams a screwdriver into the hijacker, who falls off the bike - and tommy switches to a hammer to finish him off.
Targeting has been improved, and you can now crouch when shooting. Improving on the drive-by aspect, on bikes and boats you can now shoot forwards! You can shoot drivers or passengers through the car windows now, and shoot out tyres. Pedestrians are more varied and do more than just walk about, and other criminals also get chased by the cops - so if you hear a siren, they may not be after you!
Oh, and there's a big screenshot of 'Tommy' flying a helicopter...
Elsewhere, there's coverage of Knight Rider, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, The Sum of All Fears, Big Mutha Truckers, Reign of Fire, Twin Caliber, WWE Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth.
Reviews of The Thing (83), Turok Evolution (71), Eggo Mania (40), Ferrari F355 Challenge (67), Ninja Assault (68), Conflict: Desert Storm (78), Legion: Legend of Excalibur (70), MX Superfly (72), Riding Spirits (70), Onimusha 2 (89), Tekken 4 (90), Disney's Stitch (64), Lethal Skies (63), UFC Throwdown (75).
On the DVD there's footage of Shinobi, Minority Report, Colin McRae 3, True Crime, WWE Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth, Burnout 2, and plenty more. Over 3.5 hours in fact - though I haven't watched it yet!
It's worth getting the mag just for the GTA Vice City coverage though! And NEXT month, they'll have video of it on the DVD. :-)