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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. ;-)
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. ;-)
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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.
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 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.
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.
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. ;-)
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. ;-)
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