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Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years Amazon Minimum Age: 204 months Binding: Video Game Brand: Rockstar Games EAN: 0710425371363 ESRB Age Rating: Mature Label: Rockstar Games Manufacturer: Rockstar Games Platform: PlayStation2 Publisher: Rockstar Games Release Date: March 06, 2007 Sales Rank: 3670 Studio: Rockstar Games
Features:
Players can steal and drive a variety of vehicles, including automobiles, boats, airplanes, helicopters, and motorcycles
Open, non-linear environment with multiple storylines and missions - from drive-by shootings to armed robberies
Avoid attracting attention - The more chaos you cause, the stronger the response -- first SWAT teams, then Feds and finally the military
Classic and all-new side missions, like Beach Patrol
Pay off hospital staff to keep weapons you'd normally lose
Product Description: In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories brings the GTA action back to Vice City. It's the mid-1980s, just two years before the events in GTA: Vice City. Follow the Vance brothers, Lance and Victor, as they pull themselves out of poverty and try to run the streets. Victor is a 28-year-old US Army soldier who's been kicked out of the service; Lance is a drug addicted wreck. Help them fight for money, power and respect on the hard streets of Vice City. Buy property and set up one of six business at the site - Protection rackets, loan sharking, prostitution, drugs, smuggling and robbery Wild new multiplayer options - Vice City Survivor, the single and multiplayer deathmatch mode; Street racing in new Street Rage; run a Protection Racket; and a crazy new one called Tanks For The Memories Great new radio station playing licensed hits from the 1980s
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - the same as vice city, but not as fun
GTA:Vice City is great, but Vice City stories is nothing compared to the others. In this game you play as a radom black military guy, and isn't talked about in vice city. Overall this is a bummer, and i love the regular vice city.
Rating: - an upgrade frome the first vicecity
This game was the same like the first vicecity but you play as a black guy and it has a different story. GTA is really getting boaring it's just the same stuff, so this game was not good.
Rating: - Pure mayhem simulator a popular medication
The fifth GTA release for PS2, this is the second title that was an exclusive PSP-only release, following Liberty City Stories. The producers claimed they wouldn't port this one for PS2, but lo and behold, they did, and thankfully. Put aside the odd decision to produce games exclusively for a three inch screen...if you love the GTA games, this is a no-brainer, especially at the reduced price.
Overall, the game looks like it's been ported in that its slightly squished down so the aspect ratio is not quite the same as GTA: VC. On the up side, though, the graphics are improved, the movement is better, the colors are better, etc. Importantly, you have that 360-degree action with the environment at all times (using the right stick) meaning you can move the view around like a camera at any given moment. Similarly, the Cinematic View (for those who enjoy blowing things up in a cinematic mode) is like the 'old' style from GTA II and VC, meaning you cannot manually change the views like in LCS. For some reason, this is actually better and gives the action a better performance. And it can be hilarious. But it doesn't ruin this game, far from it. Basically, for Vice City fanatics who enjoyed crime and evil in that town, this is so very welcome. As before, some of the enhancements of LCS have made it in, so you can enjoy Miami-stand in "Vice City" with a few new twists.
Story-wise, for anyone keeping score, the game is set in 1984 (the earliest GTA setting now), two years before VC. Things are a bit different in town, there is much building to be done, it's rather sleazy...it's basically Miami circa the premier of Miami Vice. With more gangs. And sleaze. The story in the game is noticeably darker, which puts an interesting spin on this. There is even more chatter on the radio, entirely new stations, and generally the same amount of writing and detail as any of the other games. A real 'bonus' holdover game that does the job.
Plenty of violence and insanity, and like LCS, the missions are definitely easier, as if they wanted you to blow through it quicker and enjoy the free-for-all action and endless bonus stuff. Again, like LCS, looks a little bit 'smushed' on the screen, like the picture was not fully corrected from the PSP. But it still looks better and moves better, which is what counts. Like LCS, debuted at a cheap price (interesting strategy), and probably was a big shot in the arm for Rockstar, who are banking big on IV later in '08. Absolutely recommended for fans and addicts alike, even you have to play on your 'old' system.
Rating: - must have
i have been waiting to play this game like forever i cant wait till it getz delivered
Rating: - Pretty Fun
This game is fun, but not as fun as the original. There are some neat additions though, like when you suffer a concussion from being too close to an explosion the controls and the screen move all around and prevent you from driving easily. I enjoyed this game for a couple of days before I went back to Final Fantasy XI. I plan to play more on a rainy day.
- the same as vice city, but not as fun
- an upgrade frome the first vicecity
- Pure mayhem simulator a popular medication
- must have
- Pretty Fun
