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| From: Rockstar
Category: Video Games
List Price: £14.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 1151
Platform: Playstation2
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
ESRB: Adults Only
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 40
EAN: 5026555306706
ASIN: B000NCE4NE
Release Date: March 9, 2007
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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 Best GTA so far June 27, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I can't understand why Liberty City Stories was the big hit 'new' GTA since San Nandreas, Vice City Stories for PS2 is by far a better game. It rivals every other GTA in its new gameplay style with hundreds of features. You can now grab and attack enemies, swim and have access to brilliant new vehicles such as the jet ski. The game has been polished so that it is completely different to GTA: Vice City with a new feel to the whole map. The new mini-games too are very inventive, with things like Air Ambulance, taking tourists sight-seeing and red balloons scattered around that require shooting rather than collecting.
A new feature that does give the game a brilliant adge is the combination of purchasing properties and controlling gangs with 'Empire building'. You take over businesses and invest money to create money, but along teh way rival gangs attack you and your businesses.
A brilliant game with an award-winning soundtrack and a whole new spin on the fundamental brilliance of GTA!
 Fun, but... June 2, 2007
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Again, Rockstar have decided to release a PSP game onto the PS2. Their previous attempt at this; "GTA Liberty City Stories", was, in my opinion, not great. Was this any better?
It most definately was! The storyline is much more engaging than previously; this time you start as a corporal in the army. You're on the other side of the island to begin with (yes, the bridges are all closed yet again! Another hurricane is on it's way...) and it's two years before the action of Vice City (the original game) takes place.
The creators have decided to make the difference in time a feature of the game yet again. The car showroom is under construction, for example. They have also improved some of the geography, for example by inserting a road leading from the car showroom to the airport.
However, the game can be quite shocking. One of the early storylines is centred around domestic abuse (a brave choice) and some of the content on talk radio shows are even more horrific than before. Of course, the game is rated 18 so the content is expected.
The big problem I have with this game is the "missions". They are very uninspired, and merely repeats of missions in San Andreas. Probably the first example of this is the mission "Boomshine". The whole series does now feel very tired, but that could be because the Rockstar team chose to reuse this location; perhaps GTA4 will be another "new dawn" for the series?
So, the game is rather tired, however some new ideas come to the fore, such as the taxi driver missions. Here, they have introduced "follow that car!" type games and multiple journeys with a single passenger.
The exhaustion does not stop this game from being fun, however, and it is as addicting as ever. It's a shame that it wasn't more imaginative, but this game will still provide hours of entertainment.
Another good game but........................ May 17, 2007
3 out of 18 found this review helpful
This is another good game that joins the ranks of all the other Grand Theft Auto titles but like all the other titles, this game only really comes to life when you have enough of those all essential cheat codes.
The games are fun but to really get into them you need these cheats e.g. Infinate ammo, infinate health etc otehrwise challenges just become too difficult (Remember San Andreas ??)for the casual player lead to frustration. The game is a good follow up to the classic Vice city, but Vice City is still the Daddy of them all.
Well worth the money and remember get those cheats!!!!
A dream come true for Vice City fans April 9, 2007
24 out of 24 found this review helpful
Have you ever read seen a film that was so good you wished you'd never seen it so you could have the pleasure of seeing it again for the first time? Well for anyone who loved Vice City and was then disappointed with the setting and style of San Andreas then this is heaven because it gives you the chance to replay vice city all over again but in a completely different way. Think of it as the original GTA: Vice City but with all new characters, new scripts and songs on the radio, new vehicles, new missions and lots of new game play styles.
The game map is similar to the original VC but with a few additions such as a fairground by ocean beach and a few carefully placed ramps for those high speed stunts. The most impressive aspect of the game for me is the sheer depth of game play because you're now able to not just buy property but to develop it into businesses of different styles such as protection rackets, arms dealers etc and also decide on the size and scale of the business. Gone are the annoying trips around the map to collect your money as you're now paid each day at 4pm by the wonder of direct debit (this is 1984 remember!)
The music is brilliant with some new stations and old ones like flash returning with colossal hits from the 80s such as Laura Brannigans "Gloria" and Blondies "Heart of Glass". Some of the new radio ads are so funny you'll have to pause the game until you stop laughing at them. Another great musical feature is Phil Collins! Yes that's right, he must be a big fan of the game because he's in here as a character complete with a voiceover and is even involved in the missions. Him and his manager "Barry the Brummy" add a touch of realism to the game by bringing in real stars to Vice City, I hope this is a trend that continues in future games.
As for missions, they're much more involved than ever before. There must be about 100+ story missions ranging from playing golf to filming stunt scenes in movies. There're literally dozens of hidden missions including a new PCJ route, a golf cart race, buggy racing, street racing, helicopter races etc.
So with all this there must be a downside, right? Admittedly the graphics aren't quite as sharp as the original VC because this was converted over from the PSP and while it's a little disappointing they didn't take time to fix this for the PS2 you can hardly complain for a game costing less than 15. That's the only slight drawback there is and it's such a tiny point you'd hardly notice. I suggest anyone with a PS2, it also runs fine on a PS3, grabs this and it will more than keep you going until October when GTA 4 is released. As the guy in the Ammu-nation says "Buy it, hold it, love it".
An extension of Vice City March 30, 2007
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
I thought the in GTA: Vice City Stories was boring. It is essentially about Victor and Lance Vance setting up a drugs business. This means that many of the missions involve collecting drug shipments or stopping rival dealers. This is despite Vic insisting he hates being involved in drugs and violence!
Some of the GTA: San Andreas gameplay is used. Vic can swim for a limited time and recruit gang members. You can also grab victims and perform several moves for an easy kill. You cannot crouch this time, but I never found that useful anyway.
The weapons are basically the same as in GTA: Vice City, with the addition of binoculars and lack of flamethrowers. The vehicles are the same too, with the odd jet ski or BMX bike lying around. I was disappointed that you can only fly helicopters, seaplanes and bi-planes and not the larger planes of San Andreas.
As well as the cab service featured in VC and GTA: Liberty City Stories, you can pay a cash bribe to get your weapons back when you have been killed or arrested. San Andreas' 'Trip Skip' feature is also back and allows you to skip driving sections when retrying a mission.
Property development is worse than in VC. Obtaining a property is fun, where you wipe out gang members and smash things up. The development of it is boring. You choose from a couple of businesses and do a series of extremely repetitive missions in return for daily cash earnings. The good thing is that you get the money straight away and will soon not have to worry about saving up for ammunition. Often gangs will attack your businesses, much like the territory wars in San Andreas.
With the exception of the North Point Mall and Ammunation stores, you cannot enter any of the buildings that you could in VC. You can go inside small stores, which can be robbed, and your business premises, but these interiors lack variety in their design.
There is no Pizza Boy side mission but new ones include working as a coastguard and flying an air ambulance. It is helpful that once you get to a certain level, you will continue from that place in later attempts at the mission. Overall I didn't find them too challenging though.
If you are deciding which of the two PSP ports to buy, it depends whether you like playing missions or the free-roaming. LCS has poor grapics,yet better missions and VCS has the better side-activities. Both games on the PS2 are without the multiplayer games from the PSP originals.
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