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how is it.....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 118
Date: April 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I am very curious how this game has been available for a review,
as i understand it there are still three weeks till this title is
released.Even on the games homepage and the links it leads to,not one have a 'scoop' on how it plays,i understand that demand for this game will be emense,i myself will be buying it,not from yourselves but from someone who at least can be honest about the advertisements and their reviews.

'to third parties or objectionable 'this is quoted in the conditions of use,out of curiousity,does this mean if someone give a bad review of a game,that this will not be posted?

No Multiplayer. ...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 40
Date: April 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Don't buy this game. No multiplayer. What a slap in the PC community's face! ...It's the going to be the same ...game. Oh wait, better graphics (well, duh), and I can play my own MP3s. $hit, sign me up. That's worth 50 bones.

Huh?Did I just buy GTA 3 again?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 33
Date: July 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Listen, people:
First of all, the game did start a whole new concept on non-linear games. BUT.....When I bought Grand Theft Auto 3, I was really excited. I turned it on and played for hours. Yes, it is addicting, for about a week. I beat it really fast, because of the addicting game play, then never touched it again. When I heard a new installment to the series was coming out I bought it thinking rockstar had once again revolutionized gameplay for ever. Boy was I wrong.
1. It's the same...game!!!!!!!!!!
This time its in Miami, so there's babes in bikinis. Woopdy Do Dah Dee....Nothing n ew, now theres a stupid ocean that looks [bad]. O yeah b y the way, graphics [are bad]!

2.The Soundtrack? Jesus rockstar, are you the only people in the world that haven't realized the 80's was the most useless generation ever? Come on, im not saying put the [music] people listen to today in, but something better than that.

3. Why can't you give us something better than another week long addiction? Every game I've bought from rockstar is played for 2 weeks tops, then sits in my drawer until I sell it. Well you can forget my business. And oh yeah....Max Payne....SAME THING!!!!!
MAKE SOMETHING ELSE! MAYBE SOMETHING NOT HAVING TO DO WITH GUNS AND CARS!!!!!

BORING

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 23
Date: July 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

HORRIBLE GRAPHICS THEY LOOK LIKE THEY ARE ON THE PS1 not the PS2. It is also just like the older game nothin new but a new city!

Great game, but not good to play on a bad computer!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: February 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

GRAND THEFT AUTO VICE CITY is one of the greatest games of all time! But don't make the mistake I did. I've already owned the game on the PS2, so I made a dumb decision by buying it on the PC, where I thought the game would have better graphics and controls. I WAS DEAD WRONG! Don't buy this game on the PC unless you have a good computer! I have a Windows XP, so I won't recommend you playing games on this computer! The graphics are even worse then in the PS2 version, and the controls are terrible. What a waste of [money]! Don't be a moron like me, and don't buy this game if you have a [bad] computer!

Beautifully executed game destroyed by its save system

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 11 / 21
Date: September 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Everything others have said about the brilliance of this game and the attention to detail is true. I won't repeat it.
This is another game where you have to unlock possibilities by completing missions, so claims about how freeform or nonlinear it is are exaggerated. This becomes a problem, given what I describe below.

Why, then, am I giving this game such a low rating?

Simply put, this game manages to squander all of its assets by a typically frustrating console save game structure.
Many of you will be familiar with the problem I describe, but I'm going to do so, in some detail, to make clear what a tedious chore this game can become.

I can't emphasize enough how this will leave everyone, but the die hard game fanatic, wanting to put their fist through the monitor and throw the keyboard across the room(and I am generally an easygoing person, not inclined to violence).

You can save, outside a mission, by entering a particular hotel or buying other buildings for save points throughout the city. So far, so good.
You can't save during a mission, however.
Typical scenario. You go to location A to get a cut scene describing the mission. This sends you to location B in preparation for the mission(to meet someone or change clothes for the mission). Then you head to C where you might have to protect someone by gunning down baddies. After a series of shootouts, and 20 minutes into the mission, you get a cut scene which prepares you for a chase. You jump a bike and prepare to give chase but mistype a key and hit an obstacle being thrown from the bike. Before you can get back on the bike the mission ends in failure, since you lost the chase. At this point you get to go back to location A and retrigger the mission.

Here's another, though this is a sub-mission and thankfully doesn't have to be completed to advance the story. You steal an ambulance and try to complete a series of 12 levels. Each level requires that you race around picking up the number of wounded corresponding to the level number and deliver them to the hospital within the time limit provided. Sound like fun?
You can't save between levels; the timer countdown continues. You could play perfectly to level 11 and accidentally hit the f key(which causes you to exit your vehicle) or you could accidentally hit one of the victims and kill them. You know what happens. Forty minutes of your time wasted and you get to start over at level ONE.

By this time you will probably be wondering if this is a game or a sadistic experiment in psychological torture. One thing it isn't, is FUN.

In short, if you are the type of person who loves the typical console save system and playing missions over and over until you get the execution down perfectly, you will likely love this game. If you are not, I have to warn you strongly to avoid this game. I regret my purchase and I regret giving money to a company that would put me through the frustration I endured. I doubt I will ever bother completing this game. My time is worth too much to me.

What a bitter disappointment. Another brilliant game turned from joy to mind numbing frustration by the supremely idiotic choice of save game system coupled with sadistic mission completion requirements.

Big Disappointement.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 28
Date: May 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

In my opinion, this game is overrated. Some of my friends told me this game is excellent, but when I finally bought it for PC I was quite disappointed. The graphics are excellent, very detailed. The con about the graphics are the people. They all look the similar to each other. They really need to work on it. People are too rough around the edges. It looks so fake when you make Tommy Vercetti run. And when you see cops and regular people run, it's just too unrealistic. Same things with cars. They repeat after a while plus when they try to speed off, it's just too fast and too unrealistic.
When you get a hooker you can hear and see the car moving, but when you change the view angle you can see the people just sitting. It would be better if they showed some sort of movement.
Plus I don't like the idea of shooting the hooker after sex or going on killing spree and beating people into a bloody pulp.

Yet, I found this game to be pretty addictive.

not as fun or amazing as i thought it might be

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 14
Date: February 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Grand theft auto vice city is, as you may know, one of the most lauded computer games of all time and you will find no shortage of enthusiasts singing its praises on amazon. While there has also been a great deal of negativity about this game, and moral condemnation, it has usually been from people who don't much actually play computer games and from many who did not take much time to see what this game is about or understand its context. That doesn't mean these people are entirely wrong, but it does mean they are mostly wrong, and, actually, one of the very clever things gta vice city does is actually lampoon the hypocrisy of its critics. This, along with some excellent music, is done on the game's brilliant radio stations that play randomly in any of the cars you steal. I was a little surprised that the in game radio was perhaps my favorite thing from the game.

Anyway, that's a pretty wordy preamble. You maybe just want to know what I thought of the game, so I wont go into an essay on morality in computer games. I'll tell you what I thought. I thought the game was all kind of a joke, which is fine, just, it was a mean joke. Its meant to be played as a mean joke. I didn't like that so much. From here I'll just rank it according to some categories I devised reflecting issues important to me.

Story: C- never very great in computer games, but, taking that into account it was pretty nicely done, ridiculous at times, the free roaming thing integrated well with it, you sort of intersect with different lines of the story as you like, still linear- don't know how you could have a story without that- but, like I said, it's all a bit of a mean joke and I got tired of it. I cant say how well it developed as I only managed to play about a quarter way through this game.

Characters: C- clever, very well voice acted, colorful types but completely lacking in any emotional connection whatsoever.

Gameplay: C here is where I really expected this game to be so great but was surprised it wasn't. The variety of things to do was good, driving, shooting, very different kinds of missions, etc, but mainly I never much liked the shooting stuff. I thought it had a stiff jerkiness to it, found it unnatural and not as good as an average shooter. The city was neat but I never felt like it was very satisfying, like, you could really only be a thug and that's it. I guess that's the point, you could do a lot within that, just, there wasn't any feeling of richness or depth, just breadth.

Graphics: C- again disappointing. I was expecting something terrific, but was surprised to find that, though the city was beautiful in its way, the character modeling was pretty unimpressive and seemed sort of out of date (even more so now). The stylish, cartoony characters of the box are not a fair representation of the more graceless figures in the game.

Dreariness factor: D+ personally mugging people and shooting and vandalizing and stealing my way to power kind of brought me down. It was nice to do it by the ocean though.

Technical issues: did not have problems. That's just me.

Learning factor: C+ the game helps you along pretty well with a while-you-play sort of tutorial. But quite a few things you're left on your own to figure out and controls for keyboard on certain missions (like an awful remote control helicopter) were very difficult to learn and handle.

Product materials: D+ a good example of stylish but sort of useless. Just tell me in detail about how things work and about controls and stuff. All too often in pc games I get either almost no info or, like this, a bunch of setting the stage. Cute, but useless.

Chore factor: F see below

Difficulty: F yes, I am all alone in this maybe, but most games are too hard! Difficulty levels are god's gift to a diverse population! Especially useful difficulty levels. This had none whatsoever. Some things you do are easier, some are hard and, SINCE THERE ARE NO IN GAME SAVES, you (I) have to do them over and over, from the start.

Game saves: F no. there are these save places you can go to or you can sort of lose a lot of stuff and just come out of the police station or hospital, but either way creates quite a bit of tediousness, often involving a bit of a drive just to get there.

Other: if the concept of this game sort of leaves you cold but you're curious because its such a well reviewed game I really say, don't bother. If it sounds hilarious to be a rising young tough driving around `miami' in cars you stole I do sincerely recommend it. It totally got the whole weird pulp fiction gangster movie amoral thing pretty well.

Not much better that original

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 25
Date: June 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Motorcycles are neat, but too easy to fall off of.
The music is better.
Graphics are too similar to the original.

There are not enough improvements to make this a great sequel.

Sadly not great

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: April 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Well I've just got GTA Vice city after it being so highly recommended....and I'm not blown away.
There are some good aspects to this game. The '80s setting is great allowing for the use of some great tunes to choose from while driving : ) Also, as a "child of the '80s" I think Rockstar did a great job of capturing the mood and feel of the era. It really does feel like an episode of "Miami Vice" or classic movies such as "Scarface".

Another bonus is the addition of good voice talent from some very respected actors. This adds a nice toutch to the essence of the game I feel.
Additionally, having not played GTA III, I was very impressed with the new perspective and usse of camera angles in GTA:VC definately a HUGE improvement over the first 2 installments in every respect.

However, where I feel the game ultimately falls down is in it's gameplay. While I found the game reasonably easy to "pick up and play" I soon found the gameplay to be a bit on the tough side, frequently having to restart whole missions because of a minor mistake,a difficulty setting would have made all the difference here. Also it seems,unlike GTA 1 and 2, you can't take on new jobs to get money etc if you find a particular mission tough going - BIG MISTAKE in my book.

I also found the graphics to be rather poor considering the recent release of the game on the PC with only the lighting and the framerate being anywhere near impressive, Another missed opportunity I feel.

It does seem a shame that a game that is generally so highly recommended has been such a let down and while I may pick it up now and again in future I doubt I'll be playing it for long

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