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It's got to be good? Right?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 29 / 59
Date: August 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have to laugh at some of the other reviews that have people stating they have played the game. (The Russian version??? wha?)Hello.. its not coming out for 2 more months. You may have played the demo but that can be very different from the game.

I have to agree with what a lot of people are saying. I have no doubt that GTA Vice City will be as good as GTA3 if not better. But like a few of the reviews say, I am not going to give it a 5 star rating without even playing it. I have learned this from playing the Midway NFL Blitz series. Not all sequels to games are necessarily better.

GTA3 is by far the best game I have played on the PS2 to date. Even after you have beaten the game it is fun just to drive around and cause mayhem. I have a good feeling that Vice City will be just as much fun and have different aspects to the game that will set it apart from GTA3.

All in all, I don't think you will regret buying Vice City when it comes out. If causing mayhem is what you like to do and you aren't a "Point A to B" game player, you'll love it.

Way too violent for kids, but Adults...you will love it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 22
Date: December 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a fantastic game, for many of the same reasons that the version before it was. Great gameplay, superb soundtrack...lots of side missions. Cool cars, boats, planes, choppers to discover...even Motorcycles. Lots of Weapons. Go on rampages, go on jobs for the mob, buy new businesses as fronts for your criminal activities, jump insane heights for points and cash...this game, you gotta own...its a rush, trust me.

GTA: Vice City = Gold, Solid Gold!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 20
Date: November 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Alright, I know that I'm probably the age group that people wouldn't reccomend this game to (I'm 13), and I have to say, that for people who can't handle it or can't tell the difference between games and real life, shouldn't play it. But I can, and my parents and I feel that I'm mature enough to play it. But honestly, don't let your kids near it if you don't like the sound of blood, lots of it. Violence, lots of it. Language, there's some of it, not as bad as in most R rated movies, but there is some of it. Now that that's all out of the way, this game is great. So far, I've played for around 5 hours, and I'm only 6 % done the game, that's how big this game is. Its the most fun I've had with a game since Mafia, and I reccomend it to anyone (given the exceptions above).

So fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: November 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

There is so much to do in this game. I just spent an hour delivering pizzas, and even that was fun. The bikes handle fairly realisticly. My favorite parts are vigilante missions and just plain driving around with no real destination, just crusin. The sound track is so good and so varied. If you liked ANY music from the eighties you will like the music in this game.

P.S. This isn't one for the kiddies. The rating is mature and rightfully so.

A Man, A Chainsaw, and A Dream

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: January 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Welcome to Vice City, home of the 1980s! Complete with the look and feel of the time in both monuments and fashion sense, not to mention music that helps me garner many and many a flashback while driving in my vehicular portion of nostalgia down those roads, you are thrust into a Miami Vice theme where, in a previously unprecedented move, rival factions are trying to establish a foothold in the land of milk and money. Sent to help establish an operational foothold for one such group (and voiced by Ray Liota), you - Tommy Vercetti - find yourself double-crossed, robbed, and vengefully motivated as your life is threatened unless you find out who perpetrated such a grievous offense. This quest leads down many a darkly interactive corridor as you find yourself seemingly jumping through hoops while secretly establishing your own monopoly on the city's nefarious empire.

Many things have improved in this version of Grand Theft Auto, making the gaming experience all the better. Your arsenal has the increased to wondrous proportions, giving you the option to become selective as to what types of weaponry you want to carry, thereby allowing you to customize the look and feel of mayhem as you single-handedly write multitudes of epitaphs. You also have the ability to shed your garments like a snake sheds its skins, giving you the ability to mockingly crusade about the city in golfing apparel while hefting your chainsaw in the midst of a crowded streets. Added to that is increased interactive ability when it comes to the deliciousness of a violence-doused world, like the lavish ability to target drivers as they roll helpless by inside cars that would have once protected them from your advances or your ability to enter stores and illustrate your woes with their selections through a hail of gunfire. In fact, many more potentials exist here, in a much more interactive city, allowing you to explore and maim in much more interesting manners.

There are also the improvements in the realms of vehicles as well, allowing you to use boats that work better, helicopters that control with relative ease, and even planes that can actually fly - unlike the Dodo planes experienced in the last chapter. There are even motorcycles, mopeds, and the like available for those wanting to experience the thrill of stunt-riding and kissing the concrete of an embracive city. On top of that, the cars handle better, turning when you want to turn and allowing you to control them against the onslaught of police officers that come equipped to handle the more aggressive player a little better; filling the skies with helicopters that bring their own swat teams, spike strips to cover the road, and vice cops to thwart your attempts at grandstanding with the press of sub machine-gun fire.

Also, there is a drastic improvement in the mission quality and the gist of what you are doing, making you seem less like an errand boy and more like the walking arsenal you are, allowing you to not only acquire money but to also buy various landmarks and safehouses to further your conquest of the city. This comes in handy because your save points can change, you can spawn newer missions that are all about you, and your money actually means something here. Tie all of these elements together and you have the perfect game built upon the back of a time gone but not forgotten.

Ah, the moonlight...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: October 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I feel romantic, driving through the city in the rain with the moon in view, Emotion on the dial. I'm ashamed to admit I spend most of my evenings helping the coppers chase down wannabe's in front of the mall, 50 bucks a pop for a citizen's arrest and I just keep kicking em while they're down, cha-ching! I've bought all the properties with just the results of my do-gooder vigilantism. See, this game rewards a higher sense of morality.

Vice is twice as nice

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: November 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

There was so much hype leading up to the release of this game, as the release date neared, I started to wonder if it would be able to live up to expectations. It did so, and surpassed them.

Almost everything that was great in GTA3 is improved upon in GTA:VC. The graphics, the music, the plotline, the carnage ... they're all so much better. And the additional features only add to its greatness:
* Being able to bail out of your car while its moving (hopefully with a cop or two loitering in its path) is great for those times when your engine catches on fire at 150mph.
* Putting on a clean outfit will let you get rid of those pesky 1 or 2 star wanted levels.
* The in-game map lets you see where you are and where you need to go. It's an indispensable tool for a city as vast as Vice.
* Doing a run-by decapitation with a sword (!) is now possible since you can use your melee weapons while running.
* Don't like yanking some lady out of her car? Try to get her to flee by banging on her hood.
* Need to earn some cash? Why not deliver some pizza or enter a demolition derby?
* Need to spend some cash? Why not buy some property?

There were a couple of minor issues in the game like slightly longer load times (totally forgivable) and an annoying (and fairly pointless) shine effect on vehicles. But these things don't even begin to cut into its 5 star rating.

Throw in more cars to choose from, more weapons to choose from, more music to choose from, more intricate and challenging missions, and an even bigger city, and you have one incredible game. An instant contender for Game of the Year honors. Don't bother renting this one, buy it as soon as you can.

Parents read this

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 19
Date: February 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989

And you say that video games are bad now, but didn't your parents say that rock and roll was just as bad? Rock and Roll is one of the most popular forms of music! I guess it just comes down to how much you trust your child. If you think that they are unlikely to repeat what they would see, it should be fine. If your child is a 5 years old and has access to a shotgun, keep them away.

early reviews

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 31 / 74
Date: July 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It annoys me that people continually write reviews for games that they have never even played or seen. Hhow do you know the game is going to be good? Take a look at the reviews below and you'll find text like "GTA 3 was cool so i ASSUME this will be too. I've never played it or seen any screen shots, but it will be awesome so I am giving it five stars based on nothing other than gta3." You realize that it affects the overall customer review average, and if the game comes out and isn't that great, the review average will be higher than what it should be because of people writing reviews way too early. Wait until the game comes out and you've played it to give your opinion on it. It makes no sense in wasting people's time and possibly money by doing this. I myself believe this game will be great and i will buy it as soon as it comes out, but i am not going to give it a 5 star rating just because i think that...what's the point?

Great Game for months of playin! For all ages too! But...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 31
Date: August 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is great. Your able to walk around the streets, even inside buildings, carjack cars on the street, and even ride a boat or a helicopter! Yes thats right, HELICOPTER! Rockstar announced that helicopters are in the game and are playable. Now for the mature news.

This game is great for anyone IF there mature enough to handle blood, violence, and prostitutes. However, you can always avoid prostitutes and countless amount of blood, if you behave. So I think anyone from 5-100 can play this game, but only if they can handle the game.. Back to my review..

You start out in vice city, which is located in miami. Here you will incounter hundreds of people, hundreds of missions, thousands of cars to hijack, and many gangs.. Be a nice guy and you will be respected and some people hate you. Be a bad guy and some people will hate you or respect you.

hERE IS MY REVIEW, I HOPE EVERYONE LIKES IT :)

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