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read this before making a descision

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 23
Date: March 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have rated this game 1 star because I want this review to be read amidst the other one star reviews. In all honesty I enjoyed this game but I wanted this review to be posted with the one star crowd (remember this is not a review on the game but a statement in its defense about the violent and sexual content it contains). If you do not like a game that is one thing but to bash it on its content and exaggerate is another. Where in this game can you rape women? The women were all clothed (even in the Pole Position; I played this game thoroughly and extensively). Sure you can pick up prostitutes and by the money disappearing from your bank it alludes to sex but thats about racy as you are going to get in that category. What about violence towards women? How about millions of other things detested by these reviewers? Are they right should the government take this off the shelves and should parents be ultra vigilante with keeping this game from their childrens hands? Obviously these reviewers missed the point about the game. The point is simple: real life. The game allows you to choose between a moral and unmoral lifestyle (granted unmoral is not fun). So if you harbor aggression towards women this game might bring it out. Though the game is not aggressive towards women or any other group it is a direct reflection of who is playing it. Also by getting their aggression out in a video game instead of real life the game might help curb violence. Everyone knows that bottling things inside is the worst possible thing for psychological health so this game might be good therapy. I highly doubt that a pacifist will come out from playing this game a serial killer. So that being said I hope people can weigh different sides of the argument for this game. I hope some parent reads this before making a hasty decision from the mere thoughtless is immature reviews posted by countless others. Besides most of the people have exaggerated the true content of this game making it out far worse than it really is. Also by taking this game off shelves Americans are forfeiting their rights of freedom of speech no matter what their messages are. (Please note I am not a company man)

Too much work to be fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: May 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

On the upside, the scenery, the variety of vehicles, and the story line and main missions are all great. On the downside, the radio stations in Liberty City were great satire and music, in Vice City, they're annoyingly silly with bad music; the side missions are too difficult, especially since the cops are so easily offended, and the controls seem harder to use (maybe just me and my computer).

If repeating the same mission over and over and over and over trying to be a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y perfect just to get that last checkpoint is fun for you, then go for it. It wasn't for me.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME FOR YOUR CHILD

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 19 / 56
Date: December 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The issue is this. I've heard alot of buzz on the game. All of the buzz positive. "Its a great game." "Its got cool graphics." Blah Blah Blah.

Well, my wife bought me a PS2 last week. Never had one. Last game system I had was an Atari 2600, which ain't saying much.

Well, one of the games my wife got me was Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

Let me just say in 1 hour time I did the following in the game.

1) Car jacked about 5 cars. Beat the drivers senseless too.
2) Killed a plethora of police officers.
3) Stole about 10 cars, 1 motorcycle, and 2 scooters. Used the cars to run down people.
4) Beat a pedestrian senseless. I took her money, then stole a car. I drove to the D.I.Y Hardware store and bought a screwdriver. I used the screw driver to kill as many pedestrians I saw. Needless to say I was gundown by Liberty City's finest police officers.

What got me is my nephew wants a PS2 for x-mas. I just found out that his Grandmother bought him one along with this game. I'm flabbergasted that she did such a thing, even more so after telling her all the grisely details on the game

So, is this a game you really want your child playing with? To be rewarded for killing cops and innocent people while running mob activities?

I'm a firm believer in parents needing to be proactive in their children's lives. I believe most parents run into the situation where their children say, "Mommy/Daddy, I want that game for Christmas/Birthday...etc...etc" and without thinking, to gratify their child, the parents go out and purchase the game without really examining what it is they are purchasing.

Unnecessarily Tedious

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: April 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I may be the only gamer in the country that doesn't like this game. Here's why:

1. The controls don't allow for crisp fighting action. In a melee situation, you don't have good control of your character. You can only turn in 90-degree increments, so you end up facing the wrong way much of the time while your enemies smack the tar out of you.

2. The action is unnecessarily repetitive. If you fail at a mission, you have to repeat a lot of tedious driving around and other meaningless tasks to get to the "meat" of the mission. Most of your time in this game will be spent driving around looking for something. Finding that friggin' hotel to save the game, getting dumped at a hospital or a police station, then backtracking so you could actually accomplish your mission became booooooring very quickly.

3. Yes, you can pretty much do anything you want. But I'm a goal-oriented gamer, and this is probably the source of my problem with this game. Once the novelty of banging hookers wore off, the rest of the game was tedious.

The best Rockstar game I've played is Manhunter. You actually can do some damage in that game, as opposed to waving a golf club at thin air while your enemies smack you from behind.

It was a game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: October 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I honestly saw this game for the first time a few months ago at a friend's house. I have played GTA a few times on the computer but was not that impressed. I thought GTA was a fun game but it got old way too fast. It was like Crazy Taxi in that all of the mission were the same and there wasn't a real plot to the game.

This game was fun for a few hours while you got a cheat code to get the mini-gun and tank and destroy half of the city. This game honestly bored me after a few hours of playing it. I don't look for much in a game all I ask is to be entertained. Actually I overlook the flaws if it is inventive and fun to play. I am an RPG player thru and thru and it takes a good adventure game to get me hooked (Metroid Series, Zelda, and Mega Man) The minute I get bored the game goes off and it doesn't get picked up again.

This game is entertaining when on a mission but I had to retry many missions and had to do the whole drive to the mission area get all set up thing over and over. That gets boring and discourages gamers like me. I only scratched the surface of the game before I quit because of a hardware error. I have honestly found better things to do with my time.

I gave it a three star rating because that is what I think it deserved. It wasn't all that bad if you enjoy games like this. Its boring, and cliched story and poor gameplay keep it from being a great game. The other thing that drags the game down is the poor graphics for the time. The graphics looked rushed like they were capitilizing on the success of GTA3. I normally don't hold much to eye candy because I believe a game begins and ends with gameplay, and story. It has to be entertaining and fun/easy to move and act in a game for me to be impressed. With the perfect game gameplay, story, music/sound, graphics are near perfect and make a truly wonderful gaming experiance but this was not it. If you notice the order I placed them that is what I consider important in a game. The music and sounds were nice but it couldn't make up for a poor story, and gameplay.

Good To Be Bad!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 15
Date: February 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Unfortunately I haven't yet played GTA3, I know - shame on me. This is the first GTA game I've played so I'm a newcomer. Geez doesn't it get boring when every reviewer just keeps telling the story over and over again, boring me with "you can do this and that but not this, ect." and copying the plot from the website? "Well GTA3 was better, bla bla bla, this wasn't such a huge follow up, bla bla bla" Gimme a break!! This is a kick butt game. Well worth the 50 bucks in my opinion! Simply put it - Nice gameplay, nice graphics, interesting settings (ahh the 80's lol) and a killer soundtrack. After reading every single review, here are the bad apples -
A gamer from Orem, UT
A gamer from Sherman, IL
A gamer from Richmond, IN "Feed this to your kids and see what you get back" (the biggest piece of review junk I have ever read)
A gamer from Spring Grove, PA "Vice City: Worst video game ever designed" (junk #2)
A gamer from Hooksett, NH
A gamer from Pound Ridge, NY "Extremely Overrated" (junk #3)
A gamer from PA "As a mother and a grandmother" (Oh please! save yourself the trouble!)
Mark Wen from Palo Alto, CA "Time to take a stand" (Okay macho man!)
A gamer from Seattle, WA "No" (junk #4)
Naaman from USA "What have games become" (junk #5)
A gamer from USA "Violent Games" (junk #6)
A gamer from De Pere, WI "Parents: is this the world you want for your children?" (junk #7)
A gamer from Reno, NV "Do not buy this game for your kids please" (junk #8)
A gamer from Sayville, NY "Wow" (junk #9)
Mistrmind from West Bridgewater, MA "Do not buy this game for your child" (junk #10)
A gamer from Sacramento, CA "Too violent--Game should be pulled" (junk #11)
A gamer from Mt. Laurel, NJ "Grand De-Moralizer" (Okay church person!)
A gamer from Mexico City "This game is obsurd"
I would like to tell all of these people to stop putting down the game. All you uptight parents, church groups, ect. should all listen to some Wanyne Newton, play some chess, join the WMCA and never let your kids watch MTV - That's how old fashoined and uptight you are. "This will have lasting effects on our children, ect." I've played Halo, Max Payne and all other games - Does that make me a violent person? Does that mean that I will be a carjacker when I grow up? Please, keep your opinions to yourself. "Games should be educational, ect." The whole point of games is to allow you to do what you want and have fun, school is for learning you old dummies. Basically if you've been taught right and wrong then by all means dont' be hesitant to try this game out.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME FOR YOUR KIDS... PLEASE

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 23
Date: December 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If your youngster is begging and pleading for you to purchase this game for them, I would highly discourage complying to their will. Is is not a game that is suitable for anybody who is of an age where they are so hugley influenced by what they see. Unless of course you think car-jackings are cool, murder is COOL, Killing cops is Cool, Breaking the law is Cool, massacring cities is cool, et cetera. This game rewards your child for the shear amount of destruction that they can create. If I was the manufacturer of this video game, I could not live with myself. It is of utter dissatisfaction to me that this game is so highly popular in our country. I hope that you do not choose to support something that will so awfully influence your child. Teach them how to play chess or go spend some time with them at the park. Please DO NOT let them sit in front of the television for hours on end absorbing the terrible nature of this game.

Say Goodnight to the Bad Guy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Grand Theft Auto Vice City while similar to GTA3 is a very different gaming experience. All the essentials from the previous game return here, but Vice City breaks new barriers. First with the addition of the main character, Tommy Vercetti. Voiced wonderfully by Ray Liotta, Vercetti says more in the first 5 minutes of the game than The Guy did in the entire GTA3 game. Second, the diverse landscape of Vice City is overwhelming compared to the setting of GTA3. While I preferred the darker surroundings of the previous game, the bright night life of Vice City is essential to its storyline and setting. Set in the 1980's Vice City appears as the same town that Tony Montana hovered around in Scarface. The similarities don't stop there. Many missions are clearly based on certain parts of the 1983 gangster movie. Gamers will actually put down the controller and wait for Vercetti to exclaim "Say goodnight to the bad guy," after he's torched an entire bank and killed nearly all his compainions in the process. Speaking of that mission, it showcases Vice City's greatest asset. The story here moves back and forth, and the end of the game, although highly unlikely, is well done. Vercetti is a bad dude, there is no doubt about that and gamers will have fun with his character. On the question of which game is better, GTA3 or GTA: Vice City, there is still one more review to write before the ultimate answer is given.

One of the best games ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: September 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I could spend hours not even doing the missions, but just driving around and having fun. This is one of the most exciting and addictive games released for Playstation 2! I highly recommend it.

For the bad boy in all of us....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Ingredients:

1 part Need For Speed
6 parts Scarface
Marinade in Miami Vice for 15 years
Serve hot, wet and bloody

In a blaze of chic suits, uzi fire and burning rubber, GTA is back with a vengeance. Basking in the glow of fictional Miami-lookalike Vice City, players are thrust headlong into the violent, seedy criminal underworld and held under until they stop kicking. Like it or not, this is a game that appeals to your very darkest side.

As new-on-the-scene gangster wannabe Tommy Vercetti, its the players job to carve out a name for themselves amidst the razzle and glamor of the 80's. Said name is accomplished, on the whole, by doing very bad things, such as stealing cars, knocking off banks, waxing rival gang members and generally giving 'the man' a hard time. Drag people from their 80's sports cars, hit them with a baseball bat and get on with life...its that simple. You're given the freedom to explore a hugely detailed living breathing Florida city, complete with neon soaked beach fronts, highly dodgy cuban poor-quarter, sky-rise downtown and most anything else you could think of. Missions are granted through your increasing network of criminal contacts, and there's literally hundreds of different jobs and capers to explore.
In fact, the 'simple' mechanics of the game conceal immense playability and structure, and you can play for hours doing not really very much at all...just cruising round, pushing the envelope of being a bad-guy and exploring the city. The graphics are a notch up from GTA: III, and likewise the sound is a marked improvement, with a very healthy selection of radio stations to choose from. Let it be said that if you generally shun 80's music you might feel a little swamped here, but hey, its all part of the atmosphere.

Its also worth noting, for anyone who has been living in a cave and hasn't heard the press hype, that this game is not one for the kiddies. Its not just that its very violent or profane...its that it basks, revels and rejoices in acts of wanton destruction, and sports a very sick (and very funny) sense of humor and irony. There's a good deal of drug abuse, lots of sexual innuendo and a veritable orgy of killing...indeed, many sub-missions involve seeing how many people you can flame-thrower or machete in a time limit. So heed the warnings, and don't take it too seriously eh?

The few downsides to the game include a fairly sluggish combat system (compared to other contemporary shooting/fighting games), a drop in the framerate when you get lots of cars on the screen and...well, thats really about all I can think of.
For those of sterner stuff, GTA: Vice City represents a new generation of video game, one that takes risks, appeals to an older, wiser gamer and most of all, delivers value for money in spades. There's at least a hundred hours of play, but really the possibilities are limitless.

I'm off to slip into my sport jacket, grab my street bike and katana from the garage, crank up Billy Jean on the radio and do some serious gaming.

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