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You got an XBOX? Get this

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is not in the same league as HALO or HALO 2 would be... because it has it's own category! This game truly rocks! To be honest, 2 weeks before I got this... (I had mine for about a month now) I bought a copy of Project Gotham Racing 2, and right after I popped Vice City in, it never left the disc tray anymore... I totally forgot about PGR2 after I got this. To be honest, I had played the PS2 version... but in my opinion, this one had the better control configuration... plus the graphics is enhanced too plus the custom soundtracks. But who needs the Custom Soundtracks option anyway? The Radio Stations are wacky enough to get you through the whole game itself. Now, I'm just waiting for GTA4: Sin City to come out. I recommend this one... a great buy!

It's 1986. It's time to "Act like you know!"

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Ok, Mr. Tommy Vercetti. You've been cooped up in Liberty City jail for 15 years, it's time to live the peaceful life, right? Wrong! It's the 80's and you've got to make your mark on the neon-lit drug infested world of Vice City. It's rife with druglords,rival gangs,and of course enough cars to suit any taste.

As Tommy Vercetti, a greased up Italian just trying to get by, is now doing the dirty work for the mob bosses back up North because of a failed drug trade transaction. Tommy must now climb the criminal crime ladder and ally himself with the real estate bigwigs and top players to take down the druglord that wronged him and take over the neon choked town that is Vice City.

The World is Yours! Get Grand Theft Auto:Vice City Today!

my brother like the game a ton

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

i have played it but my brother pays it more he relly likes the game and has beet it and steel plays it most games he beets he stops playing so i give it a very strong review

One of the bests games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST GAMES OF ALL TIME!!! It has been upgraded from PS2 to fit the XBOX. The game is so fun because you can go anywhere and do anything. These games are true classics. I don't know anyone who wouldn't want a copy of these masterpieces.

bout time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Its about time these games were ported. Having played the PS2 version the graphics are better on xbox. The abilty to have custom soundtracks is 5 stars by itself. I've noticed 1 little difference certain things like a change of clothes or stars are in different places. Great classic extremely detailed fun game!

You Really Don't Get It!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

It's very sad to see people like McD commenting on how violence corrupts the youth of today. Kids don't just play games like GTA and think, out of the blue, I'm gonna go shoot up my school. People have these thoughts in their heads already. Movies don't create psychos, movies make pyschos more creative. I'm 13 and I've played GTA before. Kids know that going around killing people and stealing cars isn't how real life works. People shouldn't censor their kids, we're gonna learn about this stuff anyways.

GTA III & Vice City weren't games, but worlds you inhabited

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Grand Theft Auto III changed the way many gamers both saw and played games. It wasn't the first to incorporate cinematics, storylines and solid acting into a videogame, but it, forgive the cliche, truly was an experience as you weren't so much playing a game, but rather you were inhabiting a world, and it was one world of a game. In most games, you follow its line straight to the end with little, if any, straying from that path. But the world of GTA III felt as if it were alive: you could play for hours without doing any missions, exploring the various cities and causing havoc to your heart's content -- and then you could go back to completing the missions. And Vice City went even further, expanding the world in which the characters lived, breathed, interacted. It's amazing to think how the game's designers could get all that data onto one disk (from 9 radio stations, to all the dialogue, cinematics, expansive cities with malls, stores, garages, etc. etc. and the intricate, full-to-the-brim levels.
Simply put, game-playing just doesn't get better than GTA III and Vice City. They set the bar for gaming: in a GTA-free world, games such as True Crime or Hitman 2 would seem spectacular -- but such games pale in comparison to GTA.
Before the Xbox version of GTA III and VC came out, my one small quibble about the games was that they were missing some music genres, or specific songs that would fit right in. (it was odd that the Miami-Vice themed VC didn't have a reggae radio station, when reggae really first became popular in America in the 1980s, and how could Glenn Frey's "You Belong to the City" not be on it? If there ever was a Vice City song, that's it.) But with the Xbox's capability to copy music to its hard drive, you can now cruise around to your favorite tunes. (and now I can cruise and wreak havoc while playing Peter Tosh's ever-fitting "Wanted Dread and Alive" album from 1981).
As others have said, the graphics do look better, more smooth. So, a couple of great games have become even better. Who would have thought you could improve upon excellence?

One of the best games ever.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Back in the Fall of 2001, Playstation 2 got the game that would help define this generation of console gaming in Grand Theft Auto III and Xbox fans got...the Xbox itself. If there was ever any way for those two forces to come together, GTA3 on Xbox, there would be a whole lot of happy Xbox fans. It only took two years and the reversal of an exclusivity deal between Rockstar Games and Sony for it to happen, but GTA3 is here along with Grand Theft Auto: Vice City in one tidy package known as the Grand Theft Auto Double Pack. For the price of a standard new Xbox game, you're getting the two biggest PlayStation 2 games of the last two years with upgraded visuals, better sound, custom soundtrack functionality and better controls thanks to the Xbox's Controller S. It's like a doubled-up Platinum Hits package for games that were never hits on the Xbox until now. The two games definitely show their age, but the Double Pack is still a very strong value.

Everybody from Ted Koppel to your half-blind great auntie Lizzie has heard of and gets the basic idea of what this pair of games is about. For this reason, rather than diving in with our own opus about the value and philosophy of Grand Theft Auto III's and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City's gameplay, we'll defer to the 80,000 words of wisdom dropped by El Capitan himself, Doug Perry, when each of those games was released in 2001 and 2002, respectively. Sure they're PS2 reviews, but there's very little difference in content between the PS2 and Xbox versions of both GTA games.
Gameplay

There are a few enhancements to the gameplay and presentation of both games that are definitely worth noting. The cutscenes in both GTA3 and Vice City now feature full lip-synching throughout. This helps drive home the gangster-movie appeal of the Double Pack when you hear voice actors like Guru, Luis Guzman and Dennis Hopper giving life to the characters of Liberty City and Vice City. The heartbroken Thug with No Name is missing moving lips and that's only because he doesn't talk at all in GTA3. You even get a few facial animations here and there like a nasty scowl when somebody's about to drop some expletives.

The loading times are drastically improved in the Xbox version of both games. The 3-4 minute wait when you first start up a saved game has been cut by at least 68%. When you travel from one island to another in either game, the loading time is a matter of split-seconds. It happens so fast, and the new area you're traveling to is so complete already, that you wonder why the "now loading" screen even pops up at all. Whether you're on the water, in the air, on the street or on foot, waiting for a new GTA area to load is a thing of the past on Xbox.

The feel of the Xbox controller's analog sticks makes a difference in the way you'll play GTA3 and GTA: Vice City. We're not going to start a debate about which system's controllers are better, but the fact that there's less play in the Xbox's sticks lead to some more precise driving and fewer spinouts from overcompensating. Also the re-mapping of the controls for the Xbox controller is very intuitive considering how many different actions you can pull off in the game. The Dualshock 2's X button was accelerate on foot and in a vehicle for example. On Xbox the A button is for sprinting, the right trigger is your attack button on foot as well as your accelerator when you're driving. The Xbox developers at Rockstar Vienna mixed a little of the familiar (many of the face button controls are the same on PS2 and Xbox) with what Xbox gamers are used to. Managing your inventory of weapons on the D-pad is a nice touch and a great way to get around the Xbox's lack of extra shoulder buttons.

Great Game, play too much...getting boring...SEQUAL PLEASE

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this is great.
ok, all there is is the exact same thing as ps2, cept duble pack
heres the changes

-slightly better graphics
-signs are easier to read
-memory is still a bit rough, but better...example:
if you have a bunch of cars bunched up together to stop the police or somethng, when u come back, its gone, because xbox or ps2's memory isnt good enough for that
-easier controls (my opinion)
-simply the same version as ps2, except it has slight technical changes, only minor

Two great games at one price.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is like buying two great games at one price .Even better i bought the game pack used and it is in excellent condition.The graphics are great.The freedom to move around the enviroment is the best.The missions are challenging as well as interesting without being seemingly impossible.Leave it to Amazon.com to offer used products in excellent condition.Trust me you'll love this game.

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