Video Game Reviews: PlayStation 2
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
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IGN
Rockstar's epic gangster oeuvre delivers the goods again, '80s style.
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GamePro
Crime continues to pay...and the dividends just came in. Take a look at our review of the most anticipated game of 2002.
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Adrenaline Vault
The seamless amalgamation of all things '80s into the mix lets the creative team go wild with the vocal work and provide an outstanding retro soundtrack.
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Game Rankings
You need it, you want it, it's a shoe-in for the best game this year, and quite possibly the best game ever. It's Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and it most certainly owns your
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GameZone
When it made its debut a long while back on the PSOne, the gaming community never really paid close attention to the Grand Theft Auto series until the third installment was released for the PS2. With a massive following, Grand Theft Auto 3 managed
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Game Revolution
The depth of this game is unparalleled; there are hordes of side quests and missions and cool little easter eggs. You need to follow the main story in order to open up the whole city and gain access to property acquisition, but you can still spend hours
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Eurogamer
Every bit as good as we thought it would be – if not better... But don’t expect to be constantly surprised, for much of Vice City is a retread of old ground, and if you didn’t like the last one, then Vice City probably won’t change your mind.
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PSX Extreme
It's one of the best games of the year, no doubt, and anybody who denies the game that much is a tree-smoking psychopath.
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Gaming Target
When the announcement that a sequel was on the way, there was little surprise. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is that sequel, and sits now as a game that won’t surprise anyone, but instead became the most anticipated game in ages – if not ever. With
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Gaming Age
Puts the word sequel to shame. Rockstar Games has really taken the time to put together a game that not only fits in perfectly in the GTA universe, but ups the ante for itself and others as well.
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Thunderbolt
It has the right blend of intense gameplay, an intricate place to explore, several hours of gameplay, a great selection of 80’s era music, a wonderful (if not a little cliched) story, and one of the most memorable antiheroes to ever set foot on the
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GamingTrend
This is a long game, longer than GTA3 because there are far more missions in this game in a far larger area.
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TotalPlaystation
The sound design is frickin' phenomenal...
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VGPub
This time around the game is set in the 1980s and your character, Tommy Vercetti, is a drug dealer. The game opens with Tommy arguing with his boss about a ?trade?. Tommy doesn?t trust the other end of the trade and believes that they should cancel it.
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Console Obsession
The stage is set: in some deserted spot in Vice City a deal between a couple of sinister folk is going on. Drugs? You betcha! As you have already guessed things go wrong and one man makes the chase: Tommy Vercetti. The town itself is based on an eighties
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DarkStation
The missions are a lot more complex then they were in GTA3, which means you will get more into the character as well as the plot, which means even more fun.
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Electric Playground
And of course, the true beauty of Vice City is total, absolute, glorious freedom...I guess what I am trying to say is this game is REALLY FRICKIN' GOOD.
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NZGamer
With Grand Theft Auto 3 revolutionising the freedom to explore in video games, vice city has certainly improved on that. Vice City is huge, three times the size of Liberty City from GTA3, but now not only can you drive or walk anywhere, but at your
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Game XC
You begin the game by doing some missions for your friend Ken Rosenberg. You steal a cell phone from a cook and meet up with Lance Vance who helps you get up of a jam. Lance wants to help you get your money back and find the people who set you up. From
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Digital Entertainment News
Yet while all those games were fine, it was another title that took gamers by storm and surprise to become the top-selling PS2 game of the past year: Grand Theft Auto 3.
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GamerDad
Love the 80's? Vice City takes us back to the excess and glories of a mid-80's Miami: Cheap sports coats (sleeves rolled up), thin ties, no socks, pastel colors, pink neon, and cocaine... all embraced by a time in music that felt, earnestly felt, that
...read the complete Grand Theft Auto: Vice City review at GamerDad
Gamers Temple
The game does a good job of capturing the art deco, pink and turquoise look of Miami Beach, and also does a lot to transport you back to the 80s. The hair and clothes of the people of Vice City are straight out of the 80s, as are the inspirations for
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GameCell UK
You know, much as it pains me to say so, Vice City looks nicer than Liberty - It's about the same size, but there's a lot more to do and the city has more back alleys and secrets tucked away here, there and everywhere. Tommy's even been seen buying his
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Lawrence
A plot? Yes, I suppose there's one in there somewhere. It seems a few of your associates have some major Coke (the kind that goes in your nose, not your mouth) tied up with a few backstabbing no-good-nicks. It's your job to get it back, or take it by
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Frag Land
The story commences when after years, Tommy Vercetti (our Jack-of-all-trades has a name now) is finally released out of custody. His superiors send him to the idyllic Vice City so he can start off with a clean sheet. Your first mission is to sell some
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PALGN AU
Visually, Vice City is generally a lot better than GTA3. Since the game is based in Miami, things are a lot brighter, which gives the game a different tone. The character models are still very similar, but there is a bit more facial detail this time
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Gameplanet
What we must also say though is that this is not GTA4. Oh, you noticed the omission of that number too? What that really means is that Vice City is actually more of an expansion of what was started in GTA3 than a true sequel or next major progression in
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Game Power AU
Grand Theft Auto III was a defining moment for the video games industry. Retrospectively, it's easy to see that the title did more for the games industry than any release since the introduction of next generation consoles, simply because it captured the
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Jaded Gamer
Although solid most of the time, the game is littered with several graphical glitches that bring an otherwise perfect title down a notch or two. Bullets often go through walls, characters get hung up on the most insignificant of things, and the enemy A.I.
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Armchair Empire
The new setting is far more appealing than the modern Liberty City of the original. And it seems more dynamic and interactive also, since players can explore inside buildings and rob businesses, which could not be done in the original.
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Future Gamez
One of the biggest surprises this year has been the phenomenal success of Grand Theft Auto 3. Dispite never being reduced to a lower Platinum price the game has remained in the Top 10 games for almost 12 months now. Actually. it's not so much of a
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Game Chronicles
The open-ended nature of the game design almost rivals those persistent world games like "EverQuest." You can literally lose yourself in the world of Vice City.
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Game Over Online
Visually, Vice City is truly amazing, portraying a living, breathing city with unbelievable depth. Every building, from the lowliest storefront to the largest skyscraper, seems to have its own history, personality and flavor.
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ESC Magazine
I don’t think anyone could have predicted that we would be sitting here calling the Grand Theft Auto series of games one of the most revolutionary in the last 10 years of gaming, possibly longer. The truth is, after Grand Theft Auto 2 many, including
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Gaming Horizon
Tommy has spent the last 15 years of his life in prison in Liberty City. Now that he's served his time and is now a free man, Sonny Forelli, Tommy's mob boss, decides that he should be sent off to Vice City to start up operations for the mafia as a
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Contact Music
GTA Vice City is set in a fictional take on Miami, known as Vice City. The year is 1986, fashion has taken a turn for the worse and Tommy Vercetti has just been released from prison after doing a 15-year stretch. The mob, the Forelli family appreciate
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Cincinnati Enquirer
The third-person perspective game play involves taking on assignments by car or on foot (ideal for raising cash and making connections in the underworld), hijacking cars and motorcycles, edging out rival gangs and eventually taking control of Vice City.
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Netjak
In essence, Vice City is little more than a GTA3 expansion pack. Still, considering this could have just been a cash cow license like Tomb Raider, Vice City came out surprisingly well.
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The Laser
While most sequels are content to rest on the laurels of their predecessors, Vice City takes the formula that made the original so great and blows it up ten-fold, creating a game with unprecedented vision and scope. This is an epic game, with so much to
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Into Liquid Sky
On top of the fine sound effects and voice acting is a soundtrack that's beyond amazing.
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GamersMark
Love the 80's? Vice City takes us back to the excess and glories of a mid-80's Miami: Cheap sports coats (sleeves rolled up), thin ties, no socks, pastel colors, pink neon, and cocaine... all embraced by a time in music that felt, earnestly felt, that
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