Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

Anyone else love this game?

Bloody hell, I thought it was a job vacancy:mad:

Good one mark

I was going to post something along the lines of moving this thread to the Sheffield related forum... but you've upstaged me.

Meh, do I love GTA: VC?! Nope, IMO the GTA franchise is over-rated, but loved up by the Sony zealots just like every other franchise of their precious PS2.

Not even custom soundtracks on the Xbox version redeemed it in my opinion.

Hey! I like it! It's the only PS2 game I play (it's also the only one I have... )

Great graphics, soundtracks, action, fast cars... blood, weapons, violence...

I prefer Vice City over the original because the cars are more realistic - Ferrari Testarossas, Lamborghini Countaches, Corvettes...and military tanks

There's lots of variety in the gameplay too. Want to fulfil your lifes ambition of being a cab driver? Go for it. Or nick a Police car, become a vigilante and tax some crims! Feeling anarchistic? Pickup some weapons, enter the Police Station and do an 'Arnie'

Of course, you could play the game the way it's meant to be played...completing the missions and becoming a top criminal, but that would take forever.

It's a great way to relax after a long week. What more do you want from a game, Rich?

Don't forget it took 5 gongs at the Bafta games awards, so obviously I am not alone in my opinion of the product!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3488592.stm

http://www.bafta.org/interactive/announce.htm

Sony zealot? Me?

Originally posted by Abdul

I prefer Vice City over the original because the cars are more realistic - Ferrari Testarossas, Lamborghini Countaches, Corvettes...and military tanks

Realistic, except that the 'Countach' doors open incorrectly...

It's fun when you get hold of the 'Apache' helicopter and do the Vigilante missions in that! Cool as!

Yeah, it is the best game on the PS2 and I cant wait for GTA: San Andreas to come out. Bouncing up and down those San Francisco streets - I cant wait. Hope they put Mustangs and Chargers in there!

I dont play any other computer games, but I love GTA.

i agree, possibly the only game i play, i enjoy getting all the yardie gangs against you after running groups of them over, or helping a cop then beating him to death with a golf club

Originally posted by jackthedog

Realistic, except that the 'Countach' doors open incorrectly...

It's fun when you get hold of the 'Apache' helicopter and do the Vigilante missions in that! Cool as!

Do you have a cheat for the helicopter? I'd love that!

Originally posted by jackthedog

Yeah, it is the best game on the PS2 and I cant wait for GTA: San Andreas to come out. Bouncing up and down those San Francisco streets - I cant wait. Hope they put Mustangs and Chargers in there!

Let's hope they don't throw in any earthquakes...

Originally posted by newborn

i agree, possibly the only game i play, i enjoy getting all the yardie gangs against you after running groups of them over, or helping a cop then beating him to death with a golf club

I've given up helping the Police by beating up an escaped convict. All my offers of help would get me was a beating off the officer and the inevitable arrest

What I do instead is moonlight as a cab driver. If the passenger doesn't pay up because I miss the time limit, I'll usually take their heads off with the sniper rifle

Originally posted by Abdul

Do you have a cheat for the helicopter? I'd love that!

Unfortunately, I think you have to complete all the missions in the game before the helicopter appears.

If you have played it through to the end of the missions, get a police uniform from the Police Station locker room and then you can enter the Fort Baxter airforce base without fear of all the soldiers killing you.

The helicopter is sat in the rearmost compound of the base, against the back wall.

Alternatively, just grab another chopper and quickly set it down in the compound. You'll need to be out of there pretty quick though cos the Army guys'll appear and shoot you and anything you're in.

If you've not completed all the missions properly, I dont think there is any way to make the helicopter appear. Shame I suppose, but a pay off for the people who do play it properly!

I think the San Andreas setting is a really cool idea. They've done New York, Miami and now San Francisco.

The next game should take place in Las Vegas I reckon - it'd make a really cool setting, and could spawn loads of ace characters (I'm thinking Elliot Gould in Oceans Eleven...)

Plus, you could grab a few casino security guys and a few Vegas call girls and drive them out into the desert and set to work on em with a chainsaw...

Originally posted by jackthedog

Unfortunately, I think you have to complete all the missions in the game before the helicopter appears.

 

If you've not completed all the missions properly, I dont think there is any way to make the helicopter appear. Shame I suppose, but a pay off for the people who do play it properly!

You can get it by cheating

I remember getting it, quality

Originally posted by GazB

You can get it by cheating

So what's the cheat?!