Grand Theft Auto: Vice City -- Review--

Story:
In real life, hijacking motor vehicles just leads to trouble. It's the name of the game, however, with the GRAND THEFT AUTO series. Taking place in the 1980s, this installment has you stealing more than 120 unique era-appropriate vehicles. You'll have in excess of 40 weapons at your disposal to handle the dirty work, and there are more than nine hours of music to listen to on your collection of stolen car stereos. Actor Ray Liotta lends his voice acting, and there are more than 8,000 lines of dialogue to keep the story moving.

Gameplay: 5 of 5..

Summary:

Ok. Lets see. Well, I can easily say that this is more than any other ordinary video game. I caould easily say that this is the best thing that has ever came out of the 80's. Also I can say that this game is part of many gamers' lives. Possibly one of their biggest parts. This is definetly and absolutley without a doubt the greatest game ever created, no discussion!Ok lets get to the point of the game then. Your name is Tommy Vercetti. A man who simply knows what he's doing. Apart from what happens in the intro that is. The game starts by Tommy, his lawyer (Ken Rosenberg), and two other guys to watch Tommy's back. The point of this is that Tommy has just arrived in a place of hope called Vice City. He is here to make an exchange of drugs and money for his boss, Sonny Foreli. The deal turns out to be a setup and only Tommy and Ken escape with the other two guys dead. Tommy then sets out the next day to sort out all of this mess. This is where you, the gamer comes in. At the same time of trying to get the money back, Tommy is set missions to do by all of the players from vice city. This is mainly for mony, or either that the people who are setting him these tasks say, "By me helping you, you must also help me". There'as they set you out to do their dirty work. These missions include assasains, bombs, car chases etc; Throuout this Tommy also meets a lot of new people including one of the main characters in the game, Lance. Lance says he can help you Tommy out and when the two of them are too far in, They set out together to take over the city themselves. This is where the real fun starts. Tommy can now take over businesses. This is meer parts of their ways to start to take over Vice City. Yes this also provides new missions to keep you going for a very long time.If all that isn't enough then there is also a lot more tasks ahead. Think you've finished? Think again. You also have to do at least 30 unigue stunt jumps before you can say your even near finished. Or find 100 hidden packages before 100% completion. There is also a lot more things like this to do like rampages which are simply mini-missions if you think your up to the task.And yes, theres more. Remember GTA 3? Well theres a hole lot more in Vice City. Bikes, Helicopters, chainsaws. There is simply too much more to say so why not buy the game to find out. Actually just buy the game because it will be one of the greatest things that has ever happened to your console. THis game is a good enough reason to even own a playstation 2. (By the way I'd like to know if anyone out there has every single hidden package. Because I sure have ha ha ha.)

Sound

Now the sound in Vice City is a very big part. This is simply because of The ten different radio stations that Tommy can tune in and listen to. They include some very famous songs and sound absolutley perfect. Rockstar have definetly chosen the right songs for this game as there is nothing better to do than to cruise around Vice City listening to 'Billie Jean', or to go 100mph in an infernus while 'I ran', plays on your car radio. Simply fantastic. Also the sound has some other aspects in the game such as the way the characters talk which is done brillianty. For example, Tommy is quite a cool minded person so his voice is done to perfection as a cool minded voice. The sound works brilliantly!

Gameplay

Ok well then the gameplay. There is so many thing for Tommy to do in Vice City with those lets say, 14 buttons on the anologue pad. Now people might be saying, 'How the hell can Tommy do all this stuff like shooting his uzi out of his car window with just this many buttons?' The answer is quite simple though as Rockstar have made this perfect. The contols are so easy to get use to and gives a really great feel to the game. Driving the car coulde'nt feel more crisp than it is. Or shoting a sniper would be hard to make feel better. It simply is just one great big feel to the game as it seems very easy to use the controls which makes the game so great.

--Reviewed by Jordan Carroll--

(My review will be coming soon)