Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

 PlayStation 2
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8.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 1512 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 74 out of 1512
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  1. Ionlyratesh1t
    Feb 19, 2021
    0
    Anybody who says this game is good by any means is just looking at it through rose tinted glasses the game is downright annoying and aged very poorly the controls absolute garbage on any platform cops just there to be annoying oh you wanna drive impossible with a 4 or higher wanted level because you'll constantly be rammed by 100s of police, way to many timed missions with way to short ofAnybody who says this game is good by any means is just looking at it through rose tinted glasses the game is downright annoying and aged very poorly the controls absolute garbage on any platform cops just there to be annoying oh you wanna drive impossible with a 4 or higher wanted level because you'll constantly be rammed by 100s of police, way to many timed missions with way to short of time, isnt very smart so they throw hundreds of enemies at you all you have to do is run in circles and they can't hit you, the story really doesn't hold up well no matter what way you look at it and whoever says otherwise as i've said once is looking at it through rose tinted glasses this game may have. een decent at the time to children but this game is just full of pure bs they made the ai for "good characters" morons that just get in your way so you are getting shot because they won't f*ckin move they slowly walk to your car with 10 cops and then get in but as soon as you try to drive off the cops pull that moron out and you instantly get busted which is unrealistic just because a moron with a gun aims a gun at you doesnt mean you have to comply
    You could steal a car and look away for 2 seconds cop randomly spawns and oh busted. The audio quality is terrible even for the time, cars are literally feathers or tiny little pebbles the moment you hop in and a cop barely going 20 mph sends you flying and you try driving off and annother cop sends you flying until you flip over and have to run but the moron in the car with you just runs into the car instead of running away from the car causing them to die because rockstar are a bunch of morons who couldn't code in smarter ai. Honestly f*ck rockstar they were a bunch of morons then and still are now. DO NOT LISTEN TO THE GOOD REVIEWS BECAUSE AS I'VE SAID TWICE THEY ARE JUST LOOKING THROUGH THEM ROSE TINTED GLASSES THIS GAME IS UTTERLY SH!T    … Expand
  2. TheChiefOfCOD
    Dec 22, 2010
    4
    I think this game kinda sucks. A lot. The graphics suck too, bad. You can't even see they're emotions. Lamest game on the PS2. Don't buy it. Please just don't buy it.
  3. BrianD.
    Jan 4, 2006
    0
    I dont even give it a point for violence this time. The controls STILL suck and the graphics are horrible. it suffers the same problems of the first game. The only reason this game sells is for the shock value that really isnt that shocking.
  4. BobM.
    Nov 8, 2002
    1
    Are u people insane??? the game sucks, have you even acknowledged the graphics, its complete crap!! its like mega drive grapics. the game that all you ppl should be looking at is GETAWAY wait for it people watch this space. this game kills GTA all of em put 2getha.
  5. BobPlatter
    Jan 8, 2003
    3
    Too Hard at Times and unrealistic.
  6. NebaR.
    Apr 23, 2003
    0
    This game is real boring.
  7. MichaelH
    Jan 29, 2007
    0
    I hate this game because it is so annoying! You can never find anything on it and you always die! It is really boring.
  8. JoeShmo
    Nov 8, 2002
    0
    I can't believe any one would buy this game. Overall it isn't very good and it is very hard.
  9. MichaelD.
    May 18, 2003
    0
    Such garbage, i hate this game.
  10. Brown
    Jun 24, 2003
    4
    The graphics are bad and too many glitches. the people are stupid and you can ram people on the road right next to some cops and they will just stay there and do nothing. which is very gay. do something more fun like 8=0 (:) if you are smart enough to not play the game, you will figure that out and go do it right now.
  11. zotune
    Oct 11, 2012
    0
    If I'm going to finish Vice City, I'm going to need some painkillers. The only complement I have to give to this game is for the music. Worst combat I've ever tried in a video game, honestly. In addition it consists of terrible camera angles, if there's a guy next to you, you have to start looking around in first person like a moron, because the aim-assist doesn't work from where theIf I'm going to finish Vice City, I'm going to need some painkillers. The only complement I have to give to this game is for the music. Worst combat I've ever tried in a video game, honestly. In addition it consists of terrible camera angles, if there's a guy next to you, you have to start looking around in first person like a moron, because the aim-assist doesn't work from where the camera is placed at any given time. What does it depend on then you ask? The direction the character is facing, which is ridiculous. Which brings me to my next complaint. Why did they bind the aiming to the left analog stick with the rifles, making only the aim-assist weapons like the shotgun bearable, was it their goal to make the controllers dramatically different in comparison to every other game in the world to make it a challenge for all the wrong reasons? I can handle a challenge, but not because of bad controls, that's completely the wrong way to go about it. And the pacing isn't very good either, games should be about applying what you've learned so far as you gradually become better, which is not present here, it's all about successfully bypassing the randomness that is the city. Graphics were superior in GTA 3. the missions feel like doing chores, and honestly I couldn't care less about the story - seems to me some wannabe gangster story for teenagers. You will also find your imminent death right around the corner just because your car happens to flip over, or a cop comes around the corner. Speaking of cops, they are the most aggressive police force in history, if you get stuck with your car you can bet your ass they are going to drive into it in full speed, resulting in it flipping upside down starting to burn immediately, or you can even try running in an attempt to seek for a new car only to find that the only cars are police ones. Unless of course you happen to be close to a Paint Garage where they are watching you from the outside, showing how little emphasis has been put on realism. I recently played Mass Effect 1 which is known to have an inferior combat system to the sequel, but it is nothing compared to this. I can't go past 2 missions without wanting to throw the controller at my brand new TV. Even when I get a Mission Accomplished screen I don't feel like I've accomplished **** and it just so happened that during that particular attempt I didn't have a car hit me from the side when passing an intersection, or that for once the camera angle happened to be pointing at enemies and potential roadblocks. I'd like to meet this fella who came up with the idea to bind the right analog stick to first person scenery, what on earth was he thinking. Trying to go into a alleyway with this camera system is suicide, because you can't see what you're shooting at. I'm 27% into the story and this game is already giving me more headaches than playing through God of War, which is a harder game, but at least when you die you are able to blame yourself - it is not an experience comparable to the coincidental deaths in Vice City. The map is godawful and doesn't show what direction you're heading, which makes me realise this is an old game that hasn't aged very well. If you **** up a mission, most of your time will be spent afterwards doing the exact same thing over and over until you reach the last part of the mission again. It's a waste of time, just let me restart where the challenge starts, it's not a challenge driving to the mission so why would I want to do it all over again? The taxi waiting outside is intended to take care of this problem, but you still have to enter the mission, and then drive to wherever you have to go, leading to myself wasting enormous amounts of spare time. I'm currently stuck on a mission because I didn't run back and save after every successful mission, leading to my character losing his weapons every now and then, and me having to repurchase them. Now I can't afford the properties to move on past mission V, which the game made no effort to inform me of, and I'm left with options like having to drive around in cab to collect hundreds of thousand dollars, which unfortunately is something I'm not willing to do on my spare time. Rockstar's concepts with this game was something along the lines of: Here's a timer for 15 minutes, I see you happened to get the first 14 minutes right and you are now driving over a bridge, we programmed this sequence so that the driver in the opposite lane will now switch lanes so that your car flips through the air and into the water - leading you to die a slow and painful death. We made this decision because lacking remorse, and feel that you should have to play all our missions at least twice, just to make the game appear longer and more "hardcore".… Expand
  12. Kacak321
    Apr 13, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Bad game............ W tej ankiecie brało się w dniu dzisiejszym dniu wczorajszym… Expand
  13. gamesyouloved
    Nov 17, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Grand Theft Auto 3 had blown our tiny minds and left us wondering what's next for computer games? What can they do to top that? Rockstar had the answer.. take that winning formula, add motorcyles and helicopters and pour it into an 80's setting.

    All this against the back drop of a fantastic 80's soundtrack, so everything we loved from the third game was back!!

    The large sandbox world to explore, the satire and sly humour and the various side missions to give that real sense of choice off the beaten track and even the running over pedestrians and back alley hooker murders. If you were to be very droll you could indeed say that's all Vice City was GTA 3 with Bikes and Helicopters. This was no lazy sequel though.

    Almost everything had been carefully thought out. To the man from del monte and the hand picked 80's soundtrack. Which gives the game such a wonderful atmosphere and feel to it. Indeed that is one of the main sources of affection for many who play the game.That alone could make simply cruising around in that freshly stolen car a pleasure.Not forgetting the hilarious radio talk shows.Which were so well done you could pause the game and be entertained by those alone.

    The characters are all well made and enjoyable. Tommy the loveable psycho has endured as arguably the best loved leads in the franchise. The gameplay is largely unchanged driving or running around the busy city Rockstar made was still as fun as in Liberty city. The combat is serviceable but would remain GTA's weak link in some ways.

    There is no shortage of things to do as there is a whole heap of main story missions to plough through. To add some variety there are various side missions and activities you can choose to perform. Long standing institutions like the kill frenzy remain. Along with taxi, firefighter and vigilante jobs. Hidden packages make a return for the completionists too.

    Properties are also available to spend your ill gotten blood money on. All in all you get plenty of bang for your laundered buck. Grand theft auto was and still is the bench mark to which all other games aspire. With no other game managing to better or even recreate the same sense of humour, exploration and fun. So get yourself a bodybag, strap yourself in and start making friends the American way!    … Expand
  14. Nathaniel224
    Sep 14, 2022
    4
    the controls are so bad and atrocious, mechanics are poor hard to get around, and on top of that too much motion blurr, its blinding to my eyes playing it. gunplay and aiming is horrible The only saving grace is the open world , characters and dialogue. GTAV IS miles better miles better
  15. rockstarsucks
    Dec 20, 2020
    1
    worst example of how not to make games - zero support, blocking user accounts, bugs in the game many years after the premiere
  16. Ihabtawfique
    May 1, 2022
    2
    THIS GAME SUCKS
    I don't know why rockstar created this ****
    This has a bad open world,where you have limited freedom.there is nothing but just driving.the story was very bad and why the **** does everyone likes Tommy this much. He's pretty overrated.why do they like this shirt thing . Those who think vice city is the best.dude get some help.gta San Andreas is far more better than this .    THIS GAME SUCKS
    I don't know why rockstar created this ****
    This has a bad open world,where you have limited freedom.there is nothing but just driving.the story was very bad and why the **** does everyone likes Tommy this much. He's pretty overrated.why do they like this shirt thing . Those who think vice city is the best.dude get some help.gta San Andreas is far more better than this . I'd want to play a game which has a **** aiming system    … Expand

Awards & Rankings

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#1 Best PS2 Game of 2002
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#1 Most Discussed PS2 Game of 2002
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#3 Most Shared PS2 Game of 2002

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Metascore
95

Universal acclaim - based on 62 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 62 out of 62
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 62
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  1. Stuff
    100
    No excuses, you’re gonna have to buy this. Unless you don’t own a PS2, in which case, get out of our Internet!
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  2. IGN
    97
    It's enormous, packed with an immense amount of gameplay, and it's a truly unique gameplay experience...This year's most impressive title, by a log shot.
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  3. GamingTrend
    98
    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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