A Holiday Affair

[Nuclear Hedgehog] I can say it honestly, without thinking too much or too less of myself. Yes, I was working less hard than I could during the last month, and I postponed my work on the sixth Mafia add-on car, and I almost forgot about working on my second music album. But, except such reasons like beer, there was another reason called Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

A Warning Ticket This is a warning to all of the normal and healthy people. If you don't want your hand to stick to a computer mouse, don't want your eyes to stick to amonitor and don't want your ears to stick to your headphones, NEVER EVEN TRY TO PLAY GTA: VICE CITY. It is a bad, bad game that will take all your time, will make you forget about anything except her. Hungry and sick, you will die browsing the City of Vice. Imperialistiskais haizivs The people of Rockstar North really know how to create games. The GTA: Vice City hadn't became an exception. You just run the game for the first time and then you are caught. It is understandable since the GTA3 was such a good thing that they just needed to tweak it a little bit... The Rockstar guys did it. The new atmosphere was made of a new location, another bunch of American/European/Japanese road vehicles, Cuban drug sellers, eighties pop music and girls dressed in bikini... the sales just COULD NOT be other than "great". And yes, and there were some gameplay changes. Oh... You said there were some gameplay changes?.. Livin' in a house, a very big house in the country Na ja. A little bit of. Remember the good old days (the last summer) that you spent playing the GTA number three. Remember when each time after loading a game you were located in the same beat up house, you walked to the same old garage and had to drive to the same main street. Now, you can buy a house, or a flat, or another building to save a game. The more you pay, the more you get (some houses come with a garage, some have a pretty ocean view). The bad thing is that the bonuses you need to collect in order to buy the appropriate buildings are always hidden badly, and you are always forced to search the whole damn district to find them. No Hero Trying to simulate an ordinary American man's life the Rockstar guys were so kind that gave us lots of shops. You already know Ammu-Nation's; now there are also drug stores and pizza restaurants (both can help a player recover his health after his pneumo... ergh... after the gang fights, I mean). You can also find some tool shops. They offer a variety of side arms than can make anybody sing - from Mafia addicts to those poor Serious Sam lovers. However, there is a funny (or silly, - as you wish) feature of the GTA: Vice City that doesn't allow you have more than one "tool" at the same time. Hmm. Your Tommy Vercetti can hold a pistol, a shotgun, a sub-machine gun, an assault riffle and a sniper riffle at the same time (sic!), but not a knife and a hammer. A strange disease, I say. Police Truck Since my favourite Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven by Illusion Softworks hit the stores, the GTA developers were forced to work hard and make their game even better. The result is that in the Vice City you can smash the cars using a hammer or turn a vehicle into a pile of trash using a saw. Despite that, I must say that the Mafia is still much better for you if you're an automobile hater. The cars' drivers now can park their vehicles and go out to have some fresh air. More, there can also be passengers in the cars. The cops now hunt not only yours but also others' heads (if you are a good citizen and help an officer beating a bad guy you can even make some bucks). And, finally, the criminals became more clever. They like to assemble, shoot the competitor gangs and have cheerful and interesting parties with beating cops. Evil Empire The Vice City, a bastard of Miami, Florida, and Havana, Cuba, is two different cities in one. The first one is located on the first island. It features all those Washington Beaches, Vice Points, golf clubs, hotels and roller skating girls. The island number two is what the Soviet propaganda would call "a terror of imperialism". There is such beautiful airport, a sea side street and a down town - and there are SLUMS. No computer game ever demonstrated such kind of slums... People Of The Sun If not talking about the things just mentioned, the graphics are great. An irrationally beatiful graphic engine makes us forget the low-poly 3D models with low-resolution textures, as it shows such beautiful trees, water, and the sun. The sun rises in the morning and goes to bed in the evening. You will never be bored watching that... The sound creates around 80% of atmosphere in the GTA3, and in the Vice City it is even better - you need any details?.. Holiday In Cambodia No. Don't play this game. Run it once, steal a Harley, drive around the city streets, watch the houses that probably use all of the SRGB gamma, smash your bike into a Ferrari and forget the Vice City. Otherwise, you will never be able to stop playing her. Let it be your little holiday affair.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (web site) Developers: Rockstar Games Publishers: Take2 Interactive Fan pages: GOURANGA! GTA Center GTA3.NET GTAVice.com Rating: 95% Screenshots None yet

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