WHY GTA VICE CITY WAS SUCH GOOD GAME AND DESTROYED THE COMPETITION?
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- Опубліковано 1 лют 2022
- This video presents pros and cons of GTA Vice City from 2002.
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Literally my favorite GTA game. I played them all as a kid I was 12 and Vice City came out. Of course GTA III change the whole world but Vice City was just that much better
We definitely agree!
I am most nestolgic for gta San Andreas for a similar reason.
I love Vice City because they have more freedom than GTA3 and also you can buy property to have easier home access and business for earning side money after completing tasks.
Other games who implement this system even cant beat Vice City due it lack soul and effort to making such good game.
GTA 3 is just a bland game that revolutionized the Open-World game but it barely had anything onve you finished the game.
yeah 3 felt bare bones but when this game came out i was shitting bricks i remember i used to play the demo disc on ps2 cuz i didn’t have the whole game
same bro, good times
Vice city is still the most memorable of the 3. The setting the music, the humor, the color pallett and the varitey !
Yes, this is definitely an unforgettable game 😄
vice city bcoz of the environment and music and rest is san andreas
@@pragatsharma1580 GTA 3> vice city > san andreas 😊
Ah, my favorite. Best soundtrack by far but SA comes damn close, my personal favorite protagonist and great voice work by Ray Liotta. The funniest game too in my opinion, I always crack up during the final Kaufman Cabs mission. Beautiful world set in my favorite aesthetic, 80s Miami drug fueled action with fast cars, neon lights, and awesome sounding machine guns ripping down crowds of gangsters. The finale mission being straight out of Scarface was icing on the cake. Spawned the better of the two stories games in my opinion as well. Perfect 10/10! My only critique is that it made GTA 3 bad to me just cause of him much better it was in every way that I never wanted to go back.
Every time I want a summer atmosphere I play GTA VIce City. Great video!
Best game to feel a summer atmosphere 😀
@@gaminginvestigators ❤️😍❤️🔥🤝❣️
When rockstar actually made good games and didn’t rely on Microtransactions
Yeah, exactly...
Obviously, Microtransactions didn't exist back then.
You can say that about alot of modern games. Also the fact you need an internet connection to play games on a console is wack
@@gabrielmartines3510 still made them greedy af
shark cards...
It's always been a dream of mine to play Vice City with all the cut content fully implemented. From pastor Richard's to the extra missions from Avery, Gator keys, you name it.
Just like us! It's such a relief that some great people on GTAForums managed to make a GTA VC Beta Edition Mod 😃 What is sad on the opposite is that the modification stopped being upgraded recently.. But, well let's hope it will be resurrected!
Donald love had some cut missions supposedly
One of the best things Vice City added was the ability to exit moving vehicles which is very useful if the vehicle you're driving is about to explode on you as stopping to get out just takes too much time and can easily result in your own death especially if the vehicle drives at a high speed which takes it longer to stop
VC is my all time FAVORITE GTA! Tommy rules!! His monologues are the BEST!! Love when he says "I need the money", or "Sorry but i need that!", etc..TOMMY IS THE BEST!!
The thing with vc is that exudes perdonality, and the story and cast are so memorable.
Ill break it down.
1. The plot of the story, the people you meet along the way. Your Rosenbergs, Kent Pauls and that bastard Lance Vance. They all fit the story and the era of the times so well. The revenge feel to it and as it states from the glits to the glamour to the swamps and the ghetto, had that little bit of everything. The actors who play them are top notch. If it was a movie script and you saw the names, youd be imterested. Liotta, Guzman, Hopper, Fischer and even Danny Dyer…Hell even Jenna Jamison.
2. Tommy Vercetti. Cold blooded, ruthless and business means business but he has that little just ever so little bit of softness you welcome here and there, he looks after those who look after him, sometimes its his down fall but hes a bad ass motherfucker to deal with it none the less. Ray Liotta fit it perfect, his second greatest role from Goodfellas.
3. The perfect catching of the era that is the 80’s in Miami, the sun light effect to the darkened swampy rain, it really feels like you are in that timeline in that place. The graphics as bad as they are really bring onto that gritty type underworld theme, all the while cruising around listening to some classic 80’s music. It has everything that fits the 80’s miami. Money, Drugs and power, revenge and retribution. A story that is always exciting.
4. It reminds me of a time when the world wasnt so advanced but you got a clue on what was coming. GTA 3 set alot of highs but Vice City topped it by a long shot, and it seemed unreal to how it did in that short period of time they both got released. You knew the next one was going to be even better, which is was to most but to me not even close because Carl Johnsons story was far fetched, cliche and over bearing. You someone how go from looking for revenge for your “moms” to working with people that didnt fit his story, he had no business dealing with. Fuck that zero mission, and fuck following the dam tracks. Because it was a story i always wanted to rush through. Vice city i loved watching pan out. Whats gonna happen next. He had no personality, he said everything youd expect a gangbanger to say. While i enjoyed the game play. Urban early 90’s LA hasnt a scratch on early 80’s miami.
Vice City forever.
It's hard to disagree with all of this 😄
Really good points there bud
I agree, especially with number four.
I know games took far less time to make in those days, but it's still remarkable that Rockstar were able to create and release Vice City in just 12 months. It's a masterpiece.
Back to back classics in under a year 💯💯💯
It actually took only 9 months to make which is impressive even for its time (although there's a lot of cut content)
whats always annoyed me is the inability to swim in vice city, the game is a beach themed game and yet you cant swim. rockstar's excuse for not being able to swim is "graphical limitations" but san andreas and vice city are both on the same console and same type of engine. its also possible to swim in vice city with simple modifications on pc so i dont get why it was so hard for them to put in swimming as a feature. i know there is also the fact that it would ruin the concept of unlocking the other islands but then they could have made it so you can swim only after you complete a certain percentage or make it to a specific point in the game. vice city is a master piece and if it wasnt rushed i bet it would be possibly even more loved then san andreas, (not that san andreas wasnt a good game, it was amazing but vice city feels more special)
Edit: Vice city Stories WAS NOT made on the same engine as San Andreas, vice city was. I learned that a while ago but came across my comment again.
I'd say it was due to time constraint. VC released just one year after 3. They probably had to cut some things out.
San Andreas released 2 years after VC, so they had more time.
@@greggski3710 yes I mentioned that in my comment, it was made in 9 months and was suppose to have more missions and a bigger map, one whole section of the story was cut and the vice city gator Keyes (part of the map) got cut out
San Andreas may be bigger in everything but Vice City, its songs and Tommy will always be the best of all GTAs
Totally agree!
The island part you mentioned isn't even an excuse, cause in VCS you could swim, yet couldn't get to the other island by swimming, a wave would prevent you from going further.
I vividly remember this Christmas gift. I was 12 and BEGGING to open a present early while tons of family was over partying. I grabbed the gift that was clearly a game, opened it, and it was Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance. I was suuuuuper stoked. I opened it immediately AND THERE WAS NO DISC!!! It was still relatively early so my dad ran to Walmart to see if he can get an exchange. It was closed however the manager was still closing up and let him exchange the game. Unfortunately MK was sold out so I asked for Vice City and it was there.
I remember hearing the manager ask,”how old is your son” I didn’t hesitate “dad there’s prostitutes, drugs, killing and all sorts of stuff I know not to do, it’s no big deal” he came home with that game and the rest is history! Ended up being one of my all time favorite games and gave me a great taste in music!
One of my favorite games ever. Something about the feeling and vibe is something I’ll never experience again in gaming.
Vice city was my intro to the franchise. My favorite game to this day. After that I loved San Andreas for the story that honestly caught me off guard at times lol. GTA 5 is a great game, but it lacks the ability to continue to do heists after the main game is over, and I do not include online because at this point, u can start a millionaire and really there's no need to be a rise to fame criminal if u start rich as hell. Bit that's me. That's why I love vice city and San Andreas. Ur nothing. U become something.
Why? The setting the story the music it had tommy had a perfect balance between comedy and badassery. And they had ray voicing him. Everything about the game felt right and was a game that showed what the ps2 could do. 3 VC SA and scarface on Xbox were if not 4 of the best games ever made in their respective genre.
Big fan of VC, spend countless hours, running from the cops, AI was so incredible fun. Coud get lost hours and hours in VC.
Finally achieved 100% after 14 years. Never though that some things are there.
Always reminds me of simpler day...
Dude thats badass i didn't know ray liota played tommy
Since the day I played Vice City back in the early 2000's, it has become my favorite GTA. It has a special appeal for me
Love this game! This my first gta game I owned. I received this game for my 11 birthday in 2003.
One of the things that will never be forgotten.
GTA vice City is best
After 23 years i still play it that's the power of game colourful environment & Miami aesthetic ocen drive road & sunsets love it i still play this thnx to Old R* Games & developer R* North
The only thing that needs to be said is that I hope that we will see this city again in the GTA series soon 😀
Great video! I've got so much nostalgia from playing Vice City since I was 6 years old. This will always be my favorite game ever made!
Same like me :)
One of my favorite gta game.. but my most favorite of all gta games is gta san andreas. I love gta san andreas than gta 5
If the original vice city had the buisness venture aspect to it like vice city stories it would probaly be my favourite game bar San Andrea's, same applies to that also
Every GTA is it’s own masterpiece, I personally have this one as my favourite. SA was awesome too, but Vice City was the one for me. When I got the newest remastered editions I done VC, then SA then 3 🥰
It true, vice city is a colourful game
Love this game been playing it since 2011
One of the reasons why I didn’t wanna turn off my PS2 lol
PS2 + VC = 😍 😁
Get a PS5 fam
I love your content so much,it's smooth,short,really professional and entertaining
Thank you so much, my man! 🤘
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Also Sonny Forelli is very good written antagonist
Vice City and 3 are my favorite GTAs. I recently replayed all of them (3-5) and they were the easy picks for being my favs.
honestly vice city was such a master piece that even after 20 years of it's release , it's still played and loved by fans
the retro vibes hit so hard man the nostalgia is real!!
It’s good because you have legendary actors behind the scene and many reference to legendary movies and the 80s had legendary musics.
I just tested the gang members that you can only recruit after 100% completion. So first I went in Little Haiti and some Hatian gang members attacked me.
1. If they shoot me, the my gang members shoot back at them.
2. If they punch me, my gang members don't do anything.
3. If the Hatians punch my gang, they don't do anything.
Then I got a wanted level and they shot back at a cop that was shooting me but it took a while so it's very inconsistent. Most of the time they just ignored the cops.
The final thing that I did, I went to the army base and shot at some soldiers, the soldiers shot back at me, my gang shot back at them but they stood no chance since the soldiers carry M4s and my guys have some sub machine guns.
So yeah, pointless recruiting gang member sistem in GTA Vice City, at least in San Andreas you could take them with you for a drive by or to fight in the gang wars for territory.
Vice City Stories did this the best. I still remember taking the enemies property with the gang with thier Ak's it was fun. Hopefully this mechanic can be brought up to thier future titles.
Sounds like as a gameplay mechanic it was still in beta. That's why they relegated it to post-100%. Apparently by the time of SA they worked it all out.
My favorite game in the series next to SA, IV, and others. I wanna see Vice City return in GTA VI! Here is hoping!
Yeah, we too. Vice City is such amazing place and it would be awesome to go there again 😄
@@gaminginvestigators Yes! Kinda curious to see how they would approach Vice City in the HD era. Its probably gonna be more true to scale with the real life Miami and all the stuff they wanted to do with the PS2 game like the Everglades and such.
I never understood the hype for GTA San Andreas over Gta Vice city to be honest, yes GTA SA was great but to me GTA Vice City was always by far the best GTA in the line even after GTA V, GTA Vice City still has by far the most interesting plot and best setup.
Such a legendary game! sweet good old memories. great vid!
Thank you very much, Anhela! Glad to have you here 🙂
I'm kinda embarrassed that I've only started to pay attention and care about this game only a couple of years ago, i didn't know why i didn't that before, because this game is awesome, the story is awesome, the characters are awesome, San andreas is my favorite but Vice City is easily on my top 2 favorite, awesomw game!
GTA Vice City was the best. I enjoyed it even more than Vice City Stories. I’ve met the voice actor for Ricardo Diaz, Luis Guzman is a very sweet and awesome guy.
Vice City is still my favorite 3d gta even now..
1. Vice City
2. Gta 4
3. San Andreas
4. Gta 3
5. Gta 5
Rockstar have changed thats a fact,back in the day we get couple of games in just a couple of years,then,we got gta iv and his expansions which was pretty good in my opinion and now we get the same freaking game 3 times in a row(4 incluiding pc version)and only with a couple of differences on the visual aspect none the gameplay or story,focusing only in the online wich ofcourse pay their bills,these days all these companies are the same looks like they dont care about nothing else.
That was my money Tommy my money
Driver 3 had no chance compared to vice city and it was ultimately the end for driver as it would never make a comeback which is a shame as driver was beating gta in the early days this is what competition does for games pushes each side to do better without it games go stale dont believe me look at gta v compared to vice city alone
GTA vice city was my favorite and the best game remember playing when I was a kid.
found out not to long ago one of voice actors for love fist is the same actor for soap in the OG MW trilogy
If I could only have one GTA game, it would be Vice City. Its perfect.
*ALMOST * due to the lack of swimming .
A feature which often goes unnoticed: Shooting in VC is far more satisfying than in SA
I did not know that there was a traning shoting area hahah. And this whas my first game i ever playd and still do 20 years later hahah
You don't really play computer games that much, don't you? 😂
1:44 You know that's sims 3, right? :D
Still my favourite GTA game btw is it just me or the commentator sounds like youtuber modest pelican
You deserves more views
Thanks bro!
COLOURS, STORY, MY CHILDOOD DREAMING OF BEAING A NARCOS IN MIAMI, you are right man!!!
Gta vice city the game is masterpeace i playing this game 10 11 years from childhood characters music story map everything I can talk forever about this game when I hear songs from gta vice city any song even soundtruck ending song i got some chills...
as 14 year old this was my favorite game after gta 3 I was hooked and this game exceeded expectation
Literally the only thing I didn't like was the fact that you couldn't swim. I loved ramping the van off the parking garage at the mall 🔥
This was my first GTA game so it holds a special place for me.
Because of the colors
This is one of the reasons for sure 😄
well yes I wished you could swim in GTA Vice City would have saved me all kinds of problems in the long run but other than that but I didn't really start likeing the GTA games till 3 came out cause I like having a Ground level view of things
will always be my fav gta and in my top 3 games of all time
Vice City is in my top 10 best-ever games.
One of my favourite games and always be forever!
The best, 100% THE BEST in the entire series.
Gta vice city is a map I learnt 15 years ago, haven’t played it in a while until recently and I didn’t have to check the map for going around the city
This can not be forgotten 😀
Im a bit gutted GTA6 is most likely to be set in the present day. loved the 80's vibe of Vice City.
Same, having it set in modern Miami just won't have the same magic of setting it in the 80's
@@nagger8216 absolutely agree
Vice city was the best game !!! Loved it in elementary school skipping last class to get home early to play lol
From what version of Vice City is the footage from the video? :D
I LOVE VICE CITY OG AND DE MY FAV GTA RIGHT NEXT TO SAN ANDREAS
Mine too!
9:23 you play polish version? XD niice :D
When San Andreas was coming out, local gaming magazine made a quick overview of the previous GTA games, and Vice City was written off as a cheap copy GTA3. I hope whoever wrote that either no longer writes game journalism or found a better taste, because no GTA game before or after Vice City has made such an impression on me. Having recently replayed both VC and SA, I gotta say that VC ended up being even better than I remembered, while SA didn't quite live up to the nostlagia. Story played a big part of that. VC is full of fun memorable characters from start to finish, and SA starts good too, but then you leave Los Santos and for the 2/3 of the game you pretty much just fuck around and then get the last story mission.
I mean, i think it's just something passed down (the files thing). GTA SA has remnants of VC Vehicles in the files, handling.cfg has VC vehicles at the very bottom
Tommy Vercetti is the greatest GTA protagonist by far
It's hard to disagree for me, but it is obviously a matter of taste.
@@gaminginvestigators I think that Rockstar only wanted to prove how much better than Claude this new protagonist was going to be, Tommy is a real psycho, he has no friends or feelings lol he is maybe the only protagonist that makes sense when you go berserk killing everyone and destroying everything in the city 😅 thank you for the videos btw 👏
My childhood hero
Fact, lance can be found in San Andreas as a pedestrian same with wade from GTA 5
Therapist: chinese claude can't hurt you, he doesn't exist
Chinese claude: 9:29
I like Vice city very much bcs of aestetics and the vibe is amazing overall
still my favorite to this day
I liked Vice City's 80s atmosphere and soundtrack.
U forgot about Burt Reynolds
2:53 where do I find that picture?
GTA VC was my first GTA and I love it.
I didnt knew about the prostitute thing in vice City or the beach ball or seagull thing
I knew about the beach ball and the seagull. Not about the prostitute part.
Without Vice city + GTA 3 my childhood is incomplete ❤
He said people cant complain to Claude, but he forgoted the existence of the quiet kids
Is this DEP mod footage of the game? Looks so good!
What's funny, this mod is called - Definitve Edition, but it's not the remaster from 2021 😅
Happy 20th anniversary Vice City
I wish they would have made it to where you could swim in GTA 3 and Vice City cause we all know all too well what happens if you either fall in the water or crash in to the water you die cause you can't swim and that causes all kinds of problems we never wanted to deal with
Man when i first played vice city i didnt even know there was a story my cousins just said get as many stars as you can and survive vs the army haha.
vice city is the best gta imo.. I still play it today 🤙😎
Yes
To those too young to understand when these games first came out and you first played them on your PlayStation there's no other feeling like it for Christmas one year my parents bought me the PlayStation 2 with Vice City inside of it they didn't go by the game ratings I was a little kid and they had no clue what the hell kind of game they were getting to me they already made the mistake of buying Grand Theft Auto 2 for PS1 and they thought it was just a cute little game they didn't realize how graphic Vice City was and they had no clue
Is it normal that saving in VC is not resetting the wanted-level?
Cool. let's ask Rockstar and Epi to make Vice City free, too.
God bless.
2000s were different... 😭
Yea GTA VC and GTA SA remain my top favs of the GTA series. I am really hard pressed to put either one above the other.. I have also spent hours on hours on both games.. 100% both of them several times.. ( Console and PC ) I do like the other GTA games but to me they pale compared to these two. The music, the game play, and storylines just.. To me is better than the others.
Granted I have not played a lot of GTA5. I am not sure what it is, but for some reason I can not get myself to play it that much at this moment.. ( Yes I have played all GTA games, just the only one I have not 100% is GTA 5. )
Oh and Yea.. VC had a TON of references to Scarface. The funny thing is a Scarface game was made, and it had references to GTA VC in it. Too bad that game was not that good.. It had such potential but the devs for that game dropped the ball big time.
I liked the games soo much I made mods for them.. Like I did for other games such as Half-Life and so forth.
Miami, vice city is a kind of a**holes contain place
La, los santos, lc, ny is 🥰beautiful place ❤️ever❤️
OMFG you here again 😡. I told you. You are a vice city hater
I never beat vice city. I’ve had it nearly my whole life and I still haven’t beat it
Can we start a thread? Most memorable lines:
Mmmhhhh Nice Bike!
👩🏻🦰 “Tommy, be careful! These implants aren’t insured yet!”
It would of been better if they would change the year 1990
Funny how developers tried to make expansion packs on a system with tiny memory cards and no internal storage
Personal preference is a funny thing, cuz VC was and still is to me the most boring title of them all. The story and the addition of some gameplay physics etc was cool and all, but to me personally what absolutely broke this title was the map. Even gta3 manages it better. VC map is just so boring and it feels tiny. Even though it is effectively bigger than 3, the way the map was layed out just makes it feel super small. You can litteraly drive around the whole map in around 4 minutes! And i dont mean from one end to the other, i mean from one end to the other AND back through both islands! Its super repetitive and has way too many empty spaces. The airport is ridiculously huge for the amount of things you can or cannot do with it, the second island is just filled with empty spaces and the main beach on the first half of the map is way too big and also feels very empty and just takes a huge and unnecessary portion of the map. That to make just renders the game boring really fast. Almost 20 years later ive been re-playing the trilogy and my memories confirmed: SA is the best title ever made. Gta3 is the perfect first 3D title being simple enough to feel nostalgic but complex enough to still impress and keep entretained. And VC is a lot of fun while the missions are going but thats about it. After there are no more missions, regardless what i am doing, it just feels like i am driving through the same spot over and over again. The map brakes it for me....the cars physics was also very annoying imo, some cars feel undrivable.....oh and by the way: its the 80s in miami and we cant swim?!!!!!!! What a mistake...
Cause Tommy Vacetti is awesome Ray Liotta voice acting was great not to mention the story and the game play where awesome i love that when Tommy Vacetti is robbing someone he yells at them am robbing you wild you beat them up
You should use subtitles