GTA Vice City Guide

You play as Tommy Vercetti, a gangster who's just finished a 15-year stint in prison. Once he's out his bosses send him down to Florida's Vice City as the point man for some new operations. Once there Tommy teams up with a shifty lawyer (think Fredo) and the two begin plans for a big drug score. Once the drugs and the money disappear, Tommy finds himself fighting to discover who's cheated him while fending off the existing criminal elements of Vice City. As you might imagine, this type of scenario does involve a fair bit of violence. What you might not expect is how the game can walk a line between humor and horror while presenting all this material. Vice City itself is a fully developed island town that lives and breathes like few other game settings before it. Cars drive up and down the streets, boats ply the water ways, news copters zip by overhead and everywhere you turn the citizens of Vice City are going about their business. The crooks, cops and citizens of the city are all capable of a level of dynamic behaviors. But even if you're not shooting at them, they still have agendas. You'll see rival gangs fighting each other in the streets and traffic accidents escalating in to fist fights. The list of cars available in the game is far too long for us to examine each of them in turn but some general comments should give you a good impression of what to expect. You'll find lots of small sporty cars and lots of large family sedans and wagons with plenty of gradations in between. Large delivery vans, city buses and trucks give you a slower but more damage-resistant ride.

At the most basic level, the four types of motorcycles found in the game offer a really fast and nimble mode of transport. Zipping in and out of tight spots in traffic is much easier from the seat of one of these two-wheeled demons than from the driver's seat of your sedan. (A cute little scooter, called the Faggio, is included for your velociphobes.) You can shoot ahead of you while on the motorcycle which makes them a great vehicle for the game's chase sequences. Tons of ramps are laid out all across the city. Once you get a helicopter, you'll even begin to see how many ramps there are on the roofs of buildings. Quite a few of these are laid out in courses, letting you ramp from one building to the next across large sections of the city. While the motorcycles let you tilt up or down for some of the trickier stunts, you can take most of the jumps in a car or on a bike. There are a lot more boats this time around and they're more often the focus of missions. You'll be called on to take part in boat races, boat theft, and boat destruction missions throughout the course of the game. Completing certain mission strands will even grant you respawning boats at particular locations. The boating model is slick with just the right amounts of drifting and sliding to make water seem distinct from pavement.

You can also buy a lot of the properties in the game. You'll acquire some properties as a result of finishing particular missions. We can't really get in to those without giving away some key story points, but you will find yourself set up with a few choice pads around the city. You can use these buildings as save spots, naturally, but you can also use many of them to store extra vehicles. I've got a hotel on the north side of town packed with various police and FBI cars, for instance, and a mansion with a fleet of sports cars. Some buildings give you even more mission opportunities. Players control Tommy Vercetti, a recognized member of a big-city crime family, recently released after time in prison. Rather than returning home, Tommy settles in Vice City, a near-perfect replica of mid-1980s Miami. With a surging drug trade, profitable prostitution rings, and brutal violence, Vice City looks like a perfect fit for a guy like Tommy. You often seem to have to drive around for ages in order to kick off missions. And although the graphics have been tarted up with improved textures and lighting effects, it still relies on older 3D models which look a bit dated and blocky.

The player may run, jump, or drive vehicles to navigate the game's world. The player uses melee attacks, firearms and explosives to fight enemies. The firearms include weapons such as the Colt Python, an M60 machine gun and a Minigun.The game's three-dimension environment allows a first-person view while aiming with the sniper rifle and rocket launcher. In addition, the game's combat allows the player to commit drive-by shootings by facing sideways in a vehicle. The game provides the player a wide variety of weapon options they can be purchased from local firearms dealers, found on the ground, retrieved from dead enemies, or found around the city. In combat, auto-aim can be used as assistance against enemies. Should the player take damage, their health meter can be fully regenerated through the use of health pick-ups. Body armor can be used to absorb gunshots and explosive damage, but is used up in the process.When health is entirely depleted, gameplay stops, and the player respawns at the nearest hospital while losing all weapons and armour and some of their money.If the player commits crimes while playing, the game's law enforcement agencies may respond as indicated by a "wanted" meter in the head-up display (HUD), which increases as the player commits more crimes. On the meter, the displayed stars indicate the current wanted level, and the higher the level, the greater the response for law enforcement (for example, at the maximum six-star level, police helicopters and military swarm to lethally dispatch players).

Vice City, a huge urban sprawl ranging from the beach to the swamps and the glitz to the ghetto, was one of the most varied, complete and alive digital cities ever created. Combining open-world gameplay with a character driven narrative, you arrive in a town brimming with delights and degradation and given the opportunity to take it over as you choose. You can shoot ahead of you while on the motorcycle which makes them a great vehicle for the game's chase sequences. Tons of ramps are laid out all across the city. Once you get a helicopter, you'll even begin to see how many ramps there are on the roofs of buildings. Quite a few of these are laid out in courses, letting you ramp from one building to the next across large sections of the city. Beautifully updated graphics, character models and lighting effects. New, precisely tailored firing and targeting options. Custom controls with a fully customizable layout. Massive campaign with countless hours of gameplay. Compatible with the MoGa Wireless Game Contrller and select USB gamepads. Integrated with Immersion tactile effects. Tailor your visual experience with adjustable graphic settings.