Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1784 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Rockstar Games
• Released on: 2002-11-08
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• ESRB Rating: Adults Only
• Platform: PlayStation2
• Number of items: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
There can't be any more sure-fire a hit in the gaming world than Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Grandma may not approve, but the 143 million people who bought GTA III will be chomping at the bit for this follow-up. Not quite a full-blown sequel, but far more than the average lazy mission disk, Vice City relocates the action of the previous game from the New York-esque Liberty City to the Miami-influenced metropolis of the title. And clearly as soon as someone mentioned Miami the developers immediately thought of Miami Vice, because they've gone and set the whole thing in 1986 with an incredible soundtrack featuring everyone from Michael Jackson to Sigue Sigue Sputnik.

As the game starts you take control of Tommy Vercetti (voiced by Goodfellas star Ray Liotta) who gets involved in a bungled drug deal and must set himself up from scratch as a crime boss. Unlike in GTA III, you're not restricted to being a small-time hood any more; the game now allows you to purchase property (porn studios, strip clubs, cab companies and so on) and run extortion rackets, which cleverly widens the scope of the game while keeping the controls and gameplay pretty much the same. Which means that you still spend the majority of your time driving cars very dangerously and shooting and maiming anyone that happens to get in your way. Indeed, in most respects the game is very similar to its predecessor--the graphics, for example, are improved but hardly groundbreaking--though there are numerous minor additions, most notably the chance to ride motorbikes--which is particularly satisfying--and fly proper aircraft.

Vice City can't be recommended unreservedly though: if you're intending to buy this game for someone under 18, you really should think again, as it's violent, filled with sex and swearing, and is totally and utterly immoral. Which is why it's guaranteed to sell and sell. --David Jenkins

Official PlayStation 2 Magazine
"Undeniably the best thing ever to come out of the Eighties, and one of the greatest console games ever. 10/10."

Edge
"Remains a formidable experience."

Customer Reviews

you name the vice they'll name the price!
this game is a revolution , it has everything the predesesors have and more everything about this game is amusing as i have san andreas and would play this way over that. if you are going to buy a GTA this is the one to purchase (with the exception of GTA 4)i hope this has help.. Tom

Mindblowingly awesome!!
I have been a HUGE fan of the gta series,But Vice City is in a world of it's own,from the superb radio stations and missions to the awesome bikes and cars.You may be wondering why i am writing a review on a game that has been out for a few years,and with gta san andreas being as good as it is,but the fact is i love this game so much,i just had to write down my personal view of it,so that's what i've done.

10 out of 10... :)

Not as good as San Andreas but still needed.
Having been a GTA fan for years I can say that this one is a classic. It is set in 1986 in Miami two years before the new Vice City Stories. These are the best games ever, there are endless things to do and characters in other GTA games involved to, there are lots of missions aswell.
You start out with nothing just being released from prison and have been imployed by the Forelli mafia family, a well known gang in Liberty City and they send you to Vice to start the drug buisness there for them but you are immedietly set up by an unknown cartel and you cocaine is stolen. The aim of this mission is to find the cocaine and edventually take over Vice City but to do this you must find many contacts, explore, fight escape the many things in the narcotics gang world and much more to do this. It is a must have game but new fans to GTA I say get San Andreas.