Product Description

Vice City, 1984. Opportunity abounds in a city emerging from the swamps, its growth fueled by the violent power struggle in a lucrative drugs trade. Construction is everywhere as a shining metropolis rises from foundations of crime and betrayal. As a soldier, Vic Vance has always protected his dysfunctional family, his country, himself. One bad decision later and that job is about to get much harder. Kicked out onto the streets of a city torn between glamour and gluttony, Vic is faced with a stark choice - build an empire or be crushed.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #622 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Rockstar Games
• Released on: 2006-11-02
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• ESRB Rating: Adults Only
• Platform: Sony PSP

Manufacturer's Description:
Vice City, 1984. Opportunity abounds in a city emerging from the swamps, its growth fueled by the violent power struggle in a lucrative drugs trade. Construction is everywhere as a shining metropolis rises from foundations of crime and betrayal. As a soldier, Vic Vance has always protected his dysfunctional family, his country, himself. One bad decision later and that job is about to get much harder. Kicked out onto the streets of a city torn between glamour and gluttony, Vic is faced with a stark choice - build an empire or be crushed.

Impressive graphic overhaul:
Vice City Stories is a monumental improvement upon the previous Grand Theft Auto title on the PlayStation Portable. For one, the draw distance has nearly doubled so that buildings and features can be seen across town. Character models and cars are as detailed as if they were on the PlayStation 2 and include all of the shine and transparency that looked so great in other Grand Theft Auto titles. Players can even choose the clothing that Vic will wear in Vice City. Overall, Rockstar has substantially increased all visual elements so that you don't need to make any graphical sacrifices when taking Grand Theft Auto on the road.

Even the city appears as never before- people on the street will notice you and recognize you for the actions you've taken on previous missions. Some even comment about actions you've taken and give you an idea about how the public feels about your notoriety.

Expanded gameplay:
New characters never before seen in Vice City add new twists to the story gamers were introduced to in the PlayStation 2 Vice City title. With a playtime of over 15 hours for the storyline alone, there is certainly plenty to see and hear in and around the city. Choose from various objectives to complete such as doing stunts for a chocolate commercial, chasing a known drug dealer to swipe his loot, and patrolling your neighborhood for specific thugs. Knock down objectives and get swept up in the plot or sit back and explore the big city- the choice is yours!

The hallmark style of "sandbox" gameplay is ever present and players can (forcefully) take control of nearly any vehicle they see and roam the streets in search of interesting characters and opportunities. In addition to cars, busses, bikes, and trucks, you can now cruise the waterways of Vice City in a large number of water craft! Jet-skis, motorboats, and even fishing vessels are there for the taking whether you're tracking the bad guy or just killing time. If you need even more mobility, consider one of the many arial options such as helicopters- helpful for taking out enemies from afar.

Features:

• Successor to Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, the best-selling PSP ever
• Play as Vic Vance, brother of Lance Vance, a member in one of the most notorious families in Vice City
• Featuring new vehicles such as sea planes, amphibious vehicles, jet skis, and more
• Swim and fly in Vice City, a location twice as large as Liberty City
• An entirely new chapter, including new characters, new storyline, and classic locale of Vice City
• The most technically impressive PSP game ever. Epic new instalment will define franchise PSP gameplay
• Build your criminal empire in Empire Mode, a stunning new gameplay mode
• An exciting selection of new multiplayer modes will be available
• Developed by Rockstar Leeds & Rockstar North
• Featuring the most impressive soundtrack ever devised, with a scope that exceeds any other Film, TV program, or videogame in history

Customer Reviews

STUNNING for something so small!
Well, what can i say! rockstar have done it again, The simerlaries been the old vice city and this are tingleing!Thats start with the graphics: 4/5: brillant for a miget like a psp! but be warned things can pop up unrelisticly at speed causing a bit of damege to your motor!

Game play
4/5:There are so much things to do like missons Killing people and exporering it will easy keep you entertained. but the missions are not very good when you lose you feel like kicking your psp! also theres a thing about buieses its annoying because you have to go to your buiesses to proteck them its anoying! expecaily when you are the way to a misson!


FUN
5/5:Its never boring I like killing people and nickig their cars! also the missons are fun (if you dont lose them)

OVERALL:THE BEST YOU CAN GET FROM YOUR PSP, BUY IT NOW!!

You play a pussy man called victor vance who was lances brother in vice city(the first one) so its a before time of the first vice city a very good game

Don't dither, buy this game
I wasn't convinced I'd like this game but was willing to give it a go after reading so many positive reviews. I have got to say that I have just finished with the storyline mode and I still have got loads to do. I feel that the storyline is part of the mainattraction but there are so many cool levels to play as an aside, such as bulding your crime empire etc.

My advice is simply if you want a game that combines driving and shooting levels convicingly then this is a must. You can pick this game up so just go for it. One of the things I liked most about this was the way in which you can use different methods of transport to complete levels, so if you keep getting hit in drive-bys, you go by helicopter instead.

Liberty city stories was better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was actually really looking forward to playing this game having enjoyed the original Vice City immensely but I found it a bit of a let down myself. This game isn't really suited to the psp because it's not the type of game that you can just pick up and play on the bus due to some overlong and extremely hard missions, I did complete the game but I found it much more frustrating than any of the other GTA games and the Empire building is very repetitive and also get's very annoying after a while, if you're on your way to start a mission and one of your empire's comes under attack then you have to stop everything you were doing to go defend it and then once it's defended and you resume what you were doing another Empire'll come under attack, I ended up doing this 5 or 6 times once on my way to a mission, once i'd finally done I then had to go back to top up my weapons and armour and save my game just so I could get back into actually doing a mission, I found this more annoying than fun and it ruined the game for me, the Territories in San Andreas were nowhere near this annoying although they did have their moments.
Overall I think if they'd got rid of the Empire building rubbish and added more side missions instead then this game would've recieved a higher score from me, but as it is I think Liberty City stories was much better due to it's shorter main story missions and better side missions.
But hey ... that's just my opinion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!