Vice City!

Also the nasty new weapons? (srcew-driver, knife, hammer, chainsaw) Why do I feel more uncomfortable about the idea of using these in a game than, say, an Uzi or Rocket Launcher?

great looking cars though.

While I'm in geek mode did you know you can pick up ho's in GTA3?

so does this get to be the thread where we vent our frustrations at getting stuck for a week on a remote control helicoptor??

tip 1: chasing after someone with a chainsaw is a bad idea, cos you run really slow, switch to fist until you catch them, then (perry to thread) WHIP IT OUT!!

The rc-chopper is very very hard though, but the rc car race is lotsa fun.

This may have become my life.

also chris (V) how come you've finished it in a weekend?? or did you get some sort of advanced copy???

Have you finbished it with 100% Chris, or just the missions?

What is this cricket you speak of? I know of no such thing :o(

there's an excellent double jump you can do with the speedy bike, Vicky found it, you fly off a set off stairs, and if you've launched far enough land on yet another ramp, the cut scenes for it look superb

heres the cheats:

Full Health
R1 R2 L1 O Left Down Right Up Left Down Right Up

Full Armor
R1 R2 L1 X Left Down Right Up Left Down Right Up

Weapons ( Same As Weapons #1)
R1, R2, L1, R2, Left, Down, Right, Up, Left, Down, Right, Up

All Weapons #1
R1, R2, L1, R2, L, D, R, U, L, D, R, U

All Weapons #2
R1, R2, L1, R2, L, D, R, U, L, D, D, L

All Weapons #3
R1, R2, L1, R2, L, D, R, U, L, D, D, D

Raise Wanted Level
R1, R1, O, R2, L, R, L, R, L, R

Lower Wanted Level
R1, R1, O, R2, U, D, U, D, U, D

Change Clothes
R, R, L, U, L1, L2, L, U, D, R

Flying
Right, R2, Circle, R1, L2, Down, L1, R1

Slow Motion
Triangle, Up, Right, Down, Square, R2, R1

Love Fist Limo
R2,Up,L2,Left,Left,R1,L1,Circle,Right

Mad Cars - Cars Drive Aggresively
R2,Circle,R1,L2,Left,R1,L1,R2,L2

Chicks with Guns
Right,L1,Circle,L2,Left,X,R1,L1,L1,X

All Cars are Pink
Circle,L1,Down,L2,Left,X,R1,L1,Right,Circle

Weapon Cheat 1 (Alternative)
R1,R2,L1,R2,Left,Down,Right,Up,Left,Down,Right,Up

Fanny Magnet - A Group of Girls follow Tommy
Circle,X,L1,L1,R2,X,X,Circle,Triangle

Sunny Weather
R2,X,L1,L1,L2,L2,L2,Triangle

Rainy Weather
R2,X,L1,L1,L2,L2,L2,Circle

Cloudy
R2,X,L1,L1,L2,L2,L2,Square

Fog with Rain
R2,X,L1,L1,L2,L2,L2,X

Play As Ricardo Diaz
L1, L2, R1, R2, D, L1, R2, L2

Play As Lance Vance
O, L2, L, X, R1, L1, X, L1

Play As Candy Suxxx
O, R2, D, R1, L, R, R1, L1, X, L2

Play As Ken Rosenberg
R, L1, U, L2, L1, R, R1, L1, X, R1

Play As Hilary King
R1, O, R2, L1, R, R1, L1, X, R2

Play As Love Fist Guy #1
D, L1, D, L2, L, X, R1, L1, X, X

Play As Love Fist Guy #2
R1, L2, R2, L1, R, R2, L, X, S, L1

Play As Phil Cassady
R, R1, U, R2, L1, R, R1, L1 ,R, O

Play As Sonny Forelli
O, L1, O, L2, L, X, R1, L1, X, X

Play As Mercedes
R2, L1, U, L1, R, R1, R, U, O, T

Spawn A Rhino
O, O, L1, O, O, O, L1, L2, R1, T, O, T

Spawn A Bloodring Racer
D, R1, O, L2, L2, X, R1, L1, L, L

Spawn A Bloodring Banger
U, R, R, L1, R, U, S, L2

Spawn A Hotring Racer #1
R1, O, R2, R, L1, L2, X, X, S, R1

Spawn A Hotring Racer #2
R2, L1, O, R, L1, R1, R, U, O, R2

Spawn A Romero's Hearse
D, R2, D, R1, L2, L, R1, L1, L, R

Spawn A Love Fist
R2, U, L2, L, L, R1, L1, O, R

Spawn A Trashmaster
O, R1, O, R1, L, L, R1, L1, O, R

Spawn A Sabre Turbo
R, L2, D, L2, L2, X, R1, L1, O, L

Spawn A Caddie
O, L1, U, R1, L2, X, R1, L1, O, X

Blow Up Cars
R2, L2, R1, L1, L2, R2, S, T, O, T, L2, L1

Aggressive Drivers
R2, O, R1, L2, L, R1, L1, R2, L2

Pink Cars
O, L1, D, L2, L, X, R1, L1, R, X

Pink Cars
O, L1, D, L2, L, X, R1, L1, R, O

Black Cars
O, L2, U, R1, L, X, R1, L1, L, O

Dodo Cheat
R, R2, O, R1, L2, D, L1, R1

Perfect Handling
T, R1, R1, L, R1, L1, R2, L1

Speed Up Time
O, O, L1, S, L1, S, S, S, L1, T, O, T

Slow Down Time
T, U, R, D, S, R2, R1

Peds Riot*
D, L, U, L, X, R2, R1, L2, L1
* Most likely, you won't be able to turn this off once it's on.

Peds Hate You*
D, U, U, U, X, R2, R1, L2, L2
* Most likely, you won't be able to turn this off once it's on.

!!!

________________________________Wildstyle_____________________________________

DJ Mister Magic as himself
Imaging Voice - Frank Silvestro
Imaging Production - Lazlow

-Trouble Funk -Davy DMX
"Pump Me Up" "One for the Treble (Vocal Mix)

-Cybotron -Hashim
"Clear" "Al-Naafiysh (The Soul)

-Herbie Hancock -Afrika Bambaataa & The SoulSonic Force
"Rockit" "Looking For The Perfect Beat"

-2 Live Crew -Run DMC
"Get it Girl" "Rock Box"

-Mantronix -Tyrone Brunson
"Bassline" "The Smurf"

-Whodini -Zapp & Roger
"Magic's Wand" "More Bounce To The Ounce"

-Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five -Kurtis Blow
"The Message" "The Breaks"

Man Parrish
"Hip Hop Be Bop (Don't Stop)"

Greatest thing ever: rear-ending bikers in a truck going 50 MPH. You will believe a man can fly.

excellent move = popping a wheelie in a pjc600, as you head on an infernus or similar and using it as a ramp.

Gettin' a ho to 'rejuvenate' you then beating her over the head with a hammer for yr money = classic. True cashback.

Getting into a car and hearing Billie Jean for 50th time = dud.

Overall = classic.

As noted above, the RC helicopter mission is a total dud.

I found the RC helicopter mission pretty easy. I did it on my third try. The hardest mission so far for me was the one where you have to start a riot. I had about seven goes before I did it.

Just now I'm stuck on the mission where you have to pick up a gun in the multi storey car park, then you meet some guy in a silver car, and you both go to defend Diaz and his pal from some Cubans. From the pink spot where you're supposed to sit you can't see a thing. I always end up shooting the people I'm supposed to be defending, I think. Last time, when it all kicked off, I tried jumping down to ground level to get a better view, but that didn't work, and the silver car guy at the top of the stairs was nagging me, "Tommy, I could use some help", while seeming not to be doing much himself.

A good thing I did recently was hijack a bus, and drive it to the end of the pier. When the front wheels were over the edge I got off, and gave the bus a nudge to send it very slowly into the sea. All the passengers leapt from the windows into the water. I got to look down and see all these floating corpses and the sinking bus.

also, play the game with a gamepad, not the keyboard

I mean where did Burt come into it?

Where will they go with the next one?

Next one = either 70's or bang up to date

Simeon: I don't know if this is what you're asking, but the actual credits are in the back of the book. Burt Reynolds was the property developer, I think.

The Donald Love cameo is priceless.

Before this, I never played a modern (ie post-Atari 2600-era) first-person shoot-'em-up or driving game in my life, and my forte is all the wussy Myst/Sim games, so I'm actually amazed how far I've gotten with this -- 21% completion according to the stats. Currently stuck on the bomb-the-fake-Starbuck's mission. It gets way too intense way too fast.

I still dislike running over innocent bystanders or killing women (sometimes, when you run over one, they let out this soulchilling "OH!"), but slicing up gang members with a chainsaw is way fun.

i'm almost tmepted to start again, since it's been about 6 months since i touched it...

I got stuck on the same part as eyeball kicks and i kinda started to lose interest but i may pick it up again

The key to that mission is fuck the sniper approach and just run back down the steps with a shotgun and kill everyone.

But wait! Don't kill everyone! You don't want to kill Diaz! You're trying to protect him!

other nerd reward: dropping off 100 taxi fares = when you hit the horn in a taxi it will hop like 30 feet in the air. seriously, it's worth the tedium, it's so much fun.

The Airwolf helicopter is also great for the "cause a lot of mayhem" mission for Big Mitch Baker.

I thought the trick to the protecting Diaz mission was the same as most of the rest of the tricks: the mighty Python.

I hadn't heard Kids in America in about twenty years, and the first time it came on, I just stopped the car and listened.

I also unsurprisingly love how referential it is. The Vice Street Racer, the "european gang" in Autocide, the Different Strokes-alike TV show, the porn Steven Spielberg, the Donald Love cameo, and so on and so forth.

I thought you couldn't enter the army base without a cop uniform, and the only way to get one was to complete the cop mission(s).

I sense someone at Rockstar Games has a jones for Trevor Horn, seeing how "Video Killed the Radio Star," "Owner of a Lonely Heart," and "Two Tribes" are on the soundtrack AND he's one of the few real-world people name-checked in the game. (I don't even think Reagan is.)

I've never (NEVER!) picked up a whore in this game. Maybe it's time.

Am I right in thinking that the game is developed by a team in Edinburgh?

There are a lot of people name-checked on the radio in the normal way of things (Gary Numan, Kim Wilde etc). Or is Trevor Horn in the actual plot script as well?

One thing that surprised me were the ads on Wave 103 urging us to enjoy New Wave, go with the flow, do like everyone else. Was New Wave the dominant musical strand at any point in the 80s?

Also Adam 1st's dialogue and rendition is k-classic.

Rockstar North (as they're now called) are scottish, yeah. There were pedestrian models in GTAIII that had strong scottish accents, though any of the actual lines escape me.

There are swishy roller skaters by the beach, and the radio ad for Rusty Brown's Donuts is one long gay-specific rimming joke, but there are no MALE whores in this game and this peeves me like nobody's business!

(Isn't it kinda odd that when Vercetti has a private session with an exotic dancer at the Pole Position club, he never actually looks AT the girl but far away to either side?)

He's name-checked on the radio, but as a producer (for FGTH) not as a musician. Which is...um...mildly interesting.

A soundtrack moment worthy of Scorsese is when "Sister Christian" comes on the radio as somebody's soon-to-be-asassinated wife literally slinks out of a jewelery store and into her death car.

Very doable, if you're wondering.

I like it that the lawyer guy is an obvious riff on Sean Penn in Carlito's Way. Maybe this is common knowledge.

This game is RUDE!

You'll want to turn the volume down when the fart jokes come.

My Trip To Liberty City is a funny and wise video piece about this very thing. Check it out!

I also found a great place for PCJ stunts, on the fountain on Prawn Island. I got a luverly 1477 degree spin from it and a Triple Insane Stunt.

*** The Airwolf MOD TEaM 2004 ***
http://kickme.to/airwolf4gta
http://groups.msn.com/GTAAirwolf

actually, when is the new one out?

october is further away than tomorrow.

halo 2 is out in november two. does anyone know I might burst?

Are you playing MGS2 on Hard/Extreme? Cos otherwise, it's a cake in the walk.

I've been practicing, OLD MAN.

I also had a dream last night that I was being chased by a gang of Cubans and I ran into an Ammunation shop. The guy behind the counter refused to sell me any weapons and instead just kept offering me a pair of scissors. Needles to say I still kicked their asses.

rumours abounding that GTAV is a return to vice city; I would fkn LOVE that

anyway bump because the soundtrack to this game is the most ridiculously amazing s/t

lionel richie running with the night!

it'd be interesting to see how they handled the s/t if they did actually return to VC; I imagine most of the old DJs wd at least return

point me to these rumours, pleez

http://www.gamereactor.eu/media/30/grandtheftauto_213021.jpg
R* have 'officially' said they're not showing anything new at E3 but as it's E3 season all news has to be taken with a huge pinch of salt

http://img.skitch.com/20100605-di798ubx99psa4iy12pwdkm3b6.jpg

even larger pinch of salt needed for all rumours of course

<3 emotion.fm

either way very excited, would love an updated vice setting.

I am a cynic, honestly I don't really want to see the cartoonish world of Vice City rendered on current generation consoles - do you really want to see that game looking like GTA IV? Vice City was already made, the 80s are overcooked, let's try something different instead...

Vice City just means Miami. Doesn't mean the 80s. And i don't see what was more cartoonish about Vice City vis-a-vis other GTAs.

ok, 4 was a bit more gritty, Niko doesn't become a kingpin, far from it, and he rues dolefully the world he has found himself in and the things he's done. But ultimately he's a guy doing a daft eastern-european accent hanging around with a rasta and working for babadi-boopty gangsters.

next game is set in 1999, "vice city: nu-metal daze"

they've done 80s, 90s, and present day (with RDR in a sense they've done Wild West too). Driver was set in the 70s iirc but surely nothing beyond that to stop them setting it then? otoh 70s would suck?

except 70s miami would probably include a Jimmy Bo Horne song, do it!

i wouldn't mind a vice city set in present day with jetskis and the ability to actually do stuff

http://i.imgur.com/VcAkVDB.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/ssv31dY.jpg

605, outside the stadium. Special delivery

they need to remaster this

i would totally play through again

I remember getting so frustrated one night at the street race that I kept losing that I used a cheat code, got a tank, and then drove over all of my competitors

https://i.imgur.com/BXuEMiq.jpg

Whitey’s on the moon

Loved this game at the time (might be one of my favourites ever）but I tried it on ipad some years ago and it was... bad... It’s VERY dated.

This game owns half of my brain.

Yeah I hope they revisit this city in a future game.

I got this for Christmas.
I found the RC helicopter mission pretty easy. I did it on my third try. The hardest mission so far for me was the one where you have to start a riot. I had about seven goes before I did it.

Just now I'm stuck on the mission where you have to pick up a gun in the multi storey car park, then you meet some guy in a silver car, and you both go to defend Diaz and his pal from some Cubans. From the pink spot where you're supposed to sit you can't see a thing. I always end up shooting the people I'm supposed to be defending, I think. Last time, when it all kicked off, I tried jumping down to ground level to get a better view, but that didn't work, and the silver car guy at the top of the stairs was nagging me, "Tommy, I could use some help", while seeming not to be doing much himself.

A good thing I did recently was hijack a bus, and drive it to the end of the pier. When the front wheels were over the edge I got off, and gave the bus a nudge to send it very slowly into the sea. All the passengers leapt from the windows into the water. I got to look down and see all these floating corpses and the sinking bus.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, December 30, 2002 5:03 PM (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Can't remember how far I got in this game - it must have been further than this if I just got it for Christmas, cos I played it for weeks - but I never finished it and this was near the end of my time having a serious go at games. I'd pick them up and get to 15% and forget about it, but Vice City was the last of that kind of energy from me, putting a lot of my life into it.

they need to remaster this

https://i.imgur.com/h0lwPre.gif

lmao

Mission I attempted the most? The one where you and Lance have to lure a police car into a garage to get the cop clothes. Then drive to the Mall, then after you've blown up the shop escape the wanted level. oh my fucking god.

Worse than “demolition man” is perhaps “bombs away” where you control an RC dodo armed with bombs and are tasked with taking out several boats worth of armed Cubans hanging out dockside. If you’re unlucky they will “make a run for it” on the water. Alternately they will do so through the streets of little Havana. Either way you’ll be mashing those controls like never before, lobbying Hail Marys and praying for them to land.

I destroyed many PS2 controllers in frustration during that mission

If you want to progress in the game at all, you have to kill people. I suppose you could just run around from the get go, but there's really not much to do other than violence upon others. it's the whole point of the game.
So, I have this for pc too and I'm stuck on the voodoo lady mission where you have to fly the bomb-dropping RC planes. I didn't have much problem w/the copters, but I can't get these damn planes to stay aloft. I get the feeling this task is more difficult on PC than PS@, cause I heard instructions to press back to gain altitude, yet when I press back the plane pulls its nose up for a sec then immediately plummets into the water. Fucking thing.

scooter-only playthrough

I would get annoyed of the engine sound immediately

i got a fake ps2 controller with old usb connection. i think it’s called a logitech action. it works ok with m1 macbook pro running the mobile version of vice city

sometimes you start running or spinning for no reason but it works well enough for my interest and skill levels, this is much better than i was expecting from the reviews

https://i.imgur.com/NMHqLjm.jpg

This screenshot from Miami vice potentially reveals the inspiration for the hellish remote control helicopter mission