Bought 10/11/02 @ PCWorld £39.99 -- Plus free GTA DVD!
Bought 10/11/02 @ PCWorld £39.99 -- Plus free GTA DVD!
So is it any good?? Of course it is, what did you expect.. New this time out is motorcycles & scooters..
and plenty of new stunt areas, inc a multistorey car park with shopping centre attached!
the plot is basically the same as before, as in you are a driver for a gang of gangsters and have to
retreve the money & dope lost at an exchange at the start of the game. Its the 80's now, so
the cars are a little more flash, inc very kewl Beach Buggies, though the ambulances look the same as last time.
There are also other new touches, such as being able to go into more buildings than last time
including the cop shop, and when you go in the cops try to arrest you! The police are as insaine as
last time, killing any one and every one in their attempt to get you. Another nice touch is the
fact you can bail out of a car while its still moving, you loose energy, but can get you out of a fatal
crash. There also are plenty of passengers that you can scare the hell out of as steal the car
they are in, they scream like babies, great :) No cheats yet for
GTA Vice City, but I intended to get as far as poss without using them. I just hope I get to the speedboats
and helecopter soon :) Though I have had a bash at RC flying in a Pilot Wings style race thing !!
The soundtrack has some awesome and awfull tunes from the 80's, inc. Billie Jean,
which is one of the better ones so far, along with 'owner of a lonely heart', 'She sells sanctuary' & 'Video Killed
the Radio Star', the first record I ever bought! :) The comedy radio programmes survive and the
graphics are as smart as last time, but the sunsets are absolutly fabulous! The bits fall off
the cars and in some view modes there are water spots appearing on the screen.
SnOrKs' rating:
17/10/02.
A week has passed and....I love it now, I am playing nowt else, just getting into the game propper
now, as in doing the missions, and its getting involved, also seeing what the cops do
when I turn into cop killer extrodinare :) I urge you to get this game, but
only use legal methods to pay for it! I also like the CBM64 loading screens in the start credits
Brings back memories of sad times :)Now the real reason for this update!! The soundtrack
of the game just gets better and better... If your an 80's freak, like myself-though I still like
todays hit parade artists like M&M and Kyle, you will love the music on the radio stations in
the cars & on the bikes .. So far I have heard: Mr Plastic Nose - Billie Jean : Buggles - Video
Killed the Radio Star : Kim Wilde - Kids in America : Kate Bush - Wow : Nena - 99 Balloons :
Brayn Adams - Run to You : Squeeze - Teampted : Human League - Fascination : Tears for Fears
- Pale Shelter : Pointer Sisters - Automatic : ?? - I just died in your arms tonite :
Roxy Music - More than This : Slade - Kum on Feel the Noize : A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran :
Jackson - Wanna be Startin Something : The Cult - She sells Santuary : Mr Mister - Brocken Wings :
Talk Talk - Life's What You Make It : ??? - My Obsestion : Mr Waites - Missing You : Spandau Ballet
- Gold : Joe Jackson - Steppin Out : Thomas Dolby - Hyperactive : ??? - Work Your Body Up :
??? - Summertime (Instrumental & Soulfull) : Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes to Midnight : FRANKIE
GOES TO HOLLYWOOD - Two Tribes!!!! (A mix I have not heard before!!!!! and I have at least 5 mixes!)
: Hall & Oates - Out of Touch : ??? - Last Night a DJ Saved My Life : ??? - Never Too Much :
Squigue Squigue Sputnik - ???? : Gary Numan - Cars : ?? - Dance Hall Daze : Forigner - Waitin
For a Girl Like You : Herbie Hancock - Rockett : Donna Summer - Self Control : Blondie - Atomic :
ABC - Poison Arrow : ELO - ???
Not a bad line up, in fact I own most of the above tunes.. BUT NOT ALL OF THEM !!!
