But plenty of realistic touches abound, both in the gameplay and in the environment, creating the sense that the world of the game really is alive, or as close to alive as you'd want it to be. Put another way, we enjoyed just touring the town, commenting on all the types of vehicles on the road, all the different storefronts, and all the different types of people and admiring the realistic new weather effects and other new graphical details like the subtle glow of sunlight dancing off all the vehicles in the daytime.

Grand Theft Auto III was by all means a visually impressive game, both because of its technical achievement in rendering so much realistic onscreen detail at any given time, and also because of its stylish use of lighting, motion blur, and other effects. GTA: Vice City takes the previous game's presentation up a notch. The harsh, gritty look of Liberty City is replaced with soft pastels and a gorgeous blue sky in Vice City, giving the new game a much more pleasant appearance, despite the fact that Vice City is every bit the den of corruption that Liberty City was. The greater draw distance is one of the more impressive visual feats, as you can now seemingly see miles of the city from any point and distinguish much more detail at long distances. For instance, GTA: Vice City offers the entirely new and exhilarating experience of bailing out of a fast-moving car and watching as it shrinks toward the horizon, perhaps wrapping itself around a palm tree a hundred yards down the road. As mentioned, GTA: Vice City also lets you venture inside various buildings, from a drug lord's mansion to a multistory shopping mall.

Among all these other things, we got a good look at the game's slick, new cutscenes, which feature lifelike motion-captured animations and highly expressive 3D characters. Actually, the cutscenes in GTAIII looked great, so we were expecting nothing less on this front from GTA: Vice City. It's important to mention that this game, unlike GTAIII, has a clearly defined protagonist: Tommy Vercetti, a tough guy whose voice is provided by Ray Liotta (Goodfellas, Hannibal). In GTAIII, you played a silent, almost faceless character who was entirely open to interpretation--was he a greedy crook, a self-righteous vigilante, or a savage killer? That decision was the player's to make, because GTAIII's leading man had neither a name nor a voice. Tommy is much more straightforward. He's not exactly an upstanding citizen--early on he declares his intentions of finding and killing whoever stole a large shipment of cocaine he was supposed to deliver to a client--but Tommy's bad attitude and charismatic demeanor make him quickly likable in the way that audiences can appreciate a good antihero, like Tony Soprano from HBO's hit series The Sopranos. We really liked what we heard of GTA: Vice City's decidedly profane but certainly appropriate dialogue, including many of Tommy's lines. After an intense shootout with the feds, we once heard Tommy sarcastically exclaim, "I'm innocent!" Wait, did sarcasm even exist in the '80s?

Vice City from the here and now afforded the designers the opportunity to take even more liberties with portraying the sorts of sordid or violent acts that we've all seen before in movies or television but have never really experienced in games. And given that the game has all of GTAIII's great qualities, as well as many of its own, who knows? Lightning can strike twice. And there's no law to prevent GameSpot from giving its Game of the Year award to a Grand Theft Auto game two years in a row.

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We immediately noticed that the open-ended structure of GTA: Vice City is essentially identical to that of Grand Theft Auto III, as are the game's minimal onscreen interface and controls. As in GTAIII, you're free to run around on foot as much as you like, but to get around fast, you'll want to get a vehicle. Jacking vehicles is performed with the touch of a button just like before, and veterans of Liberty City's mean streets will note that Vice City's residents have a similar knack for never locking their doors, which makes carjacking awfully convenient. Besides just stealing cars, you're again free to do pretty much whatever you like in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. You can freely explore the huge city, take odd jobs, wreak havoc, pull insane stunts in motor vehicles, watch the sunset, or do whatever you feel like.

But plenty of realistic touches abound, both in the gameplay and in the environment, creating the sense that the world of the game really is alive, or as close to alive as you'd want it to be. Put another way, we enjoyed just touring the town, commenting on all the types of vehicles on the road, all the different storefronts, and all the different types of people and admiring the realistic new weather effects and other new graphical details like the subtle glow of sunlight dancing off all the vehicles in the daytime.

Grand Theft Auto III was by all means a visually impressive game, both because of its technical achievement in rendering so much realistic onscreen detail at any given time, and also because of its stylish use of lighting, motion blur, and other effects. GTA: Vice City takes the previous game's presentation up a notch. The harsh, gritty look of Liberty City is replaced with soft pastels and a gorgeous blue sky in Vice City, giving the new game a much more pleasant appearance, despite the fact that Vice City is every bit the den of corruption that Liberty City was. The greater draw distance is one of the more impressive visual feats, as you can now seemingly see miles of the city from any point and distinguish much more detail at long distances. For instance, GTA: Vice City offers the entirely new and exhilarating experience of bailing out of a fast-moving car and watching as it shrinks toward the horizon, perhaps wrapping itself around a palm tree a hundred yards down the road. As mentioned, GTA: Vice City also lets you venture inside various buildings, from a drug lord's mansion to a multistory shopping mall.

Among all these other things, we got a good look at the game's slick, new cutscenes, which feature lifelike motion-captured animations and highly expressive 3D characters. Actually, the cutscenes in GTAIII looked great, so we were expecting nothing less on this front from GTA: Vice City. It's important to mention that this game, unlike GTAIII, has a clearly defined protagonist: Tommy Vercetti, a tough guy whose voice is provided by Ray Liotta (Goodfellas, Hannibal). In GTAIII, you played a silent, almost faceless character who was entirely open to interpretation--was he a greedy crook, a self-righteous vigilante, or a savage killer? That decision was the player's to make, because GTAIII's leading man had neither a name nor a voice. Tommy is much more straightforward. He's not exactly an upstanding citizen--early on he declares his intentions of finding and killing whoever stole a large shipment of cocaine he was supposed to deliver to a client--but Tommy's bad attitude and charismatic demeanor make him quickly likable in the way that audiences can appreciate a good antihero, like Tony Soprano from HBO's hit series The Sopranos. We really liked what we heard of GTA: Vice City's decidedly profane but certainly appropriate dialogue, including many of Tommy's lines. After an intense shootout with the feds, we once heard Tommy sarcastically exclaim, "I'm innocent!" Wait, did sarcasm even exist in the '80s?

Vice City from the here and now afforded the designers the opportunity to take even more liberties with portraying the sorts of sordid or violent acts that we've all seen before in movies or television but have never really experienced in games. And given that the game has all of GTAIII's great qualities, as well as many of its own, who knows? Lightning can strike twice. And there's no law to prevent GameSpot from giving its Game of the Year award to a Grand Theft Auto game two years in a row.

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נכתב במקור על ידי Death-Angel:
עוד אלמנט נחמד הוא שיהיה אפשר להכנס לתוך הבית של עצמך ולקנות כל מיני חפצים ולשים אותם בבית.

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ממש כמו באנימל קרוסינג! איזה כיף!

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נכתב במקור על ידי Nuxx:

ממש כמו באנימל קרוסינג! איזה כיף!

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המטרה במשחק זה לעשות פשעים, להרויח כסף ואז לקנות בובות חרסינה חמודות!

http://ps2movies.ign.com/ps2/video/insanejump_101802_4m.mov

http://ps2movies.ign.com/ps2/video/insanejump_101802_3m.mov

http://ps2movies.ign.com/ps2/video/insanejump_101802_2m.mov

http://ps2movies.ign.com/ps2/video/insanejump_101802_1m.mov

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נכתב במקור על ידי Death-Angel:
עוד סרטים חדשים:

http://ps2movies.ign.com/ps2/video/insanejump_101802_4m.mov

http://ps2movies.ign.com/ps2/video/insanejump_101802_3m.mov

http://ps2movies.ign.com/ps2/video/insanejump_101802_2m.mov

http://ps2movies.ign.com/ps2/video/insanejump_101802_1m.mov

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ממש אחלה סרטים!!! האופנוע פשוט גדול!!!

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נכתב במקור על ידי Death-Angel:
שכחתי להוסיף, אבל למי שלא יודע כל הבניינים שמופיעים בתמונות האלה-יהיה אפשר להכנס אליהם.
וזה כולל חנויות, קניונים, אולמות באולינג ואפילו תחנות הרדיו!

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יש כאלה שאומרים שלא נעשה שיפור גדול במיוחד, אני אישית חושב שכמות הנשקים, כלי התחבורה, האפשרות להכנס לבניינים רבים ועוד', כל אלה ביחד גורמים לשיפור להיות מאד משמעותי, כל אלה גורמים למשחק להיות הרבה יותר מגוון!

היה נחמד אם הייתה אפשרות לשחק באולינג, לקנות בקניון דברים וכו' ... אבל זה לא משמעותי ... ... המשחק הזה יהיה ענק!!!

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נכתב במקור על ידי Rapter_Payne:

יש כאלה שאומרים שלא נעשה שיפור גדול במיוחד, אני אישית חושב שכמות הנשקים, כלי התחבורה, האפשרות להכנס לבניינים רבים ועוד', כל אלה ביחד גורמים לשיפור להיות מאד משמעותי, כל אלה גורמים למשחק להיות הרבה יותר מגוון!

היה נחמד אם הייתה אפשרות לשחק באולינג, לקנות בקניון דברים וכו' ... אבל זה לא משמעותי ... ... המשחק הזה יהיה ענק!!!

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מי יודע? אולי זה יתאפשר..

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נכתב במקור על ידי Rapter_Payne:

יש כאלה שאומרים שלא נעשה שיפור גדול במיוחד, אני אישית חושב שכמות הנשקים, כלי התחבורה, האפשרות להכנס לבניינים רבים ועוד', כל אלה ביחד גורמים לשיפור להיות מאד משמעותי, כל אלה גורמים למשחק להיות הרבה יותר מגוון!

היה נחמד אם הייתה אפשרות לשחק באולינג, לקנות בקניון דברים וכו' ... אבל זה לא משמעותי ... ... המשחק הזה יהיה ענק!!!

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מה כבר עבריין יכול לחפש בקניון? לחם וחלב?

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נכתב במקור על ידי Rapter_Payne:

אני אישית חושב שכמות הנשקים, כלי התחבורה, האפשרות להכנס לבניינים רבים ועוד', כל אלה גורמים למשחק להיות הרבה יותר מגוון!

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No Shit Sherlock!

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נכתב במקור על ידי amo2001:

No Shit Sherlock!

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זה היה כל כך במקום!

i dont have a scanner but
here is a sample of what they said
there are 3 full page reviews from the editors

GTAVC

best feature: everything you loved about gta3 and more

worst feature: teargeting system still touchy

greg S

..as big as gta3 is, VC dwarfs it in almost every way.

..youll never get bored in this town.

...the story is so well concieved and superbly acted by ray liotta, dennis hopper and miss cleo, you totoally get drawn into the plot.

10

visuals 8
sound 10
ingenuoty 8
replay 8

CHe

..VC isnt just the ultimate flashback- its the ultimate payback.

... the graphical improvements in VC are subtle but effective.

...you can litterally spend weeks exploring every crevice of every crack alley, killing looting, jacking or buying up anything in your path

...the auto targeting system, altough slightly improved, still feels unriliable when your in a pinch.
10

visuals 8
sound 10
ingenuity 9
replay 10

milkman

.. VC gels, the ace up its sleeve being the open ended manner in which you can take on almost any mission

...its an understatment to say that the general media, the uniformed consumer and the political vampire just dont get it

...rockstar has improved upon the groundbreacking GTa3 and created an instant classic in VC

10

visual 8
souns 10
ingenuity 10
replay 10

קחו את זה בערבון מוגבל...כבר קרה מקרה שאיזה שמגג עבד שם על כולם...אבל! אם זה נכון אז באמת מדובר פה בקלאסיקה אמיתית ובמשחק חובה שאף גיימר רציני לא יכול להרשות לעצמו לפספס...
מצד שני...זה EGM...
הם נתנו 80 ללוסט קינגדומס...

http://ps2movies.ign.com/ps2/video/gtavc_102402_cmmcial1.mov

http://ps2movies.ign.com/ps2/video/gtavc_102402_cmmcial2.mov

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עוד שקל תשעים ש"ח לגיים קיוב!!!

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נכתב במקור על ידי Death-Angel:
סתם לידע כללי, המשחק אמור לצאת מחר,ה-29.10, בארה"ב...
נראה מה יהיו המכירות...

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מעניין כמה הוא יקבל.. אני מקווה שיעבור את קודמו.

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נכתב במקור על ידי MOSA 5:

מעניין כמה הוא יקבל.. אני מקווה שיעבור את קודמו.

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חתימה מצויינת!

מה קרה התאכזבת משינובי?

ציטוט:

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נכתב במקור על ידי Death-Angel:

חתימה מצויינת!

מה קרה התאכזבת משינובי?

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תודה!

לגבי שינובי, לא, לא התאכזבתי ממנו. אני אחכה לציונים של GS וIGN, אבל יש לי הרגשה שאני עדיין אקנה אותו.