Computer Game Summary XIII (Grand Theft Auto: Vice City)

Well I had considered talking about a kung fu movie today. But after a long day of work and a single solitary beer, I've become far too tired for even the most mundane of kung fu filmography.

So instead I'll talk about the world's greatest sandbox.
You play as Tommy Vercetti a mysterious hybrid man-made formed them the DNA of Al Pacino and Martin Sheen. You've been in prison for about 20 years for the murder of about 20 people*. The local Liberty City mafia wants little to nothing to do with you. So they decide to send you down to Vice City the most happening, hip-hop town at all the America.
It's known for having a particularly bad crime problem. And with a name like Vice City you can't be surprised. It's like Dick Grayson going to the town of bludhaven . Of course it's going to be a crap hole look at the name.

You're participate in a very simple drug deal. Involving large amounts of cash and a crap ton of cocaine. You hand the money off to the cartel and they're supposed to hand the cocaine off to you. But you're intercepted and attacked by a mysterious group of gunmen. You escape out of your car with your crappy lawyer Ken Rosenberg.
Now it's time to go on a great and Noble quest to find the cocaine, reacquire your money and make sure your dumbass lawyer doesn't get killed. Indeed you'll have to murder, mutilate and drive your way to the top. And while doing so you'll get to see the sedi-underground of it every other established order in Vice City . Including a porn racket that makes fun of the Jaws movies.

You know what's one thing I don't see in modern Grand Theft Autos anymore. Old people.
Oh share the storyline might have one or two and you'll get the occasional guy that looks like he's in his mid-forties , but long gone are the seventy-year-old crazy women walking the streets with their black trenched overcoats or in Vice cities case spending their days at the golf course. And because all the golf course people have the same artificial intelligence as the typical gang members, if you attack one golf lady they all come after you. thus creating a firestorm of angry old women trying to destroy you with a 7-iron.
Vice City might have the best 80s style to it. You could almost feel as if you're there, which is a bit different from its sequal ''Vice City Stories'' which tries to recapture that same environment, but coming off as a modern-day Recreation of the 80s. Part of that I think has to do with video game stories lines.
Video game stories are about 20 years behind the Cinematic world . when the film Independence Day came out the Video Game midia released the ''Driver'' video game and it feels like a 1970s action film.

I won't talk about the music because buying the copyright to Michael Jackson doesn't make you an artist. It shows that you have money. I do give them credit for their talk radio stations and the commercials both of which are entertaining and well-made. They're quick and to-the-point something you can Listen to for about 5 minutes while driving the car.

When you start Vice city it has two opening scenes: One pre-rendered graphic, one in-game graphic. You can skip them all immediately and get right to the game and the only Mission you really have to do is drive your car to your safehouse after that you're free to do anything you want . In a newer Grand Theft Auto games you'er going to be spending two to three hours on tutorials, it really takes away from the sense of Freedom you possess.

Also everything in Vice City feels so quick . you can switch between weapons almost instantaneously Tommy runs like a Olympian athlete . You get in and out of cars in the matter of 2 to 3 seconds. Because the newer games are going for that realism angle it takes forever to do anything. And you run like a fat man chasing after a small stick of butter, it's not even a fat man chasing after a big stick of butter at least then they'd have a sense of urgency.

*One murderer a Year, talk about a very liberal prison system either that or there's so many people in their prison that they can't afford to keep them. Given the amount of violence that exists in the Grand Theft Auto universe , I can kind of understand it. What's 20 Mariners after all. Especially when you get to the city and start shooting up 18 or 20 people a minute and bringing in the National Guard to bring you down.

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