Steam is giving away Grand Theft Auto: Vice City to anyone that pre-purchases Grand Theft Auto IV through them. GTA IV is going to be out on December 2 so you only have little over a week to save $10 and get Vice City for free.
Of all of the Grand Theft Autos, Vice City is easily my favorite GTA in the series. The game was absolutely perfect in terms of story, length, and especially the music. It's also the only GTA, to me at least, where it doesn't feel like a chore getting through the story. Vice City was really all about Tommy Vercetti doing things for himself where as the other GTAs were about the main characters usually stuck doing things for other people.
What's your favorite Grand Theft Auto game?
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5:20 PM on 11.23.2008
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I've got to agree with you on that, Hamza. GTAIV was a fantastic game by all means but I felt, more than ever, like I was being pushed all over the place by other characters. I played the game quite extensively with my girlfriend back when it came out and neither of us could pretend to care about the plot all that much as the cycle of errands simply wasn't compelling. As such, the experience dissolved into the thrills of fast driving and punching bystanders in the face all too quickly, and we put it on the back burner without ever finishing the story.
Tommy Vercetti had great ambition and this made him more interesting to me than tag-a-long Nico. He was the kind of character that made you want to play to the end.
:)
I'm sorry, but no other GTA characters were as interesting as Niko.
I had to look it up. :)
that game was absolutly mindblowing for it's day
San Andreas was a bit too much for me. Trying to cram three cities into a single game never allowed me to feel connected to any of them. While it tried admirable new things, like car customization, gang territory, and character personalization, too many glitches made it through (custom cars disappearing in garages, for example) that frustrated me and the story was so long and convoluted that I didn't even know what was happening by the end.
GTAIV had so much promise with a new engine and hardware, but the story just fell flat for me. People argue Niko was "the most engaging" character, but I highly disagree. He mopes around a bland city (where the fuck are all the gangs everyone is talking about?) doing fetch quests for characters that have less development than an eleven year old girl all the while pissing and moaning about a dark past he's trying to escape from while continuing on the same path by KILLING EVERYONE IN HIS WAY.
Plus, instead of adding to and refining all of the bold and creative side quests and gameplay elements of San Andreas, they neutered all of the fun aspects of the game and focused on dating simulations that never made a true impact on anything in the game (I never once felt the need to call a friend or girlfriend for help). No stores were purchasable, Niko was no where as personal as CJ (in terms of customization), gangs disappeared, car customizing vanished, side quests got cut, the cell phone was annoying as fuck... but wait, there was lackluster multiplayer, so no one seemed to care. This is all on top of the fact that Saint's Row 2 released a few months later and is echelons above IV in terms of raw fun and actually expanded on concepts from the prior title instead of destroying them.
Vice City is the best game in the series for me. If they took San Andreas' amount of customization and general "stuff" to do, completely lifted Vice City's story and setting, and made it with IV's engine (minus the horrible physics system that made Niko turn like a tank and cars indestructible) I would buy ten copies and give them away on the street.
As it stands now, IV made me never want to play another title in the series.
Screw it, B-Radicate has my exact thoughts.
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