GTA Vice City - Little Hidden Joys

I was suprised to realise recently trhat I prefer Liberty City to Vice City, as places.

Another cheat allows your car to drive on water; the car wheels rotate 90 degrees (as in the final scene of 'Back to the Future'). Much faster to get from island to island and much easier to control than the boats.

Attempting the vigilante missions with the radar turned off.

Going mad with a tank, maintaining FBI criminal status by picking up the bribes, smashing into FBI cars at full pelt.

doing donuts with the PCJ bike, with one of your henchmen on the back.

Attemping to keep your 3 henchmen on a boat.

standing in a pizza house with a flame thrower, you know the rest.

tank dodging

although having got Civ III: Conquests as a birthday present, it may be some time before i go back to GTA...

time to revive the Civilisation III thread i think...

A cop car drove past the house a little while ago, and I got ph34r!! Terrible!!

(+I keep subconciously trying to drive on the left haha)

The best is when you are playing as Apu, if you let the controls idle while he's car-surfing, he'll A) levitate and B) breakdance.

there are certainly lots of Scouse in-jokes

I like to start the dirt-track mission with the sanchez and then lure the 3 gang bikers onto the main city. sometimes when they get off their bikes they hijack other cars and hunt you down christine-style.

Favourite bit so far = get onto the big ship, pick up the "destroy 10 vehicles w/this rpg7" rampage, fail it a couple of times, 'till you get the fbi after you, then stand at the top of the gangplank, blowing up those black fbi vans and shooting down police helicopters until you either go down in a blaze of glory, or pass the rampage, so all yr wanted stars vanish, heh teh copz = pwnt. (IE this = revenge for all the times the cops beat my ass w/their tyre spikers etc)

I failed the tank mission, b/c I spent too long going round running over police cars, so the tank self-destructed. Just before it blew, I got the recorded message "prepare to die, communist"!!

how do you get a motorbike to do a wheelie?

I just wasted the mob guy, and got the end credits. VC=PWND.

I'll probably try to find all the hidden pax0rages (i have 60) and nmaybe find all the stunt jumps, but I don't think I'll bother w/the 100% thing, b/c I can't be arsed w/pizza/ambulance/fire truck missions.

the best bits:

1/"rusty brown's ring doughnuts" radio ad. I couldn't believe my ears when I heard that.

2/michelle montanius "If you're listening to VCPR and haven't donated money YOU.ARE. A. THIEF."

3/ the submarine

4/the genuine sense of horror i got when I first drove one of the speedboats over one of the big sunken ships.

5/cackling w/glee when I shot the SWAT helicopter down and its tail rotor came off and it went spinning down to the ground.

6.....all sorts of other stuff. This game has been an absolute blast.

My dear wife is into this game as well, but she doen't give a shit about the missions, all she does is load in a game where T.V. is tooled up mightily, climb on the roof near scumhole shack and blow shit up 'till she gets 6 stars and the army come after her.

I saw a r/c lamborghini in the window of a model shop, and I was like "look! a model infernus!!" argh haha.

The radio station in VC is a bullion times better than San Andreas

The greatness of KCHAT kind of crept up on me, as well. The way the presenter is horrible to jezz torrent's g/f, the way the footballer is obnoxious about her facial hair, then immediately backs down when she gets snippy with him, the whole "mr zoo" section OMG WRONG. and so on.

"There's blood and pubic hair all over the studio"

Oh and the Chatterbox station in GTA3, where the guy talks about karate. Such a funny man.

On various pc games I've played in the past, there has been some way of capturing a screenshot by pressing a certain key. Can you do this on GTA:VC, and which key do you press?

I just played this for a while at lunch. Laughing at "BIG HAIRY ARSES".

Today I discovered the fire truck for the first time. Holy crap, it was like playing fire trucks when you are a little kid or something. Amazing!

I was at the boatyard heading back to the city in a giant bus and saw a few of those long trailers with the ramps on them and just couldn't resist the urge to try and jump some cars with it. Didn't really work out, but like most things in this game, it ended with me running from an awesome explosion.

Still haven't gotten the tank. Can't wait!

presume you're meaning VC Stories?

Even though I prefer VC rather than Stories, it did make some improvements which I would hope GTA5 might take a hint from. Though I doubt Rockstar will get anything remotely like how good the original series was anymore.

Stuff like getting to replay Rampages, even after you've completed them. Showing the hidden packages you've already collected on the map. Swimming. Side missions had a fall back checkpoint, ie you reach level 5 or 10 and if you die you get to start from that point next time.

You hit the nail though on why I love these games so much, they basically are just like playing with cars again when you were a kid. Another reason why IV let me down, huge lack of unlockable vechicles meant less excitement and reward.

Nah I mean straight-up VC.

Yeah I remember being in elementary school and drawing these massive maps of tanks and helicopters and cars and guys with guys all blowing the crap out of each other. This game is basically that, made hyper-real and hyper-violent.

The funniest bit is when I've stolen a cab and entered the mission, and I look for a fare, and it's the guy who's cab I've stolen.

I want to play more GTA after this, but I can't imagine them having the same appeal with the Miami-like setting, the beaches, the 80s malls, etc. I really like the world they've created for this. On the other hand, I'd like to see what they've done with newer tech. This game game out almost ten years ago!

san andreas is better,imo.tho vice city was more remarkable for its novelty. san andreas is more of the same really.

I can ride with either opinion. San Andreas was so large and immersive, you could spend hours exploring its world without playing a single mission. One night, I was climbing up Mount Shasta looking for Bigfoot when I heard this motor sound and suddenly, got knocked off the mountain by a biplane that had crashlanded in front of me. It was such a wild random moment that snapped me out of my zone, realizing that I had just spent three hours goofing off (I wasn't even high.)

But Vice City looks better. It has this sinister feel to it that SA doesn't have. I never got comfortable shooing gang members, but drug traffickers and tourists brought out my best in violence. That, and the soundtrack was better.

"Shooing gang members" -- "Hey! Get out of here, you Ballas! Shoo! Shoo! Don't make me use this!"

Lol

I really got into the ambulance missions yesterday, went through all 12 of them on the beach. The fugitive ones are great too, but I've only gotten up to level 4 before I get smashed to a million pieces by an army of cop cars and explode. But yeah those are just so much fun as well.

blue thunder missions, which are vigilante missions in the chopper, are incredible. you can basically rack up millions of dollar just by getting the crooks to spawn at the airport.