Mar 21, 2018 10:08 PM
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(Updated Mar 26, 2018 01:30 PM)
I still really love this game even after all these years the 1980s setting of this game seems to stay in my brain.
The story of this game is simple you get betrayed in a deal at the start of the game and lose all your money and drugs after that you complete missions for various criminals and shady people who need favors done. You unlock new weapons, outfits, and safe houses(there even is a mansion in the game that you later unlock after a mission that is inspired by the 1983 Al Pachino crime movie Scarface). you progress through the game's story by completing missions in the game. The missions in the game are all generally good except for a handful of them which are really hard and sadly important to progress in the game's story e.g. there is one mission where you have to save your buddy who is being tortured by some gangsters and who will die if you don't help him. The problem with this mission is that it has a timer and if it runs out your buddy will die and the mission will fail even if you do manage to fight all the gangsters who are in the way of your buddy then you have to get your buddy safely to the hospital in a vehicle without him being killed by gangsters who now chase you in super fast sports cars and will usually ram in to your car at very high speeds which will cause you to spin out or if they damage you car enough will cause your car to explode what is worse is during missions the game does not save you can only save the game at your safe house WHEN NOT ON A MISSION! this can be a really big problem in this mission because not only is this mission hard but also very annoyingly longer than other missions in the game's story.
Fortunately for me, I overlooked the games hard missions and took it as a challenge to complete them, as once such a mission is completed the feeling of accomplishment is indefinite after this I went back to roam and drive through the beautiful streets of Vice City(which are based on the real-life Miami in Florida, USA) listening to 80s hit pop songs on the radio as the music is really one of the reasons the game is so good and also for me is the beautiful neon lighting of ocean view drive a location in the game all of this really brings the 80s feel to the game.
The weapons in this game are also quite big with different types of shotguns' SMG's assault rifle's and even heavy weapons like a handheld minigun and rocket launcher which are the most fun to use weapons in the game.
I also like how rewarding the game is as almost for completing every side mission or story mission you get a nice reward which is good as that was the driving force for me to keep trying that even if I failed a mission to try again as I know that I surely can expect a nice reward after completing the mission.
Rewards can be like new guns being unlocked at local city gun stores it can be new outfits or a simple reward of money which is the most common reward which you get for completing a mission or side mission.
The open world of the game is what I like the most like other GTA games in the series you can do anything you like in the city. Fight gangs, cause police chases, rob stores, or just blow up everyone in the city up with a rocket launcher.
While the game is quite good it has a few problems
The game has a tendency to crash at random times which is a big problem as the game does not have auto-save you have to go to to your safe house to save your game which means if the game crashed and you did not save your progress till that point you lost all your progress.
This game has a bug that causes your mouse to not work at all fortunately if searched online there is a simple solution that easily fixes this bug so it's not a hassle more of an annoyance.
The graphics of the game have not aged well as this is an old game for that online there are many graphics mods that can make the graphics of the game look better and perhaps even the best.
The game does not officially have multi-player(however there is a multi-player mod for the GTA series called Multi Theft Auto which allows you to play GTA 3, Vice City, and San Andreas online.)
In conclusion, this game is still great and is a must buy while the game is hard it also rewards the player in great ways that makes it really fun than a grind to play also the game's problems are mostly easy to fix as mentioned above.
