Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (PS2)

Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories is an action game for the Playstation 2 developed by Rockstar Games. The game follows a new character Vic Vance who works for the army and his corrupt commanding officer Martinez who keeps asking you to perform questionable actions which eventually gets you discharged from the army and sent back into to Vice City where you meet up with your brother Lance Vance (pioneer of the famous Lance Vance Dance!) who does return to the series from the original GTA Vice City. The story then follows the brothers rise to power in Vice City and features many amusing characters to work for and to converse with. The Grand Theft ...  Read the complete review

This has to be one of the best Grand Theft Auto games released. The landscape/graphics are fantastic, there's a great range of cars (plus motorbikes, jet skiis, helicopters, fire engines, you name it...!) and the missions are all entertaining. Missions are generally pitched at about the right level of difficulty - ie you'll struggle at first but none are so impossible that you'll get bored of trying over and over again and give up. One of my favourite features is the side mission of building up an empire. This involves taking over rival gangs empire sites and then completing several mini tasks to establish your reputation in things such as robbery, ...  Read the complete review

People often claim that San Andreas is by far the best game in the GTA series so far, however Vice City Stories was and remains my favourite game of all time. I dont know what it is about the game, maybe its the realistic structure of Vice City mixed with the awesome missions, realistic escape from the cops and fun adventures to go on. My favourite part in the game was secretly making my way to the other island early. You are not meant to be able to go to the other island without completing a certain number of missions however I grabbed a lorry, drove it next to the closed gates and jumped over the side, just knowing id escaped the dullness of being in Vice ...  Read the complete review