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AndrewGK
25 Aug 2002, 08:42 PM
I just stumbled onto this information on the EBgames.com website!
Details on GTA: Vice City ...

OMG this game is gonna be f***ing sweet. TWO MONTHS, and counting until it comes out on 10/21/02.

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Nine Full hours of 80's music featuring 90+ songs licensed from well
known artists (compare this to GTA3's three and a half hours).
Confirmed song tracks include:

Judas Priest, "You've got another thing coming"
GrandMaster Flash, "The Message"
Laura Branigan, "Self Control"
Kool and the Gang, "Summer Madness"
Flock of Seagulls, "I Ran"
Hall & Oats, "Out of Touch"
Cutting Crew, "I Just Died in Your Arms"

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Lazlow will be back

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More reflective surfaces on the vehicles including real time
shadowing from the environment.

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The whole of Vice City will be open to players from the start of the
game. Go where you want, when you want.

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Vice City is not a sequel, nor is it a prequel, and it certainly
isn't an addon. It's just another slice of the GTA "universe".

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The main characters name is Tommy.

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Your character finally speaks!

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There will be around 8000 individual voice overs (compared to GTA3's
2000)

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20 top Hollywood stars will fill out the cast.

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Vice City will be double the size of Liberty City both inside and
out. There will be many, many more multileveled interior environments
for you to explore. Missions will send you to both outdoor and indoor
locations.

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Vice City will include even more peds on the streets with more
lifelike behavior.

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Gangs are more intelligent and will cause trouble all over the city
so you won't be the only one the police will be hunting down.

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Graphical enhancements include higher framerate, higher resolution
textures, more complex vehicle and ped models with better skins, and
a new radiosity lighting system to make the neon look just right.

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New targeting system to make finding and shooting enemies even
easier. It will highlight targets based on "priority and not on
proximity". The new system also includes a new crosshair system that
shows you both the exact target and the bullet spray radius. The
crosshair will also change color to indicate the enemies threat
level.

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Vice City will include 40 weapons (compared to GTA3's 15), including
new hand to hand weapons like the machete.

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New maneuvers like crouching will help you make use of cover.

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A new camera system will lock the camera over your shoulder to make
both interior and exterior combat easier.

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A new HUD will show more information including your elevation above
ground (think large buildings with multiple floors).

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VC will include more complex missions that include a greater variety
of objectives. These new missions will ask more of you by melding
vehicle, outdoor and indoor combat all into one mission.

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New side missions including pizza delivery!

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The vehicle count has also been raised to 120 from GTA3's paltry
selection of only 50. Many of the vehicles are inspired by 80's
sports cars and yes, there will be motorcycles!

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You will be able to shoot out tires which will drastically affect the
vehicle physics.

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More boats have been added, and water based action has been revamped
as well with an all new physics system for boats.

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AndrewGK
25 Aug 2002, 09:18 PM
More stuff that I have found out:

At least FIFTY interior locations are in GTA:VC, including a bank, shopping mall, coffee house, nightclub, and an airport.

Allegedly when you go to Ammu-Nation, you will be able to rob the shop owner this time ;)

Legitimate navigable aircraft are in the game!! Including a M.A.S.H type chopper and a small Cessna-like plane called a Skimmer that has pontoons enabling it to land on the water.

Gangs will also engage in more complex behavior, beating down random passerbys, stealing cars, and getting into chases with police.

Cops aren't only chasing YOU. They might be going after OTHERS in Vice City

Using the new RenderWare engine and some other modifications, they have been able to improve the graphical presentation of the game, textures run at a higher resolution, and the framerate appears to be have been increased as well.

Visit this website also for some COOL screenshots.

http://www.russnetwork.com/gtavice.html

Super Hamatachi redded
26 Aug 2002, 03:32 AM
I can't wait any longer!!! bring it on now!!!

Originally posted by SoccerAndy5
More stuff that I have found out:

At least FIFTY interior locations are in GTA:VC, including a bank, shopping mall, coffee house, nightclub, and an airport.

Allegedly when you go to Ammu-Nation, you will be able to rob the shop owner this time ;)

Legitimate navigable aircraft are in the game!! Including a M.A.S.H type chopper and a small Cessna-like plane called a Skimmer that has pontoons enabling it to land on the water.

Gangs will also engage in more complex behavior, beating down random passerbys, stealing cars, and getting into chases with police.

Cops aren't only chasing YOU. They might be going after OTHERS in Vice City



YES!!!! The best game is just getting better!!

AndrewGK
26 Aug 2002, 09:53 AM
Originally posted by Super Hamatachi
I can't wait any longer!!! bring it on now!!!

YES!!!! The best game is just getting better!!

My wife thought I was freaking out last night. She's upstairs watching TV and I'm in the basement (my "office" as I like to call it) and I'm literally "oohing and aahing" over the details about GTA:VC.

I can't believe that there could be anything BETTER than GTA3, but it seems as if ViceCity will be an INCREDIBLE game. A better targeting system (the only REALLY bad thing about GTA3 was the crap targeting) ... motorcycles.... aerial vehicles that you can actuallly freaking FLY without too much trouble... being able to go indoors....

I'm beyond geeked for this game.

sinner78
26 Aug 2002, 01:18 PM
Is this game going to be available for the Playstation 2??

Its only seems like a short while since the last game came out .

AndrewGK
26 Aug 2002, 01:28 PM
Originally posted by sinner_ronald_monk
Is this game going to be available for the Playstation 2??

Its only seems like a short while since the last game came out .

It IS for the PS2 :)

MetrosSoccaFan10
26 Aug 2002, 04:28 PM
Andy, this is the worst thread in the history of BigSoccer. Now I can't wait to get this game...

Super Hamatachi redded
26 Aug 2002, 04:30 PM
Originally posted by MetrosSoccaFan10
Andy, this is the worst thread in the history of BigSoccer. Now I can't wait to get this game...

i agree

AndrewGK
26 Aug 2002, 04:46 PM
Originally posted by MetrosSoccaFan10
Andy, this is the worst thread in the history of BigSoccer. Now I can't wait to get this game...

Coming from someone with the possibly worst team in MLS ;)

Super Hamatachi redded
29 Aug 2002, 01:36 AM
we still have one and half month to wait. damn

atkins71
29 Aug 2002, 04:47 PM
if there is a god, you would these tracks in the game

warren g- regulate
suger hill gang- rappers delight

AndrewGK
29 Aug 2002, 07:38 PM
Originally posted by atkins71
if there is a god, you would these tracks in the game

warren g- regulate
suger hill gang- rappers delight

Being that this is an 80's style game, it WOULD be cool to see Rapper's Delight in the game.

Just probably not the 14 minute version of the song :p

WAR Sugar Hill Gang
WAR Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
WAR Kurtis Blow
WAR Old Skool Rap

AndrewGK
30 Aug 2002, 12:21 AM
ps2.ign.com has a new "preview" of GTA:VC out .... here the the link (http://ps2.ign.com/articles/369/369155p1.html)...

A mention of some of the new "characters" you will interact with in the game... and the mention of *drool* a chainsaw as one of the weapons.

AndrewGK
30 Aug 2002, 12:52 AM
Rockstar has an official web site (http://www.rockstargames.com/vicecity/) for Grand Theft Auto - Vice City now, FYI.

Screenshots included.

sinner78
30 Aug 2002, 05:49 AM
Originally posted by SoccerAndy5
ps2.ign.com has a new "preview" of GTA:VC out .... here the the link (http://ps2.ign.com/articles/369/369155p1.html)...

A mention of some of the new "characters" you will interact with in the game... and the mention of *drool* a chainsaw as one of the weapons.

A chainsaw??
looks like they've been watching films like Scarface to get idea's for the game.

I didn;t realise it was coming out until i saw this thread .Now I cant wait till it comes out .
I never got around to finishing the last game either .I've only done about 57% of the last game .I completed all the gang related missions but I aint done most of rampages ,unique jumps ,etc....

Ted Cikowski
30 Aug 2002, 12:22 PM
by the way, Vice City is actually.....Miami, Florida and Rockstar employed my former work place to film certain parts of the city for the game.

JRedknapp11
30 Aug 2002, 09:38 PM
How cool ... now I can run from the FBI in a golf cart. I can hardly wait for this thing to come out.


This game better come with a box of tissues.

AndrewGK
30 Aug 2002, 09:59 PM
Originally posted by JRedknapp11
How cool ... now I can run from the FBI in a golf cart. I can hardly wait for this thing to come out.


This game better come with a box of tissues.

The challenge, of course, being HOW LONG you can last (timed in seconds) you can last running from FBI cars, with you in a golf cart ;)

Super Hamatachi redded
31 Aug 2002, 04:53 AM
Originally posted by JRedknapp11
How cool ... now I can run from the FBI in a golf cart.

good luck

Super Hamatachi redded
31 Aug 2002, 04:57 AM
btw, if you might ever want to know what yakuzas are saying on street, just ask me.