Customer Reviews
Classic Gaming - By: T. Clarke, 05 Nov 2006 
The Grand Theft Auto series seems to be something everyones played. And it would seem now that many gamers are still playing this classics, that have 'thankfully' been brought over to the xbox. Apart some smoother graphics, & quicker load times, the game keeps what made it so special - a whole world for you to explore. And its yours!
Yep, you don't even have to do the missions to enjoy GTA. Afterall, how many gamers can say they've never been with mates, & made up their own challenges? Whether it be.. "Who can make it across 'that' bridge on GTA 3" or "Who can shoot down the most police helicopters". The game just seems to go on, & you rarely get tired.
GTA III feels & looks alot more darker than Vice City, with it being setin present day,in the grim streets of Liberty City, where it rains, rains.. oh yeah, & the skies are grey! I think this adds to the atmosphere though. The controls are fairly simple, & missions are straight forward.
Vice City takes a different aproach at adding more story, & a whole new atmosphere, as the game takes placein a brihgt Miami Vice style island, where the sun always shines. In fairness, its a good change from GTA 3, & is good for the summer, whereas GTA3 has always been a winter game.
Both games have the same elements - weapons, cars of all types, crazy..crazy members of the public (even crazier on vice city!) & lots of what made it so popular - pure killing.
Got the baseball bat? You can just go & batter a shopper whos walking down the street. Or use a flame thrower to kill numbers of police officersin one go. Or get the shotgun to blow cars up with ease. Vice City improves on the weapons side with things like a Mini gun (its the opposite - a large gattling gun) or if your feeling even more rage, get yourself a machette, or a screwdriver. Or.. why not use the chainsaw, & watch the blood splatter on screen. Its pointless killing, yet incredibly fun - possibly because its so unreal.
The same goes with the AI - you look at the way people walk, & you just have to laugh. A fat guy will waddle slowly, yet if you shoot him, he'll run away as quick as lightening. Or shoot a sun bather on Vice City, & watch them flailing their arms about like kids. The speech is funny too, with some good quotes.
The transportation department is even better on Vice City too - with the help of bikes, mopeds, army tanks (available without the cheat at the army base) & of course my favourite.. the army helicopter! Its doesnt stop eitherm you can get ice cream vans, huge trucks, lorrys.. its endless, & so, so fun.
If their was ever a game you just to had to have on the PS2, it was GTA3. now, for a small price, you can get both games, with improvements, for the more powerful xbox. Ask yourself, is their any reason you shouldn't buy this?....
boring and hard - By: machineman9, 01 Jun 2006 
i couldnt even get past the first few levels & i can easily complete halo2 on legiondary with ease. very poor game, get san andreas, it is much better & worth the money
Grand Theft Auto : Vice City & Grand Theft Auto III - By: matt, 04 Mar 2005 GTA III
"You've been betrayed & left for dead. Now you're taking revenge, unless the city gets you first. Mob bosses need a favour, crooked cops need help & street gangs want you dead. You'll have to rob, steal & kill just to stay out of serious trouble."
"Anything can happen out there."
This is one of the two brilliant gamesin this double pack, & is set, of course,in New York. You have a mass load of freedom & can kill anyonein the street; therefore this game is an 18. But obviously this game isn't about killing random people with a variety of weapons; you can hijack mostly any car & go about for a drive.
This is the game engine was the first to convert GTA into 3D & was so popular that it wasn't just used for only GTA III & Vice City, but San Andreas also.
This GTA has a good storyline, but doesn't have the freedom of Vice City, therefore I shall not review this gamein much detail & will skip ahead to Vice City, & after you have read Vice City's review, you will just have to bearin mind that GTA III is similar just setin a different darker location, with worse graphics, but with a subway.
GTA: Vice City
"Vice city, a huge urban sprawl stretching from the beach to the swamps & glitz to the ghetto, a town brimming with delights & degradation"
Vice city, is of course, based on Miami, & this game has inspired the Grand Theft Auto series to expand, with San Andreas already out, & another GTA being created as you read this.
The freedom you getin this game is mainly, what made it so popular, the range of vehicles you can drive/pilot, also the amount of firearms & other weapons (with amazingly different types to try out on random civilians from Aks & uzis to screwdrivers & hammers), & finally the amount of properties you can purchase all add up to make this perfect 10 out of 10 game what it is.
You get hours of fun also from the missions set for Tommy Vercetti, the main character you control, which is all part of a brilliant storyline, the missions range from dropping off a women at a strip club, to destroying a building with a toy helicopter, also many missions included killing many people.
Vice City is huge for a video game, even if San Andreas is six times as big, & there is a noticeable differencein the islands. The first island, which includes Ocean Beach, Vice point, Washington Beach & Leaf Links, is the tourist island, including many hotels, night clubs, strip clubs, shops, etc, it even has a mall, & a golf course! Prawn Island has a film studio which you can purchase, Starfish Island is a rich island, with many mansions, & the last island, has an army base, airport, docks, a tatty Cuban gangster area called Little Haiti (which looks a bit like where your first home isin San Andreas), but north of Haiti lays downtown, with many skyscrapers, & a unattractive beach, but downtown also has the Hyman Memorial Stadium, the place where there is many races, & a dirt track.
The cars on offer, range from saloons, to sport cars, to super cars, jeeps, home-use trucks & SUVs, vans, service vehicles, limos, but a new instalment to the GTA world is motorbikes, including the legend called a PCJ-600 (based on a Ducati apparently, this bike is so popular it returnsin San Andreas) & a Sanchez (a dirt bike), & a freeway & angel (both based on Harley-Davidson bikes). There are also two planes including a sea skimmer (a plane that can land on the sea) & many types helicopters, with range from normal helicopters to Army helicopters, here are a few:
Maverick/Police Maverick (both are normal looking helicopters, the only change with the police version is the paint job)
News Maverick (which handles very differently to the other
Sea Sparrow (which comes with a machine gun attached)
Hunter (apache helicopter, with twin rocket launchers, & a Minigun.
All of these vehicles come with a brilliant collection of soundtracks from the 80's, these are put into groups, & put onto a radio, including rock (VROCK), pop (FLASH FM) etc. These radio stations don't just play songs, but are also the main way that rockstar used to input great jokes.
Allin all this game is of exceptional quality, & will keep you entertained for hours, another classic from Rockstar.
"Vice city, a huge urban sprawl stretching from the beach to the swamps & glitz to the ghetto, a town brimming with delights & degradation"
Vice city, is of course, based on Miami, & this game has inspired the Grand Theft Auto series to expand, with San Andreas already out, & another GTA being created as you read this.
The freedom you getin this game is mainly, what made it so popular, the range of vehicles you can drive/pilot, also the amount of firearms & other weapons (with amazingly different types to try out on random civilians from Aks & uzis to screwdrivers & hammers), & finally the amount of properties you can purchase all add up to make this perfect 10 out of 10 game what it is.
You get hours of fun also from the missions set for Tommy Vercetti, the main character you control, which is all part of a brilliant storyline, the missions range from dropping off a women at a strip club, to destroying a building with a toy helicopter, also many missions included killing many people.
Vice City is huge for a video game, even if San Andreas is six times as big, & there is a noticeable differencein the islands. The first island, which includes Ocean Beach, Vice point, Washington Beach & Leaf Links, is the tourist island, including many hotels, night clubs, strip clubs, shops, etc, it even has a mall, & a golf course! Prawn Island has a film studio which you can purchase, Starfish Island is a rich island, with many mansions, & the last island, has an army base, airport, docks, a tatty Cuban gangster area called Little Haiti (which looks a bit like where your first home isin San Andreas), but north of Haiti lays downtown, with many skyscrapers, & a unattractive beach, but downtown also has the Hyman Memorial Stadium, the place where there is many races, & a dirt track.
The cars on offer, range from saloons, to sport cars, to super cars, jeeps, home-use trucks & SUVs, vans, service vehicles, limos, but a new instalment to the GTA world is motorbikes, including the legend called a PCJ-600 (based on a Ducati apparently, this bike is so popular it returnsin San Andreas) & a Sanchez (a dirt bike), & a freeway & angel (both based on Harley-Davidson bikes). There are also two planes including a sea skimmer (a plane that can land on the sea) & many types helicopters, with range from normal helicopters to Army helicopters, here are a few:
Maverick/Police Maverick (both are normal looking helicopters, the only change with the police version is the paint job)
News Maverick (which handles very differently to the other
Sea Sparrow (which comes with a machine gun attached)
Hunter (apache helicopter, with twin rocket launchers, & a Minigun.
All of these vehicles come with a brilliant collection of soundtracks from the 80's, these are put into groups, & put onto a radio, including rock (VROCK), pop (FLASH FM) etc. These radio stations don't just play songs, but are also the main way that rockstar used to input great jokes.
Allin all this game is of exceptional quality, & will keep you entertained for hours, another classic from Rockstar.
Fine games but a disappointing conversion. - By: , 08 Sep 2004 
I bought this pack to replace my PS2 versions of the games which become scratched over time & I was expecting them to be superior to the original PS2 versions. However, the Xbox's controller is just not set up to handle these games as well as the dualshock does - the trigger can't seem to handle steady accelerations well & the drive by system is a mess. The graphics are clearer but suffer from reduced frame ratesin Vice City, especially when flying a helicopter low over water, & the lighting seems grainier than the PS2 version. I've also had trouble with the custom music freezing & stopping any radio station from playing, which is a moot point as I'd rather turn the music volume off & play the songs on my PC anyway.
Allin all, I'd say that if you own a PS2 & an Xbox, go for the PS2 version - a slight improvementin graphics & loading times aren't worth the poor controls & glitches. If you only own an Xbox then, despite it's flaws, this double pack will make a great addition to your games collection.
1 in my 5 top games - By: jk, 01 Sep 2004 this game is one of the greatest ever made it has opened a new world of gaming where you don't need to do missions if u dont want to rules do not apply to anything you do, this is about what no other game has done before but what they are now going to do. this is all about freedom & that is one of the main reasons i love this game (apart from the cars, killing, extremely funny, guns, helicopters, planes & of coure lets not forget the all famous JAINSAW)
