One thing that made me HATE Vice City

[MyDog]

No, in III you couldn't crouch, but who wanted to do that anyway? Most useless feature ever, apart from slowing you down, I don't think it does anything.

Well, they put crouching so you can take cover, sneak in SA (yes, try that out in Madd Dogg's Rhymes and Home Invasion, it works) so it's not 100% useless feature.

 

But only in VC it IS pretty useless.

[The Hero]

That's what I'm saying. Since there is no occasion in Vice city in which you would need to sneak, crouching is very useless.

[Sanjeem]

That's what I'm saying. Since there is no occasion in Vice city in which you would need to sneak, crouching is very useless.

Yeah they Probably put it in for the Sake of it. In IV it's excelent.

[Punk-in-Drublic]

Giving the fact that it came out in 2002, it was excellent for a game then, I remember playing it on the day it came out in 02 and it was the dogs bollocks, never looked back since, excellent game, always will be the best.

 

Wheres flicko when you need him?

[Killer783]

Maybe the animations were clunky but what can you expect from a game that took 9 months to make.Plus crouching improves your aim.

[Heihachi_73]

The only aiming that was improved by crouching was the M4 in first person view, or at least for all of the weapons I tried. Strangely the M4 didn't go haywire while standing in normal third person view. It's only in San Andreas where every weapon becomes easier to fire while crouching.

[Spuds725]

Use for crouching--

 

Headshots... go in Malibu, get on stage with the village people, enable M-4, crouch... spray the crowd with bullets keeping your aim horizontal.... you are at the perfect height for headshots.

 

I'm sure VC was in development before III was released...

Edited August 30, 2009 by Spuds725

[Sanjeem]

'Eres another reason That i Dislike about Vice City. It's That their is no Free aim. Don't get me wrong it's my favourite GTA Game, But there was no free aim. The PC had free aim as Did III on PC, But not on PS2. That was frustrating say if a chopper was killing me, i can't raise my UZI or Shotgun up to shoot it.

 

Apart from that, VCS had free aim. I love the Game anyway, But I think VCS mabey on the Tip of becoming my Favourite.

[Heihachi_73]

Here's another one from 10 minutes ago:

 

Running out of time on a Vigilante mission due to a lack of police cars to drive.

 

I had 2 stars up and the criminals decide blow up my car with a shotgun. Fair enough, now why do I run out of time trying to find a police car while right outside the back of the police station in Washington Beach? There are two police cars parked there all the time, but of course this time, they're both locked. Fair enough, I still have 46 seconds for one or two to spawn as usual... 30 seconds later, I am still shooting up cars and people waiting for a police vehicle to appear. Where on earth are the usual police that chase you when you have 2 stars, the local Rusty Brown's?! I even managed to get 3 stars up with 13 seconds left and the only thing which appeared was the helicopter. Time up!

 

Bear in mind that I had over 17 minutes to take out the other car. However, the game only gives you 60 seconds to find another police vehicle if you leave your car behind. 60 seconds is by far enough time to drive to the other police station in Vice Point (even in the criminal's beaten up Regina station wagon), but to not have a single cop spawn whatsoever with 2-3 stars up is a bit stupid!

 

@ Samjeem: Using free aim with an Uzi or shotgun to take out the helicopter is futile in Vice City; the only weapons which can take down a chopper with less than 300-or-so shots is the one-shot rocket launcher or the two sniper rifles. Strangely though, shooting the helicopter with the Rhino's rockets doesn't even work; the Hunter's rockets make light work of the police heli.

[Beamer9620]

But you need to remember the game is 7 years old and has aged really well. I don't think the running is bad and there is nothing wrong with it. But as spuds said if you don't like the way he runs don't play it. As for me vice city is my favorite gta and will always will be.

GTA III is 8 years old and has miles better animations.

gta 3's and gta vc's animations rock (IMO)

[Heihachi_73]

One Vice City animation is much better than its GTA3 counterpart. When you strafe left/right quickly in GTA3 ('keyboard' style controls), you actually end up walking in the opposite direction if you tap it.

Secondly, Tommy always rolls and gets up instead of doing a face plant, and when you jump when right in front of a wall or something, he doesn't sit there waving his arms around while stepping backwards for 2 seconds like a moron (but strangely the CPU still does).