"The shop consists of broad-shouldered young men in bright hats and ask them to carefully merchant, every month, would pay them, young people in the bright hats and gifts. Then they will try to reduce the tax which pays the merchant the government. If the trader does not agree, young people take out machine guns and made to shoot at the counter. Then the dealer agrees. This - racketeering. Then come other young people and politely ask the dealer to pay tribute to them for what they deliver him from the first young people. And also shoot at the counter. This is also a racket. "
Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov, "Single storey America
 | |  | Scribbling with wheels like simpler: the left Shift - Aim Left, Right Shift - to the right. Range - shooting. The motorcycle is good that, sidyuchi on it, you can shoot more and go ahead. | | Sometimes you just want taxied onto the embankment and the sunrise, listening to any radio Emotion 98.3. In the soundtrack, by the way he lit up Phil K. (Collins, of course). And, incidentally, not only in the soundtrack ... |
A small cultural and linguistic background: Vice City from the English translated as "city of vice." In America, a nickname earned Las Vegas, but Vice City, referred to in games from Rockstar, «decommissioned" from Miami. So, while in Moscow fells long-awaited snow, we enjoy a mild sub-tropical climate on the ocean coast. Although our hero, Victor Vance, and kicked out of Army in disgrace, it will not prevent him to restore the good name, working in the ambulance or in the police under the palms Little Havana.
Believe that all will be so? Formally, of course, I do not lie, but those of you who are familiar with the TV series Grand Theft Auto, is well aware that a career police officer in the City of Vice is unthinkable. That's become the head of the criminal empire - is another matter! True, will begin running for moonshiners and other "white trash". The script, as always, lets do some missions in any order, but although storyline sometimes grow in parallel, you still have to go through all. Developers, after all, a lot of nasnimali rollers on the engine, and they are very offended if you do not see at least one of them.
However, there is another reason. Vice City Stories - only one episode in an epic crime drama, which is a whole series Grand Theft Auto. More precisely, the play tells the story of the events preceding the adventures of Tommy Verchetti, while in Vice City for PlayStation 2 a lot of references to events in Vice City Stories. You understand that if you allow the player to choose which way to go through the story, the connection of global history will fly to the devil, as a forklift after the explosion in stock counterfeit booze (yes, there in Vice City Stories, and such a mission!). So do not rock the boat, comrades, especially since the job, whatever you say, interesting, diverse, and some of them - they are too.
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Multiplayer game has been enriched by the new regime.In Tanks for Memories players tend to race to seize a tank, or to inflict the greatest damage to become the next tanker. Might of the Hunter recalled the same "tank" mode, only with a helicopter. Empire Takedown allows you to do the destruction of real opponents. From Liberty City Stories moved the race for Checkpoint on different modes of transport, the battle "all against one" and "all against all", as well as the entertainment team to take over / destroy enemy vehicles. " And you know, the multiplayer is good at least because it allows us to change the boring bald Vick on ponytails Beauty Candy Barr, a police cap or hat of fire, and even play for one of the villains. We tested some of these regimes in the wording, but although the gameplay is generally quite good, we have some reason every now and then straining relationship after the first "frags".
 | |  | On the peaceful citizens avtopritselivanie works well. In the heat of the shooting - not always. To aim manually - a special torment. | | On the map, accessible from the main menu, you can put a label that will appear on the radar (yes, like in Shenmue). Easy! |
Tales And yet I am sorry that you can not choose lesser of two evils - for example, shoot reptile Marty Williams as soon as he offers to do the hero racket, they say, temporal paradox! However, a little farther downstream plot Vick still have to knock mustache racketeer brains and take control of its illegal business: a second-class houses and public office to provide "racketeering services in the second level (see the description of" other young people "in the epigraph). The catch is that "the first young people" not very happy that you are hindering them from engaging in the business. How can that be? Read the book of Dale Carnegie "How to Influence People"? Of course not - grabbing a gun and jump in the car. By the way, next to your institutions always stagger the dregs of society from which we can quickly put together an impromptu band and go to one of the low places, is "okuchennyh" competing factions. Nagryanuv a visit to a fat biker, was surprised to find in the office desks and photocopiers. It turns out, two-wheeled bearded also no stranger to business ... however, this facility will soon be closed due to the sudden violent death of all staff, and then will re-open already under our flag (and become, in particular, additional space saving game and a source of new missions). For trapped hut, you can choose the profile of activities, as well as the scope of the enterprise. Opening a three-star brothel would cost more than prostetskogo "massage parlor", but revenue it will bring more.
 | |  | Work taxi driver is full of surprises. Not only have to haul passengers at the airport or shopping, but also to prosecute or, conversely, help the criminals to escape from his pursuers. | | Vic gets a new outfit, developing their business and doing some missions. Only here the usual jeans will still go to him most. Just look: yellow jacket, red shirt and black gun. Sasha and Tasha would be horrified! |
Bulldozers On what to spend such denzhischi? Certainly not on the cars and weapons.Of course, the car and weapon shops in the game there, but who will use them when the shotgun - a weapon of winners - austere lying in the back of Trailer Town, and in each lane among the debris there, if not bullet-proof vest, then certainly a submachine gun. Mark them on a big beautiful map, which lies in a box with the game, and you can forget the address of the dealer trunks once and for all.
The same with cars. They, you know, go through the streets, and some awards are at the houses. Borrowed bike in the same trailer town, you can ride along the promenade and put the eye at least for an ambulance, though on a police cabriolet, at least for "pozharku with flashing lights, at least for a bulldozer (not to mention our favorite last year-end loader). All machines municipal services have good speed and very strong - even necessary?
Of course, the side missions - and they are. Click "up" on the cross and instead of being a bandit ... from turning into a bandit ... a law-abiding worker. Laboring patrol, eliminate criminals in the emergency gathering of patients, which makes the fire, I think, too, no need to explain. How long custom, as you progress through the story of the game opens up new territory, giving access to a day job in the Coast Guard (by boat) and the air ambulance (helicopter). Having all the missions for someone from the rescue, we get a special bonus and precious protsentiki execution.
 | |  | In the city a lot of shops, winks blue arrows. You come and buy something and nothing. | | Law GTA is simple: White men can't swim. "White can not swim." And here is Victor Vance - can! |
Buggy Buy cars more profitable and for this reason - in Vice City Stories is working "matrix effect". Every time you enter or runs into another pink column, signifying the beginning of the next mission, it is loading, and the place where you stood, "formatted". In other words, the action seems to be happening there, but the "figures" are already placed in another way - so do not be surprised if on-site abandoned the motorcycle will be waiting car. Most worryingly, it is sometimes "formatted" and a garage (although who knows - maybe the machine out of it just steal). But the car, abandoned in arbitrary, "nestsenarnyh" places can stand there very long.
It must be said that technically the game is "grown up" compared to the Liberty City Stories - deep drawing of the landscape has increased, and the effect of "popping scenery" almost defeated. However, the absolute "bezbazhnosti" not been achieved. Inhabit forums warn about lockups, logical and physical errors. I witnessed how the game is tight fell into a black screen (though only once). And in one of the missions was something wrong with his brother Vic Vance - at first he did not want to get into the car and generally behaved like a zombie (a drug addict, that he had had to take) and then stuck to his waist in the roof of the building, where they Vick will script hopped on a motorcycle. Artificial intelligence fails time and again - comes to the fact that the hero often can not get right the first time in the car door. Enemies continually running nose into the wall instead of around obstacles. You can, of course, that the authors consider as a joke - they say that Americans drive their cars so much that some have forgotten how to walk. And indeed: the wheel of the inhabitants of Vice City feel more confident, but there are punctures, such as police cars in the heat of the chase is dumped on the road the roof down. But still here the old trick of using prostitutes as nurses. The system of targeting and the camera work, too, in the tradition of the series - and yes even multiplied by the lack of shift knobs and analog on the PSP.Frankly, if in Vice City Stories came back "from the top chamber, as in the first two GTA, - it was used much more convenient. In the end, the game is something about the eighties.
| Himself, DJ |
At the time of this writing, the program Rockstar Custom Tracks, designed to convert tracks of audio-CD format "urban radio", officially supports only GTA: Liberty City Stories. However, this restriction is easily overcome: just write to a memory card preservation of GTA: LCS (saves can be found, for example, here: http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/psp/save/925776.html). Start the Rockstar Custom Tracks (program take on Rockstar website under Downloads), connect to your computer PSP, insert an audio CD, select a track, start the conversion. After completion of the card in the PSP Section PSP / SAVEDATA folder appears with the name ending in CUSTOMTRACKS. Rename the folder to ULES00502CUSTOMTRACKS (first nine characters take root in packaging the game) and listen to your favorite music in all wheelbarrows Vice City (you have to go to the section «Audio» in the game menu and switch on the «Custom soundtracks»). The choice of the author - the soundtrack to "vangera!
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