Beautiful game, this one has a lot of innovation that is often overlooked or attributed to the games after it sadly, and it's kinda understandable it being a PS exclusive when next gen was rolling around but this game still needs the credit it deserves. I didn't knew Golf originated in this, I thought it was in V! But it's also in TBOGT! TBOGT is kinda in the same boat with VCS on this as it laid out a lot of the foundations for V (tho you can argue in some aspects V is a flanderization of what TBOGT laid out), anyway, 80s atmosphere, Phil Collins mission fucking rules, Reni is so entertaining, everyone's a weirdo as always, Vic and Louise's relationship was wonderful and a rare moment of something like that in a GTA game (let alone an actual onscreen baby), it's good to see more Lance. It's just a great game and it was awesome to be in the Vice City 80s atmosphere again. I'll say this, I appreciate swimming being here but the way it's utilized sucks, its so easy to run out of breath and die you might as well not bother (I guess that's why they only put it in the first mission), also you can tell Vice City map was never designed with swimming in mind, even the one edited for VCS here. Pretty irony considering Miami and all. Also it's amazing how VCS improved on so much from LCS, for instance a lot of cutscenes in LCS had to be split between ingame and mocap, meanwhile almost all VCS scenes are mocap, nice!

Either way, this is one you gotta play if you love GTA.

Reviewed on Sep 10, 2023


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