Runs Better On The Switch.

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The last time I played Vice City all the way through was at release, over 20 years ago. It was a GTA that I loved, but it never really had an impact on me. For people like me, in their thirties now, it was the GTA that came between what was most likely your first ( in GTA III ) and San Andreas. It was our first big experience with truly being excited for a big release. I distinctly remember calling my friend up on our house phone whenever a new tid-bit would come out in a magazine, like, ''Omg did you see Gamesmaster said that Vice City is gonna let you change your clothes?? And it has a KATANA??? And it has MOTORBIKES?!!''. It was really a time of just pure excitement.

But now I'm in my thirties and I'm a tad bit more objective, and I still love this game, but for different reasons.

Vice does a weird thing in the middle. You've come to Vice City as Tommy, you're trying to make up for a deal gone wrong, and you've killed Diaz. Now you're stuck in [as I see it] the only true Crime simulator that the GTA series has ever offered us. You can have literally nothing on your minimap, but no way to progress in the story, because your mission is to just make money through expanding your criminal empire via buying local business and laundering your cash through them.

It's really unique, and even now, 20+ years later, no other game has done something like it. Granted, each business only has a 2/3 mission arc, but hey, we are talking about a 20+ year old game here.

My biggest takeaway here is that if Rockstar are modelling GTA VI after Vice City's style of campaign, it could be a very sprawling crime simulator indeed. But only time will tell on that one.

For now, this is a great port of an iconic game. On to San Andreas next!