That likely because so few people have played it. It went under a lot of people's radars because it was a psp game and it's ps2 port was pretty late in the consoles life span.
It's nice to see a well-articulated, young RUclipsr playing these older games and fairly critiquing them. I'm an early 30s old man still playing old GTAs, and despite the struggle, I love 'em.
The first GTA game I achieved 100% completion in. I loved how one ofnthe rewards was the ability to rewatch all cutscenes back on Victor's TV at his hotel safehouse. Awesome feature. Awesome game.
Playing both LCS and VCS on the psp is still novel to me. Just like what they're doing now, running gta 3 on the dreamcast, it feels like a miracle that it just works.
Vcs was very underrated even though the story, soundtrack and the business empire mechanics were the best things about it, but sadly it was forgotten because it was the last 3d gta game on ps2 near the end of it's life cycle, for the business raids the only way to fix it is by saving your game and reloading that save, it will reset your retaliation bar with whatever gang that you took the business from.
I remember playing this on my PS2 when i had no school on weekends, in the early morning. The music, the story, the city and the beautiful sunshine of the game you describe in the video is giving me a lot of nostalgia 😪
Saw this game on my friends PSP and was blown away. Same day I asked my mom to take me to the store and the had a ps2 version of it. Still have it with the manual (Manual is the old magazine with Marty on the front of it lol) I wish rockstar would have made it possible to play on modern hardware.
I just beat this again like a week ago. It holds up very well. Great soundtrack, and gameplay, but the game was slept on as a PSP title and secret PS2 title. It never got the recognition it deserved.
The best thing about the Empire building aspect in this game, is that after you complete a certain amount of asset missions in the Empire Building, you automatically get paid at a certain time in the game, because annoyingly in the Original Vice City and San Andreas, after you complete the asset missions, you have to drive by each day just to pick up the the payout, or in San Andreas, you have to to run by Zero’s store just to get the payout, and annoyingly if your in Las Ventures, it feels like a complete waste of time to drive all the way to San Ferro just to get the payout and drive all the way back. I guess the developers realized that it was stupid for the player to drive to a certain location just to receive the payout, when the player could automatically get paid at a certain time without driving to a location.
I'm still a firm believer that this game is way better than LCS due to the amount of stuff Rockstar expanded upon like the business feature and the unique melee system that can't be found in other games. And to this day, this is still the only GTA game where you can grab NPCs or snap their necks. However tho, I still hate the boomshine mission from Phil and the "Hose the Hoes" mission from Louise. I know the aim in this game isn't perfect, but man...that firefighter mission from Louise just sucked..
4:50 You're playing the PSP version which originally didn't have 2 analogs same with LCS. Meaning you couldn't use the camera as normal GTA scheme. The PS2 version however improves the controls by letting you use the second analog
it's awesome that a young person is experiencing old video games wish more younger people would play these games and understand how we played these games and how they are gold to us
I love VCS I am playing it on PC rn as well, emulated the PS2 version btw you probably had the PSP version because on the PS2 version you can actually use your right analog stick to move the camera 😅
In the PS2 version, if you fail a mission, you could get in a cab which takes you back to where your previous mission was, then it used the skip trip feature, first used in San Andreas.
I think VCS has a lot more of an 80s vibe than VC and the city also looks a lot better. For whatever reason; Vice City looked really overcast and drab in VC, but it looks very sunny and vibrant in VCS. I just found it to be a more enjoyable gang that was better paced. Like in VC you start off in Vice Beach which is the wealthier and more interesting part of the city, but you open up Vice City itself which is kinda "meh" in comparison. In this game it's the opposite which shows you're moving up. Also the drug dealing and smuggling missions were relatively unique and less repetitive than the pimping and extortion missions.
Lol if u think about GTA: Vice City's Graphics, it's just GTA 3 but with a 80s Filter tho haha and ofc Technology improved later 4 years after 2002, that's why they got it right, Eighties-ish up VCS more😎🌅
Vic Vance is my favourite GTA protagonist. Vice City Stories is amazing mechanically and with it's ambience. While I love it, I feel bittersweet for it being a prequel and knowing what happens to to Vic by the end 2 years later.
i agree with the difficulty while driving in vehicles or the fork lift mission, but i love the difficulty on foot it encouraged me to just buy the regular sniper rifle and take all the NPC out from a distance. you can hold L1 or L2 (whatever you program it to be) to slow down the aim so it wont fling everywhere and that makes sniping way easier. since they cant lock on at sniper distance that means you can pick most of them off while 1 or 2 might get close enough to damage your health but usually they are easy to take out since snipers in vice city games are a 1 hit kill by default.
I love this game, finished it first on PSP in 2015 I think, then again on PSP emulator this year actually. I share the same opinions as you about the game, it's the hardest from the GTA 3D universe, the city is improved compared to the original Vice City (it came out 4 years later so it makes sense that they have improved it). As far as the soundtrack, it's another good selection of 80s songs but nothing compares to the OG Vice City. It's a good game but now it's stuck in limbo either on PS2 or PSP because they never re-released it probably because they don't want to pay for song licensing again. Can't buy it officially anywhere anymore.
There is a mod where you can actually use mouse and keyboard off the PSP emulator version. I am playing it right now, so far it works nicely. You can roam the camera in a vehicle as well!
Ayy cool you went way back to old ass games I remember playing when they were new. Just wondering how long it took to grow out those dreads, doooood? Not longer then my older sister's body count, right my man?
Good video. This is my favorite 3D era GTA (and 2nd favorite overall), and I get your frustrations, it's janky as all hell, specially on the PSP. If you're able, give the PS2 version a go. Besides better controls, the neons just pop even more, so it's even more of a mood. A few things to note: - It's Louise, with an "E" - Vic Vance is the older brother. He is the shortest, so you calling him Lance's "little brother" still works, tho - There is a Lifeguard mission on the beach with 3 variations, just hop into the red BF Injection. Besides that, the beach still pretty useless - To stop the gang attacks in your empire, just save and reload. Hate to do that, but it works
I had to beat this game with cheats in 2006 (I was 6 lol) I had all my cheats wrote on a piece of paper. Very hard game and a very underrated game in the best era gaming, dig the video man!
This game is great, but I think the tone is a bit off. It feels like a midpoint between laid back Vice City and gritty IV. The story is tragic and the characters are mostly unpleasant but there is escapist empire building and wacky 80's nonsense. Rockstar is usually very good about that kind of juxtaposition.
For what I mostly Love about Vice City Stories, on how they developed it... it wasn't just a 100% Copy & Pasted GTA III, VC in terms of Content and Features, which imo what LCS failed to do... Imagine if Swimming wasn't featured in VCS, and having San Andreas the only 3D Game to swim, that'll ruined the Game for me🤮 VCS was trying to be different and have everything Unique for the Game's anesthetic, especially implementing a Real Singer Celebrity like Phil Collins to play as himself in a 80s based game??? Imo Vice City Stories not only deserve more Love, but it should've gotten San Andreas's Level of Popularity... Despite some Flaws and Glitches, it was still Perfect game to be the Last Released 3D Game💯❤
It's really rare to see such niche content be made by black youtube, you're playing the games i grew up with and fairly critiquing them and i'm in love with it. must watch all your vids from now on. recommendations: scarface: the world is yours ps2 manhunt 1 the warriors mark ecko's getting up
The reason why you need to use 2 button to move the camera is because the emulator you are using is the PSP emulator not the PS2 version, the PSP has less buttons then a PS2 controller and that is how we have to move the camera if we play on the PSP but luckily even if you use the PSP emulator you can fix this issue in 1 minute but it seems like you were unaware of this at the time of playing which is sad and it made your experience worse, but at least now you are aware of this if you decide to replay the games in the future.
if the PSP had a right hand analog stick i think it’d be the greatest handheld console of all time this is a wonderful game but i still find it hard to replay games without mission checkpoints
Hi man im watching all the way from South Africa this is first video i watch of u and its great intro great talking u deserve a sub can u maybe do a review of the suffering 1 2004 and the suffering ties that bind 2005 its a horror game on pc
The raids do stop once you own all 30 businesses. If you keep getting raided, just save and reload your game and the attacks on your businesses will stop.
Also you must've been emulating the psp version because last time I checked you can move the camera with the right analogue stick on the PS2 version not the psp I know this because I just played it 2 days ago
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This game is seriously underrated.
Indeed…
Mind saying it a lil louder I don't think they heard you in Cuba lol
@@yamato126 THIS GAME IS UNDERRATED! :)
Facts
That likely because so few people have played it. It went under a lot of people's radars because it was a psp game and it's ps2 port was pretty late in the consoles life span.
The coolest thing about this game is that you can buy property around Vice City just like in San Andreas and the original Vice City
Idk why they decided to only let CJ buy houses, even tho Rockstar were still giving the "gang profits" for owning the properties
@@Analog-to-digital-cotinual Tommy was able to buy houses tho, but they were useless & had no interiors.
@sadmankhan9630 Glorified save points but yeah i think the ps2 would have struggled trying to load all those interiors
It's nice to see a well-articulated, young RUclipsr playing these older games and fairly critiquing them. I'm an early 30s old man still playing old GTAs, and despite the struggle, I love 'em.
appreciate it man
Finally , someone who is calm during a review instead of fast pacing editing and dumb jokes.
Also dirty stuff as well ^_^
I guess it is hard to find someone like that nowadays
The first GTA game I achieved 100% completion in. I loved how one ofnthe rewards was the ability to rewatch all cutscenes back on Victor's TV at his hotel safehouse. Awesome feature. Awesome game.
VCS story is also underrated. Probably top 5
" I"m a long way from being a good guy"
GTA VCS was my first GTA game and holds a special place in my heart I hope GTA 6 has some references to VCS
Playing both LCS and VCS on the psp is still novel to me. Just like what they're doing now, running gta 3 on the dreamcast, it feels like a miracle that it just works.
That’s how I felt when I started playing Red Dead Redemption on the Switch
And the detail from 2002 vs 2006 VCS big difference
Vcs was very underrated even though the story, soundtrack and the business empire mechanics were the best things about it, but sadly it was forgotten because it was the last 3d gta game on ps2 near the end of it's life cycle, for the business raids the only way to fix it is by saving your game and reloading that save, it will reset your retaliation bar with whatever gang that you took the business from.
I never had a PSP. I only played this game on PS2. Absolutely excellent
PS2 version got a bunch of extra missions.
VCS was the only game I had beaten on a PSP. Thankfully, I bought the PS2 version off the PS3 store before it was removed.
I remember playing this on my PS2 when i had no school on weekends, in the early morning. The music, the story, the city and the beautiful sunshine of the game you describe in the video is giving me a lot of nostalgia 😪
Saw this game on my friends PSP and was blown away. Same day I asked my mom to take me to the store and the had a ps2 version of it. Still have it with the manual (Manual is the old magazine with Marty on the front of it lol) I wish rockstar would have made it possible to play on modern hardware.
Currently playin it again for a billionth time... Truly a great game
I just beat this again like a week ago. It holds up very well. Great soundtrack, and gameplay, but the game was slept on as a PSP title and secret PS2 title. It never got the recognition it deserved.
Gta vcs 45% main story
5% assets control or attacks
50% the fucking side missions
The empire system is my favorite feature of any 3d era gta game.. it gave VCS tons of replay value after the main story was finished.. genius idea
Vice City Stories is my favorite GTA. I love Vic Vance and its a shame rockstar did him the way they did
Man I'm still playing this on the actual PSP 😭
Freaking loved this game back in the day on the PS2, one of my favorite GTAs along with San Andreas, seriously underrated for sure.
The best thing about the Empire building aspect in this game, is that after you complete a certain amount of asset missions in the Empire Building, you automatically get paid at a certain time in the game, because annoyingly in the Original Vice City and San Andreas, after you complete the asset missions, you have to drive by each day just to pick up the the payout, or in San Andreas, you have to to run by Zero’s store just to get the payout, and annoyingly if your in Las Ventures, it feels like a complete waste of time to drive all the way to San Ferro just to get the payout and drive all the way back. I guess the developers realized that it was stupid for the player to drive to a certain location just to receive the payout, when the player could automatically get paid at a certain time without driving to a location.
I recommend playing the PS2 Version of GTA Vice City Stories because of the right analog stick
I'm still a firm believer that this game is way better than LCS due to the amount of stuff Rockstar expanded upon like the business feature and the unique melee system that can't be found in other games. And to this day, this is still the only GTA game where you can grab NPCs or snap their necks. However tho, I still hate the boomshine mission from Phil and the "Hose the Hoes" mission from Louise. I know the aim in this game isn't perfect, but man...that firefighter mission from Louise just sucked..
4:50 You're playing the PSP version which originally didn't have 2 analogs same with LCS. Meaning you couldn't use the camera as normal GTA scheme. The PS2 version however improves the controls by letting you use the second analog
Yeah it took me a minute to figure that out
@@ScorpionWag Aight it's cool homie.
Tell the doggo in the background i said hi please
He said hello
it's awesome that a young person is experiencing old video games wish more younger people would play these games and understand how we played these games and how they are gold to us
People my age need 4k graphics Lol
Yeah the health cheat and armour cheat are still ingrained in my brain from this game to this day 😂
Finally someone who recognized it
VCS also has the best theme song imo!
Yep
It’s a well deserved remaster
I love VCS I am playing it on PC rn as well, emulated the PS2 version btw you probably had the PSP version because on the PS2 version you can actually use your right analog stick to move the camera 😅
I missed this era of the GTA series.
I beat it on the psp when I was 12, vcfl was the radio station I loved to listen to
80s music 🎶
@ definitely 😂, I really like your channel, I subbed. I still love GTA, even though unfortunately I’ve gotten worse since I was 12
I still play this myself, underrated game.
The love-interest death was startling. There’s one in Liberty City Stories as well.
I like ur videos man!
please keep uploading
Thank you bro
I played it fully recently and I was like damn that game was good but it was hard
man this game is a classic used to play it a lot in ps2 days, i still play it on ppsspp
I'm playing through this now and it's easily one of the best 3D era GTA games. I got it right behind San Andreas
enjoy it
In the PS2 version, if you fail a mission, you could get in a cab which takes you back to where your previous mission was, then it used the skip trip feature, first used in San Andreas.
Happy 40 in-game years since the events of the 3D universe started.
In the antenna mission take the helicopter they can't get you from the ground and after you can hit all the bribes
Yeah only took me 3 hours to figure that out Lol
I think VCS has a lot more of an 80s vibe than VC and the city also looks a lot better. For whatever reason; Vice City looked really overcast and drab in VC, but it looks very sunny and vibrant in VCS.
I just found it to be a more enjoyable gang that was better paced.
Like in VC you start off in Vice Beach which is the wealthier and more interesting part of the city, but you open up Vice City itself which is kinda "meh" in comparison.
In this game it's the opposite which shows you're moving up.
Also the drug dealing and smuggling missions were relatively unique and less repetitive than the pimping and extortion missions.
Lol if u think about GTA: Vice City's Graphics, it's just GTA 3 but with a 80s Filter tho haha
and ofc Technology improved later 4 years after 2002, that's why they got it right, Eighties-ish up VCS more😎🌅
Gta VCS feels like a small version of Gta San Andreas but the map is on Vice City.
After playing gta for the last 20 years, finally getting my hands on a copy of Vice City Stories. So hyped
Congrats
It's kinda sad knowing Vic is one of the only protagonists that canonically dies.
Johnny Klebitz too. From GTA 4: The Lost and Damned.
Imo this is in the top 3 best gta games
Vic Vance is my favourite GTA protagonist. Vice City Stories is amazing mechanically and with it's ambience. While I love it, I feel bittersweet for it being a prequel and knowing what happens to to Vic by the end 2 years later.
Your back bro can't wait to see the video 💝
GTA VCS truly deserves a remaster
Excellent video. Keep up the great work!
thank u man
ah I never got a chance to play VC Stories
I’ll mail you a psp
Play it on the psssp emulator
Thanks for this video!
Anytime
Best theme soundtrack for my money. Trumps GTA 4's for me.
Based take
Underrated channel 🗣️
Thank u man
i agree with the difficulty while driving in vehicles or the fork lift mission, but i love the difficulty on foot it encouraged me to just buy the regular sniper rifle and take all the NPC out from a distance. you can hold L1 or L2 (whatever you program it to be) to slow down the aim so it wont fling everywhere and that makes sniping way easier. since they cant lock on at sniper distance that means you can pick most of them off while 1 or 2 might get close enough to damage your health but usually they are easy to take out since snipers in vice city games are a 1 hit kill by default.
My fav thing to do in this game was to let Phil Collins get crushed by the lighting rig.
💀
I love this game, finished it first on PSP in 2015 I think, then again on PSP emulator this year actually. I share the same opinions as you about the game, it's the hardest from the GTA 3D universe, the city is improved compared to the original Vice City (it came out 4 years later so it makes sense that they have improved it). As far as the soundtrack, it's another good selection of 80s songs but nothing compares to the OG Vice City. It's a good game but now it's stuck in limbo either on PS2 or PSP because they never re-released it probably because they don't want to pay for song licensing again. Can't buy it officially anywhere anymore.
I'm playing it too man in using the psp emulator I'm having a lot of fun
Got it went it came out i was 7 yeats old
There is a mod where you can actually use mouse and keyboard off the PSP emulator version. I am playing it right now, so far it works nicely. You can roam the camera in a vehicle as well!
If you played it on your computer, then you can save at any ponit you want, using the emulator's save system, instead of the game's.
I had no idea lmao
esse jogo tem a melhor trilha sonora de todos os GTA'S
i loved the the vice city stoires and liberty city stories, had them both on my psp, miss that thing
This was my first GTA game 🥲 I love Vic Vance
Beautiful, as I'm playing on ps2 slim
VCS is what happens when Vice City and San Andreas have a baby.
Lmao
LCS was my childhood
Ayy cool you went way back to old ass games I remember playing when they were new. Just wondering how long it took to grow out those dreads, doooood? Not longer then my older sister's body count, right my man?
Haha I've had these dreads for about 5 years but I've gotten them trimmed so they would be a lot longer if I didn't cut them
Good video. This is my favorite 3D era GTA (and 2nd favorite overall), and I get your frustrations, it's janky as all hell, specially on the PSP. If you're able, give the PS2 version a go. Besides better controls, the neons just pop even more, so it's even more of a mood.
A few things to note:
- It's Louise, with an "E"
- Vic Vance is the older brother. He is the shortest, so you calling him Lance's "little brother" still works, tho
- There is a Lifeguard mission on the beach with 3 variations, just hop into the red BF Injection. Besides that, the beach still pretty useless
- To stop the gang attacks in your empire, just save and reload. Hate to do that, but it works
I knew I would get a few things wrong lmao, thank you though
I always thought it was spelled "Luis" even in the subtitles, maybe i misremembered
I had to beat this game with cheats in 2006 (I was 6 lol) I had all my cheats wrote on a piece of paper. Very hard game and a very underrated game in the best era gaming, dig the video man!
This game is great, but I think the tone is a bit off. It feels like a midpoint between laid back Vice City and gritty IV. The story is tragic and the characters are mostly unpleasant but there is escapist empire building and wacky 80's nonsense. Rockstar is usually very good about that kind of juxtaposition.
Yeha i was feeling that
For what I mostly Love about Vice City Stories, on how they developed it... it wasn't just a 100% Copy & Pasted GTA III, VC in terms of Content and Features, which imo what LCS failed to do... Imagine if Swimming wasn't featured in VCS, and having San Andreas the only 3D Game to swim, that'll ruined the Game for me🤮
VCS was trying to be different and have everything Unique for the Game's anesthetic, especially implementing a Real Singer Celebrity like Phil Collins to play as himself in a 80s based game???
Imo Vice City Stories not only deserve more Love, but it should've gotten San Andreas's Level of Popularity... Despite some Flaws and Glitches, it was still Perfect game to be the Last Released 3D Game💯❤
❤
The best of the 3d era gta games story wise for a fact
This game is heavily slept on glad to see this through fresh eyes 💯
Tbh this game is so underratted & i wish that they actually put it in modern console & sell it on Steam in PC.
It's really rare to see such niche content be made by black youtube, you're playing the games i grew up with and fairly critiquing them and i'm in love with it. must watch all your vids from now on.
recommendations:
scarface: the world is yours ps2
manhunt 1
the warriors
mark ecko's getting up
The reason why you need to use 2 button to move the camera is because the emulator you are using is the PSP emulator not the PS2 version, the PSP has less buttons then a PS2 controller and that is how we have to move the camera if we play on the PSP but luckily even if you use the PSP emulator you can fix this issue in 1 minute but it seems like you were unaware of this at the time of playing which is sad and it made your experience worse, but at least now you are aware of this if you decide to replay the games in the future.
Vic is Lance's Big brother, not little brother
I will never make a video were I don't mess something up lmfao
@ScorpionWag all good man, i still love ur vids regardless, keep at it man 👍👍👍
if the PSP had a right hand analog stick i think it’d be the greatest handheld console of all time
this is a wonderful game but i still find it hard to replay games without mission checkpoints
Such a good game. I played it once on ps2 emulator back in 2018 I believe
Last 3D era game. Its a great game. Its fun playing this before you play Vice City.
More forgotten then ctw and london1
Keşke rockstar şu oyun tarzında bir gta daha yapsa çok güzel bence
empire mechanics are the 2nd best thing after the respect system in gta 2.
9:43 I'm stuck on this one right now :( I hate it. Just want to unlock the whole island so I can drive around all over. 😩
Lol its crazy how hard this mission is and its only the beginning of the game
Hi man im watching all the way from South Africa this is first video i watch of u and its great intro great talking u deserve a sub can u maybe do a review of the suffering 1 2004 and the suffering ties that bind 2005 its a horror game on pc
Thank you bro, and thank you for the suggestion
@@ScorpionWag pleasure man keep going
And as for VCS's Cops... Yeah, VCS's Law Enforcements are just as OP's GTA 3 wtf😂😂😂😂🤦♂️
12:01 I would’ve thrown my controller if that happened to me
If you play this game on PS VITA oled with native resolution hack/patch, the game looks absolutely stunning. It even has second analog support.
Volition back then did what Rockstar couldn’t, have fun gameplay.
Fr
The raids do stop once you own all 30 businesses. If you keep getting raided, just save and reload your game and the attacks on your businesses will stop.
I got this on the ps2 and psp. I like the psp version better. I going to add this game is harder the GTA vice city.
My second all favourite game First is the Original Vice City such a underrated Gta I wish people remembered the Handheld Games More
We need more black creators. Nice channel 🤜🏽
If you used PPSSPP you could’ve used a plugin originally for the vita if I remember correctly to allow you to use the camera freely.
Also you must've been emulating the psp version because last time I checked you can move the camera with the right analogue stick on the PS2 version not the psp I know this because I just played it 2 days ago
Wish these can go on the switch
How would you rank all ps2 gta games?
1. Sa
2. Vcs
3. Vc
4. Gta 3
5. Lcs