GTA Vice City Stories first screenshot and new PSP details!

1 August 2006

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Posted by:Ferry

Rockstar has let out lots of new information about its upcoming PSP game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (GTA: VCS). The game is bound to be a hit like it’s first GTA PSP outing (and million seller) Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (GTA: LCS). Vice City Stories will be released on October 17 (USA) & 20 (Europe).

Here’s a list of all the latest details:
* The game takes place in 1984, two years before GTA: Vice City
* Victor is a 28 year-old US Marine
* Players can now take on the water of Vice City with jet ski’s!
* The animations are more life-like and is a ”step-up from previous titles in the series”
* A multiplayer feature similar to the PSP version of LCS is in the game
* VCS is ”much, much bigger than Vice City”
* Some landmarks are half-built or yet to be refurbished to their state circa 1986
* There are new or altered locations and buildings
* All new vehicles and weapons
* You can fly helicopters!
* Radio stations from Vice City make a return
* New weather effects (hurricanes and more)
* You can swim in the game!
* Bikes handle better than before
* There’s also no more seamless exterior-to-interior gameplay as seen in LCS (there’ll be a slight loading time)
* A new addition in Vice City is the ferris-wheel, which you can ride in first-person view!
* Binoculars is in the game
* LCS is ”rookie first-gen PSP title compared to VCS”
* Draw distance is great and is said to be better than Vice City on PS2
* Trip skips make a return (If you die or get busted a taxi will take you back to the location where you received the mission from)
* New animations which give both the lead characters and pedestrians a whole new degree of humanity
* Far richer color palette that brings sunsets to all new levels of beauty, and realism
* Increased density of pedestrians, cars and objects
* Reduction in clumping (where groups of the same model type appear together)
* Far more interiors that its predecessors

I’ve drowned way too often in Liberty City Stories, so I’m glad you can swim now Australian GamePro magazine info via GTAportable.