c/d s/d: the GRAND THEFT AUTO series

One funny part of the walkthrough was in the list of hidden packages I can get right now on the east island. I saw on the map that there was one near the parking deck with the corkscrew ramp. I got a motorcycle up there, ramped off across the street, landed on the building on the other side ... got the package. I look at the list and it says something like "(42.) Don't worry about this one. It's too hard to get right now."

HA. SHOWED YOU, GAMER!

Gah.

this doesn't help you though. thats a real bummer. :(

But don't be fooled by the number; all the reviews talk mostly about how frustrating the problems with it are, but then say "but it's still GTA and it's still amazing so thumbs up."

And it's not coming out on PS2, sorry! However, you can swim in it, which is a Vice City dream come true.

i'm hoping it will be out for ps2 yes, i'm sure it will eventually.

Am enjoying it, but it seems glitchy - have had problems with enemies getting absorbed by buildings (and surviving, and therefore becoming very difficult indeed to shoot), and defending your businesses when they are under attack from rival gangs is extreme glitchy, with gang members either driving away to the other side of Vice City before returning to attack the business - but you aren't allowed to chase after them, you just have to stand there and wait for them to return. and when they do, further multiple gang members will just start materialising in the foreground.

the rest of the game is pretty good, some missions are compellingly tricky, the soundtrack is aces - but these glitches give the game a rushed, cheap feel.

i'm tempted to get a PSP and VCS, due to my love affair with Vice City originally.

How about GTA3?

VC is graphically better on PC, to a small degree. But it's superb on PS2 anyway (runs better than San Andreas anyway). But again there's no swimming or climbing walls. The neon lighted graphics and music more than makes up for this, imho.

What got me the day before yesterday was when I was cruising around for hidden packages how empty or inaccessible the majority of the landscape was. Pretty crap imo!

Oh god that's it, now I'm off to Amazon to buy a PSP and Vice City Stories.

wierd as well, i put a camera tripod in my amazon basket this morning, hesitated on clicking the submit button for some reason. Just checked it now and it's since gone down in price by almost twenty quid! that was lucky.

I'll keep at it with a hangover on Sunday (only way to do these things). I got in a boat the last time I played and was gutted how badly they steered :(

It had machine guns though so that was fairly rad. Pity there was nothing to use them on though :(((

I tried the swimming pool glitch, and the one where you go into the little apartment w/the bloodstained bathroom walls, and jump up on top of the bedside table, and cound't get them to work, the wk chariot (wk chariot, haha) one worked great, though. Fly the helicopter up to the front door, go vertically upwards into the little overhead awning thing, forward through the slot into the hotel itself (you can see the stairwell from that mission where you have to photograph congressman shrub, then drop down under the map. So weird.

I don't think I would agree with this. LCS bored me also, but GTA3 is my favorite of the 3.

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The objects are not solid, and neither is the seabed, you can drop down through the seabed, and if you go down far enough the helicopter reappears in the carpark attached to the north point mall.

I've come to a slight halt in VCStories though, only because of the hardware. I have large hands and struggle playing any of the hand helds.

I've gone and cheated at finding one of the horseshoes in San Andreas. I'm so ashamed. Especially as it's somewhere where I've stood many times causing motorway accidents and watching the carnage. If I'd turned around I'd have found it.

If I start it all again from scratch can my pride be saved?

I've still got to 100% Liberty City Stories, on PS2 this time so controller is not a problem.