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

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.

Et tu, Ste? :(

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

No but you were great for waiting so long! Which one was it in the end? Was it the very last one?

I don't like playing GTA:SA on the puter, but I've seen a controller in Game that's a near-exact copy of the PS2 controller, so maybe I'll buy it. But I'm not really that committed to playing on the computer just so's I can play Garth Vader on the radio and do the Hot Coffee thang.

I got the PS2 controller for PC and it was the best purchase ever! You can configure the buttons and there's auto-aim! BUY IT! The best part is for the sharp shooting you can switch to mouse which makes life easier x 10000000

It was at the south end of the strip, carry on across the freeway up the small grass verge and its just there at the back of a small house.

so how far are you in VC ?

Nah, I've demolished a building, done a few missions for Diaz (incl. that fantastic helicopter one) and a couple of the phone calls. I'm finding the driving a bit harder in this one but switching to first person in the car works well.

I had to turn the radio off, the random thing was a real pain.

lol i'm gobsmacked that you've turned the radio off, I found it far better than the San Andreas one.

i've lost count how many times i've replayed vice city, a blimmin lot. and GTA3, i remember once i loaded that sucker up on a saturday afternoon and finished it sunday evening.

god, wait till you have to do 'driver', there's a knack to it but if you don't know what it is the mission is a bloody nightmare.

i think my favourite missions were,
voodoo woman, the remote control planes dropping bombs
phil, right at the end of the game. stealing back the guns from the Walton vans and then having all those motorbike thugs chase you.
Sir, Yes sir. stealing the tank. so many ways to do this one.
the taxi one where you have to fight several over cabs and then finally the zebra striped one.
the sanchez mission in the stadium, the kickstart type one.
shooting all the shop windows in the mall
killing the jury people (telephone mission)
chasing the dude in the golf caddy
messin with the man, having to cause all that destruction
rescuing lance from the scrapyard
dropping the flyers from the seaplane

fuckit i loved them all!

Indeed!

Spoiler city above! Had to stop reading after first line. Soon I will be able to read them all, soon!

Once you stay in aim mode and keep your finger on the aim button the adrenalin pill NEVER wears off. a small bug thats pleasant to abuse, on ps2 anyway.

I know I didn't collect mine until after, but still, it's a habit picked up from the previous games where you got rewards for every 'ten' or so items found.

Besides I like the exploring part anyway, I just felt that I'd explored enough of Las Venturos and was actually beginning to think that a bug had eaten my last couple of horseshoes. thats why i cheated.

I use 'em because a) I likes getting shiny weapons b) I wouldn't have the patience to explore everywhere.

For the first time I think I'll do a gather before the missions and give myself the abovementioned edge! I'll see though, it would be a real pity to turn the game into a chore...

I bought a python last night. I love it. Also MP5, glad to have that bad boy back!

if i recall you purchase assets after you've reclaimed the mansion on Starfish island and completed the 3 missions after that which lie around the mansion property.