News for October, 2006

Vice City Stories is now available in stores in North America, so if you live there be sure to pickup a copy and post your first impressions/reviews/finds here!

The European release is still scheduled for November 3rd.

Related Link: Vice City Stories @ GTAForums

GamesRadar have become the first site to review GTA: Vice City Stories, giving it a final rating of 8/10 - a rating which has upset many of our users at GTAForums, who believe that the reviewer was harsh and failed to go into any real depth of analysis.

Be sure to post your comments in this GTAForums topic.

Link: GamesRadar Review

UK magazine PSM3 have published their review of GTA: Vice City Stories, giving it a final rating of 91/100. Some details from the review worth mentioning:

• You can fly around the city in a number of different aircraft, including your very own private gyrocopter.
• Vic can only swim for a limited period of time, and getting back to land can prove difficult.

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Check out the new preview over at IGN titled "The Music of GTA: Vice City Stories". It describes each radio station in great detail and tells us what each station has to offer. There's also some new media which you can see in our updated screenshot gallery.

The VC-MP team have released VC-MP v0.3 - which can be downloaded over at the VC-MP website.

• Upgrades:
  • netcode (allows 50 players now)
  • sync (smoother sync overall)
  • browser (SA:MP browser interface)
  • admin (in-game commands added)
• Features:
  • synced pickups (defined thru ini)
  • maximum flight height raised
  • tires popping is synced
  • added chat commands /msg and /me
  • armour bars added above health bars
  • bugs fixed

This massive update features new MeTV clips, exclusive screenshots, a multiplayer section detailing all 10 multiplayer modes, a music section containing a sample track listing, and last but not least a brand new trailer.

more GTA: Vice City Stories screenshots