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Grand Theft Auto - Vice City

Grand Theft Auto - Vice City

Grand Theft Auto - Vice City is a PlayStation 3 shooter game released in 2013 developed by Rockstar Games. It centers on aiming, shooting, and weapon use, area and route exploration, and aiming and shooting, with controls and information arranged around the DualShock 3 or Sixaxis twin sticks, triggers, and face buttons, with PlayStation Move only where explicitly supported.

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About this game

Grand Theft Auto - Vice City is a PlayStation 3 shooter game centered on aiming, shooting, and weapon use, area and route exploration, and aiming and shooting. Missions pace progress through enemy waves, routes, objectives, and weapon opportunities, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Aiming feedback, projectiles, hits, and danger zones need to remain readable, while HD 3D scenes, Blu-ray data streaming, surround audio, and cinematic presentation need to preserve action, state, and text readability together. The genre-specific limitation is that camera turning, aiming methods, dense encounters, and peripheral support can increase control pressure. Platform conditions also include Blu-ray loading, HDD installs, system software, DualShock 3 battery life, Move accessories, resolution and frame rate, and retired online services affect present-day use. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.

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9.0 / 10PlayStation 3

An exceptional open-world benchmark

侠盗猎车手:罪恶都市 must be scored through its concrete design and platform release. driving, gunplay, property ownership, and wanted systems interlock across an open city, while missions allow meaningful route and vehicle choices; criminal expansion, property missions, side challenges, and a large vehicle set sustain progression, though the late property gate can interrupt pacing. neon color, period music, radio, and city landmarks create an unusually cohesive 1980s Miami-inspired identity. Its main limitation is that legacy aiming, camera behavior, checkpoints, and several mission difficulty spikes add friction today, while input, saving, loading, and compatibility are judged for this platform release. Independent assessment of the four dimensions produces 9.0. This revision corrects an earlier generic-platform baseline and does not use sales, user ratings, awards, or franchise recognition as quality evidence.

Strengths

  • driving, gunplay, property ownership, and wanted systems interlock across an open city, while missions allow meaningful route and vehicle choices.
  • criminal expansion, property missions, side challenges, and a large vehicle set sustain progression, though the late property gate can interrupt pacing.
  • neon color, period music, radio, and city landmarks create an unusually cohesive 1980s Miami-inspired identity.

Weaknesses

  • legacy aiming, camera behavior, checkpoints, and several mission difficulty spikes add friction today.

Who it is for: Players who value open-world agency, the combination of driving and gunplay, urban atmosphere, and mission-led storytelling.

Play notes: The score covers only this platform release; the originals' standing cannot erase practical port, remaster, compatibility, or service limitations.

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Dimension

criminal expansion, property missions, side challenges, and a large vehicle set sustain progression, though the late property gate can interrupt pacing. Volume alone earns no credit; the judgment rests on whether variety and progression continue to support play.

Reviewed9.1 / 10Not provided
Dimension

侠盗猎车手:罪恶都市: driving, gunplay, property ownership, and wanted systems interlock across an open city, while missions allow meaningful route and vehicle choices. This score considers whether its actions produce sustained choice, feedback, and systemic interaction.

Reviewed9.3 / 10Not provided
Dimension

neon color, period music, radio, and city landmarks create an unusually cohesive 1980s Miami-inspired identity. Presentation is judged through style, sound, animation, city readability, and narrative consistency.

Reviewed9.5 / 10Not provided
Dimension

legacy aiming, camera behavior, checkpoints, and several mission difficulty spikes add friction today; input, saving, loading, and compatibility are judged for this platform release. The technical score covers response, stability, loading, controls, and compatibility for this release only.

Reviewed7.2 / 10Not provided

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Core information

Release date
2013
Platforms
PlayStation 3
Content kind
Game
Release state
Released
Region
Worldwide
Official website
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Offline minimum players
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Offline maximum players
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Online minimum players
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Online maximum players
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Tags
Fast-pacedReplayable3D GraphicsMain Story Under 10 HoursDodgeShootingExplorationSolo-friendlyPlayer versus EnvironmentThird PersonLinear Levels
Supported game languages
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Requires base game
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Standalone
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Age ratings
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Play modes
Single player
Perspectives
Third person

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