Lament the Cruel Passage of Time and Your Own Mortality by Acknowledging that Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is 10 Years Ol

I was excited, then I saw iOS.

@MurderSlingshot: If your a fan of it, you should also check out max payne on ios

The best GTA so far, I'd put it in just to drive around and listen to the soundtrack.

@Cleric22: Really? I had no idea. Ill have to check that out, thanks.

@MurderSlingshot: They already did GTA III on ios. It's actually pretty decent

The GTA I spend most time in, for sure. Especially modding the world and going online with friends was sooo much fun.

Vice City has the best atmosphere and soundtrack of any GTA yet.

Better than the new GTA V trailer, as much as I liked that one.

There never will be a better GTA. That soundtrack, that setting.

@Winternet said:

God dammit, Rockstar, that's a fucking fantastic trailer. God dammit!

Man, Vice City was/is awesome. Fuck, it's so good. Jesus!

This. I just want to play the whole damn game again.

Vice City, my favorite game in the series. 10 years ago, and now I can play the game on my damn phone. Man, do I feel old.

This makes me sad as someone took my Vice City as well as my three. Oh well at least I have San Andreas. San Andreas is my favorite.

I'd be perfectly happy having nothing but this games soundtrack in my car for the rest of my life, except I might start driving exclusively on the sidewalk... tough decisions.

A Flock of Seagulls "I ran so far away" is running through my head right now. Its a Pavlovian response.

God dammit, Rockstar, that's a fucking fantastic trailer. God dammit!

Man, Vice City was/is awesome. Fuck, it's so good. Jesus!

looks pretty rad

What a great song and trailer. I hope they bring this back to Steam.

I really, really, really want an HD collection with III/VC/SA. Also LCS/VCS would be nice, too.

@Alex

Love the title for this post.

Lance VANCE!

Relive the betrayal all over again.

Why have a 10th aniversary edition and not release them on XBLA\PSN? These are the gamers that probably played it 10 years ago.

Lance Vance dance!

Such a classic. Hard to believe I played this for the first time ten years ago.

Uuugh, pretty shudder-worthy visuals by now, but...'ts still definetly the best GTA I've played, by far.

Best GTA game for my money. Awesome soundtrack.

I guess your first GTA isn't always your best GTA, because I began with 3 but Vice City is easily my favourite. The colour, the sound, the city, so warm and refreshing seeing it after the muted colour pallet that has dominated this generation. A lot of my excitement for 5 comes from Rockstar seemingly bringing back the fun (and the sun) to GTA.

I used to be upset that they wouldn't release HD ports of these games to the consoles, and then I discovered that the PC versions are effectively already that (sans achievements.) Played through all three of them to 100% over the past year and on anything resembling a modern PC they look surprisingly good and the framerate never dips an iota. I'd probably still get a console collection, if nothing else because I'll never pass up an excuse to play them again. But the PC versions take a lot of the sting out of their absence on modern consoles.

There is no way I could love this headline any more.

Strangely enough, for the past week or so I've been listening to the soundtracks of various GTA games including Vice City and absolutely loving them.

Yeah, now give me the remake Rockstar!

I've played GTA3, GTA San Andreas, and GTAIV. But never Vice City.
 
Hm.

That trailer alone made me want to play this game again, gotta love that soundtrack.

One of my favourite games of all time. Incredible.

Dude I fucking MEMORIZED VCPR when I was playing that game. If only Red Dead had a "radio" somehow, aside from the other common gripes of no PC port, goddamn game would be the best game ever made.  
 
Also hahaha iOS action games, kind of competent but drastically less fun than the console games they're tied to. 

Time to cruise the mean streets of Vice City in my Infernus with the windows rolled down and V-Rock cranked up.

@GalacticPunt: Fuck yes!

It will always be the best GTA as far as I'm concerned.

But iOS? No thanks.

feeling...so...old...why, Alex, why?

My god, he's right.

Somehow I knew Alex wrote that title....

I remember being so excited that real music was on the radio stations. So I would find pink Faggio and ride back and forth along the beach listing to Flash FM until Aneka, Japanese Boy came on. At which point I would swerve to the music until crashing, then run back before the song ended and repeat. Ahhh to be 12 again… would be a huge waste of time.

@captain_clayman: GTA3 on iOS was great, controls were smooth and framerate was a straight 60 the whole time. The vice city port should be good too.

First GTA I actually beat, I remember that last mission being pretty unforgiving.

Oh man, I miss this game so much -- even more so than San Andreas.

I'll never regret getting 100% completion on that game; this trailer kind of makes me want to do it again!

@skelington_ said:

Best title for a trailer in forever.

Most depressing title for any trailer ever.

As soon as I saw it, I thought, "Alex must have posted that."

I bought a PS2 because of Vice City. I bet it's still most people favorite GTA game to this day.

Man, this game was never great looking. So many hours of this game was played back then.

Wow, I remember playing Vice City constantly, and to see it again is really nostalgic.