Welcome Back to Vice City
To enhance your stay, we’ve included first details on the sprawling city gone handheld, courtesy of the newly-launch website for Vice City Stories. Plus: the debut trailer.
Published: September 5, 2006
For all the controversy Rockstar Games has garnered over the years for its rating-pushing game content and an unforgiving exploration of mature themes, one thing’s for certain: they’ve left us with some of the most memorable game experiences of our time. Perhaps no franchise embodies it most than Grand Theft Auto, which has run players through the crooked, mob-driven, cop-bribing, back-stabbing ranks in the some truly unforgettable locals.
So maybe we’re just a tad bit excited to know that, just as we re-trekked through the seedy alleyways and bustling city streets of Liberty City with last year’s portable hit, we’ll soon again be mounting crotch rockets in jeans so tight they foreshadow sure-fire sterility and cruising at breakneck speeds through neon-drenched streets.
Yes friends, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories will be sending us on a first-class flight to excess and sin come October 17, but now a little less than a month and a half from release, details still remain scarce on just what’s in store in our much-awaited return.
Until now.
Rockstar Games, in classic hype-building fashion, has today launched an official website for the game. On it, a string of news shorts, commercial blurbs and radio promos, hosted by a not-so-well-qualified Jenny Mitchell on the short-lived news channel, MeTV. Spoofery at its finest, but nonetheless, a pretty strong allusion to the sights and sound we’re sure to become acquainted with in Vice City. Namely, four confirmed radio stations [VRock (with Lazlow as an intern, yessss!), Wave 103, VCPR and the new Paradise FM] and a handful of respective soundtrack tunes (anyone else psyched to hear Foreigner’s “I Wanna Know What Love Is”?), a few shifty troublemakers likely to cross our paths (a redneck mafia? A seedy underground at the military base? Hm...) and some priceless merchandise sure to never hit store (just try Release: The Gum That Shoots A Load in Your Mouth!).
Better yet, we’ve got the official word on the brewing plotline. Straight from Rockstar and most likely soon to appear on the back of the game box:
Vice City, 1984. Opportunity abounds in a city emerging from the swamps, its growth fueled by the violent power struggle in a lucrative drugs trade. Construction is everywhere as a shining metropolis rises from foundations of crime and betrayal.
As a soldier, Vic Vance has always protected his dysfunctional family, his country, himself. One bad decision later and that job is about to get much harder. Kicked out onto the streets of a city torn between glamour and gluttony, Vic is faced with a stark choice - build an empire or be crushed.
Still not feeling that tingling sensation in your pants? Get ready to, as we present to you the very first trailer of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, in both Quicktime and WMV glory. Curious of which familiar faces will be back to calling the shots, or just what brother Lance was like two years early? Watch and learn!
We'll be back with more before you know it. Keep 'er here!
So maybe we’re just a tad bit excited to know that, just as we re-trekked through the seedy alleyways and bustling city streets of Liberty City with last year’s portable hit, we’ll soon again be mounting crotch rockets in jeans so tight they foreshadow sure-fire sterility and cruising at breakneck speeds through neon-drenched streets.
Yes friends, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories will be sending us on a first-class flight to excess and sin come October 17, but now a little less than a month and a half from release, details still remain scarce on just what’s in store in our much-awaited return.
Until now.
Rockstar Games, in classic hype-building fashion, has today launched an official website for the game. On it, a string of news shorts, commercial blurbs and radio promos, hosted by a not-so-well-qualified Jenny Mitchell on the short-lived news channel, MeTV. Spoofery at its finest, but nonetheless, a pretty strong allusion to the sights and sound we’re sure to become acquainted with in Vice City. Namely, four confirmed radio stations [VRock (with Lazlow as an intern, yessss!), Wave 103, VCPR and the new Paradise FM] and a handful of respective soundtrack tunes (anyone else psyched to hear Foreigner’s “I Wanna Know What Love Is”?), a few shifty troublemakers likely to cross our paths (a redneck mafia? A seedy underground at the military base? Hm...) and some priceless merchandise sure to never hit store (just try Release: The Gum That Shoots A Load in Your Mouth!).
Better yet, we’ve got the official word on the brewing plotline. Straight from Rockstar and most likely soon to appear on the back of the game box:
Vice City, 1984. Opportunity abounds in a city emerging from the swamps, its growth fueled by the violent power struggle in a lucrative drugs trade. Construction is everywhere as a shining metropolis rises from foundations of crime and betrayal.
As a soldier, Vic Vance has always protected his dysfunctional family, his country, himself. One bad decision later and that job is about to get much harder. Kicked out onto the streets of a city torn between glamour and gluttony, Vic is faced with a stark choice - build an empire or be crushed.
Still not feeling that tingling sensation in your pants? Get ready to, as we present to you the very first trailer of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, in both Quicktime and WMV glory. Curious of which familiar faces will be back to calling the shots, or just what brother Lance was like two years early? Watch and learn!
We'll be back with more before you know it. Keep 'er here!
