Da der APX-Test noch etwas auf sich warten lässt, bin ich mal so frei die englischen Fazits der großen (kostenpflichtigen) Seiten hier online zu setzen.
Gamespot
In the end, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City provides just about everything you'd want in a follow-up to an outstanding game. It's bigger, badder, and better in almost every imaginable way. The game tells a compelling story and adds enough gameplay content to the formula to engage players who've already played the previous game to death. And if by some small chance you somehow missed out on last year's GTAIII, Vice City will clue you in on what all the commotion was about. In short, if you're old enough to purchase Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, then you absolutely should, and fast.
9.6
IGN
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City follows up on one of the most popular videogames of all time, Grand Theft Auto III. If you have heard of anything about games in the last years, you should have heard of this game, because it's this year's most impressive title, by a long shot.
Vice City is nearly twice as large as GTA3, including interiors, waterways and airspace, and it clearly delivers a more integrated storyline in the missions, a huge array of vehicles, and some very oddball characters, likeable or not. The game offers an immense landscape that's both vast and detailed, and is backed up by a long list of actors voicing characters, and a handpicked, triple-A '80s soundtrack.
The game offers some solutions to last year's effort, namely in graphics, control, framerate and streaming technology, though it doesn't succeed in full. Combat control still remains difficult and annoying, framerates drop low often, and there are substantial camera issues, generally revolving around collision detection and clipping.
But you know what, despite the fact that this game plays a lot like last year's effort, and that it still has its fair share of problems, GTA: Vice City is still one of the most impressive games of 2002, without a doubt. It's highly recommendable, as long as you pay attention to the M rating. If you own a PS2, I strongly urge you to get it.
9.7
Wer mehr wissen will, muss entweder den netten Reds in Amerika einen kleinen Betrag zahlen oder bis zum 24.11. warten, um es einen guten Test in Deutsch zu genießen
