

However, that couldn't be more wrong upon a closer inspection. On paper, it would seem as though GTA Vice City is more or less the same as GTA III. So which game has a higher replay value in 2021? The game has more indepth missions - rather than the rather mundane pickup > drop off > kill procedings of GTA3, much more engrossing tasks should be set.GTA Vice City and GTA III are the two oldest 3D GTA titles. And, unlike GTA3, the character speaks - vocalised through the talents of Hollywood's Ray Liotta (famous for the superb gangster flicks Goodfellas and Muppets From Space).Ī whole host of added features were added to enhance gameplay. Set in the 80s, we were promised a whole new storyline based around our new hero, Tommy Vercetti, prior to the game's release.

Character models were also given a new lease of life, now sporting much more detailed features overall. The camera was tweaked to aid movement on-foot - the camera fixes to an over-the-sholder view to easy targetting. Various other visual tweaks were made to the game. The world is generally much more colourful, too! The lighting system of the Renderware engine was also re-vamped, enabling real-time shadowing and reflections. Textures are in a higher resolution and the framerate has been increased. And look at the screenshots, the improvement in Vice City is clearly visible. Since then, the Renderware engine has been vastly improved. However, many complained this wasn't good enough - blocky textures and nasty popups plagued both the PS2 and PC version. Rockstar programmers really tweaked this rather limited engine to its limits - and what they produced was quite remarkable for what the Renderware engine was actually cut out to do. Grand Theft Auto 3 was built around the Renderware engine.
