# GTA Vice city - in the news, for a good reason. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 27, 2004, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gta-vice-city-in-the-news-for-a-good-reason/231431 "2004-02-27T05:54:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gta-vice-city-in-the-news-for-a-good-reason/231431/1 "2004-02-27T05:54:09Z")
And rightly so. [link](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3488592.stm) > [@](#): > > Grand Theft Auto: Vice City has swept the board at the first Bafta games awards, taking five of the gongs. > The acclaimed title was chosen as the best PlayStation 2 and PC game as well as winning awards in the design, action and sound categories. It’s nice when the masses make asses of critics. (ok I am not sure if the BAFTAs are voted for by ‘the masses’. but it’s still nice) ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Serpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@Silver\_Serpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Serpentine)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gta-vice-city-in-the-news-for-a-good-reason/231431/2 "2004-02-27T08:18:00Z")
I like 3 better. VC is the same game, but with annoying music. Yeah… ---
**Author:** ![Nurobath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a88e57/32.png) [@Nurobath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nurobath)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gta-vice-city-in-the-news-for-a-good-reason/231431/3 "2004-02-27T08:55:00Z")
VC has motorcycles. 🙂 heh Cool that it won the awards too. ---
**Author:** ![Zap\_Rowsdower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3da27b/32.png) [@Zap\_Rowsdower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zap_Rowsdower)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gta-vice-city-in-the-news-for-a-good-reason/231431/4 "2004-02-27T14:17:27Z")
> [@Silver Serpentine](#): > > I like 3 better. > > VC is the same game, but with annoying music. Yeah… The music is almost the best part of the game. When I first got it, I would just drive around listening to the various radio stations. ---
**Author:** ![Bongmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Bongmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bongmaster)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gta-vice-city-in-the-news-for-a-good-reason/231431/5 "2004-02-27T22:10:51Z")
> [@Zap\_Rowsdower](#): > > The music is almost the best part of the game. When I first got it, I would just drive around listening to the various radio stations. The game is great on multiple levels which is why it did so well. Of course they sold lots of copies because you just can’t get another game where you live in a virtual world and can beat the piss out of old ladies and cops. They also managed to make it with a great soundtrack, good graphics, and decent gameplay. To be honest though I spend most of my time in that game playing out “end game” situations. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Serpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@Silver\_Serpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Serpentine)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gta-vice-city-in-the-news-for-a-good-reason/231431/6 "2004-02-27T23:40:27Z")
Personally, I like Chatterbox on 3. I would just drive around and listen to the Pets By Mail or whatever commercials and laugh my ass off. ---
**Author:** ![Nurobath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a88e57/32.png) [@Nurobath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nurobath)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gta-vice-city-in-the-news-for-a-good-reason/231431/7 "2004-02-28T06:12:55Z")
Besides if i ever got tired of listening to the radio stations I could always listen to my own music mp3s. 🙂 I believe there was a hack for that for GTAIII but I never got around to trying it. Being able to listen to “Angel of Death” while tearing around the city blowing stuff up…good times. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gta-vice-city-in-the-news-for-a-good-reason/231431/8 "2004-02-28T06:18:02Z")
> [@Nurobath](#): > > Besides if i ever got tired of listening to the radio stations I could always listen to my own music mp3s. 🙂 I believe there was a hack for that for GTAIII but I never got around to trying it. > > Being able to listen to “Angel of Death” while tearing around the city blowing stuff up…good times. Hack? I believe it was built into the game. I am sure it was GTA III (for the PC) that I managed to listen to my own mp3s in) ---
**Author:** ![Nurobath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a88e57/32.png) [@Nurobath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nurobath)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gta-vice-city-in-the-news-for-a-good-reason/231431/9 "2004-02-28T08:05:28Z")
hmmm, maybe I just had trouble getting it to work right. I know I had lot’s of trouble with that game when it first came out (PC version)…I probably just gave up on it and assumed it never really worked in GTAIII. I’m glad you were able to enjoy it though. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gta-vice-city-in-the-news-for-a-good-reason/231431/10 "2004-02-28T16:40:09Z")
Moving this to MPSIMS.