I have such a soft spot for Vice City, it being the first GTA game I ever truly played and finished - and probably has the most play time of a GTA game from me (next to San Andreas) the “Definitive Edition” is an interesting choice of wording for this version however.

Now, it plays pretty much the exact same as the original, it’s had maybe a few graphical updates to it but nothing really noticeable besides reflections and lighting, and weirdly smooth character textures - oh and everything is shiny now for some reason.

They seem to have set ‘Traffic is always aggressive’ to on as well because jesus christ do cars turn corners hard and smack right into you - or they dont turn and just speed right into you. Either way, your car will explode during a mission because of AI being made worse.

There’s so much that could’ve and should’ve been fixed or “modernised” in this “definitive edition” that just wasn’t. Everything that has been touched isnt even a bonus to the game annoyingly.

I did however, manage to have some fun with it - so that’s a plus.

Reviewed on Dec 28, 2022


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