Vice City Stories

I do enjoy playing GTA. I like all of the sandbox/open world type games. I was quite amazed at how well they managed to get Vice City Stories playing on the PSP. That was an excellent achievement. However, there were things about Vice City Stories that I didn't like. I actually thought that some of the content cross the barrier and entered the realm of bad taste.

I haven't finished playing Vice City Stories. There were aspects of the radio programming or DJ content which I thought crossed the barrier from being social related satire and was just poorly conceived. I don't want to jump on the bandwagon and bash Take Two and Rockstar (which seems to be the fashion of the time).

When you decide to create social satire, in the way that Grand Theft Auto is created, then you definitely walk a fine line. This is the reason why so many people are getting stuck in to Rockstar and Take Two at the moment. It is because a lot of people don't completely understand the nature of the their satire. There are, of course, those people who play the game who won't understand the satire as well, but they get some enjoyment out of the content. There were some references in GTA Vice City Stories which I thought were completely in bad taste. In fact, I don't think they should have been in the game at all.