80'S STYLE!!!


When a game is successful, you make a sequel. This is one of the given laws of game producing. When a game is the single most successful title in the history of a console, not making a sequel is like an affront to God. Such as it is with Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

One of the most interesting new facts available about the game is that it is now set in the 80's. Yes, you heard me, the 80's. Grab a Cyndi Lauper record, bust out your Ryo Hazuki/Bruce Springsteen/Terry Bogard-style tight white T-Shirt and tighter blue jeans, and get ready for a trip down memory lane. And with crime being the business of the day in the GTA series, the smarmy corrupt 80's will be the perfect background. It remains to be seen, however, if you will be able to snort cocaine off the naked flesh of a prostitute with really really feathery hair.

Rockstar amazed the world with GTA3, and using the same formula with a distinctly stylish new flair is highly unlikely to fail. Now if only we could somehow avoid the oncoming flood of Miami Vice puns that will be filling the previews and updates in the upcoming months...

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is scheduled for October 22nd.