GTA3 vs Vice City vs San Andreas

[Jabroni900]

When looking back over the GTA series, many fans feel San Andreas was the better of the three main games. Does anyone else agree that Vice City and GTA3 were the better games?

Nobody can dispute that San Andreas has a rediculously large amount of things to do to keep you entertained, keep you busy, but i felt the game lost something from its predessecor. Vice City & GTA3 had such charm, such elegance. The character of Vercetti was so much better as a character than the CJ we have in San An. Vercetti was witty, charming, funny. People liked him, you enjoyed being that character. CJ had nothing on him. I dont think many people appreciated the whole 'ghetto'/'gangster' thing. Unless of course, you are, fresh off the streets of Compton.

The sense of achievement that came with the dominance of Vice City too, you really felt by the end, you owned that city. You were the man. You had a big **** off mansion and everything. All the companies, belonged to you. San Andreas was far too large, far too expansive for us to feel anything of this magnitude. Half the time you dont even know where the **** you were going. Mabe i'm wrong, maybe people like that exploration/adventure aspect of a rediculusly huge map. But i didnt. I liked knowing exactly where i was, where i needed to go. You knew the streets of Vice so well if you played that game. They need to downsize on the next GTA. Attention to detail rather than quantity over quality.

And make the character likable. Wit over foul mouthed gangster talk. Anyway, any posts in reply to this would be appreciated. Maybe i am completely alone in my thoughts...

 

[King_Ash]

GTA3 was my favourite game even though the guy didnt talk. Liked the idea of the mafia being the main focus. Also Vice City was good but reminded me too much of Scarface... even though thats what it was based arround.

 

[Great One]

The storylines/character(s) were much better in the first 2, but San Andreas has the best gameplay by far.

 

[King_Ash]

SA was good, but I just dont like the idea of playing as a gangsta

 

[the dark knight]

The storylines/character(s) were much better in the first 2, but San Andreas has the best gameplay by far.

i can second that.

i loved the enviroment of the 1st too more. but san andreas had the features

did anyone reallize that only black GTA characters can swim? racist assholes lol

 

[Truth]

Heres my thoughts

GTA 3 was great to just mess around, hide in your base and whatnot but hte missions and storyline sucked. Vice City had a sick storyline, car chases were beast, but the free roaming messing around wasnt as good as GTA 3 or San Andreas. In San Andreas the messing around is really good, the territory wars with the Ballas and mexicans are sick, and the missions are good but the storyline isnt that intriguing.

 

[P.O.U.N.C.E]

San Andreas. The only game I got to listen to the "real" Gangsta music. Eazy-E, Compton's Most Wanted, That old school Ice Cube, NWA, Big Daddy Kane, Above The Law...Damn...then the gameplay was by far some of the greatest of GTA history.

The only con was you made RYDER DIE!

 

[Kaptain KnicKy]

I persoanlly am a HUGE, HUGE!!! fan of Vice City. Me and my bro played, and dominated that game, hah.

I loved Vercetti, one of the best character's Ive ever played in a game! The city fuckin ruled: not too big, not too small. Everything about that game I liked, and one thing I still love is the radio stations - VCPR FTW!

Everything about that game I loved, sure the graphics were pretty shit, and the gameplay in retrospect sucks, but I love it, and always will.

Right now, Vice City Stories follows Vice City closely too, as im still fairly new into the storyline of it.

 

[Edge_Foreva]

Well lets see

GTA 3 didn't have very good missions but I really like the environment.

Vice city had great missions and a great environment. The only con was lack of things to do when you were just roaming around and a fairly small map.

San Andreas also had great missions but I really didn't like the environment. I didn't like the idea of the half the map being dessert and etc. But at least San Andreas had a huge map with three cities. The gameplay was excellect and you could do so much in your spare time. You could just hop on a motorcycle and go around the map, you could buy clothes, have gang wars, eat, go to the gym, and etc.

Because of the great gameplay and lifespan of San Andreas I would say SA is the best GTA so far.

 

[Defiant One]

Mission wise San Andreas takes it by a mile, but GTA3 was special because it was the first game of its kind and it just had a unique feeling to it. Vice City was pretty good but i just didnt like the graphics, but I did love the feeling you got win you were at the end of it. To me its between 3 and San Andreas.

 

[S0LD1ER]

ima have to say SA was the best, i still go on there some times to sport around n a hot new sports car that i just jacked from someone off the street.

 

[Nikki]

I have to go with GTA San Anderas. I think that was the best series in GTA, I love the characters, locations and besides CJ makes me laugh lol. I like it, when he said punk a** b*tch to the police haha.

 

[Buttersz]

VIce city definatly, absolutly loved the game, bought 3 copies aswell cos 2 of them broke, and i had completed it on the first disc, but wanted to still buy it because its so much fun.

Missions are good, and the tommy vercetti charecter i think is really good.

Its a shame its smaller compared to SA, but i think overall it dominates GTA3 and SA.

 

[Famou$ 187]

I say SA.But i still play LCS.

 

[youthought]

Vice City was the best because of the storyline