Rockstar just released its first official trailer for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (via its newly-opened website), and it features all the elements of previous GTA trailers. Let's see if we can spot the formula:
Pop music contemporary to the game's era ... (Foreigner -- "I want to know what love is")
Over-the-top voice acting spouting over-the-top dialogue ... ("When will you grow a brain?")
Montage of gun fights ...
Multiple screens of the same video, reminiscent of Warhol or 80s music videos ... (see above)
It's a tried-and-true formula for a Grand Theft Auto, itself a tried-and-true formula. Video is embedded after the break, so judge for yourself.
And yet again, ad nauseum, a positive newsbyte for the PSP is twisted into seeming lame and negative in the eyes of Joystiq 'non biased' bloggers.
Maybe if Joystiq continues their Bash-on-Sony crusade, they can single-handedly swing the outcome of the upcoming console war in Nintendo's favor! Wait, that's crazy -- nobody could be THAT arrogant...
I could not have liked Vice City more. Of all the Grand Theft Autos, I think Vice City was the pinnacle. It's going to be a blast to play in Vice City again.
You know how you sometimes associate a song with a specific memory, perhaps when the song was released, and the song from that point on takes on a depth that goes beyond music? Well, that's happened to me with Vice City.
It's as if I've almost actually been there. To visit it again would be an opportunity that I wouldn't or couldn't miss.
Didn't they tell everyone that there wasn't going to be a port for GTA:LCS??? They are saying the same thing, but when their 40 dollar baby stops selling, they will do what they did last time and throw it on the PS2 for guaranteed sales!!!!
(Foreigner -- "I want to know what love is")
