Vertigo

I've finished around 70% so far, and am at Hitman. Come to think of it, has someone made a topic about media attention? I'm at Stuff Of Legends because of a rampage in a tank after the final mission.

I was disappointed that you can't buy any safehouses. Sure, you can use you empire buildings, but they don't really feel personal. One of my favourite moments from VC was taking over the Mansion, and getting all the safehouses. I'd have been happy if you could at least have bought property on Starfish Island.

Yeah, just finish all of Marty's, Phil's and the Takin' Out The White Trash missions.

Have you done all of Phil Cassidy's missions?

It didn't work, so I've started again. It's not too bad, though, because I'd only done around 25%. I'm already at 18% because I've got all the red balloons, done the vigilante, ambulance and pimping missions, and have just finished To Victor, The Spoils. I looked at the businesses on the East Side, and the Sharks have one robbery business in Ocean Beach.

After you kill the girl, the guy starts throwing grenades. I thought it was pretty easy. Just buy an MP5, and when you're firing, push the analog stick up to make Vic fire lower.

Ok, thanks. I'll try and let my Ocean Beach businesses get damaged.

Yeah, it was around south-west of the North Point Mall. BTW, I took over all of the unoccupied businesses in Ocean Beach early except one. Am I screwed?

I only took over a few businesses early (some unoccupied ones and the final Cholo one). When I unlocked the 2nd island, I unlocked the drugs business first, then the smuggling business. The Bikers had a robbery business, but it was taken over by the Sharks, and now no robbery businesses will appear.

Before I unlocked the east island, I used the yankee method to get over there early to get the red balloons and take over the last Cholo business. The Sharks also left their businesses unoccupied, so I took a few. Now, I've unlocked the East Island, have done Accidents will happen and unfriendly competition, and am up to turn on, tune in, bug out. I've unlocked the smuggling and drugs businesses, but no robbery businesses will spawn. The Bikers had one at some point. I took over one of their drug businesses west of the North Point Mall, then saved the game and turned off. When I reloaded the game, the robbery business had been taken over by the Sharks. Now, there aren't any robbery businesses. I tried attacking a site then leaving it unoccupied so that a rival gang might form a robbery business, but they won't make one, only one of the other businesses. Has anyone else encountered this?

The Driver aiming system was pretty crap. I like the current system, where you move the right analog stick to go into manual aim. All they need to do is make the auto aim target enemies rather than innocent bystanders more often.

I want the bigger Uzi from Vice City back, rather than the crappy Microz Uzi seen in San Andreas. Why the hell did they get rid of the ones seen in pre-release screenshots?

I think the character from the VC looks a little like Donald Love.

The ability to sit and lie down, so you can relax on beaches.

Maybe you should also be able to buy properties like the police station or hospital, so you can keep your money and weapons if you die or get busted. You should also be able to buy the airports, so you can have a huge amount of aircraft at your disposable. Finally, I hope you get to buy vehicles like in Scarface, and the vehicles appear at whichever property you choose. You could use your cellphone to tell your driver to deliver a vehicle to wherever you are.

Play Just Cause for a good example of how big doesn't necessarily mean better. There wasn't enough detail, and it took ages to get from one place to another unless you called in extraction. And you could spend ages trying to work your way back to civilisation if you destroy your car in the middle of nowhere.

Ragdoll physics. I remember reading a preview in PSM2 UK saying that people would die realistically. They said that they'd even fall over ledges, but it wasn't in the final game. I hate how there's only really 3 dying animations. They should put havok physics in. Oh, and bring back the ability to blow off arms and legs. I also hope they try not to make the game look too gritty and "street" like in San Andreas. They should probably bring back the cartoony look of Vice City, but obviously looking much nicer with the help of next-gen horsepower.

The edit button wasn't working. It'd be cool if you could to missions for your businesses and assets, and as you did them, the buildings would grow bigger and richer and earn you even more money. You should also be able to talk to pedestrians. As you gain respect and influence by taking over businesses, they'd treat you with more and more respect.

Make the gang wars more varied. Be able to take over businesses like in the Godfather, but make the businesses more varied aswell.

*BUMP*

How was swimming limited in VCS?

I got it about a year ago. It's a Dell Latitude C640 and has Intel ® Integrated Audio . I played the Max Payne 2 demo, and it can run it at the highest settings with 800 by 600 by 32 resolution and no AA. The sound is fine aswell. It's just Vice City that seems messed up in terms of sound.

I downloaded Direct X 9.0c. I tested out my sound via dxdiag, and it said that the sound card only supports software buffer. When I play the game, there's no sound. The sound's fine with other games, like Max Payne 2. Do I need a new sound card, then? BTW, I don't have any speakers, I use a laptop.

Well, the PS3 and Xbox 360 are next-gen machines.

I personally hope there's 2 time periods: The '80s and the present day.