Vice City Stories UK boxart, price

By Tom Bramwell Published 25 July, 2006

Updated. Hints at content.

Rockstar shed a tiny bit more light on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories this week, revealing that it will cost $49.99 in the US and £34.99 in the UK, and releasing the box artwork for both territories.

The game's due out on PSP in October (17th in the US and 20th in Europe), but Rockstar's been pretty tight-lipped about it so far, other than to say the game will feature "a new storyline, new missions and gameplay" - the same line it took with the PSP's Liberty City Stories, of course.

The UK box art (pictured) suggests that at least a couple of familiar characters will be returning - again aping the style of LCS, which was set before the storyline of Grand Theft Auto III, and featured turns from younger versions of characters like Donald Love.

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UK box artwork.

Indeed, there are plenty of parallels between LCS and VCS - the concept, the release timing, the developer (Rockstar Leeds) - and this has led to suggestions that it will follow its predecessor onto PlayStation 2 after a spell of PSP exclusivity.

Rockstar hasn't answered our questions about that yet. If it follows the LCS pattern though, expect VCS to retail at full price on PSP and reappear later for a budget-like figure on PS2. Indeed, Rockstar billed LCS on PS2 as a chance for the larger PS2 installed base to play the game for the first time, so unless PSP sales go up by about 80 million in the next 12 months we'd be very surprised by its continued absence from PS2 shelves.

Particularly, of course, since Grand Theft Auto IV is still over a year away, and on next- rather than current-gen formats, and therefore unlikely to see its sales cannibalised by the earlier release of a PS2 VCS.

We'll let you know more about Vice City Stories when they write it down for us on big cardboard signs and wave it in front of our faces so we don't have to move much.

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Comments (22) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • Totoriko #1 6 years ago

    Nice price

  • AusFreelancer #2 6 years ago

    Since when was full price, nice?
    Oh right, it's quite cheap compared to rip off next gen..... i'll wait for the January sales.

  • Perry #3 6 years ago

    A must have on PS2 I'd have thought. Not throwing away the PS2 just yet, despite the other half continually calling for it....

  • ProfessorLesser #4 6 years ago

    What? There's a Vice City Stories now?!

    Rockstar just surpassed Sony in my eyes as 'most cynical and hated corporate wankers'.
    Edited by 1 at 25/07/06 @ 10:35

  • JetSetWilly #5 6 years ago

    It's the sort of shameless milking that Nintendo get panned for but is seemingly acceptable if it's GTA.

    People would buy a small paper hat if it said GTA on it. And until that changes Rockstar would be fools to stop.

  • Kay #6 6 years ago

    Shameless milking, yes. But I'm still looking forward to it. The first PSP GTA was rather good.

    K
    Edited by 1 at 25/07/06 @ 10:49

  • sickpuppysoftware #7 6 years ago

    "It's the sort of shameless milking that Nintendo get panned for but is seemingly acceptable if it's GTA."

    Funny I'd have said the exact reverse was true.

  • Tomo #8 6 years ago

    What the hell is wrong with this? I think they're fantastic games and I'd hardly call it milking it ffs.

    If they took GTA3 and GTA:VC and then simply threw them onto the PSP, then it would be a bloody farce.

  • Wayne #9 6 years ago

    It's just an add-on pack without the requirement of the original game.
    Nothing wrong with that imo. Good news for the die hards.

    I wonder will the PSP be able to handle the shere size of San Andreas (assuming they contine the 'stories' series).

  • JetSetWilly #10 6 years ago

    What the hell is wrong with this? I think they're fantastic games and I'd hardly call it milking it ffs.

    I think it all comes down to whether you like the franchise or not. With this PS2 will have had 5 iterations of GTA. To me that seems a lot. Nintendo churning out yearly Mario Party games is the same deal.

    Rockstar will end-up like Square - they can only make any money out of one thing.

  • aine #11 6 years ago

    I'm hoping a PS2 version is on the cards. Which, let's face it, it will be, considering how well the PS2 LCS sold for very little effort on Rockstar's part.

  • tenma #12 6 years ago

    Rockstar will end-up like Square - they can only make any money out of one thing.

    I thtink that's sort of an exaggeration. The Warriors, Manhunt, the Max Payne series and Table Tennis are all pretty solid games. GTA will undoubtedly be their most lucrative franchise but at least they'll still have other quality titles.

  • smoison #13 6 years ago

    Pls let their be Helicopter and airplanes THIS TIME!!!

    GTA is still the best franchise, periode to lots of us.

  • Wayne #14 6 years ago

    Anyone know if there's any plans to put the Stories series on PC?

  • Zero Beat #15 6 years ago

    Why not just develop it for PS2 in the first place and make a better game? If they're having to port it (not particularly well) to make up sales what's the point of doing a PSP version at all?

  • mechamonkey #16 6 years ago

    Online multiplayer please, as awesome as ad-hoc was its still too bloody hard to find players.

  • coojam #17 6 years ago

    What the hell...why are people so furious about this?! This is the announcement of a PSP game, not a PS2 one...this is a good thing on Rockstar's part to allow a portable version of Vice City with an entirely new storyline and new features.

    IF it gets ported to PS2, then that's a good thing too...no one buys it thinking it's a new game....it's a budget title and all the better for it!

    Stop complaining!

  • Nobuo #18 6 years ago

    The image is broken.

  • cyacomini #19 6 years ago

    ***still*** broken

  • BBIAJ #20 6 years ago

    Here's hoping that the soundtrack is up to the quality of the original Vice City's.

  • projectmayhem #21 6 years ago

    i'm genuinely looking forward to this game. VC is one of my favourites from the GTA series (bar GTA2) so this shall be a "day 1" purchase.

    and hopefully sony put out the ps1 emulator so i can get GTA2 :D

  • Kinkster #22 6 years ago

    "I'm hoping a PS2 version is on the cards. Which, let's face it, it will be, considering how well the PS2 LCS sold for very little effort on Rockstar's part."

    Excuse me? Very little effort?! I nearly killed myself making that game and i did less hours than anyone else there!