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Yak, I agree that the cops are harder on VC. I also agree that the Vigilante missions can get stuck around a certain area for quite a while. As for the tank being the only way to get kills and if you've got three cop stars you're screwed... take a look at this, my other video:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=b3X3kYf16m4&mode=related&search=

That includes highlights of a go in which I get over 400 kills, and I never use the tank- plus I often get loads of cops after me. It's not as funny as the other video but there you go.

...and I love posts where somebody cries over someone else's opinion on the internet. Would you have preferred it if I said VC was "bitterly disappointing", "waste of fifty bucks", "poorly done cash-in that fixes almost none of the issues from GTA3 but adds pointless details that help everyone overlook the obvious flaws and go, wow, look at that feature!" ?

The only additions in VC that were awesome were the motorcycles, the better vehicle models that look like their real-world equivalents, the shooting through windshields, being able to dive out of moving cars, and I remember something improved about car doors. And of course the licensed music for the radio is great.

None of these things make up for the horribly designed city, the truly awful gimmick missions (boat, plane, toy helicopter...), and the fact that a ton of the missions don't even involve vehicles and are more about entering buildings and third person 'gunplay'. Hell, you don't even touch a vehicle in the final mission... and the f**king cops can still arrest you despite your car moving. But your guy speaks during the lame story AND you can recreate the climax of Scarface for no real reason! I love the 80s!

Also, there were plenty of 'fast cars' in GTA3 (since VC's sports cars are just reskinned GTA3 sports cars, apparently looking like a real Ferrari instead of a mockup makes the car faster?), and its islands had just as many long avenues for high speed driving. Not that you'd really want to use the fastest cars since they had way oversensitive handling, but to each their own. The difference is in VC it pretty much only had long avenues for high speed driving and not much else, there were few shortcuts and fewer paths to take around, almost as if Rockstar took the third island in GTA3 and decided it was the best and designed VC around it. The whole game is about driving around a city, and that city was poorly designed which obviously affects the entire game. This is map design 101 here. The best gameplay in the world means dick when you have a s**t map (killbox anyone?). Vigilante was endlessly entertaining in GTA3 and was one of the reasons I played it so much, but like I said previously VC crapped all over that because they didn't fix the flaws and/or added new ones. Add in the worse islands and vigilante becomes much less fun.

There were plenty of cool things in VC but the problem is they built it upon the really fun but flawed GTA3 gameplay but added nothing to fix the foundation so it still had all the annoyances that are no longer inexcusable when they've clearly known about the issues and did nothing to fix them, instead focusing on more gimmicks. So yes, it was a waste of time if I wanted an improved GTA3.