GTA Vice City was never meant to be a standalone game, instead it was originally planned to be a mission pack for GTA 3
Fan-made remake GTA Vice City NextGen Edition is perfect on Steam Deck after following a how to install guide.
GTA Vice City Nextgen Edition brings all the missions, the whole map, and content from the original game to the RAGE Engine. This is an incredible project that all Vice City fans will appreciate.
GTA Vice City Nextgen Edition has an improved version of the city – and weapons – from the Definitive Edition. All the cars from the Xbox version of the original game will be present here. Additionally, all the models of all characters and peds will be from the Xbox version. From what we know, there are no plans to increase their polygon count. However, all 3D characters will have better textures.
All the original radio stations will also be present in this unofficial remaster. And although the project will have the cut-scenes and the style of the original game, it will also pack better particle effects and some lighting improvements.
As said, GTA Vice City Nextgen Edition started as a mod. However, it’s now available as a standalone free project. All you have to do is download and play it. The project does no longer require the original Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
As the modding team behind it stated:
“Initially, the modification was planned to require the original game in order to show respect to the publisher. However, over the past two days, we have completely rebuilt the project, and it is now available as a standalone “installation-ready package”. Just download, install, and play. There are no issues with version compatibility since the mod is now fully autonomous.”
Here’s a TLDR of what happened. Two days before the release of GTA Vice City Nextgen Edition, Take-Two Interactive deleted the YouTube channel of the modding team. As Revolution Team claimed, Take-Two did this without any warning or attempt to contact them. So, from the looks of it, the team felt betrayed by this move. As such, it decided to give the middle finger to Take-Two, create a new YT channel, and release the mod as a standalone project.
"it decided to give the middle finger to Take-Two, create a new YT channel, and release the mod as a standalone project." ~ how it should be :)
"Take-Two will do its best to take down the video and the download link." They can go fuck themselves, it's good it's a torrent file now I have it, will download it seed and post it on Take-Twos twitter account. I want to rub it in their face and piss them off. Hopefully this will spread on torrent sites then it's too late for anyone to do anything I love it lol.
GTA+ members will be able to access Android/iOS entries according to a new app description on the Microsoft Store.
Oh wow that's crazy I would've love gta 3 2 disc pack tbh.
Vice City was my first GTA. Game changer!
My second favorite GTA in the series.
I've lost count at how many times I've played VC over the years it's a masterpiece that is still within most people's top 5 GTA games.
I wouldn't be shocked if it was actually intended as a expansion pack given the tight timeline 12 months from the launch of GTA 3 and the fact that VC clearly recycled many assets and the second half of the game was rather unstructured
buy businesses do 3 missions accumulate money but more until you have all of them some assets didn't even have missions like pole position.
however I'm glad it became its own thing it became bigger than 3 every would have been and lead to a 80s revitalisation that occurred around the early 200s