Reception
| Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 85.10% |
| Metacritic | 86/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Eurogamer | 8.0/10 |
| G4 | 4/5 |
| Game Informer | 8.5/10 |
| GameSpot | 8.4/10 |
| IGN | 9.0/10 |
The game has received positive reviews. It scored an 86% on Metacritic and 85% on GameRankings. It received a rating of 9.0/10 from IGN on the PSP, although IGN reviewers found a fairly blatant issue with the slow load time of environments, "You'll often enter one of these zones long before the game has had time to finish loading it..." the result is sometimes backgrounds and barriers popping out of nowhere. The PlayStation 2 port of the game was considered worse with a rating of 7.2/10 from GameSpot and a 7.5/10 from IGN. As of March 26, 2008, Vice City Stories has sold 4.5 million copies according to Take-Two Interactive. Hyper's Eliot Fish commends the game for using "the slick veneer of the 1980s story is well integrated into missions".
- Awards
- Received IGN's award for the best licensed soundtrack on PlayStation Portable in 2006.
- Best Handheld Game - Golden Joystick Awards 2007.
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