GTA: Vice City Stories: Price, Box Art, Release Date Confirmed
- July 25, 2006 13:32 PM PST
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Rockstar Games today confirmed several important points about the PSP game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, including a ship date, price tag, and box art.
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Today, Rockstar Games confirmed that the next game in the Grand Theft Auto series, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories for the PSP, will ship on October 17, 2006.
Vice City Stories is expected to retail at $49.99, a ten-dollar hike over Liberty City Stories. PSP games typically launch at a lower $39.99 price.
Also revealed is the box art for the game, which appears to depict a few familiar faces: "Big" Mitch Baker, a biker gang leader, and Umberto Robina, a Cuban mobster, both from the PlayStation 2 game GTA: Vice City. No word on whether cult legends Lee Majors or Danny Trejo will reprise their performances from the original Vice City.
There's no word on whether a PS2 version is planned for release, though the last PSP Grand Theft Auto game, Liberty City Stories, recently made the jump to the PS2 and enjoyed enormous sales.
I really, really, really hope Rockstar does more with Vice City Stories than it did with Liberty City Stories. That was a great PSP game, but it didn't make the jump to the PS2 all that well. For a PS2 games, the gameplay felt cramped and confined. And the storyline was only so-so.
Twenty bucks says this puppy lands on the PS2 by next spring.
