GTA Vice City vs GTA Vice City Stories - Physics and Details Comparison

👋 Hey Family! In this video we take a look at the differences between GTA Vice City (2002) & GTA Vice City Stories (2006) in terms of physics, details & graphics. Let's see which one is better. I hope you will enjoy.
🎮 Chapters:
⬛ 00:00 Swimming
⬛ 00:54 Jumping from high places
⬛ 02:05 Fighting
⬛ 03:22 Map boundaries
⬛ 04:32 Graphics
⬛ 06:46 Water physics
⬛ 07:55 Explosion & fire
⬛ 08:54 Vehicles
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[@AimanCool440]

Gta vice city stories is very underrated.

[@the_troll309]

It's was only on ps2 and PsP unfortunately, there's port for PC made by fans btw.

[@shashank.po21]

​@@the_troll309no good controls

[@issacskillz1573]

There's no doubt at all that Vic Vance is much better than Tommy In fact, if Vic would have never died in the first game. Tommy wouldn't have stood a chance to take over vice City 💯

[@valentinorochetti7353]

Blame san andreas, nah joke

[@deathwindowproduction4857]

even best stories actually, it looks like old skool 80's action movies

[@apexgoliath629]

Fun Fact: Victor Vance is the first ever gta character that can do grapple attacks

[@Shubham05000]

I think Only GTA Character coz’ I Don’t think any other characters can do Grapple attacks (except for CJ’s New Fighting styles which are just for punching not holding or dragging NPC)

[@diegocagna8809]

As i know, the street fighting style of CJ u can learn in Las Venturas can do grapple attacks

[@allstargaming2500]

​@@diegocagna8809But the neck snapping attack is unique to this game. It's so much fun snapping the necks of Police officers and it remained as a stealth mechanic from SA(instead of the suppressed pistol and knife).

[@Tauq_]

Also the only gta game, RDR2 also had this tho so gta 6 will have it as well

[@bigbosssnakecorn8834]

Fun fact : Vic is the 1st GTA protagonist being smaller compare to the other protagonists

[@makandalp]

You can also break necks when sneaking up npcs from behind in vice city stories. Absolutely brutal game

[@itsjustmallow5684]

How do u do that?

[@junginys]

@@itsjustmallow5684 go behind someone, target them and press grab(triangle) twice

[@PankajKumar-bl4el]

Cry about it

[@unknownman428]

​@@PankajKumar-bl4elwhy would he cry about it

[@makandalp]

@@unknownman428 hes talking crap, i played vice city before that dude was even born.. Lol

[@mazda9624]

Vice City Stories has probably the best licensed soundtrack out of any game/movie/show in existence.

[@danielnevees]

It's great but I think the original Vice City OST is a lot better and has even better songs, such as Michael Jackson, Iron Maiden, even more famous songs

[@user-uq4mk4mv2p]

@@danielneveesvice city doesnt have Phil Collins/Genesis, Art of Noise, The Cure, or New Order though 🤧

[@BaldNlgga635]

No

[@Link-zm2uz]

I agree with you ​@@user-uq4mk4mv2p

[@DefenDefault4]

I liked how the character can now swim in Vice City Stories.

[@blackspeed6969]

While the definitive version doesn't have this feature, Yup, the definitive edition deserves 45 dollars due to developers hard work they done all night for us for making the best game they ever created in the history of gaming industry😂😂😂

[@TheSavageFactual]

@@blackspeed6969 The dev are not to eb blamed with, Grove Street Games is who to be blamed, & R* for refusing to put focus on these remasters, They probably can improve it better than just textures and graphics, But didn't fix the bugs, Didn't think of improving them to even better

[@DefenDefault4]

@@TheSavageFactual To be fair, it's mostly TakeTwo and R*'s fault for making GSG remaster the games, since GSG has only 20 workers.

[@deepflare1028]

​@@DefenDefault4They made a pretty dumb decision to let a mobile port studio to remaster these games when they could've easily hired Rockstar Dundee or Nightdive Studios

[@DefenDefault4]

@@deepflare1028 Yeah, I think it would've been better if they only remastered GTA III, then VC and SA.

[@geckoop2848]

In my opinion, that sunset feel from vice city stories is a pure definition of vice city. It has those vibes in it tbh. I can spend my time looking at those shades though it is a game

[@Airplane_boy312]

Fr

[@juandefreitas6586]

Vcs and Lcs deserves a lot more attention.

[@tavellclinton9256]

Yeah!

[@shashank.po21]

They dont have good controls in ported version Rockstar himself forget about them

[@MrDwightSchrute]

From who? The games aren’t even accessible anymore

[@LordFawful-se9fk]

​@@MrDwightSchruteemulators

[@MrDwightSchrute]

@@LordFawful-se9fk They’re illegal

[@AgusTTBlue]

2:26 False, Tommy can kick bodies on the ground, it just depends on the position he is in.

[@walterlv4093]

it is true if you live in australia, germany or japan

[@Simoo50]

@@walterlv4093oh yeah it’s censored in there

[@IOGAMER69]

No he needs to download the full version of GTA VC

[@lilianetorres-dp3nf]

H9​@@IOGAMER69

[@Hostile2430]

GTA Vice City Stories was super underrated being last game in 3D universe it introduced so many new features like empires building ,improved melee combat ,new type of weapons and vehicle , the storyline and characters were also well written But being exclusive to PSP/PS2 the graphics has aged very poorly i wish Rockstar games make a proper remaster of this game and Liberty City Stories both of them are forgotten GTA games

[@deepflare1028]

Eh, the lighting of VCS is pretty good and makes me forget about the character models and animations. Besides, they have a certain "charm" similar to other 3D Uni games

[@wfanking1187]

yeah sad it came at the end of psp and ps2 life cycle , LCS despite being inferior in features and story was more successful, it sold 8 million copies in PSP alone, the best selling psp game ever, VCS had half of that, just shows what a difference a single year gap 2005-2006 can make!

[@Gonzas97]

Are you sure you want a rockstar remaster?

[@sebastianaliandkulche]

If you play it on a real PSP the when its night or there is a sunset it still looks gorgeous.

[@AltYoutubeAccount]

@@Gonzas97i would love a remaster for lcs and vcs why not? Vc 3 and sa got remastered and if im not wrong isnt vc and 3 older? Should be able to at least tweak the controls and up the graphics a bit.

[@gld3n711]

i remember the crazy sunset of VCS, the orange was so strong that the water looked like lava.

[@nguyengamer7906]

The crazy sunset almost likes Vice City in 80s

[@elsewheremusic1815]

Normally, Tommy can hit pedestrians who are on the ground. You simply have a censored version (sold in Europe or Australia)

[@pooler57]

What I recommend is to compare the PS2 versions of both games. The PC version of VC is missing the trails which is what gave it its warm atmosphere

[@allstargaming2500]

True but it's not as great as VCS sunset and sunrise. Rockstar Leeds nailed the evening atmosphere and has that purple tone to it in the night.

[@pooler57]

@@allstargaming2500 true but VC looks better during the day and at night imo

[@spiderman4538]

​@@pooler57 I don't think VC is better at night. Sure it has better quality but VCS neons are much better. The neons were so amazing in VCS that people started making mods adding the Vice City Stories neons to the original VC and even San Andreas.

[@pooler57]

@@spiderman4538 I’m talking about the sky and weather rather than the neons. VC is darker which is more realistic and the sky color goes with the ground color better

[@gabrielmartines3510]

No, just use Ps2 atmosphere mod.

[@guard6069]

VCs is an helicopter paradise. you can literally find helicopters anywhere in the game(After you unlock the other part of the island)

[@faresssoft]

Also a plane with wheels not dodo 😂

[@UCl9efUORsYtSqvGv4MSXmFA]

0:40 Who noticed Victor Vance swimming rhymed with the song? 😂🥂

[@gavinjones]

Some of the character animations in VCS look very similar to SA

[@TheSavageFactual]

GTASA, GTALCS, & GTAVCS, are basically same games, Just one of them is a lot more advanced which is GTASA obviously

[@rawaacrew]

​@@TheSavageFactualThey aren't same games. LCS is built on Vice City's engine while VCS uses next version of Renderware after GTA SA. That's why VCS offers more features than GTA SA but obviously cuts others because they didn't fit in Vice City and limitations of PSP console of that time.

[@nugss1222]

Yep, notice vic vance run animation? It's same animation as CJ, also he's running animation too with heavy gun, it supposed to use by cj

[@gavinjones]

Yeah. i also recognised cjs swimming animation and the shotgun firing animation. His character body model also looks like any other San Andreas character model

[@deepflare1028]

​@@nugss1222his running animation is from LCS, not SA

[@breastbroeder]

Vice city stories is my childhood, i wish i could experience that feeling of playing it as a kid again

[@berkinsahin9054]

2:28 he can actually kick the knocked out peds. Your version seems broken 😐

[@gabrielmartines3510]

His version is European/Australian which is censored.

[@enigmapanzers]

​@@gabrielmartines3510well he can mod the game and fix it.

[@PankajKumar-bl4el]

​@@enigmapanzershe probably didn't knew about it

[@NuhUh1411]

@@gabrielmartines3510Mines Australian and it’s not censored

[@Piggyyyyyyyyyyy]

He lives in United States

[@riko918ab6]

The best gta to end the 3D era of gta

[@michaeltaylor9033]

Period

[@Mr_Shtoporenko]

I'd like to correct some moments :) Victor can't swim indefinitely until he completes Beach Patrol missions. Until that he has limited stamina and when he is out of it, Victor will lose his grip on water and will drown like Tommy; Both Tommy and Victor do receive fall damage, but it is substantially decreased compared to GTA 3 or GTA SA; Tommy, while having only one button to commence his attacks, he actually can attack his enemies with different attacks depending on the their direction (for example, Tommy will punch and kick those who in front of him, or headbutt them on his right, or punch with his elbow on his left)

[@johnflores5044]

In a way that is realistic in real life at some point you will get tired and you will not be able to stay afloat

[@PankajKumar-bl4el]

​@@johnflores5044well I think the stamina runs a lot faster than it should be

[@weskerkings651]

​@@PankajKumar-bl4elthe stamina running out fast is to prevent you from reaching the other island

[@Mr_Shtoporenko]

@@weskerkings651 not really correct. As far as I can remember, you actually can get from Mainland to Leaf Links by swimming under the corresponding bridge. You can climb onto platforms under the bridge to replenish stamina. No. There is other thing that keeps you from swimming across water to "Eastern Vice City" - when you reach a middle point, suddenly a strong current will flush you away back to the place you came from, and it's strong enough to keep you away.

[@_colombia.]

Un fanboy de gta vice city 😂😂😂

[@petrosMgr]

10 years ago i bought a psp and gta vice city stories to pass my free time while serving in the army. I couldnt believe that im playing a 3d open world game in the palm of my hand. 10 years later, im playing gta v on high graphics on my steam deck...just unbelievable how technology changes...

[@mrgoody69]

The last mission on vice city stories just pure mind-blowing. 3 central character fight to death in the rooftop.

[@chiadikajoe-adigwe190]

Fr

[@ruibispo9139]

3:10 Vic can also break necks from behind

[@GamingBenchmarksBI]

And he can punch (the kidneys) from behind while holding the neck.

[@abdulkerimseid1189]

just to note we need gta 6 comparision to gta III after 2250

[@TheSavageFactual]

Comparison to a an old game with a new game?

[@blackspeed6969]

@@TheSavageFactual bruh....

[@DerKlingler]

It is so underrated I loved the game back then. Even the map was slightly bigger. Such great memories. A shame I can’t play it anymore

[@DerKlingler]

@@Soidog23 don’t have an ps2 and the game

[@YakawssSeb]

Emulate it

[@AltYoutubeAccount]

@@Soidog23yes bro pcsx2 version 1.6.0 i think

[@AltYoutubeAccount]

Emulate on pc if you have one like mans said

[@faresssoft]

You can actually, psp emulator the solution,i just played it days before...been waiting since 2006 😢

[@notmus]

San Andreas has the most impressive combat out of all GTA games because you can learn 3 different styles, Boxing, Kung Fu, Muay Thai.

[@bricksjarencevitallgue2245]

it's wrestling bro not muay thai

[@thestrong2401]

Gta 4 and vice city stories have the best hand to hand combat in the series

[@rhythmkhandelwal2940]

And San Andreas

[@GamingBenchmarksBI]

You should compare PS2 Vice City vs PS2 Vice City Stories, that would be the most accurate comparison.

[@loweni7460]

Exactly this looks like the PSP version which is heavily downscaled

[@rhythmkhandelwal2940]

​@@loweni7460actually this is PC port

[@GamingBenchmarksBI]

@@rhythmkhandelwal2940 VCS PC doesn't exist.

[@rhythmkhandelwal2940]

@@GamingBenchmarksBI emulators and Fan made port

[@rhythmkhandelwal2940]

@@GamingBenchmarksBI VCS doesn't look this good in PSP graphics wise and the PS2 version doesn't have this yellow tink filter

[@Dinkelberg2375]

Vice city stories and Liberty city stories are so underrated imo

[@AL1RAZAA]

0:39 loved how the swimming sound synced with the background music tempo lol

[@lilmindofcuriosities]

Haha yes

[@Slawek361]

0:45 what a beat when he swims xD

[@magesticalmysterium6856]

Given that Vice City was for Home Consoles and Desktop, and Vice City Stories I Think was for Portable Consoles. the Latter is really quite Impressive for the time

[@snowhunter7536]

In GTA VCS fighting mechanics, you missed the part when you can grab someone from behind by tapping triangle, and a) relentlessly kicking him with a tap of the circle or b) snap their neck with a tap of the triangle again. That’s how I constantly killed the Mendezes in every mission replay.

[@Kyle-Musiq]

Vic can also sneak attack too by breaking there neck

[@Everyonesbuddy829]

Honestly I just want Vic to have a full army uniform and a longer army missions.

[@mrpoetoe3609]

Yes, if sgt peppah doesn't put vic to Martinez

[@Totavier]

A nice compilation of the features differences but yeah both games has their great things but VCS was way better. One thing that you forgot to mention of the features that has VCS over VC and even ALL the previous GTA games which I absolutely loved was the enhanced side jobs (or "R3 Missions") in which now has checkpoints in the levels (by each 5 levels completed you get a checkpoint) and the Taxi job was fantastic since added a new variety of passengers in which there is the traditional: "Go from point A to point B", but now there are the passengers that asks you for chase a vehicle, escape from the police, help it in a robbery or a double travel (go from point A to point B and then take it to point C).

[@traceydesanta7067]

Fact: GTA VCS was first game have jet ski before gta 5 😮😮

[@parsacheshmekhavar1703]

If you played GTA SA GTA SA have jet ski

[@bigbosssnakecorn8834]

@@parsacheshmekhavar1703I think he s talking about the Speedophile

[@mrpoetoe3609]

​@@parsacheshmekhavar1703 GTA San Andreas doesn't have Jetski. Jetski first appearance at Vice city Stories, after that Will appear at Chinatown wars and GTA V

[@aymanhs1052]

Great video, entertaining and attractive to watch, good job🔝👏

[@mika_chu]

I liked your video very much. And Great choice of music !

[@nathanlamarr7276]

VCS is literally the engine used post sanandreas on low end hardware of course it was the way it was!?!

[@bijaylaxmimoharana2218]

Rip Victor😢

[@TwoToneProduc]

Both GTA LCS and VCS have most major upgrades based of GTA SA but still retained some VC elements like the roll after falling

[@chrisdelgado4621]

0:23 I love how the music syncs up perfectly with Tommy’s movements here.

[@Gansolino]

Most funny than not seeing Tommy swimming and just drowning, is Vice City manual stating that's because sharks attacks. The excuse for Gta III was because the waters of Liberty City were toxic. I just hope that the invisible shark attacks are corrected on GTA VI

[@omijerusamala6364]

nice Betaz perfect comprasion vide and edit 💪💪💪

[@SpaceRangerPodcast]

When is Rockstar going to realize that vice city was a universe in itself and deserves to be expanded much much more,

[@YamnayaSintash]

I really think you should have compared the ps2 version of VCS to VC

[@unknown-yt00]

02:53 That Kick in between legs is still giving me Damage Emotionally 💀💀💀

[@luanschannelbrazil7722]

Next: GTA III VS Liberty City Stories

[@pipiesespipi]

yes i remember now gta vcs. i played it on my psp way back like 2008. missed it so much

[@_squby_]

Plz bring back the series of comparing other games with gta 5. ❤

[@TheSavageFactual]

Bro asides of RDRII and maybe GTAIV, Do you really need to? GTA V is made by R*, It's an obvious win asides of RDRII & maybe GTA IV

[@alexgravitos]

7:51 they do, you just cant see the fire due to the way transparency is handled in the game

[@reversalr]

3:11 if you grab someone from the back and press the grab button again, you can perform an instant kill neck break

[@DavidoMartinez]

Finally someone already made a comparison

[@tiagobr2286]

Vice City Stories uses GTA San Andreas game base and Liberty City Stories uses GTA Vice City game base

[@amirutel]

gta vice city stories is really better and i love that

[@tredausmaxima]

Ah. Just the video I was wanted

[@RealTalkTone]

I remember the Old GTAs whatever car you were in would pop up everywhere 😂 we’ve come a long way

[@syauqyrahman]

its easier to find substitution for your car if it explode 😂

[@RealTalkTone]

@@syauqyrahman lmao that would be a good thing if you were in a nice car but if you were in a car you didn’t want you would be surrounded by them 😂

[@syauqyrahman]

@@RealTalkTone lol imagine you were in a bobcat 🤣

[@br1ghten3rRBLX930]

Bro Gta VCS was the first gta game i played on PS2 back then but damn i was expecting it to make comeback on PC in the Remaster but turns out i was wrong but i did like VCS more than the other one though Fun Fact : Vic Vance can only drown when hes in the water for too long

[@AndreiPopescu]

For the price they charged for the "defective" edition I was expecting them to unite all 3 maps and put in all missions from all 5 games.

[@br1ghten3rRBLX930]

@@AndreiPopescu dang that would cool though...

[@maniacjoe3088]

Vice City Stories Texture make hurt my eyes

[@maulanaadrian9383]

Do GTA 3 vs LCS please.

[@FekLeyrTarg]

^this. 🙂

[@Cnote39legend]

Tommy can kick someone while on the ground. The fact he couldn't in this video means there was a glitch. He can still kick someone while they're down. But he only has a few punches and kicks in a fight

[@Fotosepken]

2:57 vance also can break heads if you sneak from back. Vcs seems the father of CJ also lots of vehicles systems same with san andreas. Seems they tried to make pre san andreas game

[@thesadneighborhoodkid3248]

Please keep making vice city and vice city stories comparison

[@amirutel]

i was played gta vice city stories in my PSP when i was kid remember it well ❤

[@zoro_0_0_]

I still play it

[@ayushshukla1695]

Tommy vercetti also kicks person lying on ground during a fight

[@mnw159]

Yea he does

[@darham0916]

Good video bro 👏

[@shadidmustafid]

Just waiting for you to make GTA 6 comparison videos ❤❤

[@Berindei_Stefan]

Vice City Stories has the best sunsets in any gta game in my oppinion ❤

[@ThatShitGood]

Vice City Stories is were it starts to get closer to the GTA Sa era of rockstar

[@neilpatrickhairless]

VCS was made after San Andreas

[@jpdoshi2811]

vice city stories = vice city map + san andreas physics

[@Skeleleman]

Fighting in vice city stories reminds me of Bully

[@JohnPaulBuce]

0:37 beat sync to swimming sfx

[@AndrewCFL]

2:44 I never knew you can do that in vice city stories

[@4ida]

2:31 he can attack on ground, seems you have the censored version

[@ammarmouhamed6068]

yes he have censored version , gta vice city cut version , there is 2 versions , uncut version and cut version , in cut version no blood , no money in ground , no rampages in map and you cannot kick when the enemy is down but in uncut version there is blood , there is money in ground , there is rampages in map and you can kick when the enemy is down

[@taabinkhan6319]

The storyline is also very underrated (gta vcs)

[@automoto95]

important fact: the vice city has much more and better save houses and much more garages space to keep many vehicles, vice city stories has only few small garages

[@PankajKumar-bl4el]

You can just save outside the building in gta vc

[@apshotsnep]

kids gta games is vice city 😎legends gta is vice city stories

[@zoro_0_0_]

Riyal

[@DarkenedX08]

One aspect where VCS really shines in comparison to Vice City is the character models during cutscenes.

[@E.G.P.R.]

I lost it when the first comparison was swimming

[@TayRich93]

Some I didn't like about is the steady attacks on your empires once you took them over lol

[@faresssoft]

And you cannot make it in the time 😂

[@TayRich93]

@@faresssoft lmao exactly one of the reasons I don't replay it 🤣

[@Dreiton902]

Bro i totally forgot about the GTA vice city stories i used to play it back in the day :(

[@flametornado491]

Bro at least do a fair comparison. You've used PSP version of GTA VCS and PC version of VC. The PS2 version of GTA VCS is a lot better, even better than GTA VC.

[@coondogtheman]

Tommy can attack NPCs on the ground if he has a melee weapon such as a golf club, If he has one then he will swing like he's teeing off.

[@efootballfifax8392]

By the way, about the fight. if you go from behind and click on the triangle, then Victor Vance will take a stranglehold, and if you click on the triangle again, then Vic will wring his opponent's neck.

[@nguyengamer7906]

Next please: GTA III vs GTA Liberty City Stories

[@omgsam7185]

I think people dont realize but GTA VCS is based on GTA SA engine. Even animations and effects are the same

[@oldskool1055]

GTA VCS is my favorite after GTA SA.

[@JohnPaulBuce]

vcs is basically sa but with more things in it

[@rhythmkhandelwal2940]

Lmao what more things, San Andreas has wayy more things to offer and it's size is also bigger

[@neilpatrickhairless]

SA doesn't have Empire buildings which is the only thing I can think of that VCS has over it. Empires in SA would have sent the replay value of that game through the roof

[@rhythmkhandelwal2940]

@@neilpatrickhairless empire building literally isn't even that impressive, you just chase other gangs and destroy them

[@I_hunt_lolis]

Pretty sure Tommy can kick someone who is on the ground. At least that's what I remember from the PC version...

[@ammarmouhamed6068]

gta vice city cut version , there is 2 versions , uncut version and cut version , in cut version no blood , no money in ground , no rampages in map and you cannot kick when the enemy is down but in uncut version there is blood , there is money in ground , there is rampages in map and you can kick when the enemy is down

[@paco680]

The combat system in gta vcs is absolutely awesome... even better than GTA 4 in my opinion

[@therandomgamer18]

Vcs or vc?

[@paco680]

@@therandomgamer18 Vcs sorry

[@therandomgamer18]

@@paco680 its ok. I dont know about better than gta 4, but vcs is so good

[@paco680]

@@therandomgamer18 I like it more personally, especially the property takeover and management feature

[@loweni7460]

@therandomgamer18 it is better than GTA 4 just because it's older doesn't mean it's inferior Niko can't grab and throw people like Vic nor can he snap necks or the other crazy stuff Vic can do

[@reversalr]

Cant wait for gta 6 lucia to be immune to fall damage aswell

[@serbukmomogi]

vice city is my favorite amongst other gta cities, the ambience, the atmosphere, it just brings me peace. i hope gta 6 will capture that vice city essence even tho it's not the 80's anymore

[@gabrielmartines3510]

I'm sure they will, Florida's essence goes well beyond neons and cocaine.

[@serbukmomogi]

@@gabrielmartines3510 sure is, i just hope my great-great-grandson will love it when the game is released

[@uchiharaiden287]

I've Been playing vcs on my android over and over again. Can't get tired of this amazing game

[@skullzarenice5]

lowkey gta vcs looks like the most fun 3D gta

[@Skull_BIAFBROOK]

Yeah it's my second favorite

[@miketyson4153]

VCS much better it was mixture of Gta VC + San

[@Dizaotb]

The gang wars in VCS was fire asf

[@BobbyCarillo]

VCS looks a lot more like it's in the 80s compared to VC, I can't explain why.

[@ridermanyt8029]

Probably because of the atmosphere?

[@danielnevees]

Vice City Stories also has a fire and an ambulance helicopter, pretty crazy

[@Lambda264]

GTA Vice City Stories was (for me) the GTA San Andreas 2

[@obiwalter483]

2:27 am i tripping? I remember being able to kick people on the floor