I borrowed from a friend played because i wanted something to do on a long car trip, ended up quiting after three hours.  The wierd dissonance between Vic's personality and the rest of the game I can deal with,  I'm also okay with a slow start and  i can handle awkward combat.  I guess i could have dealt with the unlikable cast as well but whose idea was the forklift mission?  The game was originally made for the psp so why would they put such a mission with such bad controls?   After the 15th try i realized something, i was not having fun with the game, most of the entertainment value was from the talk show on the radio.  I gave up and was soured on the gta series forever... atleast until I found out that my (13 year old though he got the game when he was 11) cousin had gta 4.  Much, much more fun. 

From what I understand, Vice City Stories didn't exactly hold up well at the time of its release, either.

From what I understand, Vice City Stories didn't exactly hold up well at the time of its release, either.

as a psp title originally it wasnt quite as good as the console specific games but to be fair they don't hold up that well either. I tried to play vice city and 3 recently and couldnt get over how bad the handling and gun play was.

I played both of them when they were released on psp and I definitely remember thinking that Liberty City Stories was a lot better, but I do remember having some fun with VC stories even with its flaws.

The forklift mission was frustrating but the mission "Where it Hurts Most" was much, MUCH worse.

Yeeeaah those PSP GTAs are weird because at first you're like "awesome! A gta game that looks like the ps2 ones on my psp!" before realizing that the game plays like poo

I really liked the two games, but it suffered from not having a second analog stick. The ports to PS2 weren't bad at all but don't seem that good compared to San Andreas.

I played through all of Vice City Stories on the PSP and thought it was ok. Nothing too special, but a decent and mostly fun game. Liberty City Stories on the other hand was a fucking horrible unplayable mess. Maybe it was just my copy or something, but the device literally could not handle the game.