The latest issue of GamesTM, UK Magazine which is on sale from today contains a preview of Vice City Stories. The magazine states that Philip Michael Thomas, voice-actor of Lance Vance in Vice City is back again as the voice of Lance in VCS. If you've watched Miami Vice, you'll know Philip Thomas as Ricardo Tubbs, who as you may also remember is copied in Vice City as one of the two cops that turn up in Vice Cheetahs.



As we've stated before, Rockstar are now focussing a lot more on the water element in Vice City Stories, according to GamesTM; Rockstar think of it as a "hidden gameplay element, the city's underlying personality.'' So with the inclusion of jet ski's, possible inclusion of the vortex, and now we can also confirm the prescence of the Skimmer yet again in Vice, coupled with the ability to swim; it looks like we'll be seeing a lot more of the water in VCS. Good news in my opinion, as the water has been severly under used.

GamesTM also confirms that the textures, models and draw distance have all been improved as we've said before, however the magazine confirms that the game suffers, like the others from pop-up map models. Often in GTA, map models have two versions, a low poly version for distance shots, and a detailed version for up close. Pop-ups often ocurr when there isn't a low poly version with a high LOD value.

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