The big sale of Grand Theft Auto 3 did not stop Samhauser and Dan Hauser from moving forward, but they are not ready to develop the next generation, they plan to develop a game based on Grand Theft Auto 3, this game is widely spread in China, it is the memories of countless post-00s, yes, it is Grand Theft Auto Vice City. Although most of the people who played this game in China at that time played pirated copies, it is enough to see that Chinese players love this game. As a mature game development company, R Star has long understood the principle of planning ahead. In fact, while they were developing Grand Theft Auto 3, they were also developing Vice City. Later, they still used this model in subsequent game works. After the release of Grand Theft Auto 5, they worked on Red Dead Redemption 2, and when Red Dead Redemption 2 was nearing completion, they shifted their focus to Grand Theft Auto 6, which players wanted.
I believe that everyone who has played the game of Vice City knows that the prototype of Sin City is Miami, USA. That's right, the America that shoots every day. Now the United States is constantly strife, in fact, this in the 80s in the United States is a "small trouble", the 80s in the United States is full of drugs, gangsters. Power and money trading, red light industries are countless, everything here is so crazy, especially Miami in the United States. When they first came to Miami, the Hauser brothers were not locals, so if they wanted to use the city as a prototype, they must first understand the characteristics and culture of the city, they watched countless movies about American gangsters, and they also deeply understood the characteristic culture of Miami. After understanding these things, they also need to draw a map of Miami's city, every terrain, tall buildings must be restored in the game as much as possible, which requires some people to do this job, fortunately, R Star has developed into a small company, not a small company that was originally unknown. They took a part of the personnel of the R Star North studio and sent them to the south to deeply analyze the city of Miami.
During their time in Miami, R Star employees took countless photos that documented most of the city's features, including local architecture, palm trees, and some entertainment venues, which also became the fodder for the Vice City game. With a tight schedule and heavy tasks, they returned to the studio non-stop after the inspection. With the experience of Grand Theft Auto 3 development, the production of this game was very rapid. In addition, they have improved the vehicle's driving system and physical impact effects, making the game more realistic. Of course, now R stars also have money, so they invited some famous actors at that time to dub, and even many Hollywood actors were among them. After a while, take-two decided to give R Star more budget, and R Star planned to add something more to the game. So they added a flight system to the game, allowing players to fly freely in Miami, and even set players some tasks to operate drones.
Finally, R Star officially released GTA:VC, the sequel to GTA3, in 2002. Sure enough, as usual, there was a sea of people in front of the counter, all of them came to the evil city. Seeing that the new game was so popular, the Hauser brothers launched a variety of game peripherals, which was warmly welcomed by players, and people really liked the R star at that time. When the game is released, fans of R Star begin to gather in R Star stores, and a new peripheral will be snatched by players as soon as it is released. Many middle school students take pride in wearing a piece of clothing with the R star logo on it, not only clothes, but they will buy any product with the R star logo. Even many police officers have bought some peripherals for the R Star.
Even if the game was subtitled in English at the time, it still would not change the enthusiasm of Chinese players, this foreign game really killed crazy in China, at that time, no one was invincible, and it really became popular all over China. Children who were still playing the Little Bully game console at that time naturally could not resist this temptation, this game was simply a dimensionality reduction blow to China's game industry at that time, and many Chinese learned about R Star game company precisely because of playing Vice City. Even if this generation of protagonists has an Achilles' heel, that is, they can't swim, so that players come to the conclusion that Tommy is easily soluble in water. In fact, what really makes players fall in love with this game is that this game can enter game cheats. Here, players are truly invincible, do whatever they want, go to heaven and earth, and do anything. When idle and bored, driving tanks on the street to kill, players can become a "god of the world" in this land, which is a feeling that other games cannot give.
Many people were only concerned about beating the police at that time and did not understand the plot of this game, after all, there was no Chinese version at that time. Its plot is mainly about: Tommy was arrested and imprisoned after committing a crime, and after being released from prison, he went to Vice City, made extensive friends in Vice City, and finally had his own power, and finally defeated the enemy Sonny. Vice City has also topped the global game sales chart, which shows how good this game is, and R Star has achieved great results with it.
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