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You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser

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Re: You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser

#11
Crazy! Brought back the summers of my childhood where I mindlessly roamed around the Vice City with my custom MP3 list of songs. For so long, I was stuck on flying the RC helicopter in an abandoned skyscraper level. It has been years, and now I have the itch to try that again!

Thanks to whoever made this possible. There goes my weekend.

Re: You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser

#12
post #9

I came here hoping to see some technical explanation of what this is. E.g.JavaScript emulation of PS2 version? Recompilation + wasm? Something else entirely?

Says reVC in the description, so it's been decompiled from the original Vice City binary and then reimplemented in JavaScript/WebAssembly.

Re: You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser

#14
This works amazing well. I started playing and just 5 minutes in, I was completely hooked and ended up playing for almost half hour.

It could be that I'm a bit old-school, but this really seemed to confirm that ready to play fun gameplay trumps realistic graphics any day!

Re: You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser

#16
post #13

This got me thinking that one of my childhood favourites ought to be playable in the browser too, and sure enough, here's GTA 2 if anyone else is as old as I am: https://dos.zone/grand-theft-auto2/

Carmageddon is another old classic of mine, https://dos.zone/carmageddon

I used to watch my older brother play this when I was younger and he always hid the CD.

Re: You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser

#20

This works amazing well. I started playing and just 5 minutes in, I was completely hooked and ended up playing for almost half hour. It could be that I'm a bit old-school, but this really seemed to confirm that ready to play fun gameplay trumps realistic graphics any day!

Pushing the nostalgic effect aside, I agree. The gameplay is the important part and is why I can still play snes games to this day.
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