Great review!
Oh, maybe not Great, but it is certanly good.
Speaking of this soundtrack, I think it was the very first heavy-metal album I have heard in my friggin' life. Back then, when the GTA Vice City hit the spot I was a small little ugly thing. Maybe that is the main reason for me enjoying it.

I remember never really paying any attention to the radio when I playing this game as a kid, but damn is that a good playlist Rockstar manage to make for a video game.

Yeah I actually spent hours driving cars just for the radios. Many of them actually, not just VROCK.

Pfft. I spent my time cutting people heads off with a Samurai sword and blowing up cars but idk to each his own.

I wasn't even aware there were reasons for playing GTA aside from listening to the radio.

Written by [user id=101272] on 04.09.2014 at 03:47
I wasn't even aware there were reasons for playing GTA aside from listening to the radio.

I like to drive around while maintaining the speed limit and adhering to the rules of the road, and generally obeying the law. I know it's not what the game was intended for but it's honestly what I enjoy most about it.

This soundtrack changed many, many lives. I remember being so young and naive I didn't even know Quiet Riot or Tesla when this came out, and neither did other kids. These days a soundtrack such as this would seem pretty "safe" when there's million better lesser known bands and songs around, but you have to remember that back in the day game soundtracks like this pretty much didn't exists. Listening to Iron Maiden and Slayer while playing GTA was the most hardcore thing imaginable. I guess Alcatrazz didn't make it to the album.

The thing I actually remember most about playing GTA was the music. This was the age I would have first been exposed to classics such as these. I remember hearing 2 Minutes 2 Midnight for the first time on this game and thinking wow this is Iron Maiden it's super cool!

Written by Metal Fromage on 19.09.2024 at 15:03

This soundtrack changed many, many lives. I remember being so young and naive I didn't even know Quiet Riot or Tesla when this came out, and neither did other kids. These days a soundtrack such as this would seem pretty "safe" when there's million better lesser known bands and songs around, but you have to remember that back in the day game soundtracks like this pretty much didn't exists. Listening to Iron Maiden and Slayer while playing GTA was the most hardcore thing imaginable. I guess Alcatrazz didn't make it to the album.

It's really crazy to look back and think how much GTA predicted and probably shaped my music taste; I really wasn't listening to much bar a small handful of bands in that period of 2003-2007 in which I was playing Vice City and San Andreas, and yet I naturally gravitated towards V-Rock and Radio X, respectively, listening to both of them. The Guitar Hero/Rock Band games did a lot to shape my initial getting into music seriously, and it was funny rediscovering songs like Peace Sells, 2 Minutes To Midnight, Raining Blood, Madhouse and so on on different iterations of those games after becoming so familiar with them on V-Rock. Perhaps coincidentially, much like how Vice City came before San Andreas, I found myself first getting into those 80s metal bands, and then when I was a couple of years older I became a fan of the grunge/alt metal bands on San Andreas like Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Faith No More, Jane's Addiction, etc.

I wonder how much relative impact the other Vice City/San Andreas channels had in getting people into other styles of music; I certainly enjoyed Wave 103 and Flash FM, but V-Rock was a major influence on me, and probably a lot of other people too

Written by musclassia on 19.09.2024 at 15:54

I wonder how much relative impact the other Vice City/San Andreas channels had in getting people into other styles of music; I certainly enjoyed Wave 103 and Flash FM, but V-Rock was a major influence on me, and probably a lot of other people too

Around here they were hugely influential. I remember me and my friends started listening to thrash metal and later more extreme back in the school mostly inspired by this soundtrack alone. Some people also found Mötley Crüe here and got interested in all that glam stuff, some even formed their own local bands. Back in the day internet wasn't as big of a thing, so for many kids this was the first time they ever got to listen to this kind of stuff for real. Those were some good times.