Man Vice City is still my favorite GTA. The atmosphere, all of the guns, new cars and vehicles, and the time period clicked so perfectly. And the music, holy crap, the music. VRock, Emotion, and a few of the other pop stations were like a trip down memory lane for me.
I guess I'll jump on the bandwagon and post a story of mine, from VC.
Me and my buddy have a tradition of seeing who can get the farthest with the Hunter helicopter. Pretty much the rule was once we got it we could only stay relatively close to the ground, close enough that you could get fired at from the ground. Anyways, there was one time where the Hunter started to flame up, so I jumped out of the helicopter over the canal on the first island and I landed in a police boat. And what happened to the hunter? IT FELL ON TOP OF ME AND EXPLODED! I flew off the police boat onto one of those big lounge boats and managed to still have about 50% health left.
So I jumped I made a daring maneuver and drove the boat up to the side where I can jump off and managed to procure a bike. Meanwhile I have about 5 stars or so. I managed to make it to the docks, where the Ferrari usually is sitting. A helicopter has been chasing me shooting up my bike. I get set up for a jump over one of the dock jumps, and there is another police boat off of the dock. So I line myself, drive towards the jump, mid-air my bike catches fire, I land on the police boat and explode in a blaze of glory. Easily one of my favorite times playing GTA. This is one of MANY amazing stories.
Phew that was long, sorry about that.