I'm not going to judge it on its storyline since it's basically a homage to a variety of crime capers, from Miami Vice and De Palma's Scarface (the most obvious influences here), to Goodfellas, The Godfather, Casino, etc, so you're not going to find much depth there (neither are you meant to be since it's half homage, half satire). The real strengths of Vice City lie in its gameplay, its humour, its choice of music (this 80s child gets giddy with nostalgia whenever I hear Nena or Jan Hammer on the car radio), plus the fact that it took the groundbreaking concept of GTA3 and pushed it one stage further to a cohesive storyline and an even more involving game world, all of which make Vice City probably the strongest of the GTA games.