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Star Wars Zero Company Started as a Pitch for a Game in the Titanfall Universe Star Wars Zero Company blev oprindeligt udviklet som et taktisk spil i Titanfall-universet efter et oplæg til Respawn Entertainment. Vince Zampella afviste idéen og bad i stedet Bit Reactor udvikle et spil baseret på Star Wars. Spillet har siden fået positive anmeldelser og nåede næsten 78.000 samtidige spillere på Steam, selv om størstedelen af studiets ansatte kort før lanceringen blev sendt hjem på orlov.

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'Consoles Are Here to Stay' — CD Projekt Red Boss Says Developer 'Isn't Worried' About Next-Gen Console Delays CD Projekt Reds meddirektør Michał Nowakowski siger, at han ikke er bekymret for, at stigende RAM-priser kan gøre konsoller dyrere eller forsinke næste generation. Ifølge ham vil indholdet fortsat være afgørende, og udvikleren vil tilpasse sig den hardware, spillerne bruger, når The Witcher 4 udkommer. Han forventer, at konsoller forbliver relevante trods udviklingen mod digitale spil.

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GTA 6's Morality Meter Can Reportedly Break If You Cause Too Much Chaos GTA 6 får ifølge oplysninger fra en lukket forhåndsvisning et system, der måler, hvor voldelig og hensynsløs spilleren er. Systemet kan angiveligt revne og miste evnen til at vurdere spillerens handlinger, hvis grænsen overskrides gentagne gange. Jason og Lucia får separate profiler, mens deres forhold også påvirkes af spillerens valg.

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I've Been Playing The Blood of Dawnwalker For a Week and It's Avoided the Classic Unreal 5 Pitfalls IGN fremhæver The Blood of Dawnwalker som et sjældent stabilt spil baseret på Unreal Engine 5, uden de omfattende problemer med hakken og nedbrud, der har præget andre nyere titler. På en kraftig pc leverer spillet omkring 70-80 billeder i sekundet i 4K med høje indstillinger, mens det også kører flydende på Steam Machine, PlayStation 5 og Xbox Series X.

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Hideki Kamiya Says Resident Evil Developers 'Seriously Seem to Have No Awareness' of How Scary the Games Have Gotten Hideki Kamiya fastholder, at han alvorligt ønsker en mindre skræmmende version af Resident Evil Requiem. Han mener, at Capcom er blevet ufølsom over for, hvor uhyggelige de nyere spil er, og foreslår blandt andet mindre blod, lysere miljøer og venligere zombier. Kamiya kunne ikke selv gennemføre Requiem, selv om han instruerede det oprindelige Resident Evil 2.

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Netflix's 6-Hour GTA 6 Exclusive Pays Off as Rockstar's Extended Look Dominates Netflix Top 10 in First Week En udvidet forpremiere på Grand Theft Auto 6 blev den mest sete titel i Netflix’ engelsksprogede filmkategori i perioden 24.-30. august. Videoen opnåede 31,1 millioner visninger efter sin debut torsdag og slog andenpladsen, The Whisper Man, der havde 23,2 millioner. Netflix beregner visninger ud fra samlet seertid divideret med videoens længde.

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Orbitals Is a Co-op Sci-fi Adventure That Looks and Feels Exactly Like a Playable '90s Anime, One Any Toonami Fan Should Be Excited For IGN anmelder Orbitals som et charmerende, men velkendt co-op-eventyr for præcis to spillere. Spillet kombinerer lokale og online-muligheder med en vennepasordning, rumrejser og puslespil, der kræver tæt koordinering. Den markante visuelle stil fremkalder 1990’ernes anime, mens historien berører identitet og genoptryk af mennesker uden at udforske temaerne særlig dybt. Anmeldelsen vurderer, at oplevelsen varer omkring 10 timer.

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Xbox Game Pass September 2026 Wave 1 Lineup Announced Microsoft har offentliggjort første del af Xbox Game Pass’ spiludvalg for september 2026. Blandt nyhederne er Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage og RuneScape: Dragonwilds, mens flere andre titler tilføjes i løbet af måneden. Den 15. september forlader blandt andet Cyberpunk 2077, Dead Cells, Spiritfarer og Frostpunk 2 tjenesten.

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6 Big September Games We've Already Played if You Want to Know What We Think of Them So Far IGN har allerede prøvet seks store spil, der udkommer i september 2026, og samler mediets første indtryk i en oversigt. Blandt titlerne er Marvel’s Wolverine, Control Resonant, Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave, Silent Hill: Townfall, Hot Wheels: Infinite Rush og Garfield: Escape from Monday. Forhåndsvisningerne fremhæver blandt andet action, horror, rollespil og åben verdens-racing.

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Ahead of GTA 6, Rockstar Games Reveals Its Official GTA Online Roleplaying Server nopixel V Rockstar Games har afsløret NoPixel V, en officielt understøttet rollespilsserver til GTA Online, udviklet i samarbejde med NoPixel-teamet. Serveren får forbedret grafik, mere omfattende figurtilpasning og kasinoet Mile High Club, og den kan tilgås direkte via Rockstars launcher. NoPixel V vises frem den 8. september, mens Rockstar endnu ikke har meldt ud, hvordan rollespil og onlinefunktioner bliver integreret i GTA 6.

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Ace Combat 8 Multiplayer Will Feature 100-Player Air Force Base-Like Lobbies | IGN Preview En IGN-forhåndsvisning gennemgås multiplayerdelen i Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve. Spillet får flere samarbejds- og konkurrencemissioner, blandt andet PvPvE-modusen Co-op Warfare, hvor to hold kæmper sammen med computerstyrede enheder. Spillere kan også tilpasse fly, optjene opgraderinger og samles i online-lobbyer med op til 100 deltagere. Spillet udkommer 2. oktober 2026.

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Ever Wanted to Sleep Inside a Giant Pokéball? In Japan, You'll Soon Have a Chance Pokémon Sleep går sammen med det japanske luksushotelbrand Not a Hotel om en overnatningsoplevelse i en gigantisk Pokéball. Pod'en får en rund seng, et stort vindue og placeres i Hokkaido. Interesserede kan deltage i en lodtrækning om opholdet fra 15. september 2026.

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'I Would Love to Avenge the Mediocre Release of Godzilla: Unleashed' — Godzilla Dev Wants to Do More Remasters, But 'a Lot of Conversations' Need to Happen First Pipeworks arbejder på Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered, som udkommer 3. november 2026 til pc, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5 og Xbox Series X/S. Studiet vil gerne remastere Godzilla: Save the Earth og Godzilla: Unleashed, men har endnu ingen aftaler med Atari. En ny teknologi gør det muligt at flytte spillets gamle aktiver til Unreal Engine, men eventuelle projekter afhænger af efterspørgsel og forhandlinger.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Beta Players Get a Bit More Time Before the Servers Shut Off Until the Final Release Infinity Ward har forlænget den åbne beta for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 til klokken 22.00 PT den 1. september, svarende til klokken 07.00 dansk tid den 2. september. Double XP og Double Weapon XP forbliver aktive indtil afslutningen. Betaen har også modtaget justeringer af blandt andet våben og spillets time-to-kill efter feedback fra spillerne.

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Project Hail Mary Is Getting a VR Game This Fall Featuring the Return of Rocky Maze Theory udvikler VR- og mixed reality-spillet Project Hail Mary: Journey Among the Stars, som udkommer i efteråret 2026. Spillet fortæller en ny historie i Andy Weirs science fiction-univers, hvor spillerne indtager rollen som Ryland Grace og samarbejder med Rocky om at løse problemer på rumskibet. James Ortiz vender tilbage som stemmen til Rocky.

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No Rest for the Wicked 1.0 Launch Delayed to March 2027 Moon Studios har udskudt version 1.0 af action-rollespillet No Rest for the Wicked til marts 2027. Udviklerens ekstra tid skal bruges på bedre ydeevne, et strammere klassesystem og yderligere finpudsning. Lanceringen kommer til PlayStation 5 og pc, mens versioner til Nintendo Switch 2 og Xbox Series X/S stadig mangler en dato. Founders Pack-tilbuddet gælder nu for pc-køb frem til 1. januar 2027.

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'We’ve Had Dedicated Super Fans Working Alongside Us' — Warrior Cats: Clans of the Forest Developer on Staying True to the Books, Bloody Combat, and More Warrior Cats: Clans of the Forest udkommer 23. oktober 2026 til PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch og Nintendo Switch 2. Det officielt licenserede spil er et turbaseret rollespil, hvor spillerne skaber deres egen kat, vælger klan og udvikler figuren gennem kamp, træning og historievalg. Udviklerne fremhæver strategisk kamp, omfattende tilpasning og fokus på at være tro mod bøgernes univers.

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“Did You Destroy My Favorite Game?”: How Ubisoft Consulted Hardcore Fans to Modernize Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Ubisoft arbejder på en ny udgave af Heroes of Might and Magic 3, som udkommer til PC og konsoller i 2027. Remaket får en 3D-verden, dynamisk vejr, nye filmsekvenser og en prologkampagne, men udviklerne vil bevare originalens gameplay, systemer og balance. Spillets engagerede fansamfund har fungeret som rådgivere under udviklingen.

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Nvidia's Controversial DLSS 5 Neural Rendering Tech Finally Launches On September 3 in NBA 2K27, Hoping to Bring Photorealism to Games Nvidia lancerer DLSS 5 den 3. september i NBA 2K27. Teknologien bruger neural rendering til at lægge et AI-genereret billede oven på spillets renderede grafik med fokus på øget fotorealisme. Nvidia oplyser, at funktionen kan reducere ydeevnen med omkring 50-60 procent og ved lanceringen kun fungerer på RTX 5000-grafikkort.

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Don't Worry, The Witcher 3 Saves Will Work With The Game's Remastered Upgrade — And There's Word on Achievements/Trophies, Too CD Projekt Red har bekræftet, at eksisterende savefiler kan bruges i den kommende Remastered-udgave af The Witcher 3. Fremskridt mod allerede optjente achievements og trophies bliver også videreført. Opgraderingen bliver gratis for eksisterende ejere på alle platforme, inklusive Switch-ejere, og lanceres 29. september 2026 med blandt andet tekniske forbedringer og udvidet modunderstøttelse.

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Cop Land Is One of GTA Vice City’s Most Frustrating Levels, but It Showcased the Ambition That Would Later Create Rockstar’s Greatest Missions En gennemgang af GTA Vice City-missionen Cop Land ser nærmere på, hvorfor den frustrerende opgave stadig fungerer som et højdepunkt. Missionen kræver blandt andet, at spilleren stjæler politiuniformer, infiltrerer et indkøbscenter og håndterer et femstjernet efterlysningsniveau. Artiklen fremhæver samtidig, hvordan missionen viste Rockstars ambitioner om mere komplekst og reaktivt open world-design.

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The Xbox Ultimately Failed in Japan, but Ninja Gaiden Legitimized it in the Early Days IGN ser tilbage på, hvordan Ninja Gaiden fra 2004 var med til at legitimere den første Xbox blandt japanske spiludviklere. Team Ninja udnyttede konsollens hardware til at levere hurtig grafik, præcise kontroller og krævende kampe, hvilket gav spillet stor anerkendelse. Artiklen fremhæver også Tomonobu Itagakis betydning for Xbox-platformens tidlige appel i Japan.

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Afterworld Breaks Paradox Out of its Comfort Zone, but it’s Still Crazy Early in Development | IGN Preview IGN har prøvespillet Afterworld, Paradox Interactives kommende grand strategy-spil med RTS-elementer i et postapokalyptisk Nordamerika. Spillet lader spilleren genopbygge samfund, udforske ødelagte områder, håndtere rivaliserende fraktioner og opbygge forsyningslinjer. Preview-versionen er dog meget tidlig, med ubalancerede systemer og manglende indhold, så skribenten håber, at udgivelsen ikke sker før tidligst fjerde kvartal 2027.

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Marvel’s Wolverine: The Deep Comic Lore Behind Insomniac’s PS5 Suits and How They Honor Decades of X-Men History IGN gennemgår de kostumer, der er bekræftet til Insomniacs kommende Marvel’s Wolverine til PS5. Spillet trækker på Wolverines mangeårige historie i tegneserier, film og tv-serier, blandt andet med klassiske dragter som Tiger Stripe, Brown Costume og Astonishing X-Men. Der er også plads til originale designs samt kostumer fra Deadpool & Wolverine og andre Marvel-spil.

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Video Game Release Dates: The Biggest Games Coming Soon - IGN IGN har opdateret sin oversigt over kommende videospil til PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2 og pc. September byder blandt andet på Marvel’s Wolverine, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, Control Resonant og Silent Hill Townfall, mens Grand Theft Auto 6 efter planen udkommer 19. november 2026. Oversigten indeholder også annoncerede spiludgivelser frem til april 2027.

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Cop Land Is One of GTA Vice City’s Most Frustrating Levels, but It Showcased the Ambition That Would Later Create Rockstar’s Greatest Missions

En gennemgang af GTA Vice City-missionen Cop Land ser nærmere på, hvorfor den frustrerende opgave stadig fungerer som et højdepunkt. Missionen kræver blandt andet, at spilleren stjæler politiuniformer, infiltrerer et indkøbscenter og håndterer et femstjernet efterlysningsniveau. Artiklen fremhæver samtidig, hvordan missionen viste Rockstars ambitioner om mere komplekst og reaktivt open world-design.

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It was supposed to be an easy job. Get in, set the detonators, get out, get paid. But now, with seemingly every fed in the state on my tail, it’s clear that Cop Land, one of GTA Vice City’s mid-game missions, is anything but an easy job.

You very possibly don’t like Cop Land. In fact, you might hate it. It is fiddly, easily failed, and messing up will send you right back to the start of its four-objective gauntlet. It requires wrangling the police’s uncooperative AI routines and infiltrating enemy territory, all while babysitting your partner in crime, Lance Vance. Oh, and you also have to survive a five-star wanted level chase through the city. It’s like the escort quest from hell… and it’s sort of brilliant.

To understand why something so frustrating can still be genuinely fantastic, we first need to rewind the clock. When Vice City arrived in late 2002, it made the earlier games – even the genre-defining GTA 3 that had launched just a year prior – look like primitive toys. It achieved its lofty ambition through a variety of avenues: a bigger, more interesting city; a wider variety of vehicles; a property management system; a better-written story; and, of course, a totally impeccable ‘80s vibe.

Arguably more interesting, if less even in its execution, was Vice City’s ambition to deliver more complex mission design than its predecessors. Until this point, GTA typically sent you out to achieve a single violent objective before flashing up the Mission Complete card and showering you with money. Vice City does admittedly have plenty of those, especially during its opening act, but as Tommy Vercetti’s journey takes him into the big leagues, the missions ask more and more of you, to varying degrees of success. One of the best examples of this ambition is Cop Land, which takes you on a journey of rapidly escalating stakes across the city’s Vice Point neighborhood.

Cop Land is the final mission in the Vercetti Estate arc. Tommy has just had notorious gangster Ricardo Diaz rubbed out of existence, and now he runs the most powerful criminal enterprise in the city. But things are far from rosy: with Diaz gone, many of the crime lord’s former business associates are refusing to pay protection money to the new guy in charge. Tommy sets out to intimidate his “clients” over a couple of missions, killing other gang members attempting to muscle in on his turf, as well as shattering the storefronts of the businesses that refuse to pay for protection. It’s a chain of missions with thematic consistency and escalating stakes – something Vice City’s older siblings can’t really boast about.

Unfortunately, a few broken windows won’t intimidate the owner of a coffee shop in the North Point Mall, so one of Tommy’s guys sets up a bomb to torch the place. But the wiring is cooked, and the mall is now locked down by the bomb squad. To destroy the evidence and save their new empire from crumbling before it’s even begun, Tommy and Lance have no other option than sneaking into cop land and detonating the bomb themselves.

To say the mall is “crawling with cops” is a bit of an understatement. The entire top-half of the Vice Point district becomes overrun with them, replacing all pedestrians and traffic with hordes of beat cops and lines of police cruisers. It’s an impressive use of asset switching to create a tense environment; the whole north tip of the island is now an impregnable fortress manned by doughnut munchers.

To get inside the mall, Tommy and Lance are going to have to disguise themselves as cops. This is the mission’s first objective, but in an impressive display of how dedicated Rockstar was to making Vice City feel like an authentic place where you could do whatever you wanted, you can completely ignore what you’re supposed to do and waltz into the mall wearing your Hawaiian shirt. You will face a wall of armed cops given full authority to open fire thanks to the five-star wanted level you trigger by trespassing the crime scene, so this is tantamount to suicide, but the fact that you can attempt it makes Vice City feel genuinely freeform and impressively reactive.

The whole north tip of the island is now an impregnable fortress manned by doughnut munchers

To see the mission through properly, you’ll need to acquire a couple of police uniforms, a process that demands you lure two officers into a garage so that you can beat them up and steal their clothes. Thankfully, the mall’s lockdown means there are more cops than you’ll ever need literally down the road from your lock-up. Frustratingly, actually getting them to give up their clothes is as fun as rubbing pepper spray in your eyes.

Since you need two uniforms, you need two cops to follow you into the garage. That means incurring more than a single wanted star, as minor crimes typically only send one officer after you. But causing a little more mayhem will dispatch multiple police cars to your location, which almost always screech to a halt right in front of the lock-up, preventing the garage door from shutting. If the door can’t drop, the cutscene that nets you the uniforms won’t trigger. Your only option is to endure the chaos as you reverse cars out of the driveway and encourage cops to follow you into the garage rather than take potshots at you from the other side of the street. You’re completely at the mercy of the police’s AI routines, making for a challenge that feels almost random – you could smoothly swipe the uniforms on the first attempt, or end up in a frustrating cycle of deaths and arrests.

With your disguises secured, you can move on to the next objective and approach the bomb. So long as you don’t do anything stupid, you can calmly walk through the mall to the coffee shop and step into the highlighted zone to fix the explosives. After that, it should just be a case of driving away from the scene.

If only it were that easy.

In yet another example of your crew’s questionable talent for crime, the bomb is on a five-second fuse. Tommy and Lance are barely clear of the blast radius before the cafe is blown to smithereens (a detonation that permanently scars the map, a Rockstar trick that began in GTA 3). Very obviously the perpetrators of this very serious crime, the pair must now escape every cop in cop land, who have all suddenly become very trigger-happy thanks to the five-star wanted level you’ve earned for dabbling in activities adjacent to domestic terrorism.

Five stars is Vice City’s second-highest wanted level. It turns the police practically feral, completely disregarding any sense of road responsibility or personal safety in their pursuit of you. They use their cars not so much as battering rams, but as V6-powered homing missiles. So long as justice is served, they really don’t care about the cost.

But it’s not just the police who now stand in your way: SWAT teams are deployed across the city, arriving in armoured vans and rappelling from helicopters. The FBI also give chase in their armoured SUVs, their men armed with automatic weaponry. Getting out alive ain’t gonna be easy, so you’ve got to think about the escape before you even set one foot in the building.

Vice City saw Rockstar’s first experiments in highly scripted, multi-stage missions.

Where you park your car before entering the mall is surprisingly vital to your success. The obvious place is at the mall’s main streetside door, but the coffee shop is on the opposite side of the shopping centre, so when the shit hits the fan, you’ll have to fight through a legion of armed officers to reach your getaway wheels. That’s why the smart decision is to park in the side alley that runs along the south side of the mall – you can actually leave your car right outside the exit that’s closest to the coffee shop. Post-detonation, you’ll be barely 10 yards away from your ticket out of here.

There’s another good reason to park by the south entrance. The alley contains arguably the most useful pick-up for this scenario: the Bribe, which lowers your wanted level by one star. That’ll take you down to four stars, removing the FBI from the hunt. It’s a canny placement from Rockstar, allowing anyone who spends a few minutes scoping out the joint to gain an almost immediate advantage in the mission’s final objective of escaping back to the Vercetti Estate.

But there’s still work to do: you need to survive the car chase home. Well, I say you – anyone who has a decent handle on Vice City’s driving will likely have little issue making it to Starfish Island, especially considering the most direct route back to the Vercetti Estate passes by a second Bribe, hidden where the road forks near the Vice Point Penthouse. But neither the route nor wanted level is the real issue here; your Achilles heel is Lance, who’s effectively a dead man’s switch for the mission failed screen.

If Lance snuffs it, it’s all over – go directly back to your last save, do not pass Go, do not collect the police uniforms that already took you five attempts to steal. And Lance is really, really good at dying. You’re fighting against the tinderbox that is two PS2-era AI systems grinding against each other – Lance’s primitive pathfinding means he can only barely follow you, and the “stop at all costs” aggression of the police means he’s constantly pulled into firefights he has no hope of winning. Your only option is to get him into a car as soon as possible and pray to god that the cops don’t shunt you off the road; if you ever need to switch cars, Lance is a guaranteed goner, either from the explosion of your wreck or the relentless gunfire that hails down as you hijack new wheels.

Ensure Lance survives the final chase and you’ll be rewarded with $10,000 and – more importantly – a regular income. You’ve successfully set up a protection ring, and money will gradually trickle in from your many clients for the remainder of the campaign. But the real reward is the satisfaction of completing one of the game’s most ambitious, flawed missions.

Vice City saw Rockstar’s first experiments in highly scripted, multi-stage missions. Today, these are the norm – it’s impossible to imagine GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 without their cinematic heists and dramatically escalating events. But the origins of these missions was a messy affair, as Rockstar suffered through the pain of making them work in a city sandbox that had previously been the stage for quests typically no more complicated than “drive to point X to kill person Y”. Cop Land is one of those awkward missions – it’s impossible to call it a triumph considering the fiddly nature of securing those uniforms and escorting Lance out of the hot zone.

But while some consider it one of the worst GTA missions ever, Cop Land often finds itself on lists of Vice City’s best moments, and it’s not hard to see why. Fooling the police with stolen uniforms is a singular high, and the against-all-odds escape is a car chase for the history books. It’s also a mission that embraces the many possibilities of an open world – you can completely bypass the car chase finale by parking a helicopter next to the mall and taking to the skies the moment things heat up. Cop Land is a brilliant example of Vice City at its most ambitious, and a reminder of why Rockstar’s groundbreaking PS2 era was so important for the entire medium.

Matt Purslow is IGN's Executive Editor of Features.

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