Even though Vice City Stories may lack some innovation this is a GTA title and easily the best ever for the handheld market. These missions may be necessary to build up capital from which you can launch more extensive illegal activities. Some of the side missions are redundant but then again so is working in a factory. There are lots of side-missions to make it feel as though you have total freedom of choice but if you want to complete the game you will have to follow a linear path, albeit one that�s somewhat convoluted. It�s holds fast to the GTA formula which although is open-ended, really has a definite structure to it. Vice City Stories really doesn�t take any chances.