Its Pink shirts, purple trousers and white socks. Its Kate Bush and Michael Jackson. Its hilarious radio-programs and ads. Its doing a 100 yard wheelie on your motorcycle (yes, now you can drive a bike too - and fly a chopper weeee)
Its so much fun. Lots of odd-jobs, great main story, very open-ended, and my guess is that only 1 out of 1000 playing this game have or will complete the entire game 100%. 100% is way beyond main mission. There is lots of different odd-jobs : pizza, icecream delivery, 100 hidden packages, races, ambulance, vigilante etc etc...
But you want to keep on playing this game, because the quality is very high. No one can see its a port from PS2. No graphical glitches or popping up graphic, right in front of you.
Gameplay is fantastic, controls is very intuitive and can be customize to infinity. I like to use my analog joypad and mouse/keyboard when not in vehicle. "real" radioprograms (chat, pop, rock etc - and you can hear your own mp3's too)
I have lots of games for my pc - and quite a few for my x-box too, but for 2 weeks, this game was the only one i launched. Now im playing a few other games besides GTA:VC, but its still one of my favorites. When ive completed it 100% (or to bored getting there) i will start a new character, and try to do things differently.
Ive played the entire GTA series, but VC is - by far - a better game. Bigger, more fun, more open - and you can ride a bike, while wearing a suit from the 80's !