It is somewhat sad, yet it's completely understandable and objectively appropriate to measure things by their ' technological superiority ', especially when it comes to computers or closely tied gaming industry. 

Vice City, just like any game from 3DU, except maybe for LCS or ADV, is simply ' too big ' to be measured by such ' degrading mesurment '. Objective one, but still demeaning. Why? Simply because these games never flexed their muscles in that sense - being technically superior than others and all - not even when they came out. Everything in Vice is so perfectly interwoven together despite being simple. Open world, story, mechanics, visuals, you name it. Totality of small and simple things that make that game so grand, something that cannot be measured by technological input or parameters. When you dissect everything and try to look at things separately, like driving mechanics, e.g, you'll see that it's nothing special, even under par comparing it to games from that time, let alone something modern. But, you'll completely forget about it as soon as you take even one casual drive or complete one mission and you'll see that it somehow fits there perfectly.

Even its visuals - fantastic and colorful atmosphere - never meant to be taken as a final word of graphical and visual achievements, but rather to appeal to our imagination with its comic book alike appearance. If you ask me, that's true definition of art right there. Superior graphics of today is inevitably going to be questioned tomorrow, or even be laughed at. But if it's beautiful, rather than just 'good looking' according to visual standards, you won't even have to make any comparisons in that sense. Only handful of games can be praised for achieving this feat. 

Edited April 30, 2019 by ChengizVlad09