The Double-A Team: Miami Vice on PSP was a bloomy slice of the future Eurogamer.net If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. The Double-A Team: Miami Vice on PSP was a bloomy slice of the future Take cover! Feature by Christian Donlan Features Editor Updated on 22 Jan 2020 26 comments The Double-A Team is a feature series honouring the unpretentious, mid-budget, gimmicky commercial action games that no-one seems to make any more. You can catch up with all of our Double-A Team pieces in our handy, spangly archive. There's something rather special about Miami Vice on PSP, but it's only special to me. Years back, when the PSP was a force, that screen so wide and dreamy, that weight, that complicated heft, Miami Vice on PSP was the first game I ever reviewed. Rebellion! Of course the first game I ever reviewed was made by Rebellion. Perfect. What do I remember now? Two things. Firstly when you loaded up Miami Vice you were given a choice: Crockett or Tubbs? Clearly one of the greatest choices in any video game ever. Secondly, when you played Miami Vice - this was 2006 - you were chucked into one of the very first cover shooters. Not the first - that was Killswitch I want to say? - but definitely pre-Gears, which was also 2006, but I really think hadn't yet come out. I bumbled through Miami Vice thinking, this is interesting! Cover! Not realising that I was about to be drowned in cover for the next ten years at least, bombarded by cover in Gears, Uncharted, and everything else. Interestingly, Miami Vice had cover you could clip to, but it didn't do much in the way of making your general movement work with cover. This is Gears' great trick, I think, the whole horizontal platformer thing where you basically slide from one piece of cover to the next. Miami Vice was a lot more clunky, but this worked if you ask me, because it made you feel - well - like Crockett or Tubbs, dashing through one firefight to the next, feeling a bit ragged and exposed. It also had really beautiful lighting. The whole world of Miami was shot through with this golden, peachy fuzz of sky: godlike smog, lit from within, as if the sun was setting on a thousand meth labs burning. Looking at a trailer now I also see boat sections - I definitely remember something was there to break up all the cover-shooting - but I can't remember them with any precision. What I remember was inching around tables and chairs, risking the odd headshot, feeling that here was shooting but also stealth and something that felt a bit like a newish approach to traversal. Overall, I felt like Crockett and or Tubbs! Thanks, Rebellion - I owe you one. Become a Eurogamer subscriber and get your first month for £1 Get your first month for £1 (normally £3.99) when you buy a Standard Eurogamer subscription. Enjoy ad-free browsing, merch discounts, our monthly letter from the editor, and show your support with a supporter-exclusive comment flair! Support us View supporter archive More Features Digital Foundry Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090: a new level in graphics performance The Digital Foundry video review - and how the new GPU champion delivers for 4K 120fps gaming. 12 Feature Evercore Heroes wants to wind people up the right way "There's less rage at them, because they didn't end your fun." Feature What games get wrong about horses And what they could do about it. 34 Feature Shout out to all the Overwatch supports - where would we be without you? Merci. 55 Latest Articles Preview Football Manager's new Console edition is the best you'll get without a PC Getting Touch-right. Splatoon 3 Amiibos will be out next month Ink-coming! 3 Fans think Phil Spencer's shelf is teasing the Xbox Game Pass streaming box UPDATE: Xbox confirms old Keystone prototype. 59 Modder dives into Demon's Souls files following PS5 jailbreak, discovers fabled Ring of the Chieftain Who knows what's nexus? 4 Supporters Only Premium only Off Topic: Take a minute to appreciate Cookin' with Coolio's incredible scallops recipe. What a great book. Premium only Off Topic: Reading City of Glass in comic form "Where exactly am I going?" Premium only Off Topic: Il Buco is a transporting film about a really big hole Underlands. Off-Topic Netflix handled Sandman brilliantly It was Dreamy. 9 Buy things with globes on them And other lovely Eurogamer merch in our official store! Explore our store