Game:

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)

Duration: 49:34

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After being released from jail, Tommy Vercetti left Liberty City for Vice City, a city overrun by the mob. Now, Tommy is out to make Vice City his home.

Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlZZDQIYRyg

Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Comedy
Rated: TV-MA
Approx: 43min.
Developed By: Rockstar North
Published By: Rockstar Games
Executive Producer: Sam Houser
Written By: Dan Houser, James Worrall
Music By: Lex Horton
Starring: Ray Liotta

First Aired: 6.12.2018
Game Released: 10.29.2002
Metacritic Rating: 95/100
Recorded On: PC

Available On: PlayStation 2, PC, Xbox, Mac OS X, iOS, Android, Fire OS

Game: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

Edited By: JT NickellBagg

Did you know?

-When Ray Liotta was asked why he decided to voice the main character of the game, he said:
"For the money"

-Two of the missions are called "No Escape" and "Cop Land". No Escape (1994) and Cop Land (1997) are movies that star Ray Liotta (who voices Tommy Vercetti).

-With sales of 9.61 million units, it is the fourth best selling game on the PlayStation 2 and one of the best selling 6th generation console games.

-When switching radio stations you can hear pieces from Grand Theft Auto III (2001) radio stations hidden in the radio seek noise.

-The game emulates the movie Scarface (1983): a low life thug leaves a place he doesn't want to be (Prison/Cuba) and moves to Miami (or in VC's case, Vice City), gets caught up in a riot, wears flowery shirts, and begins to take over the city, with a chaotic ending battle. The apartment where Tony's friend was killed is featured, along with the area known as Little Havana that was featured at the beginning of the film, and two nightclubs (The Malibu, Pole Position Club) are clones of two nightclubs in the film (The Babylon, and the Little Havana Club).

-As of March 2004, this game was the best selling video game ever on a worldwide basis. The previous record holder was its predecessor: Grand Theft Auto III (2001).

-Script was over 1,000 pages long.

-In the cutscene for the mission 'Supply and Demand', Diaz shoots an unplugged VCR because it wouldn't eject "My favorite El Burro movie". El Burro is a gang leader in Grand Theft Auto III (2001), who specialized in pornographic videos.

-The Kaufman Cab company is a reference to comedian Andy Kaufman, who starred in the television series Taxi (1978).

-If, while in the office of the Vercetti Estate, you stand in front of the bank of security monitors and look at them through the sniper rifle scope, you will see that the image displayed on some of the monitors is that of the final shot of Scarface (1983): the main hallway in Tony Montana's mansion, featuring the sweeping staircase, the 'The World Is Yours' statue, and the small swimming pool.

-On one of the talk-show stations in the game (VCPR), Jeremy Robard, a "motivational speaker" names a few of his treatment tapes. All of the titles, when abbreviated, are names of drugs. "Motivate, Demonstrate, then Motivate Again" becomes MDMA (Ectasy), "Think, Hold that thought, Complete" becomes THC, and "Learn, Start, Do" becomes LSD.

-After entering the upstairs office of the Malibu Club, look on the left wall and you will see a large mural of palm trees tinted red by the setting sun. It is the same mural that adorns the office wall of Lopez Motors, owned by Frank Lopez, Tony Montana's boss in Scarface (1983).

-In the mission 'The Shootist' where Tommy must impress Phil Cassidy at the shooting range, the cardboard targets are characters from Grand Theft Auto III (2001). Cassidy also made an appearance in that game, in the mission 'Arms Shortage'.

-Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser stated that the frustrations experienced with working with Burt Reynolds on this game prompted the studio to cease hiring big name actors to star in their games.

-In the background of the opening cutscene there's a dead body hanging in the closet behind Sonny (impaled on, what looks like, a meat hook).

-There are numerous references to Miami Vice (1984), including the casting of Philip Michael Thomas as Lance Vance.

-In the opening cutscenes, Tommy Vercetti is picked up from Escobar International Airport to make a cocaine deal. This is a reference to a real life cocaine dealer Pablo Escobar who was the richest cocaine trafficker during the 1980s through the early 1990s.

-If you get a boat and search off the shore of Leaf Links near the Downtown area, you can look under the water and see a fat man wearing cement shoes at the bottom of the sea.

-Some of the hard-hat, Industrial Area construction worker's lines are lyrics written by The Village People.

-The character of Ken Rosenberg is based on David Kleinfeld, from Carlito's Way (1993). In addition to the physical similarities, both are cocaine addicts. Furthermore, Rosenberg's office looks just like Kleinfeld's.

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