Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
91PurrfectSadkitty Score
92KitSuperintelligent review
94Critics4 critic reviews
87Players3,171 ratings
In the year 1986, Tommy Vercetti is heavily indebted to his mafia superiors after a drug deal gone awry, but his dreams of taking over Vice City (based on Miami) push him down a different path. Featuring a wide variety of vehicles and weapons, radio stations playing hit songs from the era and an intense atmosphere, GTA: Vice City is an open-world sandbox satire of '80's Miami.
Kit's verdict · 9.2/10
Pure 80s cocaine-chic style, and still the most atmospheric GTA of its era.Kit · Sadkitty Games
Loved
- Incredible 80s soundtrack and radio
- Ray Liotta's Tommy is a great lead
- Buying businesses gives the story real momentum
Not so much
- Shooting and targeting feel crude now
- Map is small next to San Andreas
Play it if anyone who loves Scarface, Miami Vice or synth-pop.
Skip it if players who want modern controls or a huge map.
Cheats & codes
Every Grand Theft Auto: Vice City cheat we know
Full health.PS2 · Enter on the controller during play.
Full armor.PS2 · Enter on the controller during play.
Weapon set 1.PS2 · Enter on the controller during play.
Clears your wanted level.PS2 · Enter on the controller during play.
Spawns a Rhino tank.PS2 · Enter on the controller during play.
Full health.PC · Type it during play.
Full armor.PC · Type it during play.
Weapon set 1.PC · Type it during play.
Clears your wanted level.PC · Type it during play.
Spawns a Rhino tank.PC · Type it during play.
Single-player only. Cheats can turn off achievements and some saves; use them on a spare save.
Tips
Play it better
- Buy businesses like the Malibu Club and the print works as soon as you can, because their income keeps flowing and they unlock story missions.
- Use the Pay 'n' Spray to shake off a wanted level of up to three stars cheaply.
- Fill out Sunshine Autos' import lists for steady cash and free cars at the garage.
- Grab health and armor pickups before big shootouts, and remember armor can be bought at Ammu-Nation.
- Bikes are faster and easier to steer through traffic than most cars once you learn their handling.
Secrets & unlockables
Hidden in plain sight
Tap a secret to reveal it.
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Trivia
- Ray Liotta voices Tommy Vercetti, the series' first fully voiced lead.
- The radio stations feature real 80s hits from Michael Jackson, Blondie, Hall and Oates and many more.
- It was built in roughly a year on the GTA III engine and became the best-selling game of 2002 in the US.
- Lance Vance is voiced by Philip Michael Thomas, a star of Miami Vice.
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