3D Era
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
29 October 2002Rockstar NorthVice City, 1986
Tommy Vercetti's rise through a 1986 Vice City modelled on Miami. It gave the series a voiced protagonist, motorcycles, helicopters and buyable property empires.
The record
- Publisher
- Rockstar Games
- Era
- 3D Era (2001–2006)
- Type
- Main title
Platforms
- PlayStation 2
- Windows
- Xbox
- PlayStation 3
- PlayStation 4
- PlayStation 5
- iOS
- Android
Platforms it was released on. The date above is the first release; later versions arrived on their own dates, which are not listed here.
The story
Missions
60missions
Fifteen years inside earns Tommy a transfer, not a pension. Sonny Forelli sends him south to open Vice City for the family, the deal is ambushed, the money is gone, and Sonny still expects to be paid.
What follows is a career in real estate. Tommy works for Ricardo Diaz, then around him, then instead of him, and Lance Vance is beside him all the way up, keeping count of the equal share he believes he is owed.
The complete GTA: Vice City story: 60 missions. 22 are optional.
16 mission givers
- Tommy VercettiForelli crime family / Vercetti crime family4 missions
- Sonny ForelliForelli crime family1 mission
- Ken RosenbergAttorney4 missions
- Juan Garcia Cortez5 missions
- Avery Carrington3 missions
- Ricardo Diaz4 missions
- Kent Paul1 mission
- Lance Vance1 mission
- Big Mitch BakerBikers3 missions
- Umberto Robina4 missions
- Auntie PouletHaitians3 missions
- Mr. Black5 missions
- Phil CassidyArms dealer2 missions
- Doris3 missions
- Steve Scott4 missions
- Earnest Kelly3 missions
In the order the campaign first meets them. Missions with no named giver are not counted.
Every story mission in order.
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On the dial
Radio
9stations
Every station you can pick up in GTA: Vice City — 7 music stations and 2 talk stations.
Emotion 98.3
Soft rock and ballads
Presented by
- Fernando Martinez
Power ballads and soft rock, presented by Fernando Martinez, who is available to discuss your love life at any hour and would rather discuss his own.
Fever 105
Disco and R&B
Presented by
- Oliver "Ladykiller" Biscuit
Disco and smooth R&B, presented by Oliver "Ladykiller" Biscuit at a tempo and a volume that suggest he has nowhere in particular to be.
Flash FM
Pop
Presented by
- Toni
Chart pop presented by Toni: 1986 as the radio sold it, with the roof down and somewhere to be.
Radio Espantoso
Latin jazz and salsa
Presented by
- Pepe
Latin jazz, mambo and salsa presented by Pepe, and the station that makes Vice City sound like the city it is modelled on rather than the decade it is set in.
V-Rock
Hard rock and metal
Presented by
- Lazlowplayed by Lazlow Jones
- Couzin Ed
Hard rock and metal presented by Lazlow and Couzin Ed — fifteen in-world years before Lazlow ends up taking calls from strangers on Chatterbox FM in Liberty City.
Wave 103
New wave and synth-pop
Presented by
- Adam First
New wave and synth-pop presented by Adam First — the most precisely 1986 thing in a game that is entirely about 1986.
Wildstyle Pirate Radio
Electro and old-school hip hop
Presented by
- Mr. Magicas themselves
Electro and early hip hop run as a pirate station, presented by Mr. Magic — who was doing the same job on New York radio at the point this music was new.
K-Chat
Talk radio
Presented by
- Amy Sheckenhausen
Celebrity interviews without the celebrities, hosted by Amy Sheckenhausen, who is audibly delighted with every guest she manages to book and should not be.
VCPR
Talk radio
Vice City Public Radio
Presented by
- Maurice Chavez
Vice City Public Radio: panel discussions and phone-ins, chaired by Maurice Chavez, whose patience with his own guests is finite and visibly running down.
Enter the world
Vice City, 1986
The places, the people, the vehicles and the weapons of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Follow any of them in.
Locations
The places
A city the series has built more than once under one name. It was one of the 1997 original's three cities, drawn from overhead; Grand Theft Auto: Vice City laid it out for 1986 as art deco beach islands and mainland docks, and Vice City Stories went back two years earlier; Grand Theft Auto VI is set there again, in the state of Leonida, with nothing published yet about how that city is laid out.
GTA: Vice City Stories
Little Havana
District
GTA: Vice City Stories
Little Haiti
District
GTA: Vice City Stories
Ocean Beach
District
Characters
The cast
Protagonist
Tommy Vercetti
Out of prison after fifteen years and sent south by the Forelli family to open Vice City for them. The deal is ambushed, the money is gone, and Tommy decides to take the city instead of apologising for it.
Character
Lance Vance
Antagonist
Ricardo Diaz
Antagonist
Sonny Forelli
Vehicles
The garage
Weapons
The armoury
Melee
Baseball Bat
Equipment
Camera
Handguns
Colt 45
Heavy Weapons
Flamethrower
Vehicles
Garage by class
83 vehicles across 5 classes listed for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, in the game's own classes. Pick one to browse it.
Weapons
Armoury by category
36 weapons across 10 categories listed for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, in weapon-wheel order.
Across the series
Shared with other titles
The titles that share the most with Grand Theft Auto: Vice City on this site. Each row counts the vehicles, weapons, characters and locations listed for both that title and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
- 73vehicles
- 20weapons
- 9characters
- 24locations
- 65vehicles
- 21weapons
- 5characters
- 41vehicles
- 24weapons
- 3characters
Counts are of what this site lists for each title. Neither list is complete yet, so a gap in a pair is ours, not the games'.
In the series
Related Releases
How GTA: Vice City sits beside the rest of the franchise.