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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City box art: pastel panels of a pink-suited Tommy Vercetti, a helicopter, a speedboat and a burning car, under the neon Vice City script.

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

Released
29 October 2002
Developer
Rockstar North
Publisher
Rockstar Games
Setting
Vice City, 1986
Era
3D Era (2001–2006)
Type
Main title

Platforms

  • PlayStation 2
  • Windows
  • Xbox
  • PlayStation 3
  • PlayStation 4
  • PlayStation 5
  • iOS
  • Android

Every platform the title has been released on. We record which, not when — a port’s own release date is a separate fact and we have not established one for each.

The story

Missions

60missions

The complete GTA: Vice City story catalogue — 60 missions. 22 are optional.

16 mission givers

In the order the campaign first meets them. Missions the catalogue records no giver for are not counted here.

Open the full campaign

Every mission in order.

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.

Every dial in the series

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

All 31 places
The Vice City sign lit against a pink sunset as an airliner passes low overhead.

GTA VI

City

Vice City

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.

Characters

The cast

All 45 characters
Tommy Vercetti, as they appear in GTA: Vice City.

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.

Vehicles

The garage

All 83 vehicles

Weapons

The armoury

All 36 weapons

In the series

Related Releases

How GTA: Vice City sits beside the rest of the franchise.

Provenance

Verified against research.

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