Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is an open world action-adventure video gamedeveloped by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It was released on 27 October 2002 for the PlayStation 2 console, on 12 May 2003 for Microsoft Windows, and on 31 October 2003 for the Xbox console. It is the sixth title in the Grand Theft Autoseries, and the first main entry since Grand Theft Auto III in 2001.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is played from a third-person perspective in an open world environment, allowing the player to interact with the game world at their leisure. The game is set in 1986 within the fictional city of Vice City, which is heavily based onMiami and draws inspiration from 1980's American culture. The single-player story follows Tommy Vercetti, a Mafia hitman who is released from prison. After his involvement in a drug deal gone wrong, Tommy seeks out those responsible while building a criminal empire and seizing power from other criminal organisations in the city.
Upon its release, the game was acclaimed by many reviewers who praised the music and gameplay, which uses a tweaked version of the game engine used in itspredecessor. It became the best-selling video game of 2002, and has sold over 20 million copies as of 2011; until July 2006, it was the best-selling PlayStation 2 game of all time. The game is cited as a landmark in video games for its far-reaching influence within the industry. The success of Vice City led to the creation of a prequel, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (2006), which revisits the Vice City setting just two years prior. Vice City's violent and sexual content has also been the source of public concern and controversy.As time passes, Tommy befriends Cortez and begins to do regular work for him as an errand boy and hitman. On one such job, Tommy is called in with Lance to protect the deal of a drug baron named Ricardo Diaz during a deal with the Cubans, looking to buy some high-end cocaine. During the deal, Diaz is ambushed by a gang of Haitians, but Tommy is able to kill them and save the deal, as well as Diaz's life. Consequently, Diaz begins hiring Tommy for his own agenda. Tommy takes this work because it pays well, in spite of his distaste for Diaz. On another errand for Cortez, he plans to meet a French courier in order to retrieve missile chips stolen from the French government. The deal is ambushed by several French agents and Tommy later kills the courier, who fled the ambush with the chips, retrieving the items.
Tommy learns from Cortez that Cortez's own lieutenant, Gonzalez, was partially responsible for the ambush on Tommy's cocaine deal since he is the only person besides Cortez to know about the deal, and Cortez asks Tommy to kill Gonzalez as a favor, since he was a man who he did distrust and was working behind his back. Afterwards Cortez voices his suspicion that Diaz might have been behind the ambush. Tommy initially continues the status quo to prepare for his attack, but his hand is forced when Lance attempts to take revenge by himself and fails, forcing Tommy to rush across the city and rescue him from the junkyard in which he is held. With the die cast, the two move quickly to raid Diaz's mansion and execute Diaz. With Diaz dead, and Colonel Cortez fleeing the country to escape the French, the established drug empires in Vice City quickly crumble and Tommy and Lance personally take over, becoming Vice City's drug kingpins.
Tommy becomes the head of his own organization, the Vercetti Crime Family, distancing himself from the Forelli Family and Liberty City and more interested in personally controlling Vice City than being Forelli's puppet. But the more powerful and rich Tommy gets, the more Lance begins to exhibit paranoia and sociopathic behaviors, to the point that he begins to abuse his own bodyguards and constantly calls Tommy in states of hysteria, losing his mind over being just a powerless second-in-command as he was under his brother for the past 2 years. Tommy begins to suspect that Lance is up to something.
Tommy makes alliance with Umberto Robina's Cubans against Auntie Poulet's Haitians, even though he is at the same time hypnotized by Poulet's voodoo into helping the Haitians as well. However after Tommy and Poulet part ways Tommy and the Cubans sneak explosives into the Haitian drug factory disguised in Haitian gang cars and blow it up, effectively ending the conflict and putting the Haitians out of business, enabling the Cubans to take over Little Havana. Umberto then becomes Tommy's partner. He also becomes friends with Big Mitch Baker, a leader of the biker gang and a Vietnam veteran, with both the bikers and the Cubans becoming protectors of Vercetti family business.
GTA Vice City Having just made it back onto the streets of Liberty City after a long stretch in maximum security, Tommy Vercetti is sent to Vice City by his old boss, Sonny Forelli. They were understandably nervous about his re-appearance in Liberty City, so a trip down south seemed like a good idea. But all does not go smoothly upon his arrival in the glamorous, hedonistic metropolis of Vice City. He’s set up and is left with no money and no merchandise. Sonny wants his money back, but the biker gangs, Cuban gangsters, and corrupt politicians stand in his way. Most of Vice City seems to want Tommy dead. His only answer is to fight back and take over the city himself.
GTA Vice City offers vehicular pleasures to suit every taste. For the speed enthusiast, there’s high-performance cars and motorbikes. For the sportsman, a powerboat or a golf buggy lets you enjoy the great outdoors. For those that need that sense of freedom and escape, why not charter a helicopter and see the beauty of Vice City from the air?
As the party capital of America, you would expect your ears to be seduced by a host of sultry melodies and pumping beats, but the city is truly rocking. You’ll be AMAZED as you sweep through Vice City’s FM dial. If you are feeling like trouble, you can tune into some driving rock, or some crucial electro, or maybe you want to slow down with some sweet soul, and there will always be some great romantic anthems if you want to really take your mind off things. For the action man, or outdoors type, there’s tons of fun things to do and adventures to be had… guaranteed. For the secretive or creepy type, Vice City is full of surprises, a place where you’ll constantly be surprised by the vivacious, fun-loving types who live there and the things you can discover.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is the most diverse and ambitious piece of interactive entertainment yet created. The game is developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. Grand Theft Auto Vice City is going to be released for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system on October 22, 2002. Rockstar Games Announces Grand Theft Auto: Vice City; Next Installment of Grand Theft Auto Franchise to Hit Streets in October.
As his drug business expands, Tommy buys assets in nearly bankrupt companies such as a car lot named Sunshine Autos, a cab depot Kaufmann Cabs, a popular night club called The Malibu, a local boathouse, a print shop, Print Works, an ice-cream company, and an adult film company, all of which he turns back into competitive businesses. He also becomes a personal bodyguard to glam metal band Love Fist, and pulls a major bank heist. He starts to control almost all the assets and ties of Vice City: Sunshine Autos as a chop shop, Kaufmann Cabs for money laundering, The Malibu Club for dispatching drugs, the ice-cream company for the production of drugs and the film company to control the underground movie scene.
Eventually, the Forelli family discovers that Tommy has gained control over entire Vice City and without having sent a single dime back to them. Sonny is enraged that Tommy has become independent and is hustling him, and sends collectors consisting of high-ranking Forelli members to force money out of Tommy's assets. Tommy disposes of them, but after they injure the elderly operator of his print shop of counterfeit money, he decides to cut Sonny and the Forelli family out of his business, severing his ties with the Forelli family.
GTA Vice City Cheat Codes with Results
THUGSTOOLS – All ”light” weapons
PROFESSIONALTOOLS – All ”medium” weapons
NUTTERTOOLS – All ”heavy” weapons
ASPIRINE – Full Health
PRECIOUSPROTECTION – Full Armor
ICANTTAKEITANYMORE – Commit Suicide
YOUWONTTAKEMEALIVE – Raise Wanted Level
LEAVEMEALONE – Decrease Wanted Level
FANNYMAGNET – Ladies Man, Women Follow You
CERTAINDEATH – Makes you smoke a cigarette
DEEPFRIEDMARSBARS – Makes Tommy fatter
PROGRAMMER – Gives Tommy girly arms/legs
STILLLIKEDRESSINGUP – Change Skin/Clothes
CHEATSHAVEBEENCRACKED – Play as Ricardo Diaz
LOOKLIKELANCE – Play as Lance Vance
MYSONISALAWYER – Play as Ken Rosenberg
LOOKLIKEHILARY – Play as Hilary King
ROCKANDROLLMAN – Play as Love Fist character Jezz Torent
WELOVEOURDICK – Play as Love Fist character Dick
ONEARMEDBANDIT – Play as Phil Cassidy
IDONTHAVETHEMONEYSONNY – Play as Sonny Forelli
FOXYLITTLETHING – Play as Mercedes
PANZER – Spawn a Rhino
TRAVELINSTYLE – Spawn a Bloodring Banger
GETTHEREQUICKLY – Spawn a Bloodring Banger 2
GETTHEREFAST – Spawn a Sabre Turbo
GETTHEREVERYFASTINDEED – Spawn a Hotring Racer
GETTHEREAMAZINGLYFAST – Spawn a Hotring Racer 2
THELASTRIDE – Spawn a Romero’s Hearse
ROCKANDROLLCAR – Spawn Love Fist’s Limo
RUBBISHCAR – Spawn a Trashmaster
BETTERTHANWALKING – Spawn a Caddie
BIGBANG – Blow up nearby cars
MIAMITRAFFIC – Aggressive Drivers
AHAIRDRESSERSCAR – All cars are pink
IWANTITPAINTEDBLACK – All cars are black
COMEFLYWITHME – Cars can fly
GRIPISEVERYTHING – Perfect Handling
GREENLIGHT – All traffic lights are green
SEAWAYS – Cars can drive/hover over water
WHEELSAREALLINEED – Only the wheels of a car are visible
LOADSOFLITTLETHINGS – Sportscars have big wheels
HOPINGIRL – Peds get in your car
ALOVELYDAY – Sunny/Clear Weather
APLEASANTDAY – Light Clouds
ABITDRIEG – Dense Clouds
CANTSEEATHING – Foggy Weather
CATSANDDOGS – Stormy Weather
LIFEISPASSINGMEBY – Speed up game clock
ONSPEED – Makes everything faster
BOOOOOORING – Makes everything slower
FIGHTFIGHTFIGHT – Peds Riot
NOBODYLIKESME – Peds Hate You
OURGODGIVENRIGHTTOBEARARMS – Peds Carry Guns
CHICKSWITHGUNS – Girls Carry Guns
CHASESTAT – Shows Media Level when 2 stars
An angered Sonny arrives in Vice City with a small army of mafiosi, intent on taking their tribute by force. Sonny and his henchmen soon arrive at the Vercetti Estate. Just as Tommy attempts to give them their tribute in counterfeit money, Sonny reveals he is the one who set Tommy up fifteen years before, sending him to kill the eleven men who were expecting him since he was feeling that Tommy would himself take over Sonny's business. Lance then exposes himself as a traitor, revealing Tommy's attempt to fool Sonny, and also admitting to informing Sonny about Tommy's activities in Vice City. Lance explains that he did it because Tommy started to disown him and didn't treat him equally, and wanted him dead so he could rebuild the Vance Crime Family and the fortune he had with his brother. An enraged Tommy starts a gunfight.
In the ensuing battle, Tommy first chases, ridicules, and finally kills Lance, then storms downstairs, where he faces off with Sonny, eventually killing him in the main hall of his estate, where Ken awaits, shocked about the events, but Tommy reassures him that everything is fine. With his enemies vanquished, Tommy establishes himself as the undisputed crime kingpin of Vice City.
Its successor, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, was released on 26 October 2004, and also received critical acclaim. In December 2012, in celebration of the game's tenth anniversary, a mobile version of Vice City was released for iOS and Android. The game has also been ported to various other platforms and services, such as Mac OS X and the PlayStation Network.
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