Tommy can purchase several properties and businesses and make money by doing asset missions, which is an excellent way to generate cash after completion while still playing the main story. GameplayĪfter Tommy finds out who stole the drugs and ambushes the deal, he plans to take over the city and build an empire. The incredible story is one of the reasons why, even to this day, Vice City still holds its weight compared to other GTA’s. The game is reasonably paced as it allows you to understand each character’s actions and why they take them and to follow Tommy’s growth. They form a bond based on shared interests and a common enemy until he betrays Tommy at the end of the game, and that doesn’t sit well with him, so he kills Lance. He teams up with Lance Vance to avenge his brother Victor Vance’s death. Tommy then sets out to find out who ambushed him and get Sonny’s money back by working with Ken, who is Sonny’s lawyer. Right from the backstory where we found out that Tommy did some time in prison for the mob in Liberty City, he was repaid by them by shipping him off to Vice City with the plan that he would lay some groundwork for the Forelli crime family by setting up a few drug deals, but this doesn’t go according to plan as he gets ambushed a briefcase full of money while barely escaping with his life. He just represented a character who shoots people, steals cars, and carries out odd jobs for cash, but here it’s different. Coming from GTA 3, where Claude, the main protagonist, wasn’t necessary, he never spoke so that players couldn’t connect with him, and it wasn’t even until a cameo in GTA: San Andreas that his name was revealed. One thing that makes Vice City better than GTA 3 is the story of Tommy Vercetti, who was just a perfect evolution for a protagonist in the game. In fact, the story is essentially the story from Scarface, which sees the main protagonist enter Miami and rise to the top of a criminal empire. Sonny sends Tommy to Vice City, where he meets up with Ken Rosenberg and heads over to a drug trade with some members of the Vance family, where they get ambushed, with Tommy being the only survivor.įor those conversant with 80s movies, you can quickly tell the game is heavily influenced by films such as Scarface and Goodfellas, which were both Al Pacino movies, Carlitos Way, and the Miami Vice television series. In Vice City, we play Tommy Vercetti, fresh off a 15-year prison sentence, who is a member of the Mafia, and we see Sonny, the mafia boss, explaining his plan to expand his drug business from Liberty City to Vice City. The entire game is reminiscent of 80s culture and everything in vogue at the time, especially in Miami Beach, which is evident in the music, the clothing, vehicles, and even the drug trade (crack epidemic).Įven though it started off as a mission pack and was released a year after GTA 3, it was a huge step from what GTA 3 was as the graphics were a lot better, especially when you look at the player movements, the color palette, which was very accurate of summer of the 80s and player customizations. The bright and colorful atmosphere gives off a summer vibe, a significant upgrade from the dark, gloomy atmosphere of Liberty City from GTA 3. GTA Vice City was released in 2002 but is based in the 1980s, 1986 Miami to be precise, and you can guess that the 80s retro vibe is what Rockstar Games were aiming for, and they nailed it perfectly in the game.
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