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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)

Rockstar North

Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 2 · PlayStation 3 · Xbox

4.14 from 8544 ratings · #220 top rated on Grouvee

16660 members have it in their collection · 261 playing now · 3191 backlogged · 831 wish listed

How long? Main story 14h · with extras 27h · 100% 40h (from 27 logged playthroughs)

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.
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Developers
Rockstar North
Publishers
Rockstar Games, Take-Two Interactive
Genres
Adventure, Arcade, Racing, Shooter
Themes
Action, Comedy, Open world, Sandbox
Franchises
Grand Theft Auto
Series
Grand Theft Auto
Steam
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Release dates

  • Oct 27, 2002 (North_America) PlayStation 2
  • Nov 08, 2002 (Europe) PlayStation 2
  • Nov 21, 2002 (New_Zealand) PlayStation 2
  • May 13, 2003 (Europe) PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • May 13, 2003 (North_America) PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • Apr 08, 2004 (Japan) PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • May 20, 2004 (Japan) PlayStation 2
  • Jan 04, 2008 (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • Nov 12, 2010 (Europe) Mac
  • Aug 25, 2011 (Worldwide) Mac
  • Jan 29, 2013 (North_America) PlayStation 3
  • TBD (Worldwide) PlayStation 2

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2 stars
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thebigmack

Status thebigmack Aug 1, 2025

Age and parenthood has given, what I hope to be, a healthy perspective and structure for media exposure.

Which the brings me to a sudden surprise.

How on earth did my parents give me the green light to play GTA at an impressionable age? They must have not understood what it was at first, as my childish guile made sure …

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Age and parenthood has given, what I hope to be, a healthy perspective and structure for media exposure.

Which the brings me to a sudden surprise.

How on earth did my parents give me the green light to play GTA at an impressionable age? They must have not understood what it was at first, as my childish guile made sure to maximize the pitch. Still, they must have been continually ignorant if GTA 3 & Vice City could've been so fervently consumed.

While I believe to be a well adjusted and respectable member of society, with the utmost terror of wrong doing and its repercussions, I am curious how GTA or other early internet material formed any part of my phycological understanding of the world, women and masculinity as a whole. Admittedly, other internet flash games and online content comes to mind, which was exceptionally worse than GTA in comparison. Christ almighty.

Browsing this time capsule brings both pangs of discomfort and crippling nostalgia. I can almost feel the warmth of the CRT monitor and the crackle of late 90's computer speakers.

https://classicgtasites.com/

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ApramPepo

Status ApramPepo Dec 31, 2024

Playing GTA 3 and Vice City back to back on the PS2 have been very painful for me for the past few days. Glad my first experience for them was on PC, but I can't imagine what the people had to deal with those two titles on the PS2 with the terrible controls and camera just to enjoy them.

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Unq

Status Unq Nov 11, 2024

Better then 3 good story but some missions are annoying but fun and vibey

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SnortScout

Status SnortScout Jul 28, 2024

Gone are the days when I was playing vice city version, looks good but not great. After playing GTA 5 I did not played GTA vice city. I need very real graphics so that I can interact with the free will world like in 5th version. Overall some good some bad.

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Funebrae

Status Funebrae Jun 8, 2022

The only GTA I could actually get through, and only due to the fact I am an 80’s kid so I love the style and substance there.

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ApramPepo

Status ApramPepo Oct 14, 2021

This is the Best game to 100%. It's Just so good, with a great atmosphere, with a great art style, and a great soundtrack, makes this game a Blast to play all the way.

I'm going to 100% this game again, but this time with Cheats.

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Lygodesma

Status Lygodesma Feb 28, 2021

After completion, I have to take 2 stars away from Vice City I guess. It's replayability is limited, if you want completion, half of the game is no fun.

Why so? The mission design in the beginning is quite funny and creative, but over the course of the game the missions become absolutely straight forward and annoying as hell. They …

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After completion, I have to take 2 stars away from Vice City I guess. It's replayability is limited, if you want completion, half of the game is no fun.

Why so? The mission design in the beginning is quite funny and creative, but over the course of the game the missions become absolutely straight forward and annoying as hell. They are not difficult - agains, this has to be stressed, since they require no skill - they are if anything artificially difficult by, for instance, giving you shitty control over your vechicle. Every mission has to be done several time until you understand what to do or which possible mistakes to make because it's not explained enough.

That wouldn't be a problem at all, if I could start the mission right away - but you have to drive back, start again, go there again etc. That's absolutely tedious outdated game design and makes the game overy many hours barely enjoyable. As I stated in other reviews, it's okay to be difficult (Vice City is not skillfull though). But it's not okay to punish the player by wasting his time by having to rewalk the way from before. Even with nice music in the cars.

Occasionally, you would go from one place to the other to do the missions and the game almost gets into a flow, just to annoy you with another absolutely stupid mission. Playing through Vice City never has a flow - and that's a terrible thing to say about such game. There's always obstacles of missions that are only difficult because they are not explained well.

I thought it's one of the best games of all time, but the outdated artificial dificulty of many missions really kills the vibe and makes it not age well.

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