Vice City at a glance
Copies Sold17.5M+
Setting1986
Businesses to Buy10+
Licensed Tracks90+
fifteen years, then florida
The Story
Tommy Vercetti walks out of prison after fifteen years of keeping his mouth shut, gets sent south to open the Forelli family's Vice City operation, and watches the deal get ambushed within the hour.
Ray Liotta as Tommy
Fresh off Goodfellas and Cop Land, Liotta gave GTA its first true leading man — and the series its first protagonist with a temper you could hear.
The Ambush at the Docks
The money and the product both vanish. Sonny Forelli wants both back, and everything Tommy builds is really just him refusing to be anyone's errand boy again.
From Errand Boy to Kingpin
Diaz, the Vances, the Cubans, the Haitians and a biker gang — Tommy takes the whole board, one business at a time.
1986, fully loaded
What It Added
Buy the City
Boatyard, film studio, taxi firm, ice cream factory, printing works — properties that generate income and unlock missions. The empire loop that GTA has returned to ever since.
Motorcycles at Last
Cut from GTA III, and the single most requested addition. Vice City's bikes changed how the whole map felt to move through.
Helicopters & Real Flight
Actual working rotorcraft, plus a skyline built to be seen from above.
Interiors That Mattered
Malibu Club, the mansion, Ammu-Nation — buildings you could walk into rather than drive past.
The Soundtrack
Nine stations of licensed 1980s music, Flash FM to V-Rock — a needle-drop budget that made the era the co-star.
Personal Style
Tommy's outfits change with the story, and the Hawaiian shirt became one of gaming's most recognisable silhouettes.
the voice sheet
A Movie Cast
Hollywood on the Payroll
Ray Liotta, Burt Reynolds as Avery Carrington, Dennis Hopper as Steve Scott, Gary Busey as Phil Cassidy, Danny Trejo as Umberto Robina, Luis Guzmán as Ricardo Diaz.
Philip Michael Thomas as Lance
Casting the Miami Vice lead as Tommy's unreliable partner was the joke, the homage and the thesis all at once.
Bill Fichtner as Ken Rosenberg
The panicking lawyer who ties Vice City to San Andreas — and who nobody who played either game forgets.
Miami, Legally Distinct
Scarface and Miami Vice run through every frame, from the mansion shootout to the pastel skyline.
the game itself
Vice City Screenshots
Official shots first, then what the community is still making 20-plus years on.
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Legacy
The Best-Looking GTA of Its Day
Sunsets, neon reflections and a colour palette so specific that "Vice City" now describes an aesthetic, not just a place.
The Empire Blueprint
Property ownership and income streams ran through San Andreas, GTA V's businesses and GTA Online — all of it starts here.
The Definitive Edition
Part of the 2021 remastered trilogy, with some licensed tracks lost to expired rights — a running cost of building a game around real music.
Vice City Is Back
GTA 6 returns to Vice City for the first time in over twenty years, with Jason and Lucia and a whole state around it. See what's confirmed on our Leonida map breakdown.