History VideoGame / GrandTheftAutoViceCity

* GottaCatchEmAll: The Hidden Packages ([[ShoutOut which resemble]] the [[DashiellHammett Maltese Falcon]]) scattered around the city, which unlock increasingly awesome and deadly things.

** The idea? [[spoiler: Using a PCJ-600 to jump from rooftop to rooftop Downtown starting from a office building and ultimately ending at a building with a searchlight... when Batman-ing it to display [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100128164730/gtawiki/images/thumb/d/de/G-Spotlight-GTAVC.jpg/300px-G-Spotlight-GTAVC.jpg this]].]]

** The idea? [[spiler: Using a PCJ-600 to jump from rooftop to rooftop Downtown starting from a office building and ultimately ending at a building with a searchlight... when Batman-ing it to display [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100128164730/gtawiki/images/thumb/d/de/G-Spotlight-GTAVC.jpg/300px-G-Spotlight-GTAVC.jpg this]].]]

* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler:Lance Vance]] in the last mission, [[spoiler:betraying and trying to kill Tommy]].

* EvilVersusEvil: Almost every character in Vice City are criminals, from murderers, drug lords, corrupt managers or mobsters. In fact, the same protagonist, Tommy, is a VillainProtagonist who does not seem to be less worse than their enemies.

* FakeBand: Love Fist who plays alongside the real artists on VRock and you do several missions for. [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome they're actually pretty good,] and [[CrownimgMomentOfFunny really funny.]]

* BigBadFriend: Sonny Forelli and Lance Vance at the end.

* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler:Lance Vance at the end.]]

* BlackAndBlackMorality: Almost every character in Vice City are criminals, from murderers, drug lords, corrupt managers or mobsters. In fact, the same protagonist, Tommy, is a VillainProtagonist who does not seem to be less worse than their enemies.

* WordOfGod: Yes, that was [[spoiler:Vic Vance, Lance's older brother and protagonist of ''GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories'']] that got gunned down in the opening cut scene.

* NoHonorAmongThieves: Unfortunately for Tommy he believes the family to firmly adhere to the principle of HonorAmongThieves. This makes him somewhat naive in his dealings with fellow Mafia members. When Sonny proves this is not the case its seems Tommy is equally upset over the betrayal of this principle (if not more so) than the personal slights against him.

* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: If you take the steroid powerup, Tommy can punch people ridiculous distances and run much faster. Unfortunately, so much as hitting a slight bump while running can kill you.
* {{Retcon}}: Phil Cassidy loses his arm in a different way than he said he lost it in ''III'', and he couldn't have been ''that drunk''. Not a "hard" Ret Con since Cassidy is shown as being a military fanatic who turned an embarrassing story into another aspect of his fantasy.

--> '''Barry''': My mother understood I was special! She made me wear a bonnet as a child. And when I demanded to go to school naked, she was fine with it! After social service moved me, she would still write to me. I still remember when she kissed me goodbye.

* SuperDrowningSkills: Vice City, based off of Miami, is a very tropical place. So of course, it's surrounded by water. Not being able to swim ''really'' sucks. Especially since it gets in the way of being able to enjoy the ocean and the boats properly. The manual [[{{Handwave}} handwaves]] this as being the result of shark infestation, but this isn't shown in game.

* WordOfGod: Yes, that was [[spoiler:Vic Vance, Lance's older brother and protagonist of ''GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories'']] that got gunned down in the opening cutscene.

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: It's debatable how moral Tommy Vercetti was. But he definitely get one of these moments in the mission "Missing With The Man", killing civilians and causing destruction in the city.

* FakeBand: Love Fist.

* TemptingFate: The city is actually ''named'' "Vice City". Were they expecting it to become a Utopia? According to one of the designers, the name came from the pronounciation vee-kay city, as in, victory city. The C just evolved into a soft C. It's also [[RuleOfFunny more funny this way]].
* TooSlow: If you're too leisurely in chasing Diaz's traitorous employee on the rooftop, the youth will shout, "Too slow, grandad!!" before leaping into his car.

A year after ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'' tore up the gaming world, Rockstar topped it with the sequel, '''''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City'''''.

Since ''Vice City'' takes place in 1986, Rockstar did its best to capture the look and feel of that time -- or, at least, [[HollywoodHistory how it looked in]] ''MiamiVice''. (It helps that the game had [[AwesomeMusic a killer '80s soundtrack]] to go with it.)

* CoolBike : The very first GTA III-era game to feature them.

* EarlyBirdCameo: The party on Cortez's yacht serves to introduce a plethora of minor characters, all of whom play bigger roles later down the line (with the exception of Pastor Richards; see AuthorExistenceFailure above.)

** [[FridgeBrilliance Or maybe Tommy just thinks there are sharks.]]

** Oddly, there is nothing at all in Harwood besides the radio station. (And the pier, which was demolished between ''GTAIII'' and ''Liberty City Stories''.)