Welcome to the gambling capital... of Pacific Bay, of course.
Paradise City is the ninth district investigated in Criminal Case: Pacific Bay.
Primarily based on Las Vegas, Paradise City is Pacific Bay's largest entertainment center, famous for its casinos, hotels, and nightlife worthy of the real deal.
Paradise City focuses on investigating and stopping a big heist that will be soon taking place on the district's most famous casino, being led by a released Con Man putting together a Caper Crew to perform the crime. Along the way, the player also discovers the sordid truth about someone from inside the team cooperating with the heist crew, leading you to trust no one whilst coming with a way to stop the plan.
Cases Set in Paradise City
- Killer Takes All: A croupier is stabbed through the eye with a croupier stick on the district's strip.
- Death at the Circus: An acrobat is hanged with her own rope on a circus stage.
- Death by Martini: A stripper is impaled with a giant olive skewer inside of a strip club.
- Blood Diamond: A gun dealer is pinned to the wall with knives on his own motel room.
- No Honor Among Thieves: A heist crew leader is poisoned with his own gas mask inside of a casino's vault.
- A Killer Among Us: A convicted killer is shocked to death with a stun gun on his way to being interrogated.
Tropes:
- Arc Villain: Karen Knight, being the one behind the casino heist plan so she could steal the plutonium stored inside of its vault. For his part, Louis De Rico serves as The Heavy after appearing to be the main antagonist for a big portion of the district, since he was taking orders from Karen about putting together a Caper Crew.
- The Caper: The main focus of the district is stopping one of these from happening. It fails.
- Downer Ending: The district ends with the heist being performed, Frank being outed as a traitor and a murderer, and him fleeing from the city with his reconciled wife, forcing Amy and the player to chase after them to The Wastes.
- Gut Punch: This district basically serves as the Maple Heights of Pacific Bay, with one of your teammates being revealed to be a traitor and/or killer after an entire season of trusting and befriending them.
- Heist Episode: The plot of Paradise City revolves around a big heist coming up and the team trying to find a way to stop it before it can be executed.
- The Mole: The last portion of the district also focuses on identifying which member of the police department has been working with the heist crew the entire time.
- Recurring Character: The recurring characters of Paradise City are Eugenia Hestentrope, the owner of the casino being targeted, and the Caper Crew planning to rob it, conformed by Louis De Rico, Danny Moto, Jezebel Lopez, Freddy Gomez, and Papa Quansah. To a lesser extent, there's also Sheikh Faisal, who appears twice during the district but bears no importance to the main plot.
- Viva Las Vegas!: Paradise City is primarily based on Las Vegas.
- Wham Episode: In a similar manner to Maple Heights, this district ends with a member of the police force murdering someone and being a traitor, though unlike Chief King committing suicide, Frank instead flees with his ex-wife, forcing you to chase after them in the final district.
