Vice City specifically refers to a city, Wretched Hive is more broad and can refer to anything from a single location(like a bar or website) to an entire setting.
So Vice City is really a sub-trope of Wretched Hive specifically for a city/town/settlement whatever. It also says that the Vice City is a well organized den of scum, where as the Wretched Hive is just "every man for himself" chaos.
edited 25th Nov '13 8:46:18 PM by shoboni
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Strikes me as The Same But More Specific. A Wretched Hive could be tightly controlled by one crime family, for example.
edited 25th Nov '13 11:27:29 PM by StarSword
Vice City is very much a "crime city" and Wretched Hive can deal with any kind of bad behaviours.
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What exactly is the difference between a Wretched Hive and Vice City? Wretched Hive seems to be "a settlement infested with crime and corruption", while Vice City is just "a crime-ridden city". Am I the only one who feels that Vice City needs to be
demolishedcut?edited 25th Nov '13 8:31:43 PM by SantosLHalper
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