The story The atmosphere The humor The characters The vehicles The setting The soundtrack The gameplay The EVERYTHING

The game which is 18+ Becomes everyone's childhood.

Driving around Vice City at night. Listening to Emotion 98.3. It felt real.

Still my favorite GTA game! I would also let my younger sister play at the time. Her favorite thing to do was steal a taxi and just drive around picking people up and dropping them off. Every time I came back to the game, I would have tons of money from letting her do taxi missions for an hour or two. Thank sis, lol

I used to use Emotion’s and Flash FM’s playlists when I gave rides on weekends around my college town. Some people just enjoyed the good music. Others would ask “is this from Vice City?” when songs would change and it’s another song from the game. Such an incredible and absolutely iconic soundtrack.

Fastest in game vehicle. Tank with turret point to the back.

The “Mission Passed”-tune is probably the best and most satisfying mission passed-tune in any game ever.

I love how the city was the smallest, but had more nooks and crannies like alleys and secret entrances that makes it worth exploring. Gta V is waaay bigger but no buildings you can enter, and not much things to discover static buildings etc.

One underrated aspect of this game is how it really opens up once you have the mansion. Suddenly it’s not a semi-linear story about revenge, it’s now up to you to take over the city as a crime lord. You can keep doing the story missions and clamp down on businesses with Lance, or you can buy new assets and do those missions (Malibu Club, Film Studio and Print Works having the most interesting new story content) to generate cash, and if you’re bored of that, there’s a Love Fist concert that needs your help and a Haitian/Cuban gang war that you help start, participate in both sides in, and help finish off. And a lot of it is optional. I completely skipped the Malibu missions when I first played it because it was so expensive, and now I realize that I missed a big portion of the game.

The time span between when Vice City came out, 2002 and when its set, 1986, is comparable to going from the 2020 to 2004

I’m not a native English speaker, but when I was a kid I played the shit out of this game and learned 80% of the cheat codes by heart. When I grew up and learned English, the fact that those cheat codes were actual words absolutely blew my mind. Also, I was the one who all my friends called over so that I could complete the RC Heli mission for them.

I've lived in South Florida for most of my life, since the early 70s. I remember playing this game with a friend and we were always shocked at how so many of the areas in the game perfectly captured areas in South Florida. The Fort Lauderdale strip and Boca Raton were areas we were very familiar with and we could even tell which streets (and back streets) were copied from real life.

Game: for ages 18+ My dad when the game came out: my 5 year old son will like this

Australia: takes the hookers out of GTA III because prostitution is immoral Also Australia: prostitution is legal

How did I never notice that Ray Liotta voiced Tommy Vercetti? By the way, Goodfellas and Scarface are two all-time gangster classics! And I agree that this game has a lot of charm and character, and the 80's setting is what really draws me to the game.

I was 6 when VC came out. This was a game that made even my dad nostalgic and he wasn't into video games but he loved watching me play them. It made him nostalgic for the 80's. I was there day one for 3 too. My dad always explained games to me. This isn't real life. This isn't how you act in reality, you don't do wrong things in real life. My dad was always there to explain to me. Our favorite movie is also good fellas. Scarface is. Close second. My point is, I'm thankful for my father. He's as pumped for the remaster as I am. I thank God we have the memories we have. I mean that.

The music, the age it was set up - it was a godsend.

This game is the reason I found love for the 80's culture. Hope we get to go back to Miami again.

The color palat was actually one of the main appeals for me, this game offered alot more color than many other PS2 games which tended to be very green, grey, and brown.

I bought the complete soundtrack, it was a CD for every radio station. I think I still have them somewhere but it definitely had one of the best soundtracks of any game. The thing I liked about Vice City is that the City felt alive and changed as you played. I remember the talk radio station would mention stuff the player did, or parts of the city changing as you completed missions.

My older sister introduced me to this game when I was about 12. She couldn't beat the RC helicopter mission and asked me to beat it for her. Needless to say, I ended up hooked and we beat the game together.

I still use the radio stations as background music and playlists to this day. Vice City and San Andreas have amazing soundtracks.

R.I.P. RAY LIOTTA aka HENRY HILL aka TOMMY VERCETTY the GREATEST PROTAGONIST IN GTA HISTORY. HE WAS THE first protagonist with the voice (Claude didn't speak 😁) and it was PHENOMENAL ROLE. I hope Rockstar gives him respect and tribute in the next GTA 6.

Played the defenitive edition, TOMMY STILL CAN'T SWIM

The only complaint I had was how tf Tommy couldn't swim.

The 80s revival thing was still fresh when Vice City came out. Ray Liotta's voice work as Tommy Vercetti is unbelievably good. And the game's script is genuinely funny.

I haven't finished original vice city, cuz i got bored quickly since i was playing it after GTA 4 and eflc probably. But my first GTA was vice city stories on PSP during elementary school years, that game was a blast for me when I didn't even know english at all and was trying to figure out what to do on the missions by myself and my classmates.

One of the best games of our childhood feels good to see a video of this again -and i also clicked because of the tumbnail

"The game 'Grand Theft Auto Vice City' defined my childhood" isn't a sentence anyone wants to hear, but it's how I feel.

I had to drive 8 hours after work last night and was blasting this soundtrack!

Dude listening to that opening brought tears to my eyes. The feelings are real.

Born in '86 too! Lots of fond memories staying over at friends places over the weekend to all-nighter this game as much as possible before having to head back to school on Monday, day dreaming about how we could have handled the last mission better..

I was 12, knew nothing about 80's back then. But fell love with the music and the surroundings, all the palm trees - loved it all.

Grand Theft Auto: Florida Man

The soundtrack, story, and that 80's Florida aesthetic make it my fav GTA game.

Love the 80 vibes. GTA: Vice City looks like my kind of Playground

I’d kill for a proper HD remake of this game; the music, the characters, the setting- it’s all there. It just needs to be remade!

I especially love how the rain storm looks at night in vice city. A lot of atmosphere

This game actually had the best storyline (Apart from GTA IV) entire connection in this game was so amazing to experience

i remember buying this game when i was 15 in 2003. i immediately fell in love with it. i always loved the atmosphere of the 80s that we see in movies and tv shows, and at that time i was starting to get into metal and hard rock, so having a game that combined both of these aspects really blew my mind. it will always be my favorite gta of all time, even though the sequels are objectively better games, gameplay-wise. but the atmosphere of vice city will always have a special place in my heart

Because it was pure freedom and epicness! I loved it soooo much. And so much details :D I still listen to radio emotion with Fernando Martinez and even the commercials on the radio station are awesome :D haha

Simple Answer: Because it was set in 80's Miami

Where that Art of Candy come from? Looks superb.

GTA: Vice City made me fall in love with 80s music

When a game captures the 1980's atmosphere SO WELL that even people who were born in the 90's and later loved it (not to mention being interested in 80's music), then you know it's good.

As a Miami resident, I always found Vice City to be so charming. It's like a mini-Miami where all the landmarks are there, but the locations are way off, and everything is so adorably tiny. I think I have a small bias there in my love for this game.

20:11 I remember being so sick of this mission as a kid that I put on the 'Cars Fly' cheat. It was pretty funny seeing him fly away and crash into things.

It was so good because of the atmosphere, the music, the characters, the story, the acting, the gameplay, just everything came together to make it the nutz.

That was my first GTA game.

this game deserves a remake or remaster, but this time Tommy should be able to swim

The soundtrack was so good. I was mostly listening to music and just playing the game in the background. It nailed that feeling of Miami Vice playing "In the Air Tonight" while driving down the streets of Miami. By far, my favorite of the series.

The vibe, the map, the missions, those awesome radio stations, the vehicles and the main characters... These are some of the things that made GTA Vice City a very good and enjoyable game. I remember that I never in my life had to install a single mod for that game to enjoy it, that's how much I loved it! I love GTA IV, GTA San Andreas and GTA V, but Vice City is just very special to me. Damn, I had a good childhood...

This was absolutely the pinnacle of the series for me. The music, the DJs, the setting, everything was just spot on. And the fact that Tommy is voiced by Ray Liotta is just incredible to me. That brought a level of authenticity to the game that was just so rare back then. Aside from maybe Michael Ironside as Sam Fisher, I don't recall many Hollywood actors doing voicework (well at least not as the main character, I know GTA III had a great cast as well). It's now commonplace, but at the time, it was pretty much unheard of. I also really appreciate that the map is a reasonable size. That's one thing I didn't like about San Andreas and GTA V. They take forever to travel and driving feels like a chore. GTA San Andreas alleviates that a bit because of the music and the multiple cities. But I still don't enjoy having to trek through so much nothingness to get to my missions.

9:38 "The only difference is that Tommy survives his penultimate shootout. Tony, well we all know how that went" Scarface 2006 video game says hi

Goodfellas is legit a perfect film it never, ever gets old

Can u just say, this games facial animations kind of slept on. They look awesome! I never noticed it because when I played it I was like 7 and it was on a crt.

You know, in the heist mission "The driver" , the Sentinel has actually a bigger advantage once you realize that car is based on a BMW 7 series, you know, the one that came with V8s and a V12 IRL, so ingame that car has better top speed and handling than Hillary´s Sabre Turbo. It was Rockstar trolling non car guys by giving them a boxy car agains´t a car with a racing stripe... you know, the racing stripes give your car +20 Horsepowers.

I love this game so damn much. Played through it multiple times, theres just something magical about the atmosphere. Music is also 10/10.

The art and the setting combined is surreal. The music takes it to the next level. I like to simply drive around and look at the graphics. I hope the definitive edition doesn't lose the feel of how vice city looks.

Re-watching this video just to see how much better OG Vice City is and damn, the Trilogy version is even worse than I initially thought..

Vice city was my life I still remember it took half hour for me to install it on my p4 pc I asked my friend why its taking soo long He replied Dude Its installing an entire city on a pc I was amazed by technology The sound effects of vc On a 5.1 speaker was such an amazing feeling I played vc every day For 3-4 hours I can type cheats more faster on a keyboard than my own name

my aunt bought me this game when I was in 5th grade. To this day if I ever get rich I'm going to make her rich too

I, for some reason, have a very vivid memory of changing into the leisure suit and hearing "Nice ass baby"

“Rode my kangaroo home and threw a shrimp on the barby” great video!

I grew up in Miami in the 80's, so most of the games little details are right on. There's even neighborhoods called Little Havana and Little Haiti. I was even surprised to hear the police dispatcher's accent in the game.

"This is...Emotion..." then driving around listening to Crockets Theme.

RIP Tommy Vercetti aka Ray Liotta

Enjoyed it on PS2 but enjoyed it way more on Xbox. Further draw distance and custom music was so great.

Vice city looked so real when I first played it.

Characters: Rosenberg from Carlito's way, Carrington: Senator from Godfather; Baker: Waingrove from Heat; Danny Trejo, is Himself; that one guy is Lebowski.

Damn I didn’t know Ray Liotta voiced tommy! You learn something new everyday

Vice City holds a special place in my heart. I was around 17 years old. My friend Adam and I were tight - always getting together and playing games like Splinter Cell, and others..but we always played Vice City. But at one point our friendship ended, because of me and my actions. I completely screwed over his family one day at a food festival they were part of, and I was supposed to work for them. I just took off. I left without warning - quit on the spot. That broke and destroyed our friendship. It never got repaired after that. Now, nearly 20 years later, I still am deeply saddened by my behavior. In a way, this was the last period in my life where I had a true friend. And I destroyed it. Thank you for this video because the memories I have are good, even if the time period doesn't exist anymore.

If Rockstar made remakes, this game’s first in line.

"Anyone who tells you this game hasn't aged is either lying or delusional." You calling me a liar, Frank? That what you calling me?

During my first time visiting and driving through Miami, after playing a solid year of Vice City, I felt like I already knew the lay of the land. The beach boulevard especially, it's so cool to see in real life.

Ridin' up and down Ocean Beach while listening to "Self Control" or "Billy Jean" is one of my fondest gaming memories.

This was the best in the series. I remember playing this in high school. It really set a high bar.

Still can't overcome the PTSD from Demolition man mission.

3:33 man, that sweet sweet Aussie life...

Couldn’t agree more. The first game I pre-ordered and it was worth the hype. I Still play every GTA, chasing the dragon that was Vice City.

"The last stance for Lance Vance" still hurts me to this day. He was boy and he just double crossed me like that.

K-Chat was my jam. Sometimes I'd just listen to K-Chat in the pause menu while doing other stuff

Intro to the video: how I expected the gta trilogy to look Gta trilogy: not even close, in a bad way

The thumbnail is wild lol

Vice City was my first GTA experience and even though it may not be the best , the soundtrack and putting in the cheat code for a tank, will forever hold a special place in my heart.

Honestly for me back when I first got it and the news I heard about it I thought it was going to flop, especially after the news about the struggles rockstar had with working with the voice actors * cough cough Ray. But point being it has done a great send off to people who grew up in that time. Equivalently it has done an ever better job to introducing kids-teenagers to a nostalgic time they never did live but instead heard of from their elders. But as I said anything from the atmosphere and music, it was a massive staple in gaming same as GTA 3 was when it first came out.

I lost my dad when I was 12, but the very last birthday present he ever got me was this game lol I remember wanting it so bad, but my mom wouldn't get it for me. I went to my dad's one weekend and asked him for it, and he got it for me. He got me SOCOM 2 also, it was one of the few birthdays I've actually liked in my 30 years. My mom was pissed though lol damn I had a good dad. I may not have had him for long, but I'm grateful I had him at all, and I will always treasure this fucking game.

The really ruined it with the so called remastered version. The character models in the remastered look really horrible, the original one had low ploygon faces but they were still likable and believable to some extent. The remastered version however just ruined most if not all the faces. For example, Tommy, Diaz, and even CJ look really bad.

Imagine vice city with 2020's graphics, Aaah, i remember those PSP days with Patapon and Various other GTA shit

When you get Diaz's mansion, the fun begins.

Vice City was something else to me, it's such an inspiring game, full of amazing 80's assets and just overall amazing, it was a very simple game but I loved every bit of it!

I got introduced to this game around 9, I think my mom got it for me. As a kid, it was like a whole new world to me. I just enjoyed the music, the Miami feel to it, being able to do missions, storyline and 80s genre. Playing this at adult is even better...I now live in Miami and can look back and really say vice city did a good job with displaying that Miami feel to the game.

This is a proff that graphics are not all the game.

I think it's a very relaxing game despite its theme of drugs and violence. The sunny beaches and 80s music make the city a very pleasant place to be in. That's why VC and VCS are somewhat more special than any of the other GTAs.

That intro was nice as hell

somehow the dramatized nostalgia trip with dated graphics is the most immersive and realistic game ive ever played. it literally takes you to another world

Yes they did originally intend for Vice City to be bigger. They were planning to add in the Florida Swamplands and mentioning of it can still be found in the game files. Supposedly there's an area in the game where you can tell it was supposed to begin. I think the channel that investigated it was called Vadim M or something.

The good old days of watching my older brother play on his ps2. I remember every time he would leave me in his room, telling me not to mess with his game. *I always did it anyway*

San Andreas did what Vice City did, but much better. Improved driving, graphics, movement, each city feels different has a different atmosphere, even the forests and mountains south of San Francisco. Sure, they dragged along some stuff and had some unnecessarily long missions, but overall, that game was a masterpiece for its time

Mannn Ken Rosenberg was based on the lawyer in Carlito's Way (1993) named David Kleinfeld played by Sean Penn