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[IbizaPocholo]

Tommy Vercetti, remember the name.

 

[anthraticus]

Setting & music obviously.

 

[Arkam]

Setting & music obviously.

And all the best mob movie homages. Scarface, heat, good fellas, etc. whole experience was soaked in nostalgia. Loved it!!

 

[Portugeezer]

Setting & music obviously.

No need to watch the video

 

[Elpidio Valdés]

My favorite GTA of all time. Obviously living in Miami I'm a bit biased towards the game. But that music and soundtrack is so amazing, every single radio station is fire. Love it! Fuck that remote helicopter mission though.

 

[Rock And Roll]

There's nothing quite like performing drive bys while Self Control by Laura Branigan plays on the radio.

 

[Kikorin]

Yes, setting and music made it my favourite GTA ever. Even if GTA V was unbelievable when release, Vice City is still the king in my heart.

I guess that having a "small" map that after some hours you began to remember by heart helped in making it so alive.

 

[Woggleman]

It truly did capture the essence of the 80s in a way that not many pieces of entertainment in general did.

 

[Lionel Richie]

Incredibly based video, wholesome as fuck game.

 

[Pimpbaa]

I was so hyped for the game before it came out and boy did it deliver.

 

[Moriah20]

Not my favorite GTA, that would be SA or 5, but an incredibly amazing videogame anyway. Considering it's kind of is just a "reskin" of GTA 3, with a different map, it's a proper fucking achievement. It always amazes me looking back at VC's map - it's so simplistic and, well, SMALL. I dunno if it's even bigger than GTA 3's map - I woudn't be surprised if it was actually smaller. But still, ps2 era rockstar GTA map design is god tier, the map never actually felt small while playing. The atmosphere was so thick you could cut it with a knife. The music, obviously as previously mentioned, but also the colourful night lights, the super bright sun during day time, all the white lambos cruising around....

I feel almost that the template for the "80's look" was created, or at least cemented by Vice City. It's a game that somehow made people who weren't even fucking alive in the 80's feel nostalgic for it.

 

[Woggleman]

I have been to Miami and they capture the vibe perfectly. I wish this Rockstar still existed. The original GTA trilogy pretty much pioneered the open world genre as we see it today and to see them sell out so much with V just hurts.

 

[shaddam]

My favorite GTA. Almost perfect size, no timesink bullshitting like in the later games. And Tommy s a great charachter

Too bad the multiplayer community is much smaller than SAMP. I really like the vibe

 

[DetectiveBananas]

Because running NPC’s over in my Lamborghini while listening to Billie Jean on the car stereo is the only way to play GTA

 

[John Mullins]

The game has aged very badly compared to San Andreas.

 

[Gavin Stevens]

The soundtrack. Simple.

80s music > all other music. And you can take that to the bank.

 

[II_JumPeR_I]

I would take a remaster/remake of this over another gta 5 Port...

I hope Gta6 is 80s vice city again.

 

[diffusionx]

Ugh, I never played Vice City. The only one in the series I have not played. I was planning to get VCS on PSP, but I never picked it up.

 

[BaneIsPain]

It is a bright and shiny city. With heavily influenced scarface and likeable protogonist.

 

[pawel86ck]

+interesting story based on classic films.
+sense of freedom and most importantly fun gameplay mechanics (combat and car driving)
+amazing graphics on PS2 and xbox. Big detailed world and car models, day and night cycle and weather effects were something new to me back then. Thanks to interesting art direction and beautiful warm orange colors I still enjoy looking at this game despite low poly objects
+amazing music

Game is very old, therefore there are problems on modern PCs, so I recommend this patch and mods compilation (orange color atmosphere from PS2 and xbox version, better car and character models from Xbox version, real time car relfections, AI upscaled textures, widesreen and gamepad support)

Steam Community :: Guide :: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – Definitive Edition

Here we are over 10 years later, and Rockstar still hasn't given Grand Theft Auto: Vice City the update it deserves. In this guide we have fixed many bugs from the PC game, and also added some mods to

steamcommunity.com

For anyone experiencing crashes with this mod compilation, you have to download "Large Address Aware" application from the comments section and add GTA VC exe to the list.

 

[Pejo]

Theme for the thread.

Everyone nailed it already, the tropical-esque Miami in the 80s setting with the soundtrack will just invoke nostalgia for a lot of people. Damn that was a good game.

 

[INC]

Well Pop culture references
Voice actors
Music
Location
Etc

 

[TheMan]

The soundtrack has never and will never be beat in another GTA game. Plus, it represented a big leap forwards in open-world design at a time when open worlds were still fresh and new and exciting. They could throw in stuff like motorcylces and boats and it was mindblowing because again, open worlds were still new. Now we just take it for granted.

 

[Birdo]

Worst map of the series.