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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City for PlayStation 2
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City for the PlayStation 2 is an action adventure with a freely explorable city set in the 1980s. You play Tommy Vercetti, who tries to recover his money and position after a failed drug deal. His search brings him into contact with criminals, businesspeople and other residents of Vice City. You drive between assignments, step out to fight and gradually learn which interests lie behind each encounter.
Assignments alternate between chases, shootouts and transporting people or goods. Along the way you choose from cars and motorcycles with different handling and behaviour. When the police pursue you, you have to contend with increasing opposition. Outside the main assignments you can try taxi fares, races and other activities. Learning the city reveals useful routes and places to prepare your next move.
Later you can buy businesses and complete their associated assignments, giving Tommy greater influence over the city. Meanwhile, radio stations with music, presenters and advertisements provide a backdrop to every drive. The beach, hotels and neon lighting connect these activities with the atmosphere of Vice City. You play this original PlayStation 2 adventure alone, deciding for yourself where to focus between story assignments.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 2 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City for PlayStation 2 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City was released for the PlayStation 2 in 2002, a year after Grand Theft Auto III. Rockstar North developed the game and Rockstar Games published it. The three-dimensional city and the alternation between driving and action returned, but with a different setting and protagonist. Tommy Vercetti began his story in a city inspired by 1980s Miami.
Clothing, architecture and radio music made the period visible and audible. Rockstar worked with Sony Music on seven separate soundtrack albums based on radio stations from the game. The selection covered styles ranging from heavy metal and soul to hip-hop and pop. Presenters’ conversations and fictional advertisements also helped shape the world. Music therefore served both as a reminder of the era and as part of everyday driving.
Ray Liotta voiced Tommy Vercetti. Other roles went to actors including Burt Reynolds, Dennis Hopper and Philip Michael Thomas. The voice cast gave encounters between criminals, property developers and other residents their own tone. Within the GTA series, Vice City thus became a distinct chapter with a clearly defined location and period. Rockstar later returned to the same city in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, with a different protagonist and events set earlier in time.
Similar games for PlayStation 2
Grand Theft Auto III provides the direct basis for alternating free driving, assignments and shootouts. It takes place in Liberty City, with a different atmosphere and a crime story of its own. Vice City moves that structure to a sunny coastal city, and Tommy’s outspoken personality puts greater emphasis on conversations between characters.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas also lets you follow a crime story while exploring freely between assignments. CJ travels through several cities and the surrounding countryside. Vice City keeps its story closer to one city and Tommy’s rise within it. The 1980s setting and accompanying radio give that smaller geographical scope a different identity.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories uses the same city but follows Vic Vance in 1984. This lets you recognise neighbourhoods and names from a different point in their history. It is a separate adventure that also appeared on PlayStation 2. The original Vice City tells Tommy’s story, with its own assignments, relationships and progression through business ownership.
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories shares free movement through a city and work for different criminal figures. You follow Toni Cipriani within the Leone family, in the setting also used by Grand Theft Auto III. Vice City has Tommy build his position on the coast, with different contacts, businesses and music forming the backdrop to assignments.
Canis Canem Edit, also known as Bully, uses a similar alternation between a freely explorable setting and story assignments. Jimmy Hopkins tries to find his place at Bullworth Academy. Vice City directs that freedom towards an adult criminal world. The connection lies in getting to know a place and the residents who repeatedly bring new assignments or conflicts.
