Overview
The ultimate guide regarding Vice City’s secrets, easter eggs, references, myths, trivia and other curiosities.
It’s Dangerous to go Alone, Take This
Before we commence this journey, I deeply recommend you to let one of these videos play in the background for atmospheric purposes. You won’t regret it.
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The Tip of the Iceberg
Let’s start this guide with something easy, that nearly everyone of you guys know about. Did you select your favorite playlist? Good, now make yourself comfortable, pick up your favorite beverage or snack (or both) and most importantly: enjoy this stuff!
This is a (literal) easter egg hidden in Downtown, near the Maverick on top of the VCN building. Just jump into an invisible wall and you’ll see it in all its glory.
The funny thing is, this egg is still present in Vice City Stories, but the latter being a prequel, the secret is still “under construction”.
Presenting the game it’s a simple yet ingenious cutscene that pays homage to a procedure well known to long-standing players: it’s the (very slow) launching process of a game on a platform that marked the history of videogames: the beautiful Commodore 64.
At the beginning of the game, while Sonny Forelli is talking, we can sometimes see a cold room behind him… And an impaled corpse too. This is a reference to a practice used by the Italian mafia to kill people (especially “Iceman” used to do this, hence his nickname). A frozen corpse can also be seen in the movie “Goodfellas”.
Around 23:00 AM, in front of the Malibu (most precisely on the Chariot Hotel), you can admire a phallic shape drawn with lit windows.
The hidden “Apartment 3C” is well known for its Scarface reference; for those prìcks who didn’t know, that movie portrays a murder scene in a bathroom and the weapon used is a chainsaw… Even the blood stains are exactly where they should be.
Of course, we can’t talk about Scarface without mentioning Diaz’s mansion, the latter being a semi-faithful reproduction of the one owned by Tony Montana.
Did you see those trophies in the previous couple of pictures? Those are some props unlocked after succeeding on the missions of the Hyman Stadium. Vice City does this thing a lot: whenever you clear a certain set of missions, you’ll see some of your safehouses (and other places) changing with something different in it. For example: the Boomshine barrels upon completing Phil Cassidy’s missions (Ocean View Hotel), the RC model upon completing the RC missions (Chez Tommy), the wads of bills on top of Tommy’s bed upon completing all the main missions (Ocean View Hotel), etc.
Speaking of which, upon completing the mission “G-Spotlight”, the following projection will appear on a building in front of the movie studio. That nice rack belongs to Candy Suxxx, the famous pornstar character who’s also voiced by a real life pornstar: Jenna Jameson.
Another instance is Diaz’s paintings being vandalized after his mansion is conquered.
…Or the broken tiki idol when you find a certain amount of hidden packages. We’ll come back to this exact same detail later, keep it in mind.
Of course i had to mention the most famous secret along with the Happy Easter (egg): if you shoot the moon with a sniper rifle, you will enlarge it. Shoot it some more, and it will come back to its original dimensions. This trick is also present in pretty much every 3D GTA game.
Speaking about stars, the following constellation represents of course, the Rockstar logo.
We can’t talk about night time without moving the attention to our favorite disco: the Malibu. Did you know that the latter was once again inspired by Scarface? In fact, this movie has a nightclub called “Babylon” which shares a lot of similar characteristics with the Malibu: the position of the dance hall, the tables and the VIP room, the furnishing style, the colorful neons and much more.
And would you look at that: five members of the Village People are dancing on the stage.
On Starfish Island, there’s a pool with a beach ball: you can kick it and even do some head throws with it. This way a counter above Tommy’s head will appear, initiating a hidden minigame. The counter will however vanish if the player drops the ball on the ground.
Starfish Island again. Viewed from above, the pools will often resemble something, like the Rockstar logo, a star, or a feminine body. It’s funny that the trampoline for the latter is placed exactly in that position…
It’s not a novelty that everytime you see a poster or something readable on every GTA, it’s either a joke or something sex related… Well, not necessarily. In fact, this time right here we have (aside from the Steven Spielberg’s movies parodies), a much appreciated poster portraying Claude from GTA III.
Digging Deeper Into the Egg, Act I
Now let’s talk about some of the lesser known easter eggs which are actually the most interesting ones. This way we can slowly reach the so-called “crème de la crème”
Both off the shore in Leaf Links and in the middle of the two main islands of the city, you can notice this model above some rocks, in the sea. It’s a man victim of a well known practice used by the mafia: concrete shoes, aka sleeping with fishes. Ken Rosenberg also mentions this near the end of the game.
This one was also present in GTA III: the “Zombie Elvis Found” newspaper, the same writings and image can also be seen on a banner placed on flying Dodos.
The computer “Kruton-9000” appears in the Sunshine Autos in GTA Vice City, in the garage of Joey Leone in GTA III and lastly in the garage of Michelle in GTA San Andreas. This is a reference to the computer “HAL-9000” which appears on the movie “2001: Space Odyssey”, by Stanley Kubrick.
During the Hitman missions, there’ll be some familiar names that must be killed. These names are very similar to the ones of the characters of many games which can be considered “rivals” of GTA Vice City… Mike Griffin is a reference to Mace Griffin of the game Mace Griffin Bounty Hunter; Dìck Tanner for the game Driver; Marcus Hammond, Franco Carter and Charlie Dilson from The Getaway; Nick Kong from True Crime: Streets of L.A.
When the game gives us the chance to meet Avery (and his damn RC missions), we will also meet a young Donald Love from GTA III. The topic discussed on this same cutscene is about the gang wars and how the latter could help when buying terrains. At this point, Donald will take notes of everything Avery has said, and guess what? He will enounce a very similar speech eleven years later, in Liberty City, GTA III. (To be even more precise, this will happen on the mission where you must “clean” Waka-Gashira).
Speaking of GTA III, the name of this cargo ship will be very familiar to the fans of the series, because it’s from the same company that manufactured the ship which Claude and 8-Ball will let explode in the mission “Bomb Da Base Act II” (some people speculates it’s the same ship), not only that, it’s the same name impressed in the Green Goo boxes of GTA San Andreas, from the homonymous mission, “Green Goo”.
However, there’s yet another ship that comes from a different place, this time from reality: meet the SS Normandie. This poster is situated in the Ocean View Hotel and it’s a modified image of that exact transatlantic; “Le Havre” is a city from Normandy, north-west of France, while Southampton is a city in Hampshire, England. The poster refers to these two cities because they were both ports of call at the English Channel… Rockstar simply modified the destination into Vice City. A similar poster was also used for advertising the sadly famous passenger ship of the 20s, the Titanic.
In the Ocean Beach zone, there are various shops, one of which is called Rockster Video Games. The shapes inside that building are taken from GTA III (respectively: 8-Ball, El Burro, Kenji and Maria)
This one is really good: at Downtown’s Ammu-Nation there’s plenty of curiosities and easter eggs. While doing the Phil’s mission for example, you’ll shoot at the exact same silhouettes of the artworks of GTA III we just saw. There’s also pictures of nuclear explosions that actually happened on different time periods, in various zones across the world. Way more interesting however, is an image hidden behind a wall, visible exclusively with a trainer for the PC version. This picture shows two famous characters who influenced the outcome of the Cold War in the 80s: the former US president Ronald Reagan, aiming his gun towards Mikhail Gorbachev, last general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Speaking of Ammu-Nation, Sam Houser (president and founder of Rockstar Games) is awfully similar to the Ammu-Nation seller; the latter also has the distinctive eye bags and the Rockstar logo in his clothes so it’s safe to assume its model is after Sam Houser himself.
The names of the Love Fist members are clear allusions to pènis names (Willy, Dìck and Percy), while Jezz Torrent, if pronounced with Scottish accent, sounds like “Jìzz Torrent”. Some people speculates the name itself of the band is a reference to the sexual act of “fisting”. The band is also inspired to real life bands such as Guns ‘N’ Roses and Iron Maiden; during the game, Tommy will help the rock band for plenty of things, such as supplying said group with drugs and hookers, protect them from psychos, hiring a gang of motorcyclists for security service for the concert (this one is a reference to the Rolling Stones’ show in Altamont Speedway, where the security was provided by none other than the Hells Angels, with disastrous results), or bringing those guys to their concert on board of a limousine, with a bomb ready to explode at every minimal deceleration of the vehicle (this one is a reference too, for the movie “Speed”, starring Dennis Hopper who also voiced Steve Scott in the game). The Love Fist will continue to appear throughout the series, although solely in form of radio advertisements and billboards.
This is the aforementioned limousine. Notice the license plate.
On the showcase of the “Rock City” shop in Downtown, there’s a poster of a skeleton with a Scottish beret and an electric guitar. This is a parody of Iron Maiden’s mascotte “Eddie the Head”. Eddie is also mentioned by Couzin Ed and Lazlow on the V-Rock radio station. Jock Star on the other hand, is an homage to Rockstar North, which resides in Edinburgh, Scotland.
At Phil’s trailer there are some posters already presented in GTA III; they have very fun names such as “Soldiers of Misfortune”, “Chicks & Guns” etc., there’s even a Maxim magazine with the image of the ex-model Joanna Taylor.
Even the ‘no parking’ signs will often be amusing: besides the following image, it’s also present one which says: “No parking: Not 5 minutes. Not 30 seconds. NOT AT ALL!”
Speaking about parking, if you damage a parking meter you can take the money inside of it.
When you’ll enter for the first time inside a Rhino (legitimately, I mean), it’ll be for the mission where you need to steal one… The security protocol enunciated by the military will be “Delta India Echo”… DIE, for short.
There was a conspiracy about the fake moon landing back in the day. Rockstar played with these speculations and put them in the movie studio on Prawn Island, alluding to the fact that it was indeed staged… At least on the GTA universe.
Digging Deeper Into the Egg, Act II
The Blue Thunder was a famous movie starring the homonymous helicopter, but on Vice City it’s called Brown Thunder (for obvious reasons). This name appears on a vigilante mission.
In the “Phnom Penh ’86” mission, while you’re flying along with Lance, you can notice a worker at the bridge linking Little Haiti and Leaf Links, throwing himself into the sea. It’s deliberately programmed to simulate a suicide or just a simple bug? Probably the latter, but some people rightly supponed it’s intentional and said worker is killing himself due to losing his job after the “Riot” mission.
There are some posters in Vice City that will advertise a taxi company called “Mean Street Taxis”. This same company appears in Liberty City (GTA III) and it’s a clear reference to the movies “Mean Streets” (1973) and “Taxi Driver” (1976), both directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro.
Obviously, we can’t talk about taxis without mentioning Andy Kaufman and his interpretations of the characters Latka Gravas and Vic Ferrari in the sitcom “Taxi”, from the 70s. The Kaufman Cabs property alludes exactly that.
“Top Fun” is a parody of the famous movie with Tom Cruise, “Top Gun”. The movie is also set in 1986, same year where the events of the game took place.
The following image portrays the Nail Gun, from beta / cut content. Not much is known about the weapon but it was most likely a weaker version of the Pistol featured in the game. Its model (nailgun.dff) and its textures (nailgun.txd), still remain on the PS2 disc. The Nail Gun can also be seen in Tooled Up, but of course, it can’t be purchased.
Some more cut weapons: a grenade launcher and a stun gun. Actually, tons of cut weapon models exist in the original 1.0 PS2 version, most of them are weapons from GTA III which are more than likely simple place holders. This because we have to remember that Vice City was developed and released in less than a year, originally thought to be just a GTA III expansion which later evolved into an actual, full game.
On top of the glass table on Malibu’s upper floor, there are some magazines with the artwork of Ricardo Diaz and Lance Vance. For some strange reason, the latter is modified, having his face doubled.
Did you see that hockey mask in the previous picture? It’s probably a reference to the movie “Heat”, or to Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th. Later in the game, you will also wear an outfit which main characteristic is that same mask. Combine all of this with a machete and there you have it: a truly scary assassin.
The underwear of this specific pedestrian are missing. Probably an overlook by Rockstar, but whatever. I personally didn’t want to see the panties of this exact old lady anyway.
Inside the movie studio there’s a set that resembles the neighborhoods of Liberty City from GTA III, specifically some structures on Portland and Staunton Island. Even the posters are the same from Vice City’s predecessor, notably, the “Badfellas” one (parody of the movie “Goodfellas”).
Vice City’s waters are populated by plenty of different aquatic animals. On the game statistics, there’s also a specific stat that says “fishes fed”. A nice way to indicate how many times Tommy has drowned.
Upon completing the game 100%, this t-shirt will be unlocked. It’s a parody of London’s souvenir t-shirts with writings such as “My sister / brother went to London and all I got was this lousy T-shirt!”. The name of the shirt on the other hand, refers to a popular t-shirt/slogan from the band “Frankie Goes To Hollywood” and their song “Relax”, which is featured in Vice City Stories (“Two Tribes” is featured in Vice City instead). These shirts were very popular in the 80s, and the ringer design is the same as the 100% completion shirt.
The North Point Mall is a parody of the Aventura Mall of Miami (although the place is also inspired by the movie “Dawn of the Dead”, which sees a group of survivalists inside a mall after a zombie apocalypse. This is also suggested by the fact that one of the missions in Vice City Stories is called Brawn of the Dead), while the Washington Mall of Washington Beach it’s the exact same copy of Bal Harbour Shops in Bal Harbour, a village from the Miami-Dade County. Actually, a lot of small details in general regarding the scenery of buildings in Vice City is either inspired or a direct reproduction of existing Miami counterparts, just like Ocean Beach is the counterpart of Ocean Drive on Miami Beach and the finance district in Downtown is inspired from the town center of Miami. There are however some examples of different kinds of inspirations; we’ll see the majority of those in short. I’ll also list some real-life counterparts on the following Acts, but not all of them because those are way too many: Little Havana alone is literally “infested” by these instances.
Both Carnicero Romero and Funeraria Romero are tributes to George Romero, famous producer of classic horror movies. In the showcases, there are even some tombstones and coffins (the writing “Steven Mulholland R.I.P” makes its appearance there: it’s the name of one of the programmers of Rockstar North). There’s also a picture of Bela Lugosi dressed up as Dracula… Overall, it’s a butcher’s shop next to a funeral parlor. The implications here are both creepy and funny at the same time.
In Ocean Beach, there’s a guitar shop which sells “air guitars”, starting from 199$. The “air guitar” obviously refers to the gesture of playing an invisible guitar. Well, if you need to pretend playing some nice rock, don’t crowd because there’s plenty for everyone in this shop, for barely a couple hundreds dollars.
This other shop right here speaks for itself.
This one too.
SpandEx is obviously a parody of FedEx. Spandex is also a kind of elastic fiber used for lingerie and tight suits.
East zone of Washington Mall: there’s a barber called “Gay Gordos”. This can either be a reference to an old Scottish dance, or the homonymous solitary card game (or both). This barbershop is also present in GTA San Andreas and CJ can cut his hair there.
Best name ever for an airport, especially because it’s named after the most famous smuggler in the world to this day.
“Hostes ad pulverem ferire” is a Latin locution which can be translated to “Pulverize thy enemy”. Initially thought to be an unofficial Rockstar Games’ motto, it’s actually a paragraph from The Bible (2 Samuel 22:43).
Digging Deeper Into the Egg, Act III
Hooker Inn. is a parody of Holyday Inn.
GASH is a parody of GAP.
“El Banco Corrupto Grande” stands for “The great / very corrupt bank” in Spanish.
In front of said bank, you can find the Securicar. The security company’s trademark is obviously a pun with the word “group sex”, but it’s also a parody to the really existing security company called “Gruppe Sieben”, from Germany.
The name “Pole Position” is probably a homage to Atari and their homonymous game.
Vinyl Countdown is a clear reference to the 1986 song “The Final Countdown”, by Europe.
A prosthetics shop with a particular sense of humor.
Although this could also reference the really existing Roxor Games (a small american company dedicated to the developing of titles for arcade game rooms), it’s somewhat safe to assume this building is referencing Rockstar itself.
The words “It’s hammer time” refers to the famous phrase “Stop! Hammer time” from the song “U Can’t Touch This”, by MC Hammer.
In Downtown, if you see it laterally, the “Big Bills Bowls” resembles the male genitalia. This is also suggested by the theme of the captions you can read at the entrance.
As already stated before, this series is actually full of sex related jokes; Vice City is no exception. One of them could be the Hyman Memorial Stadium, where “Hyman” may be reinterpreted as “Hymen”. Most likely though, this is a reference to the movie “The Godfather Part II”, because of the name of the character “Hyman Roth”.
Another mandatory sex joke is the one of the Cherry Popper factory, which has a pair of breasts over it. Cherry Popper can also be intended as the act of a woman losing her virginity.
This billboard is placed near the airport and you can notice Claude Speed aboard of a Moonbeam in it.
Yet another interesting advertisement is this one: it references really existing billboards inviting people to come over to Miami, but it’s also a recalling of another billboard present in GTA III, which reads: “See you in Miami”.
This one is placed near the airport, advertising a clear parody of the Disney World theme park, which is present in Florida as well.
Would you look at this deal, used boilers!
This apparently funny phrase actually refers to the RRS Discovery ship, used in various Antarctic expeditions, such as being a cargo ship during the First World War and for the training of boy scouts. The loser the billboard is referring to is Robert Falcon Scott, captain of the ship who successfully accomplished one of said expeditions, contributing to scientific research. On his second expedition however, this time aboard of the ship Terra Nova, Scott was conducting a team of five men in an attempt to arrive first in the race towards the South Pole. Unluckily, he was anticipated by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, who arrived 21 days before him. Not only that, Scott would lose his life on his way back, due to a snowstorm. The RRS Discovery is currently located in a museum of a Scottish city called Dundee.
The last couple of billboards i want to show you are these two. Just a not-so-friendly reminder to not mess with the Haitians.
These two arcade cabinets are placed inside the Taxi Kaufman building, one of which already appeared in GTA III: Pogo The Monkey.
PetsOvernight, the weird society which offers every kind of animal at any hour, it’s widely advertised on GTA III’s radio. It also appears on Vice City, as a cameo.
It’s a known fact that every vehicle in every GTA game has a real life counterpart or at least some kind of inspiration to other medias and even mythology. This one for example is one of my favorites: the Deluxo. A special car unlocked upon completing the first list of vehicles at Sunshine Autos. The car is based on Emmet “Doc” Brown’s time machine: the DeLorean DMC-12, from the famous movie trilogy “Back to the Future”.
On Sunshine Autos again, there’s this yellow car door. It’s a reference to an 80s TV series called “The Dukes of Hazzard”, where in nearly every episode you could notice the exact same door inside Cooter’s garage.
Inside Chariot Hotel (this one being a parody of Marriott International), you can find a pamphlet advertising a company called “The Samartians” (a pun made with “The Samaritans”, the famous charity institute which among other things is mostly notable to support people on the verge of suicide, and of course, martians). In this ad it’s suggested to people aspiring suicide to not just jump, but to hyper-jump (a leap that will make you time travel at a speed higher than light)
Even the advertisements inside the Ryton Aide pharmacy are funnily cynical: just read those two posters. Also, the building has an incredibly similar structure to a building that will later appear in another Rockstar game: Manhunt.
A frank reminder to not use the pools for the number one.
On the sides of some vans, it’s possible to read the butcher company “R.S&L Bows”. If read quickly, it’s “àrse and elbows”, from the famous saying “He doesn’t know his àrse from his elbow”.
Jethro and Dwayne are recurring characters in GTA San Andreas, with roles way more consolidated. Still, it’s nice to see their stoned, younger version; of course, there are way more recurring characters throughout the GTA series, notably, a middle aged Ken Rosenberg in GTA San Andreas that still demands to know why his relationship with Tommy finished abruptly. One can simply imagine that Ken’s addiction to coke was just too much for Mr. Vercetti, therefore he himself may have sent his former lawyer to rehab hoping to save him.
On a wall of the movie studio on Prawn Island there’s a vintage movie poster covered by graffiti. This actually exists in reality and it’s from the italian horror movie “Lady Frankenstein”, 1971. It’s safe to assume that it’s not the horror theme that convinced Rockstar to put this in there, however, but rather the words used, hinting to something sexual. It also suits Steve Scott very well (the game’s movie director).
Digging Deeper Into the Egg, Act IV
It’s common practice in some american beaches to report the undertow and the number of deceased due to said phenomenon. Here on Vice City though, we have this facetious sign.
Doehler Metal Furniture is a building located in Prawn Island. The peculiar thing about this company, is that it actually exists in real life, but this time neither on Miami nor Florida overall. It comes from New York and that makes its existence on Vice City rather odd.
The Milligan Hotel is yet another existing hotel with the same name.
On the upper floor of the Malibu Club there’s a model of colonel Juan Garcia Cortez’s ship. This model is placed in front of a mirror which reflects only the room but not the characters.
The number 69 is, obviously, recurring throughout the series. In Vice City we have it on some Bloodring Bangers, on the phone number of Sunnyside Taxis and finally on the rear of the Marquis boat.
Bruno Hauptmann is an infamous criminal from the early 19th century, hated by many at the time. So much so that he appears on Vice City as an easter egg.
This advertisement refers to Carcer City, the same sign can be found in the first mission of the already mentioned Manhunt. It’s also the same city one of the workers in Viceport Docks can mention with the words “I was the best plumber at Carcer City”.
Chuck Schwartz is an actor appearing on some posters in GTA III, Vice City and San Andreas. It’s a parody of both Chuck Norris and Arnold Schwartzenegger.
The church “Eglise Baptiste De La Regeneration” actually exists in Miami, Little Haiti.
This cafe instead, does not. Its name however is a reference to the princess of Wales: Diana Spencer aka Lady Diana.
The movie poster “Knife After Dark” is most likely a reference to the 1986 film “Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI”. It’s notable the fact that this is also a sequel of “Twilight Knife”, this time from Vice City Stories. The latter is also based off a Jason movie, probably “Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter”, 1984.
During a cutscene in the mission “Messing with the Man”, a pedestrian’s head can be seen laying on the floor. There are various speculations for who and why it’s there, but ultimately the reasons are unknown. Perhaps just a nice little touch portraying once again gangs’ violence.
A picture of the famous singer Frank Sinatra can be seen inside Marco’s Bistro (this place can only be seen in the initial cutscene; story-wise is located in Liberty City but in-game is actually located in Ocean View Hotel. The player can reach it via mods or by glitching into the wardrobe of Tommy’s room). It’s rather interesting to have that picture exactly in that area, where the Italian mafia resides: it’s highly likely this is hinting to the (somewhat proven) conspiracy of Frank having links with the American and, most notably, Italian mafia.
The Greasy Chopper, the hideout of Mitch Baker and his gang, is home of plenty of different easter eggs, way too many to list all of them. The most notable ones are, however, the followings: Niko Bellic and/or Vic Vance might have been on this hideout or referenced by at some point during the GTA universe, the Crocodile board (hinting to the myth of presumed Crocodiles in Vice City), both Space Mission and Jolly Roger (pinball tables made by Williams in 1967) make an appearance here, pretty much all the alcoholic beverages are either inspired or exists in reality, both the guitar and the cymbals also exists in reality (respectively a Fender Jazz Bass and Zildjians), etc.
It has often been hypothesized about Michael Jackson easter eggs being into the game. Some of these are very debatable, others just plain sketchy. There are some interesting ones however, such as a pedestrian who resembles his way of dressing in the “Beat It” music video (said pedestrian also has the chance to say the famous catchphrase “Beat it, just beat it”) and the “Thriller” music video being staged in Prawn Island’s surroundings.
“The Hairy Beast from Hell” is a movie inspired from 1957 science-fiction movie, “Monster from Green Hell” and of course, the famous kaiju movie, “King Kong”. By now you already know to what the “Hairy Beast” is actually referring to.
“Making A Killing” is a book written by Trevor Queen sometime in the 80s: it can only be found in Vinyl Countdown, North Point Mall. The book is based off the mystery thriller play of the same name, written by John Nassivera and directed by Anthony McKay in 1984.
The King Kobra Symbol in Escobar International Airport and Little Haiti, is most likely a reference to a gang called The Spanish Cobras which influenced Miami back in the 80s, along with all the other ethnicities and factions.
The Wonderboy artwork in Little Haiti is a vandalized but nonetheless reference to the homonymous game developed by Escape, published by SEGA.
Japanese people are very good to make lewd stuff, but God forbid if the people from the West does it: i’m referring to the Candy Suxxx pictures and paintings (which are also present in GTA San Andreas). The Japanese version of the game, in fact, has cute little pussìes in it. Cats, i mean.
Sometimes, specific radio stations will enunciate some phone numbers (1-866-9-Save-Me, Pastor Richards; 1-866-9-Bury-Me, Funeral Home; 1-866-Pillage, Thor; 1-866-434-SELF, Not Sure). Today these numbers are discontinued, but back in the day you could actually call these and recordings of the voice actors themselves would play.
At some point during development, a location was completely scrapped. It was supposedly based upon Florida’s mangroves. A radio station in particular mentions an advertisement about Avery Carrington and his “Shady Acres” project, which is located in the swampy marshes “off the coast of Vice City”. This is further revealed by a removed conversation between Tommy and Avery himself, the latter mentioning a mission involving the chaperoning of one of his representatives, who needed protection in order to successfully make a deal onto that same land (most likely the realization of that same project we talked about earlier). It’s plausible that this place in particular featured crocodiles, just like their Florida counterpart. Crocodiles are also a common myth present throughout the GTA universe.
In GTA San Andreas there are some peculiar action figures, such as Piggsy and Cash from Manhunt and most notably, Lance and Tommy from GTA Vice City.
Digging Deeper Into the Egg, Act V
Here we are, finally, to the last act; the veterans are probably wondering by now: “You prìck! Where’s the Miami Vice references?!”… Well, here! On their own section, exactly where they should be. Let’s finish this with a bang, shall we?
Wait, what? What is this disgusting, moneygrabbing, hogwash?
Well said Ryder, Sweet.
No, i’m talking about the 1984-1990 TV series, the one and only show that single-handedly inspired a literal storm of other works for years to come, in the most diverse forms such as artworks, fashion items, movies, further TV series, music and of course: videogames. For example, there’s the homonymous game for PS2 (better to not talk about that one though, it was yet another documented case of easy cash made through a besmirched license), Scarface: The World Is Yours, Hotline Miami and of course, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. The name itself of the game is a homage to this series, but if you want further proofs… Rest assured, i’m here exactly for that.
First things first: the intro of Vice City shares some clear similarities with the one from Miami Vice. You’ll be the judge:
Of course, we can’t mention the title theme without analyzing the intro itself: there are two silhouettes within VC’s intro that are taken directly from MV. It’s way easier to see it, instead of trying to describe it.
Even the box art has an image on it that was most likely inspired from a scene in MV. An astonishingly similar speedboat is also present in the game.
The Cheetah is based upon the Ferrari Testarossa, the same car used by Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson). Sometimes he’ll also drive a Ferrari Daytona Spyder 365 GTS, which is the Vice City’s Stinger.
Testarossa / Cheetah
Spyder / Stinger
Lance Vance is voiced by Rico Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas); Lance and Rico also share a thirst for revenge for the deaths of their brothers at the hands of drug dealers.
The “Crockett Theme” can also be heard on Emotion 98.3
When you get a conspicuous amount of stars, a special team of undercover detectives will come along with the police hunting for you. This is a reference to a practice in Florida (I really don’t know if it’s still active) which sees the belongings of an imprisoned outlaw being temporarily donated to the police force in order to better consolidate their researches and disguises; for example, Sonny inherited the aforementioned Testarossa this exact same way. The just mentioned special team, is always a duo aboard of a Cheetah. Often, it’ll be a white man and a black man. Their names are “Officer Cracker” and “Officer Butts”… Do you see where I’m trying to get to?
This is GTA San Andreas, in front of the Tiki Theater. Do you know where that idol comes from?
If you replied with Vice City: wrong. Of course, the model comes from it, but the concept isn’t; do you remember that picture i told you about at the very start of this guide, the one with a broken hidden package and some white powder beneath it? It’s the exact same powder that two guys are trying to smuggle on an episode of Miami Vice through the use of tiki dolls which, at a less careful eye, can appear as simple souvenirs.
The VCPD vaguely resembles the police department on MV.
There’s a building in VC that shares some characteristics with one in the intro of MV.
Pole Position’s structure resembles the one of Sex World from MV.
Ricardo Diaz resembles Juan Carlos Silva from 2×06 of MV. They’re also united by these factors: they’re short, they’re going bald, they’re dealers, they have Latin Americans descendants and most importantly both of them wanted to have a speedboat race.
Even some Haitians and Cubans gangsters seems to be inspired to the show (speaking of gangs, Diaz’s Gang is based upon the Diaz Cartel from Scarface)
Except for the hair color, Hillary looks like Jimmy Borges (2×01)
Lieutenant Martin Castillo looks like a pedestrian from the game.
There are probably many other similarities between the two medias, but these are the ones i know about. It’s rumored that Dan Houser (brother of Sam Houser and vice-president of Rockstar Games) viewed every single episode before writing the game’s script, to brush up on his “Miami Vice knowledge”… And that should be the exact same thing you should do in case you never watched it! You english speakers are lucky because NBC is offering all the episodes for free on their website, but alas these are censored in my geographical area.
Beyond the Character, Chapter One
During the PS2 / PSP era of GTA, it was common practice for Rockstar to hire an all-stars team for the voice acting of their games, with some very little exceptions. For GTA Vice City for example, we have the famous Ray Liotta (Goodfellas, Something Wild, Field of Dreams, Unlawful Entry, Hannibal, Blow, John Q, Identity, Killing Them Softly, The Place Beyond the Pines, Shades of Blue, etc.) lending his voice to none other than Tommy Vercetti.
The best actor hands down for this role, because GTA Vice City itself is, before being a game, a homage for all those mafia movies which portrays “criminals” who wrote the history of cinema: from Scarface to Carlito’s Way, up to The Godfather, with some little finesses from Goodfellas (for example the transitions between a cutscene and a gameplay is often expressed by voice from Tommy Vercetti just like Ray Liotta’s monologues on that movie). Even two missions in particular are direct references to some movies starring this great actor: Cop Land and No Escape.
The inspiration for the character of Tommy Vercetti comes from Tony Montana for plenty of different (some obvious) reasons, but there’s a little of Mr. Blonde from Reservoir Dogs in there too. It’s interesting to know however, that Tommy’s story is extremely similar to the one of Joseph Iannuzzi, a famous real life mobster: both him and Tommy were sent to Florida during the 80s to represent a mob boss (Sonny Forelli, Tommy Argo) and the relationship between the two became strained over a large sum of money. The difference however relies on the fact that in Joseph’s case, he flee with Argo’s money and nearly risked to be killed due to an ambush caused by Argo himself, while Tommy was victorious even after the happenings of GTA Vice City (this is hinted on Ken Rosenberg’s website, circa 2000, when the lawyer himself makes a list of social problems adding this same line: “See, Tom, I didn’t mention your name, nowhere. Maybe you won’t get us killed now, okay?”).
But alas, it ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. Let’s go back to Ray Liotta… As already said, he’s a very good actor and all, but he wasn’t very fair towards Rockstar Games. Among the pretentious acts he put out even off stage, the most notable thing was that “he didn’t get paid enough”. The problem is, he actually got paid a whole lot (maybe not much for his standards) and, most importantly, you can’t say something similar AFTER you did the job. You could, but why didn’t you inform yourself beforehand about how massive the videoludic market was, especially Rockstar’s? (On a fair point, that’s semi-understandable because Liotta himself said in one of his days at Rockstar: “The last fu*king video game I played was Pong”). Anyhow, according to certain sources, Tommy was supposed to re-appear on GTA San Andreas, but due to Liotta’s behaviour this didn’t work out very well. This is also the reason why we probably won’t see Mr. Vercetti again to begin with. But in my humble opinion, this is for the best: Tommy is a living legend in the GTA universe and it should remain that way.
Our beloved lawyer, Ken Rosenberg, is the deuteragonist of GTA Vice City, voiced by William Fichtner. (Invasion, Prison Break,Heat, Contact, Armageddon, The Perfect Storm, Go, Crash, Blades of Glory, Black Hawk Down, The Longest Yard, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Dark Knight, Date Night, The Lone Ranger, Elysium, Independence Day: Resurgence, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, etc.). Undoubtedly, its inspiration comes from the movie “Carlito’s Way”, specifically the character of Kleinfeld. They’re both lawyers with curly hairs, round glasses, same furnishing style in their offices and most notably a paranoic and incoherent behaviour after cocaine addiction. It’s also funny to notice that among the cast of that very movie Luiz Guzmán is present, who lends his voice to Ricardo Diaz.
On GTA San Andreas, Ken will still remember his youth with the former friend Tommy, yelling in one of the missions: “This is so exciting, Tommy! It’s just like old times!”. Don’t worry Ken, you’re not the only one missing him.
Sonny Forelli, the notorious mafioso, is voiced by Tom Sizemore. (Born on the Fourth of July, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, Passenger 57, True Romance, Natural Born Killers, Strange Days, Heat, Saving Private Ryan, Red Planet, Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbor, Twin Peaks, etc.). Sonny Forelli’s ruthless and short-tempered personality, along with his role as the family’s boss, is probably based upon Sonny Corleone from “The Godfather”. According to an interview with Dan Houser, Sonny and Tommy were friends since childhood, hence Tommy never saying anything about Sonny being the one who sent him to kill the key mobster (and by extension his henchmen); as a further proof, Tommy firmly believed in the mafia code and the sense of honor amongst the family and their affiliates, therefore snitching was far beyond his world.
Lance Vance, the back-stabbing prìck, is voiced by Philip Michael Thomas. (Miami Vice, Coonskin, Hey Good Lookin’, Blackfist, Starsky & Hutch, Noi siamo angeli, Death Drug, The Beasts Are on the Streets, The Wizard of Speed and Time, etc.). There’s not much to say about him, he invented a nice kind of dance on his early days on Vice City (which you can finally see on the prequel, Vice City Stories)… But that’s not enough to redeem a double-crossing bastard, in my opinion.
Ricardo Diaz (Fernando Diaz in the beta of the game), the fat Colombian leader of his own cartel, is voiced by Luis Guzmán. (Miami Vice, Carlito’s Way, Crocodile Dundee II, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, Out of Sight, The Limey, Traffic, How to Make It in America, Narcos, etc.). His character might be inspired by Miguel Revilla and/or Juan Carlos Silva from Miami Vice, but there’s also some clear influence from Scarface, specifically the character of Frank Lopez.
Juan García Cortez, the retired colonel, is voiced by Robert Davi. (The Goonies, Die Hard, Licence to Kill, Predator 2, Showgirls, Profiler, etc.). Cortez may be a parody of the military dictator and major drug trafficker of Panama, circa 1980, Manuel Noriega. He could also be a reference to Felix “Juan” Cortez from Tom Clancy’s Clear and Present Danger and finally, General Juan Peron (former President of Argentina who shares some similarities with the character).
Avery Carrington, the real estate mogul, is voiced by Burt Reynolds. (Gunsmoke, Hawk, Dan August, Navajo Joe, Deliverance, The Longest Yard, Smokey and the Bandit, Semi-Tough, Hooper, The Cannonball Run, King of the Hill, etc.). Speculations aside, it’s not exactly sure what inspired this character, but one thing is for certain: his voice actor was yet another case of Rockstar being treated as some kind of chump. This however soon changed, with Navid Khonsari putting the actor to his place.
Mercedes Cortez, the wannabe “lawyer” daughter of the prominent colonel, is voiced by Fairuza Balk. (Return to Oz, Valmont, The Craft, The Island of Dr. Moreau, American History X, The Waterboy, Almost Famous, Personal Velocity: Three Portraits, etc.); she is your average pretentious woman from the 80s, full of money and daddy’s little girl, so is fair to assume the inspiration comes from those concepts alone.
Beyond the Character, Chapter Two
Candy Suxxx, the voluptuous supporting character, is voiced by Jenna Jameson. (Probably a lot of good movies). She was most likely based to the simple concept of vintage pornstars, but the funny stuff resides once again to her voice actor instead. First of all, the role was granted also thanks to her boyfriend, who turned out to be a huge fan of GTA III. Second, there was an awkward moment between Dan Houser and Jenna: she presented herself to the studio with her father. To add insult to injury, he was there while the session of Candy getting banged had to take place. When the fateful moment finally arrived, an embarassed Dan asked: “So, could you sound like you’re excited?” She eyed him dubiously. “What do you mean?” – “Sound like you’re happy! Like you’re having a great time!” He snapped his fingers. “Sound like you’re eating a chocolate bar!” – “So… It’s supposed to be kind of like sex?” she deadpanned, “or like I’m eating a chocolate bar?” – “Yes, like you’re having sex, that would be perfect!”, Dan replied. Then, she obliged. Needless to say, i myself am cringing in this very moment; the infuriating fact behind this, is that on the Japanese version of the game you can’t even hear her moaning! Talk about waste…
Umberto Robina, the man with big cojones, is voiced by Danny Trejo. (Heat, Con Air, Desperado, Machete, Breaking Bad, The X-Files, King of the Hill, The Flash, Sons of Anarchy, etc.). He looks very much alike to his own voice actor.
Auntie Poulet, the main rival of Robina, is voiced by Youree Dell Harris. (Best known for her role as “Miss Cleo”, a spokeswoman of a psychic pay-per-call service). Her name means “chicken” in French; the inspiration probably comes from simple concepts, like “a big Haitians’ momma”. It would be cool to actually watch her talk with her Cuban nemesis, by the way. One can only imagine.
Mitch Baker, the bikers’ leader, is voiced by Lee Majors. (The Big Valley, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Fall Guy, The Ballad of Andy Crocker, Killer Fish, etc.). Due to the fact that he is so bitter towards the law and overall his treatment after he served the army, his name could be a spoonerism with the word “Bìtch Maker”.
Kent Paul, the obnoxious British manager, is voiced by Danny Dyer. (Human Traffic, Mean Machine, The Football Factory, etc.). Along with Ken Rosenberg, he also has a website in real life.
Phil Cassidy, the deranged arms dealer, is voiced by Gary Busey. (Lethal Weapon, Predator 2, Point Break, Under Siege, The Firm, Carried Away, Black Sheep, Lost Highway, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Gingerdead Man, etc.). Phil is the character who appears the most in the GTA series, with a whopping four titles.
Jezz Torrent, lead singer of the famous Scottish band “Love Fist”, is voiced by Kevin McKidd. ( Trainspotting, Anna Karenina, Rome, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 / 3, etc.).
Steve Scott, the famous movie director, is voiced by Dennis Hopper. (Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now, Out of the Blue, Rumble Fish, Blue Velvet, Hoosiers, Colors, Paris Trout, Super Mario Bros., Speed, Waterworld, etc.). Ostensibly, the character is a parody of Steven Spielberg.
Earnest Kelly, the affable typographer, is voiced by George DiCenzo. (Dark Shadows, Back to the Future, Helter Skelter, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Choirboys, The Frisco Kid, The Ninth Configuration, Walk Like a Man, The Exorcist III, etc.). For various reasons, this character plays like a surrogate for Tommy’s father, both for gameplay reasons but most importantly to show that even a raging lunatic can be empathetic towards their beloveds.
Of course, there are some other characters out there, but they’re of minor importance and as such didn’t get to shine as much.
Myths and Phenomena, Part 1
Myths play a huge role throughout the series, making people unceasingly talk about strange places, bizarre recurrences and creepy legends; this section archives some of the most prominent of these, either proven, disproven or debatable. Things that gripped the community since years, without neglecting simple bugs and/or glitches.
This submarine is placed in the north zone of Vice Point: near North Point Mall, right next to one of the two Chartered Libertine Lines shipwrecks, as if it guards it. It’s often speculated to be a battle submarine, but the reason of its existence is ultimately unknown aside mere conjectures. There’s also a derelict of a submarine in the junkyard.
The (still active?) submarine
The inactive submarine
The sunken CLL ship
The Hidden Caddy is a less famous but nonetheless myth in GTA Vice City. Some players suggested that the Caddy’s original reason to be inside that bush near the lighthouse is in order to assist the player during the rampage that can be obtained near of it, others are instead way more imaginative with the sickest tales.
But let’s move our focus to the lighthouse itself. Some users claimed it’s haunted by a witch that lights the thing up on weird intervals during the night, turning it off and on at her liking. Plenty of people (me included), don’t buy into that because there isn’t any proof that this isn’t due to how the lighthouse functions and how it’s programmed.
Another mythical location is (are) the Abandoned Bungalow(s). Plenty of players reported sightings of sea monsters such as the Megalodon Shark and the Sea Monster near them, but this is very debatable. One of the bungalows is clearly destroyed, but that doesn’t hint to the doings of some aquatic beast, rather it’s yet another reference to the real world: the bungalows are in fact based to a group of wood stilt houses located in Cape Florida, Stiltsville. It’s true that this location is interlinked with local folk tales and supernatural sightings, but throughout their history they were in fact destroyed by violent hurricanes, so that could be the same even regarding the Vice City’s counterpart. The design for the demolished one however, also serves for gameplay purposes, because it hosts a unique stunt jump and a hidden package.
The Car Grave is a proven myth which consists in a stack of four destroyed cars underneath Links Bridge. At first glance it may appear as a simple car accident, but after some close investigation upon the state of the cars, it’s safe to assume this is yet another form of assassination used by the mafia, or perhaps an insurance fraud.
The Blood House is a debunked myth which consists in a texture found inside the game files. The latter shows the lower half of a door lying on the floor, with blood splattered on it, while the upper half is sprayed with a crucifix-like graffiti. There were rumors about a massacre happening beyond that door, inside the house, hence the deletion from the game. Some time later however, that same texture was in fact discovered in-game, in the Haitian Drug Factory. A reasonable explanation would be that the doors are bloodied because Haitians illegally occupied the building, thus causing bloodshed and destruction.
Even the aforementioned Haitian Drug Factory is a mythical location, because it’s the place where apparently weird phenomena occurred. The place is haunted by dead Haitians, most notably, headless ones (this is just a baseless rumor); sometimes the factory comes back in its original shape like if it was indeed a ghost building (although demonstrated, it’s most likely a rare glitch similar to the one occurring for the Ghost Tower); and finally, a single case of a pedestrian dead for unknown reasons, which corpse doesn’t spill blood even if you shoot at it, hinting in fact, to a ghost (this one can also be explained through technical means, such as the game not loading specific codes at times, leading to a phenomenon identical to the one of the Supercop).
The just mentioned Ghost Tower is an air traffic control tower that was originally intended to be located at Fort Baxter Air Base, but it was removed due to the nearby airport’s runway being huge, therefore dwarfing the military runway. However, the game developers forgot to remove the LOD texture of the tower. The same thing happens on Vice City Stories, possibly because of the map being recycled from Vice City.
The Supercop (aka Ultracop, Robocop) on the other hand, is a bug that involves a singular cop or an entire group of them being invincible. The explanation behind this is already explained above.
The Ghost Ships are proven phenomena in the game: if the player looks closely towards the sea, the silhouette of ships can be seen in the far distance. They will appear for around the time-span of 5 to 10 seconds, and then fade out of view. The really strange thing however is that these ships do not look like any of the boats that regularly spawn in the waters of Vice City, in fact, they’re actually rather similar to navy ships. Plenty of different speculations were made, one of which consisted on a presumed “Lost Sailor” roaming aboard of one of those (this later proved to be false not only for the rather imaginative origin, but because even if it did happen, it’s explainable through technical means). Ultimately, it’s safe to assume that these Ghost Ships were designed just for the sake of realism.
There’s an abandoned Private Property on Prawn Island’s alleyway which is still debated for its meaning and origins. It’s stated in another store front that the building once sold wines and liquors in the district, but ultimately the huge property got abandoned on unspecified grounds, giving roam to myth hunters to ponder over the supernatural. In the game files there’s a damaged door related to it, but unlike The Blood House, this one isn’t findable through normal gameplay, thus leading the already non-existent trails into oblivion along with the building itself. It’s however rumored that on rare occasions, Jeff The Killer wanders near said building…
“What? Jeff The Killer?!”, i hear you ask? But of course! The notorious assassin from 2008’s creepypasta inside a game made 6 years earlier… For that alone it’s only logical to assume this myth is, indeed, fake. It was probably made as a joke by some user skilled with Photoshop (or a similar program) who also had plenty of imagination but nonetheless an illogical line of reasoning.
Myths and Phenomena, Part 2
But let’s go back to some juicy myth that is actually worth discussing: the abandoned park. You can find this location yet again on Prawn Island. The rather interesting thing of this park is the sign which reads “CAUTION CHILDREN AT PLAY”. Everyone knows that there isn’t yet a single kid in the GTA universe, so this can either be a meta-joke made by the developers or less likely, children actually had to make an appearance in the game. Of course, this idea might have been scrapped for the obvious reason of having a rather delicate subject into a game full of crude violence, but it’s rather interesting that there’s also a sign mentioning a fine for curbing dogs, raising the same points once again, this time for our fellow canids. There’s also an internal file called “Bow_church_dirt_to_grass_cnr_l”, which is used for the texture of the park: the problem is, there isn’t any church in the proximity of this place. However, this may just be a technical file name called that way for different, mundane reasons.
Do you remember the Milligan Hotel we talked about earlier? It’s also a mythical location, subject to rumored paranormal activity. Players claim to have heard screams coming from this place… Obviously this is yet to be demonstrated, but if true one could only think: did something bad ever happen on the hotel with the same name that really exists?
The ocean is one of the favorite targets of myth hunters; some of them will go as far as saying: “there’s a Sea Monster in there! There’s a Kraken!! There’s Godzilla!!!”; obviously, these were soon revealed to be just works of mods and/or photoshop, which sole reason to exist is exactly for the fact that these abissal abominations were so famous to begin with. The Sea Monster however, has long been debated regarding its veracity, and to some degree it’s still a hot debate amongst some veterans who would swear they really did saw it, especially in earlier releases of the game.
An interpretation of the Sea Monster
A mod / photoshop of the Kraken
A mod / photoshop of Godzilla
The following myth is called “Sea Caves”. This name is fallacious though, because it’s just a nice but nonetheless simple reef which happens to have collisions just like many other places beyond Tommy’s normal reach. As a matter of fact, this is only reachable through a glitch; some people even got as far as saying there’s a hidden treasure in there… See for yourself and draw your own conclusions.
The Ghost World and the Blue Hell are both phenomena occurring throughout the GTA series; although sometimes revered as a famous myth, it’s actually a simple glitch in plenty of videogames, which sees the player to go out of bounds upon doing certain actions, thus enjoying the view of a twisted version of the game world, with plenty of missing textures and faulty interactions.
There’s a unique pedestrian not associated with any kind of profession and/or illicit activity who only appears at night time and other dark hours. It’s a girl with black clothes who’s spawn point is set to Maison Wenifall and Washington Beach. There are some speculations regarding her, even some creative and creepy ones, but in the end it’s just a pedestrian that’s programmed that way, perhaps just for the sake of variation.
The Chainsaw Killer is a famous myth about an alleged man being involved with the happenings inside the Apartment 3C who still wanders through Vice City uncaught. The single real proof of the matter would be a strange sound attributable to a chainsaw… That same sound however later proved to be a Sanchez from a considerable distance, totally discrediting the idea and the myth altogether.
Of course, there are way more myths and phenomena in GTA Vice City. Some are eccentric, such as Pyramid Head, Ghost Rider, Leatherface, Hannibal Lecter, Aliens… Others are legitimately interesting (Haunted Buildings, Diaz’s Grave, Bermuda Triangle…) but they both share the fact that often is the story behind these and how they originated to be the pièce de résistance. How users interacted with this stuff and what kind of outcome was reached everytime… But again, there are far too many to list them here so, if you’re interested… I warmly invite you to research for yourself! I’ll give you some good links for it on the next section, don’t worry.
Credits
Thank you for bearing with me and my broken english up till now. This last section will be dedicated to the mentioning of sources and other boring stuff you probably don’t care at all.
– Memox
– gta-myths.fandom[gta-myths.fandom.com]
– gta.fandom[gta.fandom.com]
– gta-series[www.gta-series.com]
– Wikipedia[en.wikipedia.org]
– IMDb[www.imdb.com]
– WIRED
– Some random anonymous around the internet
– Memox
(with very few sentences “stolen” from WIRED and gta-myths.fandom)
– Memox (in-game screenshots and Paint / Photoshop editing)
– gta-myths.fandom (particularly for the “Myths and Phenomena” sections)
– gta.fandom (I don’t even remember if I took some images from there but it’s very probable)
– Google Images (i’m deeply sorry but i don’t recall a single website name! I should’ve took note!)
– The names of the videos’ owners are mentioned in their respective YouTube video page
– The artists of the songs are also mentioned in the description of said videos
To you, for reading this guide for a game launched almost 20 years ago. If you want to contribute, please let me know. Is there some typo? Some cacophonic sentence? A wrong information? An addition to an existing entry? Just tell me and i’ll fix it ASAP, then i’ll add your nickname on this guide (it’s the least I can do).
Finally, if you found this guide helpful, you can proceed with this common practice. I would gladly appreciate that, but of course you’re not obliged to.
There are obviously way more myths I didn’t discuss because I already urged you to seek them out yourself, rest assured you’ll find some good ones along with the cheap stuff. The easter eggs on the other hand could be way more but I didn’t include all of them for two simple reasons:
1. They’re probably even more minor compared to the minor ones I already mentioned.
2. They don’t appear on GTA Vice City but rather on other GTA games. It’s true that I did put some of those too into this guide, but of course not everything because that wasn’t the point of this guide; in fact, that would be redundant and even counterproductive.
The point of this guide was in fact to gather all the various curiosities of this game into a single, intuitive place, going as far as even correcting some wrong and/or misleading informations perpetrated through the years.
Go play some GTA Vice City now. Or maybe watch some episode of Miami Vice, idk.
