PlayStation 2

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

Trivia

In the Malibu Club, the band performing on the stage of the club is an obvious parody on the Village People.

From 23:00 to 23:59 in-game time, the Vice Point building's lit windows form a figure which looks like a penis.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is the only GTA game not to feature the AK-47.

There is a mansion on Starfish Island, by the shore, with a peculiar swimming pool. If you look at it from above (looking south) you'll see that it has the shape of a woman's torso, and some rocks at its bottom look like a bikini.

The remote control helicopter used in the mission 'Demolition Man' closely resembles the helicopter which is piloted in one level of Blood Money, a game developed by DMA Design (now Rockstar North) for the Commodore Amiga computer.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is listed by Guinness World Records as the biggest selling game of 2002 and the best-selling PlayStation 2 game of all time.

Contributed by Sciere (119182) on Apr 29, 2008.

GTA: Vice City was named #2 Game of the Year in the “Best of 2003” Awards in Computer Games Magazine (March 2004 issue).

Contributed by PCGamer77 (3025) on Jan 13, 2008.

In the movie lot located in Prawn Island, there is some set that looks like Broadway. If you take a look, you´ll notice that is the set of Staunton Island (Liberty City) even with the same advertisements.

You can call the telephone numbers that are being advertised on the radio or elsewhere. They work.

On March 29, 2003, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (PS2) was put on the infamous German index by the BPjS. For more information about what this means and to see a list of games sharing the same fate, take a look here: BPjS/BPjM indexed games.

GTA:VC was a massive success for Rockstar. Electronics Boutique sold more than 500,000 copies on the game's first day of release, and more 250,000 in the UK.

In one of the assassination missions you get from the payphones the targets are called Nico Carter and Marcus Hammond which is a nod to the two main characters in the game The Getaway .

Contributed by festershinetop (8823) on Mar 23, 2004.

In December 2003, the New York City's Human Rights Commission demanded that Take Two removed the phrase "Kill Haitians" from Vice City after Haitian groups complained about this.

Take 2 responded: As with literature, movies, music and other forms of entertainment, we have strived to create a video game experience with a certain degree of realism, which we believe is our right. Nevertheless, we are aware of the hurt and anger in the Haitian community and have listened to the community's objections to certain statements made in the game. Accordingly, we will remove the objectionable statements from future copies of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

Contributed by Sciere (119182) on Dec 10, 2003.

On the (North American) PlayStation 2 version of this game, memory card data can get corrupted when the game is saved at the Ice Cream Factory.

After the game has been banned in Germany, publisher Take 2 released a new, censored version. Rated 16, you can recognize the edited game by its white edges on the cover.

Windows version of this game was accidentally put on shelves 5 days before right release date.

After that many gameshops put out this game 1 or 2 days before right release date.

You can buy the great eighties soundtrack in your record-store. But try to get the german version - it has more tracks on it, than the US-version, due to some copyright difficulties...

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City was created by Rockstar North, a division of Rockstar Games. Rockstar North was previously known as DMA Design. DMA Design was originally located in the Scottish City of Dundee. A few years ago the company moved to Leith in Edinburgh.

Located near the airport is a sign mocking Dundee. It has a picture of a ship on it (Called the RRS Discovery) and the word "Dundee" very similar to that used by the local council when promoting Dundee. There is also some text saying something along the lines of "We have a ship that belonged to a loser".

For more information on Dundee try www.dundee.com www.dundeecity.gov.uk

Among the connections this 'prequel' has with the original Grand Theft Auto 3 are the return of younger versions of some of the radio DJs.

Lazlow (whose real life counterpart is responsible for writing a lot of the radio dialogue), the talk radio Chatterbox personality returns as a young DJ starting out trying to convince everyone that he's a hard core rebel on the rock and roll station, V-ROCK.

Toni (Maria Chambers), was Flashback-FM's aging pop groupie DJ in GTA3. In GTA:VC, she not only sounds younger and naive, but a good chunk of her material plays into her GTA3 material (for example, yes, she HAS been on fire). Her 80’s station? Appropriately enough, named Flash FM

And in a twist, Fernando Martinez (Frank Chavez), who ran the psuedo-legal prostitution ring ads euphemistically called 'Fernando's New Beginnings' got his start as a Vice City radio DJ on Emotion 98.3. In between playing emotive records, he’s already begun his pimping ways.

The second Rockstar Logo sequence that appears before each game pays homage to the Commodore 64. The blue on blue screen, the quality of the music, and even the load command accurately model the most popular home computer (especially for gaming) in the late eighties.