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A year after ''[[
Things don't turn out well on Tommy's first job. He's betrayed by one of the Vice City bosses; left without any money (or the cocaine that he had been sent to purchase), and has Sonny Forelli breathing down his neck for the failure. Tommy's new mission is to get even with those who set him up...and possibly carve out a criminal empire of his own.
''Vice City'' takes place in 1986, and Rockstar did its best to capture the look and feel of that time -- or at least [[Hollywood History|how it looked in]] ''[[Miami Vice]]''. (It helps that the game had [[Awesome Music|a killer '80s soundtrack]] to go with it.)
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* [[Abandon Ship]]: The first ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' game to feature the ability to leap out of a moving vehicle. Especially useful when heading [[Car Fu|into a crowd of enemies]], nearing [[Super Drowning Skills|a body of water]], or escaping [[Every Car Is a Pinto|from a burning car]].
* [[All Bikers Are Hells Angels]]: Big Mitch Baker and his gang, whose trust you have to earn in order to employ him and his gang as security at a Love Fist concert.
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* [[The Cameo]]: Donald Love, the media-kingpin from ''III'' appears in Vice City as a toadying businessman for Texas real estate baron Avery Carrington. He has no actual speaking lines. As a [[Call Forward]], Avery uses several lines that Love uses in ''III''. Guess that's where he learned them.
* [[Chainsaw Good]]: Debuts in this game. It can be used as an effective way to mow down pedestrians in seconds (and squirts blood on the screen).
* [[Child-Hater]]: The owner of the ice cream factory. Which is funny considering the lack of children in any ''GTA'' game.
* [[Cool Bike]] : The very first GTA III-era game to feature them. <ref>Also, the first to feature [[Cool Plane|accessible helicopters, or indeed, any useful air transport]], not counting the barely-airborne and aptly-named Dodo in ''[[
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Tommy, who sometimes has a few things to say about his employers, and lets the player in on his thoughts.
** Also Maurice Chavez, host of the "Pressing Issues" show on VCPR, given that he's the [[Only Sane Man]], relatively speaking, compared to all the guests on his show.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: [[In
* [[Doing It for
* [[Drunk Driver]]: One mission has Tommy driving Phil Cassidy to the hospital after a boomshine explosion. Problem is, Tommy is drunk as a result of merely ''smelling'' the boomshine, and the cops notice. The screen gets blurry and the car starts swerving. Thankfully, it's pretty easy to adapt to.
* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: The party on Cortez's yacht serves to introduce a plethora of minor characters, all of whom play bigger roles later down the line (with the exception of Pastor Richards; see [[Author Existence Failure]] above.)
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* [[Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist]]: Tommy Vercetti's default outfit consists of acid-washed jeans and a jaunty blue Hawaiian shirt.
* [[Helicopter Blender]]: Any helicopter can do this, even the little RC helicopters. The bigger ones have a harder time with it, naturally.
* [[Let's Play]]: Done by your [https://web.archive.org/web/20131022083611/http://www.freelanceastronauts.com/games.php?id=2 friendly neighborhood] [[Freelance Astronauts]].
* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: The first ''GTA'' game to avert this. The game had pick-up icons that spawned at fixed locations which changed Tommy's [[Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist|default outfit]] to a different, pre-set costume. While it lacked the numerous customization options seen in later titles, the Clothing pick-ups were very handy for, among other things, quickly [[The Guards Must Be Crazy|erasing]] a [[Wanted Meter|two-star wanted rating]]. Some notable examples listed below:
** A [[Sharp-Dressed Man|pastel Soiree outfit]] and a [[Badass in
** A shirt that says [[Fun T-Shirt|"I Completed Vice City and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt"]] unlocked as a reward for [[
** A [[Dressing
* [[Living Legend]]: Tommy Vercetti was sent to Vice City because, as "The Harwood Butcher", he was too hot for Liberty City.
* [[The Load]]: Lance.
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* [[Military Moonshiner]]: This is how [[Ascended Extra|Phil Cassidy]] initially presents himself [[Arms Dealer|when he's not out gunrunning]]. His liquor is so high-proof that it's seen being used in some missions as a [[Gargle Blaster|makeshift explosive]].
* [[Mugged for Disguise]]: One mission has Tommy and Lance knock out some police officers and take their uniforms. As is common with this trope, the officers are left [[Bound and Gagged]] (though not seen as such) and never mentioned after this.
* [[The Napoleon]]: Ricardo Diaz. Seeing as he's also Vice City's most prolific drug lord, {{spoiler|(before Tommy kills him, that is)}} this also overlaps with [[Mister Big]].
* [[No Honor Among Thieves]]: Unfortunately for Tommy he believes the family to firmly adhere to the principle of [[Honor Among Thieves]]. This makes him somewhat naive in his dealings with fellow Mafia members. When Sonny proves this is not the case its seems Tommy is equally upset over the betrayal of this principle (if not more so) than the personal slights against him.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Tommy's 'Harwood Butcher' incident.
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** The game's biggest reference to [[Scarface]] aside from [[Expy]] Tommy Vercetti has got to be the [[Cool House|lavish Diaz Mansion]]/ {{spoiler|Vercetti Estate}}, mirroring Tony's mansion in the film. The final mission, a shootout that takes place in it is pretty much a reenactment of the film's finale, {{spoiler|except Tommy doesn't die}}.
** There's a room labelled "Apartment 3C" where one can find a bloody bathroom and a chainsaw pickup, another Scarface reference.
** In Tommy's hotel room at the start of the game, there is a poster of ''[[
** Triggering a Vigilante Mission inside a [[Death From Above|Hunter]] [[Cool Plane|attack helicopter]] changes the text prompt informing you that you've started a Vigilante Mission to an announcement saying [[Blue Thunder|Brown Thunder]]!
** The missions wherein you have to impress Mitch Baker's biker gang to obtain their services as a security detail for a Love Fist concert may be a reference to the real-life [[wikipedia:Altamont Free Concert|Altamont Free Concert Incident]].
** This is the only ''GTA'' game outside the original ''[[Grand Theft Auto Classic|Grand Theft Auto]]'' and ''[[Grand Theft Auto II]]'' wherein the AK-47 is absent, with the Ruger Mini-14 serving as replacement. This may as well be a reference to ''[[
*** That or the [[Red Scare]] was in full effect during [[The Eighties|the game's setting]].
** One of the missions at the {{spoiler|Vercetti}} Estate involves Tommy and Lance [[Dressing
*** Another mission at the Club Malibu is named "No Escape," another Liotta flick.
** While "Exploder" is nominally a ''[[Rambo]]'' parody, the "dying Ho Chi" scene is a nod to ''[[Strike Commando]]''.
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* [[Stripperiffic]]: It's harder to find hookers in this game than any other GTA. They're there, but since this is both the 80's and South Florida, ''every'' young woman walking the streets looks like she's... [[Streetwalker|walking the streets.]]
* [[Super Drowning Skills]]: Vice City, based off of Miami, is a very tropical place. So of course, it's surrounded by water. Not being able to swim ''really'' sucks. Especially since it gets in the way of being able to enjoy the ocean and the boats properly. The manual [[Hand Wave|handwaves]] this as being the result of shark infestation, but this isn't shown in game.
* [[Take That]]: One mission has Tommy being hired to kill a group of would-be bank robbers whose names resemble those of the protagonists from rival crime-sandbox games like ''[[True Crime: Streets of
* [[Tempting Fate]]: The city is actually ''named'' "Vice City". Were they expecting it to become a Utopia? According to one of the designers, the name came from the pronounciation vee-kay city, as in, victory city. The C just evolved into a soft C. It's also [[Rule of Funny|more funny this way]].
* [[Too Slow]]: If you're too leisurely in chasing Diaz's traitorous employee on the rooftop, the youth will shout, "Too slow, grandad!!" before leaping into his car.
* [[Trunk Shot]]: As a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', in the opening cutscene {{spoiler|to the mission wherein Tommy betrays and kills [[Bad Boss|Ricardo Diaz]] then takes over his empire}}, Lance surprises Tommy with something in the trunk of his car: Tommy's first [[More Dakka|Colt M733 Carbine]], with which to shoot all the goons up.
* [[The Vamp]]: Not surprisingly, Candy Suxxx (voiced by famous porn star Jenna Jameson)
* [[Van in Black]]: Starting with this game, once you reach five wanted stars, the FBI no longer chase you with flimsy, poorly-handling sedans, but with supercharged all-black Chevy Suburbans, [[Lightning Bruiser|which are as fast as they are durable]] and will easily rip you to shreds if you're cruising the streets in anything less than [[Tank Goodness|a tank]]. They have since only made a return in ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas|San Andreas]]'' and ''[[Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars|Chinatown Wars]]''.
* [[Vice City]]: The [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: On top of what you can normally do in the series, once you establish your big hideout {{spoiler|by taking down Ricardo Diaz and taking his mansion for your own}}, you can have a [[Redshirt Army]] of [[Mook|mooks]] for yourself. [[Bad Boss|Which you can kill]] for a [[Rewarding Vandalism|quick cash boost and pistol ammo]]. The game will [[Video Game Cruelty Punishment|punish you]] if you kill enough of them by bumping up your wanted levels, just at a slower pace compared to other targets of your trigger happiness.
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