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==GTA 1== | ==GTA 1== | ||
[[Image:Vice City map (GTA I).jpg| | [[Image:Vice City map (GTA I).jpg|200px|right|thumb]] | ||
The [[Grand Theft Auto 1]] rendition featured Vice City only as a level of the game, which is dissimilar from the later versions of the city. Compared to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, the Grand Theft Auto rendition of Vice City is more geographically accurate to Miami. Western Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and surrounding areas are depicted as "Vice Beach;" North Miami Beach and the Central Business District have been tagged as "Felicity". Eastern Vice City is made up of Miramire, Coral City, Greek Heights, Little Dominica, Little Bogota and Richman Heights, each representing the counties Broward and Dade. Districts and locations in the city include: Miramire, Little Dominica, Coral City, Vice Shores, Vice Beach, Little Bogota, Greek Heights, Felicity, Richman Heights, Banana Grove and an unnamed island south of Vice Beach. | The [[Grand Theft Auto 1]] rendition featured Vice City only as a level of the game, which is dissimilar from the later versions of the city. Compared to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, the Grand Theft Auto rendition of Vice City is more geographically accurate to Miami. Western Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and surrounding areas are depicted as "Vice Beach;" North Miami Beach and the Central Business District have been tagged as "Felicity". Eastern Vice City is made up of Miramire, Coral City, Greek Heights, Little Dominica, Little Bogota and Richman Heights, each representing the counties Broward and Dade. Districts and locations in the city include: Miramire, Little Dominica, Coral City, Vice Shores, Vice Beach, Little Bogota, Greek Heights, Felicity, Richman Heights, Banana Grove and an unnamed island south of Vice Beach. | ||
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====Ocean Beach==== | ====Ocean Beach==== | ||
[[Image:Ocean Beach.jpg|thumb| | [[Image:Ocean Beach.jpg|thumb|200px|Cars cruising down Ocean Drive in the Ocean beach district]] | ||
[[Ocean Beach]] is an upper-class tourist district consisting of a few skyscrapers and many low rises, directly based on Ocean Drive in South Beach and located in the southeastern most of Vice City. The area is primarily occupied by seaside and beach side apartments, hotels and upper-class businesses. An Art Deco Historic District-like row of Art Deco and Modernist low rises are also present; the road stretched along the row mimics that of Ocean Drive, bearing much resemblance to their real life counterparts in architecture and layout, and includes a flora partition between the low rises and beach. Inland towards the west, Ocean Beach contains additional commercial and residential buildings. | [[Ocean Beach]] is an upper-class tourist district consisting of a few skyscrapers and many low rises, directly based on Ocean Drive in South Beach and located in the southeastern most of Vice City. The area is primarily occupied by seaside and beach side apartments, hotels and upper-class businesses. An Art Deco Historic District-like row of Art Deco and Modernist low rises are also present; the road stretched along the row mimics that of Ocean Drive, bearing much resemblance to their real life counterparts in architecture and layout, and includes a flora partition between the low rises and beach. Inland towards the west, Ocean Beach contains additional commercial and residential buildings. | ||
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====Washington Beach==== | ====Washington Beach==== | ||
[[Image:Washington_beach.jpg|thumb| | [[Image:Washington_beach.jpg|thumb|200px|Washington Beach]] | ||
[[Washington Beach]] is a district between Ocean Beach from the south and Vice Point from the north, encompassing the northern end of the Art Deco Historic District-like beachfront district, its inland area, and the southern half of a smaller island to the west containing two construction sites and several additional apartments and housing (among them, a building featuring a hotel room similar to that in Scarface). | [[Washington Beach]] is a district between Ocean Beach from the south and Vice Point from the north, encompassing the northern end of the Art Deco Historic District-like beachfront district, its inland area, and the southern half of a smaller island to the west containing two construction sites and several additional apartments and housing (among them, a building featuring a hotel room similar to that in Scarface). | ||
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====Vice Point==== | ====Vice Point==== | ||
[[Image:Vice Point.jpg|thumb| | [[Image:Vice Point.jpg|thumb|200px|Vice Point]] | ||
[[Vice Point]] is a more middle class and residential area of Vice Beach, covering the remaining areas of the island at the north, and consisting of larger apartment buildings and hotels aligned along the shore as well as medium sized homes and smaller apartment complexes inland. The [[North Point Mall]] (known as Vice Point Mall in GTA:VCS), a large mall located in the north end of Vice Point and accessible by the player, is located in Vice Point. The [[Malibu Club]] is situated on southern Vice Point. A police department is also located further north, as is another hospital. | [[Vice Point]] is a more middle class and residential area of Vice Beach, covering the remaining areas of the island at the north, and consisting of larger apartment buildings and hotels aligned along the shore as well as medium sized homes and smaller apartment complexes inland. The [[North Point Mall]] (known as Vice Point Mall in GTA:VCS), a large mall located in the north end of Vice Point and accessible by the player, is located in Vice Point. The [[Malibu Club]] is situated on southern Vice Point. A police department is also located further north, as is another hospital. | ||
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====Downtown==== | ====Downtown==== | ||
[[Image:DowntownViceCity2.jpg|thumb| | [[Image:DowntownViceCity2.jpg|thumb|200px|Downtown Vice City Buildings]] | ||
[[Downtown]] mirrors downtown Miami, where the areas see the highest concentration of skyscrapers, both residential and commercial. Downtown is believed to be a more formal, financial district of Vice City, with a number of large office buildings, including the city's tallest building. This building in particular is notable not only because it is, in fact, the city's tallest, but also because it can be seen from most areas all around Vice City. | [[Downtown]] mirrors downtown Miami, where the areas see the highest concentration of skyscrapers, both residential and commercial. Downtown is believed to be a more formal, financial district of Vice City, with a number of large office buildings, including the city's tallest building. This building in particular is notable not only because it is, in fact, the city's tallest, but also because it can be seen from most areas all around Vice City. | ||
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====Escobar International Airport==== | ====Escobar International Airport==== | ||
[[Image:Escobar International Airport.jpg|thumb|Esacobar International Airport]] | [[Image:Escobar International Airport.jpg|thumb|200px|Esacobar International Airport]] | ||
The [[Escobar International Airport]], as seen southward towards the air control tower and the distinctive terminal. Vice City's airport is known as the Escobar International Airport (EIA), or Escobar International in short. EIA consists of two terminals, one at the north which is basically a standard blocky terminal with the addition of below ground entrances, while the other in the south is more distinctive, with its weaved roof and roof-high windows facing the airport's southern airside. Both structures are separated by lawns and a car park, and it is unknown if the terminals are connected in any other way aside roads. Further north in the airport peninsula is the [[Fort Baxter Air Base]]. | The [[Escobar International Airport]], as seen southward towards the air control tower and the distinctive terminal. Vice City's airport is known as the Escobar International Airport (EIA), or Escobar International in short. EIA consists of two terminals, one at the north which is basically a standard blocky terminal with the addition of below ground entrances, while the other in the south is more distinctive, with its weaved roof and roof-high windows facing the airport's southern airside. Both structures are separated by lawns and a car park, and it is unknown if the terminals are connected in any other way aside roads. Further north in the airport peninsula is the [[Fort Baxter Air Base]]. | ||
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===Landmarks=== | ===Landmarks=== | ||
[[Image:Chunder Wheel, Vice Point, VCS.jpg|thumb| | [[Image:Chunder Wheel, Vice Point, VCS.jpg|thumb|200px|Chunder Wheel, a ferris wheel in VCS that was demolished before the events of VC]] | ||
[[Image:NeonVice.jpg|thumb| | [[Image:NeonVice.jpg|thumb|200px|Buildings are adorned with more neon light in the Vice City Stories rendition]] | ||
A populated trailer park exists just south of Little Havana close to where Vice City's Sunshine Autos, a car showroom, exists. The trailer park serves as the location where Victor Vance would receive missions from Marty Jay Williams, head of the Trailer Park Mafia. Sunshine Autos itself has also been known to be operating from an older establishment in a slightly different location (down the road towards the north), with its newer showroom under construction further south. Both the entire trailer park and the old Sunshine Autos yard is absent in 1986, replaced by an empty field. It is assumed that the disbandment of the Trailer Park Mafia (with Marty's death in the hand of Victor) and the relocation of Sunshine Autos led to the demolition of both locations. | A populated trailer park exists just south of Little Havana close to where Vice City's Sunshine Autos, a car showroom, exists. The trailer park serves as the location where Victor Vance would receive missions from Marty Jay Williams, head of the Trailer Park Mafia. Sunshine Autos itself has also been known to be operating from an older establishment in a slightly different location (down the road towards the north), with its newer showroom under construction further south. Both the entire trailer park and the old Sunshine Autos yard is absent in 1986, replaced by an empty field. It is assumed that the disbandment of the Trailer Park Mafia (with Marty's death in the hand of Victor) and the relocation of Sunshine Autos led to the demolition of both locations. | ||
The Palm Springs Hotel, in the southern Downtown district, is under construction. The location is featured in one mission where Victor has to kill Biker members in order to save his brother Lance. | The Palm Springs Hotel, in the southern Downtown district, is under construction. The location is featured in one mission where Victor has to kill Biker members in order to save his brother Lance. | ||