Vice City in GTA IV Era
Vice City was one of the cities available in Grand Theft Auto 1 as well as being the main setting for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. It is referenced extensively throughout the GTA III Era as well as being mentioned in Grand Theft Auto IV. The city is is based on the real world location of Miami, Florida. There are rumors that Vice City will be the setting for the next GTA game, then again it may also be in San Andreas, but this has not been confirmed by Rockstar yet.
Logical inference
GTA 1 had three cities: Liberty City, Vice City, and San Andreas. The GTA III era's (main) games took place in the these cities in the same order. GTA IV took place in Liberty City, so some have speculated that the next location for a fourth-era game will be Vice City, which like Liberty City, will undergo a more realistic and life-like design, canon with GTA IV.
References in GTA IV
- It is advertised on billboards by FlyUS.
- Jerry Kapowitz found the Diamonds Niko Bellic and Patrick McReary were after, and plans to open a weapon and liquor store in Vice City.
- In the vehicles section of the stats in GTA IV, one possibly ranking is for miles traveled is Liberty City to Vice City.
- Lazlow of Integrity 2.0 also frequently refers to life in Vice City in the 1980s as he was a DJ on V-Rock during that time.
- In the mission Catch the Wave it is explained that the drugs at the boatyard were transported from Vice City.
- Roman Bellic states in a text to Niko Bellic that if they do the deal with Dimitri Rascalov, they could afford to take a private jet to Vice City.
- After befriending Roman enough to unlock his car service ability, he sends Niko a text message saying how he is tired of all of his cabs being sent to the airport to pick up old people from Vice City.
- Sammy Bottino has criminal charges in Vice City.
- For the Female Multiplayer model, hat #3 can be obtained from rank 0; this hat states I ♥ VC, which is a reference to Vice City.
- Iggy, from LRR talks about moving to Vice City. He mentions how much cleaner the women are there.
- A spin off series of The Science Of Crime is called The Science of Crime: Vice City, possibly in reference to CSI: Miami.
References in The Ballad of Gay Tony
- Yusuf Amir complains to Luis Fernando Lopez that he had to take a private jet to Vice City to bang prostitutes for 2 weeks in order to recover from test driving sexy cars.
- The exclusive radio station Vice City FM plays music from the 1980s.
- Vice City has its name engraved in the USA Cities Wall inside the Rotterdam Tower, starting in The Ballad of Gay Tony.
- On Integrity 2.0 Lazlow keeps talking about Vice City, also, when Lazlow and Jorge are looking for Hercules, Lazlow says Jorgie 'should have seen the 80's sluts', refering to his time in Vice City.
- Fernando Martinez makes a return from the GTA III Era to DJ for Vice City FM.
- Al Di Napoli lives in Vice City.
- When failing the mission Ladies' Night by getting too close to Patrick McReary, a conversation between Luis Lopez and Gay Tony will activate where they will mention that they need to runaway to Vice City or Los Santos and that Gay Tony should call him about it.
- During a conversation between Luis Lopez and Al Di Napoli, Al suggests Luis and Gay Tony expand into Vice City. Luis responds by stating Vice City is just a retirement home by now.
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The Rotterdam Tower's ground level lobby in TBoGT.
E3 2010 Rumours Announcing Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 2
Rumours have been spreading that E3 2010 Announced the next game in the Grand Theft Auto series will take place in Vice City, also known as "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 2". It is shown as one of the future games list that was announced in May 15, 2010. However, there have been clues that Vice City will be the setting for the new Grand theft Auto. If you go to a sex shop in GTA IV, you will find a poster with a Volcano exploding. if you look closely at the top right corner of the poster, you will see a text that says "Vesuvius Citrate", which is "VC" in abbreviation form.
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