GTA Vice City's protagonist, Tommy Vercetti On November 11, 2021, the game was re-released on 8th and 9th generation consoles for in honor of Grand Theft Auto III's 20-year anniversary under the title Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - The Definitive Edition, included in the Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition bundle. Its original release version uses a tweaked version of the RenderWare game engine used by GTA III, and similarly presents a huge cityscape, fully populated with buildings (from hotels to skyscrapers), vehicles (cars, motorcycles, boats, helicopters, and planes) and people. GTA Vice City also appeared on the Japanese magazine Famitsu's readers' list of 100 all-time favorite videogames in 2006. As of April 2015, GTA Vice City is the fourth best-selling PlayStation 2 game of all time in the United States. Later, Rockstar Vienna packaged the game with its predecessor, GTA III, and sold it as the Grand Theft Auto: Double Pack for Xbox, and finally it debuted for iOS and Android Decemas a celebration of its 10-year anniversary. Following this success, GTA Vice City saw releases in Europe, Australia and Japan, and became available on PC and Xbox.

The game's events follow on from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.ĭesigned by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games, it debuted in North America on Octofor PlayStation 2 and quickly became the best-selling video game of the year. GTA Vice City is set in Vice City, Florida, in 1986, and concerns the exploits of protagonist Tommy Vercetti as he rises to become Vice City's major criminal power. It is the fifth installment in the Grand Theft Auto series and the second game in the 3D Universe title of the series. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (also referred to as GTA Vice City, Vice City and GTAVC) is a video game developed by Rockstar North.

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