Grand Theft Auto Vice City
Grand
Theft Auto: Vice City is a 2002 open world action-adventure video game
developed by Rockstar North (formerly DMA Design) in the United Kingdom
and published by Rockstar Games. It is the second 3D game in the Grand
Theft Auto video game franchise and sixth original title overall. It
debuted in North America on October 29, 2002 for the PlayStation 2 and
was later ported to the Xbox, and Microsoft Windows in 2003. It was made
available on Steam on January 4, 2008, and on the Mac App Store on
August 25, 2011.[3] A Nintendo GameCube version was planned, but was
never released. Vice City was preceded by Grand Theft Auto III and
followed by Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Vice
City draws much of its inspiration from 1980s American culture. Set in
1986 in Vice City, a fictional city modeled after Miami, the story
revolves around Mafia hitman Tommy Vercetti, who was recently released
from prison. After being involved in a drug deal gone wrong, Tommy seeks
out those responsible while building a criminal empire and seizing
power from other criminal organizations in the city. The game uses a
tweaked version of the game engine used in Grand Theft Auto III and
similarly presents a huge cityscape, fully populated with buildings,
vehicles, and people. Like other games in the series, Vice City has
elements from driving games and third-person shooters, and features an
open world gameplay that gives the player more control over their
playing experience.
Upon
its release, Vice City became the best-selling video game of 2002. In
July 2006, Vice City was the best-selling PlayStation 2 game of all
time. Vice City also appeared on Japanese magazine Famitsu's readers'
list of the favorite 100 videogames of 2006, the only fully Western
title on the list.[4] Following this success, Vice City saw releases in
Europe, Australia and Japan, as well as a release for the PC. Rockstar
Vienna also packaged the game with its predecessor, Grand Theft Auto
III, and sold it as Grand Theft Auto: Double Pack for the Xbox. Vice
City's setting is also revisited in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories,
which serves as a prequel to events in Vice City. In December 2012,
Rockstar released Vice City for iOS and Android platforms as celebration
for the game's 10th anniversary.
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