The story
The atmosphere
The humor
The characters
The vehicles
The setting
The soundtrack
The gameplay

The EVERYTHING

The game which is 18+
Becomes everyone's childhood.

Driving around Vice City at night. Listening to Emotion 98.3. It felt real.

Australia: takes the hookers out of GTA III because prostitution is immoral

Also Australia: prostitution is legal

Still my favorite GTA game! I would also let my younger sister play at the time. Her favorite thing to do was steal a taxi and just drive around picking people up and dropping them off. Every time I came back to the game, I would have tons of money from letting her do taxi missions for an hour or two. Thank sis, lol

Fastest in game vehicle. Tank with turret point to the back.

The time span between when Vice City came out, 2002 and when its set, 1986, is comparable to going from the 2020 to 2004

The “Mission Passed”-tune is probably the best and most satisfying mission passed-tune in any game ever.

I love how the city was the smallest, but had more nooks and crannies like alleys and secret entrances that makes it worth exploring. Gta V is waaay bigger but no buildings you can enter, and not much things to discover static buildings etc.

Game: for ages 18+

My dad when the game came out: my 5 year old son will like this

The only complaint I had was how tf Tommy couldn't swim.

I used to use Emotion’s and Flash FM’s playlists when I gave rides on weekends around my college town. Some people just enjoyed the good music. Others would ask “is this from Vice City?” when songs would change and it’s another song from the game. Such an incredible and absolutely iconic soundtrack.

The music, the age it was set up - it was a godsend.

This game is the reason I found love for the 80's culture. Hope we get to go back to Miami again.

My older sister introduced me to this game when I was about 12. She couldn't beat the RC helicopter mission and asked me to beat it for her. Needless to say, I ended up hooked and we beat the game together.

I’m not a native English speaker, but when I was a kid I played the shit out of this game and learned 80% of the cheat codes by heart. When I grew up and learned English, the fact that those cheat codes were actual words absolutely blew my mind.
Also, I was the one who all my friends called over so that I could complete the RC Heli mission for them.

I still use the radio stations as background music and playlists to this day.  Vice City and San Andreas have amazing soundtracks.

The 80s revival thing was still fresh when Vice City came out. Ray Liotta's voice work as Tommy Vercetti is unbelievably good. And the game's script is genuinely funny.

One underrated aspect of this game is how it really opens up once you have the mansion. Suddenly it’s not a semi-linear story about revenge, it’s now up to you to take over the city as a crime lord. You can keep doing the story missions and clamp down on businesses with Lance, or you can buy new assets and do those missions (Malibu Club, Film Studio and Print Works having the most interesting new story content) to generate cash, and if you’re bored of that, there’s a Love Fist concert that needs your help and a Haitian/Cuban gang war that you help start, participate in both sides in, and help finish off. And a lot of it is optional. I completely skipped the Malibu missions when I first played it because it was so expensive, and now I realize that I missed a big portion of the game.

Grand Theft Auto: Florida Man