GTA: Vice City Is a Masterpiece | A Retrospective
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- Rockstar's second stab at creating a 3D universe with Grand Theft Auto. After telling Claude's tale in Liberty City in the 2000s, it's time to head down to Vice City in the 1980's to follow the tale of Tommy Vercetti and his rise to power against all opposition.
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Chapters:
Intro 00:00
Premise 01:18
Development 03:29
New Additions 05:04
Voice Talent 08:11
Setting 11:32
Plot--
In the Beginning 15:48
Making Connections 1836
Ricardo Diaz and the Boys 30:38
Starting Vercetti Enterprises 35:39
Money Making Mob Moves 41:11
The Friends We Make Along The Way 55:33
It's All Down South Now 01:05:38
The End Is What You Make It 01:10:39
Legacy 01:13:34
Conclusion 01:18:15
Music: (in order of appearance)
- Opening Theme (GTA: Vice City)
-White Bat Audio 80's Miami Playlist
-Burning Sunset, Men's Hair Club (LISA The Painful)
KENKURA Lazy Evenings
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Truly my favorite gta setting ever.
GTA VI should be dope
@@MrHammers well it's set in current era so don't expect the same vibe
Isn't it great just hearing about a game you enjoyed a lot as a kid so much time later ❤️.
@@MrHammers
Maybe
The only GTA I completed 99%. I have searched every hidden pack spot 5 times (the last 1% is ONE pack that must have bugged out..)
Two things
1) Tommys nameless cronies are named Harry and Lee. Tommy says their names when telling Sonny what happened at the deal
2) Tommy not being able to swim makes sense in universe. Alot of people from cities like NYC dont know how to swim. It surprises me to this day how many adults dont know or never learned how to swim. Plus being in prison for 15 years probably didnt help. I doubt Tommy ever went to the pool or beach to swim growing up in the 50s and 60s in Liberty City when he had been doing crimes or working at his father's print shop as a kid
1. I had no idea, I'll have to watch that cutscenes back.. after all these years I never heard that lol
2. I suppose that makes sense, I wish that'd be mentioned in passing or something in the game. But I suppose head Canon works for something like that
@@MrHammersthe scene in beginning theres a body in the freezer if u listen close I just died in your arms is playing in the background
@@MrHammers While we're at it, this video really didn't need to be over an hour long. You could've cut everything from 15:37 to 1:13:34, as it's just you recapping the story beat by beat, and it honestly feels like you're padding the runtime. It's a good retrospect video and it would've done its job in 20 minutes.
@Gyrbae covering the story is what I do in every video on games I cover. Lots of people like to recap games they haven't played in decades
@@Gyrbae clown comment
I think it’s time for the “Total Overdose is absolutely insane” video Mr. Hammers.
Oh yeah that game is amazing!
Sounds good to me 🙂
Total overdose was awesome
I take it you watch fuzzy slippers?
Yes!!!!! Thank you!!!
Allegedly, the Housers offered Ray Liotta two options to be compensated for his work. He could be paid up front, or receive payment based on sales, (better idea).
The Housers stressed to Ray what a big deal the game was gonna be, insisting the second option made more sense, but he wasn’t hearing it.
Liotta accepted payment up front, and only realized the mistake he made once the game sold like crazy.
Supposedly, he made it known to Rockstar he wasn’t happy with the deal, and they responded along the lines of, “we tried telling you dude.”
Take this with a grain of salt, but this was what I read years ago pertaining to why Liotta and Rockstar hadn’t been on good terms since then.
That makes a lot of sense then if they offered it and he turned it down. Can definitely see why he'd be upset over that, but he didn't take the percentage risk so he got what he signed up for.
Where did you read this?
@@MAXBERTE
It’s been over 10 years, minimum, so I can’t remember. As I said, take it with a grain of salt.
It's also important to note that videogames as media weren't treated as important as cinema or television back then (not that long ago, really), so many actors never through that games could make so much money and success.
@@TKsh1
Yea, that was definitely Ray’s thinking,
(who by most accounts is a decent guy).
Leo is a reference to Leon the Professional. Also, easiest way to win the races is to just blow up the other vehicles before the race begins. The era of being able to spend 1000 hours in this game will be sorely missed. It's such a classic. Thanks for making this video.
Huh, I didn't put the Leon reference together. Neat! Thanks man
If someone re-released this game with zero changes apart from ragdolling on corpses, I'd pay full price for it all over again.
This game changed my life and introduced me to 80's music. I think I was 12 when I got this for Xmas. Am 34 next month 😮
Hiring the Bikers to work as security on that Lovefist concert is actually a reference when the Rolling Stones did the same thing. It didn't end well.
Context?
(From Wikipedia)
Meredith Curly Hunter Jr. (October 24, 1951 - December 6, 1969) was an American man who was killed at the 1969 Altamont Free Concert. During the performance by the Rolling Stones, Hunter approached the stage, and was driven off by members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club who were providing security and had agreed to prevent members of the audience from mounting the stage. He subsequently returned to the stage area, drew a revolver, and was stabbed and beaten to death by Hells Angel Alan Passaro.
@@schuhbackad1146Honestly? That sounds like the bikers did their job.
@@schuhbackad1146 That's it? Well deserved. The Hell's Angels are based in this instance.
@@schuhbackad1146 Also they got paid in beer and they we're recommened by Grateful dead and Jefferson airplane.
I didn't realize this video is so new. Vice City was my first GTA, and as timeless as San Andreas is, Vice City will always have a place in my heart
Fresh off the printers lol
Gta3 was disappointing if you played Vice City first lol
@@GixxerJakeya
The love I have for this game is actually insane, a lot of my happy memories from my childhood is thanks to this game, easily my favorite GTA
"this is the last dance for Lance Vance."... bro
Vice City has will and always be my favourite GTA. The 80s setting, the music, The Hollywood Voice cast.
I was 13 when this game was released and I owned it on day one.
That was 22 YEARS ago !!!
Damn I feel old 😂
I was born in 83 and I remember a lot of 80's music from my childhood so VC is also my favourite GTA.
The best GTA soundtrack to me
Tommy is an action figure in Zero's store in San Fierro in San Andreas;-)
so is piggsy and cash from manhunt
Also lance
Long videos are great when the topic calls for it. Classics like Vice City call for it.
20 years ago in 2004 me and my brother were playing GTA VICE CITY on our brand new desktop computer. Since then I love this game and whole GTA franchise. Still feel Nostalgic about this game 20 years later. One more thing My Brother completed all the missions i use to play to create fun and chaos in the game. My age was 14 in 2004.
I won't forget the first time i went to gamestop with my dad to buy vice city, me and my little brother used to take turns completing missions and we had a small note pad with cheats we wrote down, the soundtrack was great.
Yes loved the 80s soundtrack mostly the rock stations
The first time? How many times did your dad take you and your other under-aged brother to the store to buy that game?
@@mrbojangles1391 he means the first time his dad brought him to buy a game but in this case was gta vice city he just worded it off
BOO SPELLING AND GRAMMER POLICE, BOOOOOOOOO!!!
@@AndSaveAsManyAsYouCan yup cuz they got nothing better to insult with
Holy shit he finally reviewed the game where he got his pfp from
Long time coming lol
I always think of this game when I look at the profile pic, now I see it is purposeful lol.
@@Tmanw8898it one of hammers fav games mine too
I love the early 80s vibe, but the horrible mechanics are pretty unbearable for a ton of missions. Stopped playing about halfway through.
@@crosswalklarry just play it on PC
Wild how Rockstar’s storytelling went from getting the job done to legitimately great in a single entry.
And yes, keep the long deep dive videos coming. You do them so well.
They stepped up their writing exponentially it's crazy, then San Andreas was Even deeper
As a kid I wanted Lance Vance to be a homie but now that I've seen this video and played GTA VCS I've noticed how incompetent and untrust worthy Lance really is he even risked his own brothers life over drugs which I should've noticed at the beginning of the game
Yeah, I thought Lance was cool before replaying as well. But he's kind of a scumbag
I also feel like he tried communicating how he felt to Tommy early on... there's a time or two in the game Lance calls tommy out of the blue just to vent and Tommy gives him the cold shoulder...
So the two potheads at the docks are Wayne and Jethro that we see again in GTA: SA.
Must've been a hell of an adventure they went on with The Truth after leaving VC.
Dwaine* and Jethro
@@MrHammers Right lol
Loved the video! Your content is always fantastic dude!
Haha thanks my man
Vice City is a Beautiful Game and i am so happy we are going to be Expirence it in GTA VI in The HD Era it's going to be so Great❤
I'm stoked for it, the trailer is so sick
a decade+ too late ... oh well you kids enjoy it whatever there is left to be enjoyed in these copy-pasted cashgrabs full of toxic characters and online "players" / "gamers"
I absolutely love video game essays
Diaz always reminded me of Tony especially his outfit stature and hot headedness ironically though Diaz is Colombian while Tony is Cuban and Tony claims he doesn’t like Colombians
Vice City is one of my favorite Rockstar games ever. Set in the 80s, with the inspiration of Scarface and voiced by the late Ray Liotta from Goodfellas. What's not to like in this game.
Now GTA 6 is set in modern Vice City. Hope they bring some references, or hidden Easters from past Vice City.
Taxi cab lady is the lead singer from blondie herself if I recall correctly!
Also head floating through the floor at 58:07
Dang, I had no idea!
@MrHammers Ikr.
Really awesome video by the way. Certainly got a new fan.
@Ziggy_Rotten thanks dude! Appreciate that
As someone who works from home, longer videos are a blessing.
The thing about GTA:VC is that it was pretty much the one game that finally made the rest of the corporate world understand how big of a deal this whole 'gaming' thing actually was in terms of dollar signs. It was so influential that it actually brought about the whole "80s retro" craze of the early 2000s and suddenly mainstream radio stations everywhere were playing Tears for Fears again.
This was really noticeable when GTA4 rolled around because, by that time, the record companies had cottoned on to the fact that there was a lot of money to be made and were now charging top dollar for the rights to any of their music, meaning Rockstar had to settle for a soundtrack with much less star power.
I don't know what 80s craze you talk about. By 2000 half didn't care for ANY style or setting while trends were mainly modern, there was nothing from 80s left, people finally abandoning actual 80s leftovers like the flashy crazy colored tracksuits and pastel and finally going through 90s styles and right into 2000+ modern stuff. Everything was sci-fi futuristic space themed either brushed aluminum and pop styles mixed together.
People either wore baggy clothing or suits that looked like they are business people but the skirts were short and pants had more pockets, overall casual clothing. When you look at what mainstream was there was nothing 80s at all about it.
In old GTA games we didn't care for the styles but rather the story and gameplays and it happened that it managed to cover styles only because it basically "stole" everything from old movies really. Speaking of gameplay and stories which today's games have none of it. Everything is what we already seen for decades copy-pasted and packed into a agenda called "pretty graphics" everything online locked and milked dry.
The 80s styles, audio tapes, vinyl records etc are only a recent comeback, maybe 5 to 10 years tops. Still it's minority. There is more 80s style NOW then late 90s. By 2000s there was nothing and Vice City didn't changed on that.
I would say that GTA6 is way too late by a decade AGAIN, because now it's more popular the 90s and 00s, Y2K and Japanese pop styles. The only place you will find the 80s are in a dumpster. So there is zero trend chase here or they like I said failed by a decade.
it wasnt until a few days ago that I found out Cam can die in the heist
even Phil has something to say about "shame about Cam , good guy"
Tommy "yeah but at least we got more money!" or something like that...weird
I actually replayed it a few times to see the differences and I could never get Cam to survive, dude kept just walking in the way of gunfire lol
Tommy cold asf.
@@MrHammers last time I played it a cop car ran him over lol
I didnt know he was disposable
@@checkmate5336 yeah wtf he didnt care for him
@@chris_player2995 Tbh imo he was always a prick. I mean don't get me wrong, he has his reasons but sometimes his a bit much ya know.
Please keep doing the long videos like this. I’ve enjoyed digesting this one during my commute the past couple days.
VC was really ahead of the curve when it came to 80's Nostalgia, as it launched before that aesthetic became very mainstream and overdone as it felt like a loveletter to the era the devs grew up in.
Also worth noting how influential Scarface was, because when it got it's own game in 2006 it was accused of being a Vice City clone lol Hope you cover it and it's weird poker game advertisements!
I loved this game, I have played it on and off for 15 years and vice city continues to feel like one of the most alive video games i have ever played.
I think this was the right amount of time for a video covering a game like Vice City. Went over all the key plot elements and characters along with highlighting some noteworthy side content.
This would be a perfect format for a future San Andreas video.
Love the long format videos , keep up the good work
As a kid I could never beat Hilary in that street race unless he crashed or if I got him bugged out on some environment.
It took me 3 tries, Hilary is a good driver confirmed haha
I like the longer videos and your narration makes it easy to listen to it without having to actually watch it I can just put my earbuds in
And be at work good video man!
appreciate ya man!
I love Vice City. It was such a great game. I also was a huge fan of GTA Liberty City. It was a major influence on the first car I ever bought, a black 1999 BMW 3 series with a ram leather interior.
Dude!! Thank you so much for the nostalgic trip! This was the first GTA I've ever played, back when I still had to buy pirate CDs from street vendors in Brazil. Rough, but good times!
I'd love to play the game again some time, but going down memory lane through the story with your video, in the little free time I have nowadays, really helped scratch that itch.
Cheers!
Thanks for the kind words my friend! Glad you liked the video dude
Love the longer deep dives into these games. Always love forward to them.
Thanks my man!
Yessss👏🏻👏🏻 10/10 video man! Loved it
That was a great video!
I would love to see you cover the rest of the GTA games
that was awesome bro thanks again for the great content!
Appreciate ya dude!
I have been waiting for this very video since I first saw your profile pic when watching the 50 Cent Bulletproof video.
Thank you, Mr. Vercetti
I very rarely comment, but thank you for this video, it was my favourite game when I first rented it as a kid and later took 20 euro i got for easter and walked 45m to a shop and found the last and only ps2 copy. I have great memories, and it was great to relive them here, I had forgotten some of these. Awesome work, I subscribed. Thank you.
The longer the better (that's what she said)
I personally like when creators go in depth on the topics they cover. Especially when it comes to games.
I usually put them on while driving to work (listen to them not watch lol) or when I'm just chilling.
Ive never been able to take titles like "A complete look at ..." or "the history of ... " seriously when you glance over and see the video length is like 10 - 20 minutes.
Of course the amount of available information is going to play a role as well, no point in an hour plus video if there's only 15 minutes of information padded out.
Like the way you paced this video , just about perfect IMO.
Gonna hit the subscribe and check out your back catalogue
Hey thanks man! I've come across some longer videos that are a lot of fluff and it kinda turned me off to making longer ones myself. But with a game that has an much content as vice City I could easily have added another 30 minutes of content, but I tried to keep it relatively concise haha. Glad you liked it, appreciate it dude
adding myself to the lover of the long videos list!
Just wanted to say I’ve been watching your channel since 10k and you’ve been big inspiration to me keep up the good work mr hammers
Thank you my man. Appreciate the long haul support!
That awesome video man
You should've mention of Tommy yells at Lance which makes Lance reminded him of his brother, Vic after saying that people patronized him all in his life and says his brother would do that(Vice City Stories shows Lance's man child personality as he caused problems for Vic)
As always great video man!
Thank you brother
My first GTA🥲
Same i remeber going to my cousin and friends house to watch them play gta vice city i didnt have laptop then man good old times
One of the greatest video games ever and one of the greatest cultural achievements of this century.
First video ive seen of yours. Gotta say loved it man!
Thanks dude!
I remember taking acid one night and going in on a marathon session playing this, that very night once the walls started breathing, I stumbled upon the 'trailer mode' in the video options....it was something special that night tbh - it became one of those core memories :)
This is my favorite GTA, and great video 👍
Great video, my favorite in the series.
Hi. Excellent narrated story, and a brilliantly edited video. Thanks.
No, thank you
Great video!
love the longer videos, more gta games soon hopefully
Luved it! Cheers for the time travel to my past! 😊
Great video. Love to see more like this for GTA SA, Liberty Stories, Vice Stories etc
It makes sense why Avery Carrington (Bert Reynolds) was killed off in such an anticlimactic way in GTA LCS, and then eaten by Donald Love. It was personal apparently 😂
This is the best Vice City content on CZcams I've ever seen
setting was brilliant... radio station were epic also the atmosphere in general... you can see all the references even if you didnt watch the movies, u just knew
Having your own radio station where you could play mp3s was an awesome option, i remember listening to music driving around town collecting money from my properties
I'm turning 40 this year, I was completely in the key demographic when VC came out, and I remember my friend and I playing this game to death when it came out. Our first 100% play through took 24hrs 12minites!! We took notes on it, and our next play through more than halved that time.
Vice City is my all time favourite game, whilst there are flaws to the game, but to me, it's perfection.
About this mission for the Diaz, where you race to the dealer on the boat: there are no checkpoints in this mission, simply don't follow others, go to the left from the start, you'll go most of the way straight way outrunning the competition, and would only have to make a few turns in the end. I have far more problems with 2 races in the game: racing the bikers and the driver for the bank heist. There I, usually, resort to shooting oponent's tires.
Vice City is where GTA truly found its stride for me.
The end credits music still gives me chills
Honestly i think gta VI will be much more than the vibe of gta vice city. Like RDR2 we were just expecting another western, and then all over a sudden we are on a city built by french people, soundtrack with accordions dealing with the mafia on our way and then we are in cuba all of a sudden.... i think it will be a tale from florida to parts of georgia.
Hell yeah. Unwinding after work to this video. Classic game that never gets old. Im actually painting some of the weapons icons because they are so dope and legendary.
The weapon avatars are iconic!
Another instant classic from Mr. Hammers !
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I don't know whether to be glad or sad you didn't use the clip of Batfleck shouting, "WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?!" to the Martha bit.
Spectacular video by the way. As usual.
Great video👹👹👹
I love videos like this about GTA games, I am gonna get in a blanket, have some snacks and watch the full video!
I'm under my quilt and drinking alcohol while watching it lol
It's Autum (fall) here in Aus and the nights are cold
PS2 version of this game is the best and always will be.
Another great one!!
Thanks dude!
We two hombres in a crazy town, we gotta watch each other's backs.
MrHammers in tha HOUSE!!!!
The impact of vice city is still going strong coming 22years later. There's a grouo from down south in ireland that tour with a great playlist from the game, came to belfast last year and the place was packed out, we're all wearing hawian shirts and the band were unreal, setting the vibe with the vice city opening theme then hitting us with the songs.
I just recently went through this games story for the first time and man I can see now why this game is so beloved to so many people. Not only gta fans even some who just grew up with this game either playing their parents copy or older siblings copy they brought to show and tell haha. That being said there is still plenty of jank in this game where it feels the games against you at times. I think the best asset mission is completing all car lists and getting Hillary’s car and the race car with 9k revenue. Awesome vid dude so glad it’s here I hope you have the energy for more long vids like this. Now….sanadreas in the future? 😏
I always liked sunshine autos too, felt like I was in gone in 60 seconds just going down the list, and the car rewards are super cool.
If I can get my steam copy of San Andreas running we'll be good, otherwise I'll have to dust off the ol PS2 and get some recording hardware haha or emulator I suppose
@@MrHammers now you have to have a shot of you blowing literal dust off the ps2, cough like crazy then do the shot of sticking the disc in the ps2 giving it that classic feel. Then it doesn’t work so you just get an emulator running in seconds 😂
That's a good skit hahaha
Nice works, i was hook for the entire 1h20 🙌, small suggestion, the video is already long i known but i will love if you could add a section about easter eggs.
I'll keep them in mind for future videos, thanks dude
Definitely my favorite gta game, and san Andreas second and vice city stories
JUST what i need on a hungover Sunday! MY MAN! One of my fav games ever
Cheers bro!
My favorite GTA and this video sums it all up so well.
*Fun facts about Vice City : It seems that the Forellis are the 3D era Gambinos ,so Sonny is the 3Ds Gotti , although I can't be 100% sure that the Gambinos were the 1st Italian - US crime organization in Miami ,*
*Tommy's based on the aforementioned: Tony and Joseph however there's also a possibility that Jon Roberts (born John Riccobono) that was a Gambino soldier , was also taken as an inspiration to the creation of Tommy, while the original Vercetti's appearance was reminiscent of Ray Liotta , the Definitive Edition bears more similarity to Vincent Gigante who was the boss of the Genovese crime family on the other hand*
*Upon further investigating the Gambinos and Florida , I found out another pallarel 'tween Tommy and Joseph Armone this time, as Gotti have sent 'em in '86 to Florida in order to supervise the Gambinos interests in there*
Very interesting there! The story of Joseph Ianuzzi is also related to the Gambino family, so I think your analysis holds some weight
@@MrHammers *Certainly, adding to the fact that Thomas "T.A." Agro to whom Ianuzzi was owning money to , was Gambinos consigliere and worked under the aforementioned Joseph Armone!*
@domasavpedzivin oh shit! Good stuff
@@MrHammers *I've something something that I ain't seen coming , well there was another guy related to the Gambinos making moves in Miami, before '70s and his name was Thomas "The Enforcer" Altamura , and that's not all , it turns out that beside being a Mobster he owned a food place that was called ... Sonny's Restaurant , ....and he had close ties with Santo Trafficante , coincidence? , his mugshot looks suspiciously familiar ain't it ??*
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Having Philip Michael Thomas included as a voice actor is the most appropriate thing I could imagine. If they’d found space for Don Johnson somewhere too, that’d be too perfect. Still, having a co-star from the actual Miami Vice TV show in this game (which is very obviously modeled after the show) is super cool!
I prefer long form videos but I love any video you make
Your output is insane man. I just finished the Dead To Rights video!😂
To be fair I didn't upload anything for 3 months prior to the dead to Rights vid haha. This one has been cooking for a while
i keep on going back to vice city once a year... the vibe is just out of this world
This was my first GTA game ever & to this day it's still my favorite! It also indeed included such iconic songs! I especially loved "Yes-Owner of a lonely heart" in the biker missions!
It's my 4th GTA game and my favourite GTA
My mum bought it for me on launch day, she came home with it and I didn't know.... I played it all night longggggg! lol. It will always be my favourite because it was one of the few games I could bond with my mum over due to the music. It was packed full of music from her childhood and teenage years as she turned 20 in 1986. It also had a massive cultural impact and was the reason why 80s music made such a big comeback and is loved today, I think that fact goes so overstated. The only GTA game I've ever completed as well, and it was the one everyone at school was talking about too. GTA:SA at the time wasn't that big of a deal, at least not here in the UK, it was a slow grow to it's popularity today. I mainly loved it for MTA Race mod a few years later, but then they ruined it with all the RPG stuff.
The release date was crazy. I remember buying a PS2 in mid 2002 just to play GTA 3 and to finally have a DVD player but then seeing the poster for Vice City in the game store. I remember thinking to myself, wow, they have another one coming out already?
28:45
This is why I love this channel
You know what you’re talking about and not just dismissing the issue
Thanks bro! Cheers
keep doing what youre doing Hammers. havent watched a bad one of your videos yet
Thank you bro!
Tommy Vercetti, Carl Johnson, and Niko Belic are way more iconic than GTA five protags. Yeah, GTA5 is fun and all, but when you say their full names- you can't just say Tommy, Carl, Niko. But when you say their full names, you really feel it in your soul.
It was truly one of the greatest times of all game
Absolutely my favorite video game EVER. And I don’t even like mission based games due to having ridiculous ADHD. But this game is perfect.
great content
I graduated high school in 02 and pretty much all I remember of my freshman year of college is playing this game the whole time
This is the best GTA to date, for me.
Holy cow an hour video sign me up
Also I remember getting this and gta 3 playing think it was a car(something like transporter)literally my eight yourself was blown away but damn my dad was pissed when he find out about the game I had
Still played had a great time
Longer video format is great! This video was awesome!
Glad you liked it!