Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is set in 1986 in a city modelled on Miami. A gangster fresh out of prison walks into an ambush at a drug deal, hunts down those responsible and builds an empire along the way by taking power from other gangs.
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After Grand Theft Auto III came out on PC, the team discussed a mission pack for it, which grew into a game of its own. Rockstar North's core team of 50 people made it in eighteen months, with Scarface and the series Miami Vice as touchstones.
Unlike the silent hero of GTA III, this one talks, in the voice of Ray Liotta. There are four times as many lines of dialogue as in GTA III and nine hours of music, with licensed 1980s songs on the radio.
It sold 1.4 million copies in two days, faster than any game before it. In Grand Theft Auto VI, Rockstar returns to a new Vice City.
The PC version came out in May 2003. Most reviewers praised mouse aiming, while many criticised the new driving controls. Players leave 92% positive out of 29,819 reviews, critics give it 94 on Metacritic. By our Recommended Score it is #43 of 4,736 games.
Liked it? Try Grand Theft Auto III, the first 3D game in the series, and Mafia from 2002, where a taxi driver becomes a mobster in an American city of the 1930s.
System requirements
Minimum 128 MB RAM✕Steam Deck UnsupportedMin & recommended
| Minimum | |
|---|---|
| OS | Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP |
| Processor | 800 MHz Intel Pentium III or 800 MHz AMD Athlon or 1.2GHz Intel Celeron or 1.2 GHz AMD Duron processor |
| Memory | 128 MB |
| Graphics | 32 MB video card with DirectX 9.0 compatible drivers ("GeForce" or better) |
| DirectX | Microsoft DirectX® 9.0 |
| Storage | 915 MB of free hard disk space (+ 635 MB if video card does NOT support DirectX Texture Compression) |
From the game’s Steam store page.
