Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Player-perpetrated shootings, beatings, and vehicular deaths against human enemies and civilians, with blood spray and pooling; melee weapons include a chainsaw.
Cocaine and other drug trafficking drives the plot; the player runs deals and can drink alcohol at bars and clubs.
The entire game rewards organized crime — theft, contract killings, drug deals, and racketeering are the core missions.
The player can solicit on-screen sex workers, which restores health, and can then attack them to reclaim money.
Strip clubs, references to a pornographic film subplot, and sexual innuendo in dialogue; prostitutes can be solicited but sex is off-screen.
Frequent strong profanity throughout scripted dialogue.
A crime-underworld story built on murder, betrayal, extortion, and revenge.
Strip-club dancers and characters appear in revealing attire; no explicit full nudity.
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What it is
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is an open-world action-adventure game set in a fictional 1980s Miami, where the player controls a criminal climbing the ranks of the city's underworld. Players complete story missions and roam freely, stealing cars, using a range of guns and melee weapons, and fighting or killing civilians and police in combat that shows blood. The plot revolves around organized crime and drug trafficking, and side content includes a strip club, an adult-film subplot, and on-screen sex workers the player can solicit for a health boost. Dialogue and in-game radio carry frequent strong profanity and sexual references. The game is single-player with no online interaction or purchases.
How it's framed
The game frames the player as an ambitious criminal and treats lawbreaking as the core path to success, rewarding theft, violence, and drug deals with money and progression rather than presenting them critically; its tone is a stylized, often satirical homage to 1980s crime films.
Details
- Developer
- Rockstar Games
- Publisher
- Rockstar Games
- Released
- Jan 4, 2008
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