Many people first discovered Vice City through Tommy Vercetti's adventures in 2002. But the city has been part of the franchise since 1997, when the first Grand Theft Auto still used a top-down camera and featured three major settings.
The city's origins
In the original Grand Theft Auto, released in 1997, players could already visit versions of Liberty City, San Andreas and Vice City. Everything worked quite differently. The world was viewed from above, vehicles occupied just a few pixels on the screen and the mission structure was unlike that of the modern games.
The 2002 game made Vice City the star of a three-dimensional adventure inspired by Miami's culture. Now GTA 6 returns to the name in a modern setting, with a radically different visual and narrative scale.
The city has been reinvented across different generations of the franchise. GTA 6's modern version brings back the name and Miami-inspired atmosphere, now within the state of Leonida, continuing a history that began almost three decades ago.
