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Glenster's Guide to Some of Vice City
Oriented for the PC version
with Standard Controls and Mouse Controlled Steering
by Glen T. Winstein (glenster1 at Gamefaqs and IGN, and glenster at Super
Cheats, StuckGamer, neoseeker, 1UP, and GamerHelp)
glenster (who's at) rediffmail.com
This walk-through, with active links for (practically all of) the web ad-
dresses I use, is at:
http://www.freewebs.com/glenster1/index.htm
If you find any broken links there--ones longer than one line and for which
only the 1st line is active as a link--Copy and Paste the whole link to the ad-
dress bar then click the "Go" button at the right side of it.
Click "Back" to return from any of the links there--if you "X" it out,
you'll exit the web page. To compare pictures of vehicles, you might bring a
page up twice and click a link from each.
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When looking for something in this guide, click "Edit" at the top left of the
screen, then click "Find (on This Page)... Ctrl+F" and a "Find" menu appears.
(Pressing "Ctrl+F" makes it appear, too.) Type in the name, or even just the
start of the name, of the mission or section you're looking for, then keep
clicking "Find Next" till you're taken there. At least that works if you have
Windows XP Home Edition.
Written with 1280x1024 resolution and Lucida Console font--size 10.
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CONTENTS
Introduction, credits, and personal indulgences.
I.1 Prelude to a prequel
Some background information about the intro to vice City.
I.2 Paying tributes, references, or at least having things in common
"Grand Theft Auto: Vice City,"
Al Capone--"Scarface,"
"The Untouchables" starring Robert De Niro as Al Capone,
"Scarface" by "Armitage Trail" (Maurice Coons), Paul Muni, and Al Pacino,
the "Vice City"/"Scarface" (with Al Pacino) similarities,
"Cop Land," "No Escape," "Blow," Pablo Escobar, "Carlito's Way,"
"The Godfather," "Goodfellas," "Mean Streets," "Taxi Driver," "Blue Thunder,"
"Heat," "Manhunter," "Miami Vice" "Manhunt,"
"The Sopranos," John Wayne, "Easy Rider," "Boogie Nights," George Romero,
"Miami Vice," Miss Cleo, the Psychic Friends Network,
wiccans, selling witchcraft as a way to get practical help from spirits,
the Lunar Landing Hoax hoax,
Phil Silvers, Andy Kaufman, Walter Brennan, "Top Gun," "Iron Eagles,"
game makers and voice actors, soundalike game names, celebrity soundalikes,
Captain Scott and Dundee, Scotland, look-alike mall and soundalike island,
Little Havana, Little Haiti, and Liberty City--Miami,
and other places "Vice City" is based on
I.3 How to go to New York and get there a couple years before you leave:
some of the "Grand Theft Auto III" tie-ins with "Vice City."
People and the Dodo
Places
Things
Walk out over thin air (hoo-ha!)
Darkel and discarded game ideas
PS: "San Andreas," "GTA," "Wild Metal Country," and "GTA 2"
I.4 PC health.
Clean your disk, disk player, and PC
Get your hard drive clean and in order
Use the latest updates
Turn off unnecessary applications before running the game
Take2 Games web site and toll-free phone number
Tweak guides
Volume
A cure for crackling noises with reverb
System requirements
I.5 How to save games and things to avoid when you do.
The convenience of copies of your GTA Vice City User File
Some advice about saving the game
I.6 Settings
I.7 Stats
Including how long a day in the game really is,
what Wanted Stars Attained and Evaded is about
(and why times of stress are the worst times to shop for clothes),
whose heads are tallied for Head Shots,
why you shouldn't worry about Daily Police Spending
or your percentage of Accuracy for Bullets Fired/Bullets That Hit,
who the Gang members and Criminals are,
the difference between Unique and Insane Jumps,
how to mod the game to make it recognize Quadruple Insane Jumps,
the ratings given for Flight hours,
and the CRiminal Ratings and Highest media attention levels
(and the easiest ways to raise them).
I.8.a Some distinctions between the PC and PS2 versions,
and some distinctions between
the PC Standard Controls with Mouse Controlled Steering
and PC Classic Controls versions.
I.8.b Adapters for PS2 and Xbox controllers
I.9 Controls--basic information
The Standard Controls with Mouse Controlled Steering/W, S, A, D format
Some controls that are good to use on foot, while using any vehicle,
or just anytime you're enjoying the show
Going up without gaining altitude
I.9.A On Foot
Controls
Running
(Hi)jacking vehicles except boats, Rhinos, and Hunters
Harder punches and faster attacks with the Left Mouse Button
Punching to work up an appetite,
punching your neighbors to get to know them,
and punching for a Good Citizen bonus
LMB throwing, shooting, and taking photographs
Aiming with the whole Mouse, not just part of it, and auto-aim
Bouncing a beach ball off Tommy's head.
I.9.B Four-wheel Vehicles
Controls for four-wheel vehicles
Some notable things about the four-wheel vehicles
Driving indoors
Locations of the secret Caddy, Cheetah, Voodoo, BF Injection, Packer, and
the gang car with a Teddy Bear
Putting your convertible roof or Teddy Bear up or down--quick vehicle
changes made by instant replays
Bus driver income and bus "routes"
Police cars: safe collisions and spike strip-proof tires
The things you can find in delivery trucks
The Cabbie Climb
Fast and complimentary Pay 'n' Sprays
Chauffeured rides
The Rhino--how to hijack it, save it, and destroy it
(rampage with it--I.32; and fly it--I.9.D)
Two-Wheelers and one-railers
A run down of all the four-wheel vehicles
including the real names for most, and top speeds for all,
of the four-wheeled vehicles
Good/distinctive two-door vehicles
Good/cute little vehicles
Good/distinctive four-door cars
Emergency and military vehicles
Others
I.9.C Motorcycles
Controls for the PCJ 600 (or the place of wheelship of your choice)
Getting a good look at Tommy
A run down of all the motorcycles
including the real names and top speeds of the motorcycles
Some notable things about the motorcycles
Fast and complimentary Pay 'n' Sprays
Wheelies
Wheelies for jumps
Stoppies
The flip gimmick
The PC Super Jump
The BSM
Airgrabs
Headers
Half pipe stunts
Climbing and jumping from trees
Hitting poles
Bumps
Grinds
Stunt videos
A bunch of jumps that are often overlooked
Insane Jumps and Insane Stunts
Morphing
Controls for Tommy morphed to a bike
Outfit locations
Some favorite spots for big Insane Jump statistics
I.9.D Helicopters, the Skimmer, the jets, and the flying Rhino
The worst criminal destruction in Vice City
Controls for the helicopters
A run down of all the helicopters
including the real names and speeds of the helicopters
and how many passengers Tommy can take in each of them for rides
Some notable things about the helicopters
The game physics of following helicopters with the "camera"
and moving them forward with NP9
Bailing from helicopters
Getting a good look at the big guy
Controls for The Skimmer
The real names and speeds of the Dodo and the Skimmer
Loop de loops
Dodo emeritus
Dodo ephemeralis
The real names of the solid motionless jets
The real (and handling.cfg) names of the flying non-solid vehicles
How to (hi)jack the Hunter
How to fly the Rhino
I.9.E Boats
Controls for the boats
Special concerns for embarking and disembarking
A run down of all the boats
including the real names of some, and top speeds of all, of the boats
Some notable things about the boats
"Miami Vice" boats
(Hi)jacking boats
Boat jumps
How to fly a speed boat
I.9.F General vehicle information
Healing vehicles with "aspirine," garages, and Pay 'n' Sprays
Keeping vehicles from disappearing
Handling
Bailing
Drive-bys
Picking up prostitutes
Sometimes the people in this town are just too weird dept.
I.9.G How to go to Ghost World and the Underworld
The WK Chariot Hotel
Apartment 3C
The Pole Position Club
The Washington Beach Police Station
Let me see Ghost World--I've got a Bazooka here
Getting to Ghost World with a BF Injection
The Ocean Beach Triangle
Going Nowhere Fast
Taking your Time About It
The Ocean View of Ghost World
Ghost World Headquarters, Airport, and Map
Ghosts in 2D
Ghost Barriers in Alleys
Ghost World and Gaming: Flying and Biking
Driving a Blown Up Car
Driving a Ghost on a PCJ 600
Ghost Beach Ball Soccer
"I never drink...wine"
Diaz, the Invisible Man
You can have it--arsenal
I.10 Weapons
One possible combination
Weapon advice
A rundown of all the weapons (including fast Chainsaw attacks,
and, for the Sniper rifle, a seagull hunting guide),
the real names of the weapons, and some history for most of them.
8 Ball's Bomb Shop
I.11 Armor, Police Bribe, Health, and Adrenaline icons
I.12 Wanted Ratings
What happens at each wanted level
What to do about wanted ratings
Things any major fugitive should know
I.13 Odds and Ends
Ambient sounds
The WK Chariot Hotel
Interacting with your town
Huh? What?
Marine world
A few exploration duds
Strange but fun--that's the important thing
Creative plugging
WTF screen shots
I.14 Glitches
Stats glitches
The Havana Outfit glitch
Persistent slow motion stunts
The bomb detonator glitch
The Hyman Condo and Cherry Popper glitches
Rampage 13 and Knocking Off Stores
I.15 Radio
A rundown of the stations
How to have your own MP3 station
How to hear Lazlow's Chatterbox FM from "GTA III" in "Vice City"
Toll free phone numbers
I.16 Codes
Some basic advice
Some favorite codes: aspirine, bigbang, chasestat, seaways,
comeflywithme, istilllikedressingup, chickswithguns, fannymagnet,
certaindeath, hopingirl, the weather codes, gripiseverything,
airship
HUD (heads up display) codes
Game speed codes
Lead player codes
Vehicle spawning codes
Traffic codes
Three codes that make you start a new game to get rid of them
if you save the game after using them
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I.17 The initial main story missions
The advantages of doing all the side missions you can do for now
that you need to do for 100% completion,
and of getting to the mainland/west island,
Starfish Island, and Leaf Links
earlier than normal people.
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I.17.A "In the beginning...."
I.17.B "An Old Friend"
I.17.C "The Party" Lawyer Ken Rosenberg
Main missions continued at I.33.
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I.18 Getting past the barricades and locked gates and back
Going to the west island early
...by PCJ 600 and a Packer,
...by Coach/Enforcer/Firetruck/station wagon and a boat,
...by jumping off a bridge or through a gate and using a boat,
...by PCJ 600 alone,
...and by using a code, codes, or a mod.
Stealing money from parking meters, buying the Skumole Shack for $1,000,
and several ways to get back to the east island,
making a side trip to sneak aboard the yacht.
Jumping on a shrub to get to Starfish Island early
Four ways to jump into Leaf Links early
Getting to know the town
I.19 Finding Hidden Packages
A mod that can help if you lose count,
how to find the secret chocolate Easter egg by H61
and printing press by H66,
and buying all the other non-moneymaking properties.
I.20 Taxi job (a Sub-mission)
and how to jump over anything that gets in your way.
Getting honest work in town while building endurance and speed.
I.21 Pizza Delivery Mission (a Sub-mission)
and how to make things easier
for the Pizza Delivery, Paramedic, and Firetruck missions.
I.22 Paramedic Mission (a Sub-mission)
I.23 Firetruck Mission (a Sub-mission)
Turning from small time crime to big time (unofficial) law enforcement.
I.24 Knocking Off Stores
I.25 Vigilante Mission (a Sub-mission)--Brown Thunder, if using the Hunter
How to max out your cash and kill a small town's worth of criminals.
Learning that what you want to do in life is make a rewarding hobby
a rewarding source of income.
I.26 Unique Jumps
(except six that aren't available yet: J's 1,3, and 4--I.81;
J17--I.43; and J's 34 and 35--I.46).
How to use J19 to give Tommy a car
that's suspended in midair to stand on.
Skillfully driving, jumping, and flying through glowing disks
for increasing acclaim, becoming a ham of the radio.
I.27 PCJ Playground
I.28 Test Track and Trial by Dirt
How to adjust to the statistics glitch for Trial by Dirt
How to get the cab driver to run the course.
I.29 Cone Crazy
And a map to help you plan your course.
I.30 Top Fun van: RC Bandit, RC Baron, and RC Copter
And Demarest's way to alter the handling.cfg code for RC Bandit
(THANK you).
I.31 Hyman Memorial Stadium: Hotring, Bloodring, and Dirt Ring
How to pick your time for the dirt bike event
How to be the only one in the Hotring
Giving something back to the community
I.32 Rampages
How to make a little cash
and kill a small town's worth of local armed gang members,
with the option of using the old Liberty City trick
of using the Rhino, updated to include the Hunter and drive-bys, too,
to help you clean up this town.
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I.33 The Rest of the Main Story Missions (continued from I.17.C)
Learning that being a celebrity
gives you access to other celebrities that most people never have,
especially if you're ethically impaired in how you go about it--
and polishing off the side missions.
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I.34 "Back Alley Brawl" Lawyer Ken Rosenberg
I.35 "Jury Fury" Lawyer Ken Rosenberg
I.36 "Road Kill" Phone: Assassination Mission 1
I.37 "Riot" Lawyer Ken Rosenberg
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Some of the non-asset missions for people (Avery Carrington/Umberto Robina/
Auntie Poulet, and Love Fist/Mitch Baker) can be done in any order at any time
after they're available.
Rusk saves most of them for near the end, and I'm not doing that. But I go
along with Rusk in putting "Trojan Voodoo" for Robina last among all missions
except the last mission of the game, which is given to Vercetti. That's
because the Haitian gang members will run and shoot at Tommy after "Trojan
Voodoo," making it harder to get things done, explore, and play with jumps in
Little Haiti. (As an alternative, you could make the Haitian gang members more
peaceful by modifying the files with Notepad as explained at I.100.D.ee
Weapons and Attackers--how to lessen the severity of attacks.)
I'd delay "Two Bit Hit" for Avery till some time after "Cop Land" and "The
Job" to make sure you don't get the Havana Outfit glitch. Since "Two Bit Hit"
also provokes a conflict between the Cuban and Haitian gangs and initiates the
Robina and Poulet missions, and I moved "Trojan Voodoo" to be the next to the
last mission, I opted for moving "Two Bit Hit" closer to the end so the bunch
of them would be done at about the same time.
I restructured the order of the Love Fist/Mitch Baker missions--also the
Malibu Club and Sunshine Autos asset missions--as little as possible to jack
Hilary's Sabre Turbo (just as an option for something different to do--it's not
bullet-proof for PC) and use the "Wheels of Steel" Angel for eight races in a
row.
If you go along with that, do the other non-property missions in any order
you want. So, with those exceptions, I've leaned in favor of doing them about
the time the opportunity to do them is presented in the game.
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I.38 "Four Iron" Avery Carrington
(Leaf Links will be open)
I.39A "Demolition Man" Avery Carrington
(and a map to help you beat the clock
with the RC Goblin helicopter)
("Two Bit Hit" Avery Carrington--
delayed till I.83, after "Cop Land" and "The Job,"
to avoid the Havana Outfit glitch,
and to put it and the Robina/Poulet missions it initiates,
notably "Trojan Voodoo," close together near the end)
I.39B A multiple choice of things you can do about the Havana Outfit glitch.
I.40 "Treacherous Swine" Col. Cortez
I.41 "Mall Shootout" Col. Cortez
I.42 "Guardian Angels" Col. Cortez
(make sure you save the "Everything-Proof" Admiral in a garage;
Starfish Island will be officially available)
I.43 Unique Jump 17
I.44 "The Chase" Diaz
I.45 "Phnom Penh '86" Diaz
(the mainland--west island--
and Piers 1 and 2 will be officially available)
I.46 Unique Jumps 34 and 35
I.47 "Waste The Wife" Phone: Assassination Mission 2
(get out the Rhino: "Gangway, coming through")
I.48 "Sir, Yes Sir!" Col. Cortez
(how to take on the army and take their tank, armed or unarmed)
I.49 "The Fastest Boat" Diaz
I.50 "Autocide" Phone: Assassination Mission 3
I.51 "Supply & Demand" Diaz (the fastest course)
I.52 "Death Row" Kent Paul
I.53 "Rub Out" Diaz (and get his mansion)
I.54 "All Hands on Deck!" Col. Cortez
I.55 Checkpoint Chopper Missions 1 to 3
(the 4th is available at I.82)
I.56 "Love Juice" Love Fist
I.57 "Psycho Killer" Love Fist
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Please consider this before continuing beyond "Psycho Killer" with the
missions:
The bike with the best handling in the game is the Angel you can jack from
one of the other three contestants at the start of the "Alloy Wheels of Steel"
race (I.69). It loses the practically "gripiseverything" handling it has after
you put it in a garage and the door goes down. Like other vehicles, it can be
destroyed by a hazardous mission, and can disappear from the game memory if you
use a couple of other vehicles after using it. So the easiest way to use it
for other races--"The Driver," which can be frustrating, and the six Sunshine
Autos races--is to do them one after another without saving the bike in a
garage. It remained in the Hyman Condo alley after I saved a game there
without exiting the game, but this bike makes it easy to do all eight races in
a row.
(Alternatively, you can use Notepad to change the handling.cfg file as
explained in I.100.D.e Cars and bikes, under Gameplay advantages: How to
create your own "Alloy Wheels of Steel" Angel. If you do that, before you do,
follow the advice given in I.100.D.a Uncheck the green dot. And during "Alloy
Wheels of Steel," have Tommy jack an Angel from in front of the bar and not one
of the Angels the other contestants have--those would be twice as jazzed up and
hard to win the race with.)
I didn't want to rule out the ability to get Hilary's Sabre Turbo from "The
Driver" (bullet-proof on PS2 but not on PC). Using the Sentinel of that
mission, and possibly another vehicle to use with it to make a roadblock for
Hilary, might make the Angel disappear. So I scheduled "The Driver" twice:
optionally, to deliberately fail it so you can get Hilary's car, and a 2nd time
to win the race once you have the "Alloy Wheels of Steel" Angel.
(Alternatively, you could go to I.100.D.a Uncheck the green dot, then to
I.100.D.e Cars and bikes, under Gameplay advantages, and use the handling.cfg
change given for a strong Sentinel. If you do, poor Hilary won't have a
chance--just try not to kill him.)
If you want to do that, which I think is fun, I hope you don't mind that I
start three sets of missions to line up the several missions in a row that let
you do that.
If you try to use the Angel for missions beyond the races, there aren't many
I can see using it for or that it would survive through. Something like
"Messing with the Man" (I.72) would be risky. You could also try to put it out
of harm's way, like on the roof of the condo or the Skumole Shack, and try to
use only one other vehicle between times you drive it.
Of the asset property missions, which make money for you after you do their
missions, the Vercetti ones come up 1st. They allow Tommy to buy the other
asset properties, which can be done in any order, and receive protection money
at the mansion.
An exception is the Phil Cassidy asset property in that it doesn't make money
for you after you do the missions for it, but it provides a place where you can
buy heavy weapons and remote grenades.
In order to skewer the order of a few missions to use the Angel for the
races, I schedule the Malibu Club ones early. I pass along the easiest method
to score enough points for one of them, "Rifle Range" (not an asset mission but
one which needs to be done for 100% completion), so you can earn the Rapid Load
feature. Among other things, this makes it easier to succeed with the Sniper
Rifle for "Dirty Lickin's" and the Rocket Launcher for later attempts at the
Sunshine Autos races.
I follow Rusk's logic to leave the Print Works among them for last. Since
one of the missions for it (actually, a related Vercetti mission: I.97)
involves stopping Sonny's henchmen from taking money from Tommy's asset
properties, you have more time to stop them if you have more such places for
them to go.
I follow Rusk in putting the Cherry Popper mission after the Sunshine Autos
vehicle collection garage mission because you need it to complete the 4th list
of the vehicle collection. You can just drive the Cherry Popper truck to
Sunshine Autos when you're done with it.
You can't do the last two Vercetti missions and see the final credits till
after doing the Print Works missions, so you might as well do all the other
missions before the last two Vercetti missions (and "Trojan Voodoo"), too, and
have the credits roll at the end of it all in Hollywood tradition.
If you go along with that, do the other Asset properties in whatever order
you like, depending on what you want: with Interglobal Films you open up the
rooftop jumps and ability to fly the Skimmer. After the Kaufman Cabs missions,
you get Deborah Harry dispatcher messages on the radio in Kaufman Cabs. You
can get hard liquor and heavy weapons with Phil (bring the kids), go see the
wild love flesh inside the Pole Position Club (use Gunslinger's mods--
I.100.D.d), or get a couple of speedboats, including the fastest, at the
Boatyard.
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I.58 "Shakedown" Vercetti
(then you can buy money-making properties)
I.59 "Check in at the Check Out" Phone: Assassination Mission 4
I.60 "Bar Brawl" Vercetti
I.61 "Cop Land" Vercetti
(the Vercetti mansion will collect protection money,
and the policeman outfit, Hunter, and Rhino will be freely available)
I.62.A Buy Sunshine Autos (car showroom asset)
I.62.B Sunshine Autos Vehicle Collection (car showroom asset)
(it will make money, provide bonus vehicles,
and carry on the traditions of B.J. Smith and "GTA III")
I.63 "Distribution" Cherry Poppers (ice cream factory asset)
(it will make money and let you polish off the vehicle collection)
I.64 "No Escape?" the Malibu Club (bank heist asset)
I.65 "The Shootist" the Malibu Club (bank heist asset)
(how to score high with "The Shootist")
I.66 "Rifle Range"
(an easy way to get the points needed for the Fast Load feature)
I.67 "Loose Ends" Phone: Assassination Mission 5
I.68 "The Driver" the Malibu Club (bank heist asset)
(optional: how to jack Hilary's Sabre Turbo--not bullet-proof for PC)
I.69 "Alloy Wheels Of Steel" Big Mitch Baker
(jack a Biker's Angel--the best racing bike you'll get in the game)
I.70 "The Driver" the Malibu Club (bank heist asset)
(another race with the same Angel)
I.71 Sunshine Autos Street Races
(six more races with the same Angel)
I.72 "Messing With The Man" Big Mitch Baker
(cause havoc with the Hunter or the Rhino
and create a bumptious media attention level)
I.73 "Hogtied" Big Mitch Baker
I.74 "Publicity Tour" Love Fist
(afterwards, the Love Fist limo will appear Downtown
in front of the VROCK building)
I.75 "The Job" the Malibu Club (bank heist asset)
(the Malibu will make money;
El Banco Currupto will always be open)
I.76 "Gun Runner" Phil Cassidy asset
I.77 "Boomshine Saigon" Phil Cassidy asset
(hard liquor and heavy weapons will be available)
I.78 "Recruitment Drive" Interglobal Films (film studio asset)
I.79 "Dildo Dodo" Interglobal Films (film studio asset)
(how to fly the little Dodo with pontoons with time to spare)
I.80 "Martha's Mug Shot" Interglobal Films (film studio asset)
I.81 "G-Spotlight" Interglobal Films (film studio asset)
(the film studio will make money;
many rooftop jumps will be available)
I.82 Checkpoint Chopper 4
(this Downtown chopper is also convenient to use
to go for the CRiminal Rating of "Godfather" given in section I.7)
I.83 "Two Bit Hit" Avery Carrington
(how to get both the black Voodoo and Romero's Hearse)
I.84 "Stunt Boat Challenge" Umberto Robina
I.85 "Cannon Fodder" Umberto Robina
I.86 "Naval Engagement" Umberto Robina
I.87 "Juju Scramble" Auntie Poulet
(a detailed route to run through a five star wanted level with)
I.88 "Bombs Away!" Auntie Poulet
I.89 "Dirty Lickin's" Auntie Poulet
("Trojan Voodoo" Umberto Robina--
having the Haitian gang go nuts is delayed till I.98)
I.90A Buy Kaufman Cabs taxi company (taxi firm asset)
I.90B "V.I.P." Kaufman Cabs (taxi firm asset)
I.91 "Friendly Rivalry" Kaufman Cabs (taxi firm asset)
I.92 "Cabmageddon" Kaufman Cabs (taxi firm asset)
(how to incorporate the sadly neglected 8 Ball;
the Zebra Cab will be available;
the taxi company will make money for you)
I.93A Buy the Boatyard (boatyard asset)
I.93B "Checkpoint Charlie" the Boatyard (boatyard asset)
I.94 The Pole Position Club ass and asset
(to make the strippers--
and other club dancers, prostitutes, or any lady peds you want--
cuter and naked, see my tutorial, I.100.D.d,
you ridiculous ffffffilth.)
I.95 "Spilling The Beans" the Print Works (print works asset)
I.96 "Hit The Courier" the Print Works (print works asset)
(the Print Works will make money for you)
I.97 "Cap The Collector" Tommy Vercetti
I.98 "Trojan Voodoo" Umberto Robina
I.99 "Keep Your Friends Close..." Tommy Vercetti
(Al Pacino/Tony Montana voice: "Say hello to my little friend"--pa-HOOOM.)
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I.100 Basic skins, modding (use at your own risk),
music, and screen shot tutorial.
I.100.A Compressed File Utility
I.100.B Web sites for skins and mods
I.100.C Skins for Tommy
Gunslinger: Robert De Niro and Hot Shirts
Average Thug: Tony Montana
Make your own skin
I.100.D Mods
I.100.D.a Uncheck the green dot
I.100.D.b Make backups
I.100.D.c Tools:
The IMG Tool v.2
DMagic1's Wheel Mod v.3
The Vice TXD Tool
The Rescaler and CFGStudio
The GXT Editor v.1.2
I.100.D.d Women
Gunslinger: "Prostitute Pack"s 1 and 2
Dr. Colossus: "Ultimate Nudes"
"GTA Vice City Nudes"
Naked Women: a variety of methods of insertion
Another Naked Woman
Russificator: black stripa
How to change the way they walk
I.100.D.e Cars and bikes
Installing car and bike mods (Example: a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air)
How to change their colors
How to change their mass,
ability to stay upright and hug the driving surface,
ability to survive in water,
cornering and braking, top speed, acceleration,
suspension, durability, and miscellaneous jazz
Gameplay advantages
Making vehicles weaker or stronger
How to create your own "Alloy Wheels of Steel" Angel
One possible 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air
How to change the traction of surfaces
Failure to lower the cannon shots of Rhinos
Grand Theft Auto: Vice Bedrock
How to change their wheels
DMagic1's Wheel Mod
Xbox wheels
How to change their on-screen names
Spookie's Speedometer mod
The Pole Position bike
I.100.D.ee Weapons and Attackers
How to lessen the severity of attacks
The MP5 A2 ("Counter Strike") mod
The highly mysterious sexual Busker
I.100.D.eee Helicopters
How to make the RC Copter easier to fly
Low flying jets
I.100.D.f Miscellaneous mods
The RC Mod
The Surf's Up Billboard Jump mod
The Havana Outfit Bug Fix
The Rampage and Package Finder Mod (the Northern Lights Mod)
The Hidden Interiors and Steed mods
The NOS mod
VC Code Tools (tools that tell you which missions are left to be
done, give you credit for all the Unique Jumps, etc.)
Spaceeinstein's All In One Mod
Timetwister
I.100.D.g Total conversion mod
The Liberty City mod
I.100.E Music
MP3s and wav files
How to save hard disk space with shortcuts
MP3 volume boost
Shareaza
I.100.F Screen shots and videos
Fraps, Avidemux, and Virtual Dub
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Introduction
This guide is geared toward helping someone who is new to the game, so I try
to find an easy way to do anything. I bought the game for a couple of friends
of mine who are new to games, and wanted to make sure they had fun and got a
lot of the inside references. If you've gotten the hang of that, I hope I
might tip you to something you didn't know about before.
If you've never played a PC game like "Vice City" before, I recommend it, if
you don't mind some colorful language. It's the 1st one I ever played all the
way through--the 1st time in mid-2003--and it's fascinating to me. It's not
like anything else in movies or music, except that it's like acting out a
fantasy of being the star and director of a movie, and the mouse and keyboard
move the star and your hand held camera. You pick how to interact with a
whole city filled with pedestrians chattering away with snippets of
conversation that sometimes make for funny coincidences with what you've just
been doing.
It's enough like the real world that doing the surreal gaming things in it
seem funny. That a guy needs to do something so he drives down a normal
suburban street in his tank, or drives from here to there as fast as he can to
get the game mission done, then the guy going by says, "Unnecessary!" like
Regis Philbin, just looks and sounds funny to me.
You frame shots with clouds that swirl like real clouds, and the sun rises
and sets and makes some beautiful hues and reflections when it does. You
choose from dozens of cars, motorcycles, helicopters, and you get a variety of
cinematic shots for the dozens of jumps through town you can do with the PCJ
600 (best bike for jumps). You score your show with dozens of songs and
parodies of talk stations on the radio stations you get with most vehicles,
and, if you feel like adding others, you can put in your own MP3s and have your
own radio station.
I don't think stars and directors have had that much control over something
that's that much fun since Buster Keaton.
I think Robert Rusk, who has a PS2/PC--Classic Controls/Xbox guide for it at
the Gamefaqs web site, has done an excellent job, and his guide has been very
helpful to me. He doesn't have a PC to use for games just now, though, and I
don't have a PS2. My notes are meant to help adapt it to the way I use PC
Standard Controls with Mouse Controlled Steering. After Rockstar and company,
I owe the most debt to his guide, which is mainly organized to help you achieve
100% completion of the necessary parts of the game.
One of the best things about Rusk's guide is how he organizes what could be
overwhelming into something manageable. After doing the initial few story
missions, doing some of the side missions early on gives Tommy benefits and
abilities that can help him in the rest of the side missions and main storyline
missions. He puts nearly all of the side missions together, which frees you up
to enjoy the rest of the main story in an uninterrupted sequence. The
strategies minimize time spent frustrated and help likewise, although the
easiest way can be different for my format. I highly recommend his guide for
"GTA III," which has the same basic structure and strategic assistance, as
well, and anticipate feeling the same when I use his Gamefaqs guide for "Grand
Theft Auto San Andreas" and check it out with the PC version of "San Andreas"
due out in June, 2005.
I basically use his advice, often hard to improve on, with the same basic
concern to supply the easiest way to do things, and change something if it's
different for PC, or just add a little something now and then for the variety.
Put "shopping search" or such in a search engine. You'll find lots of sites
like dealtime, bizrate, froogle, shopping.yahoo, mysimon, etc., that you can
use to search for "Vice City," PC components, or anything else. The last time
I tried, I found "Vice City" for about $20. If you don't mind your games being
2nd hand, you can find some real bargains for them at eBay.
You can get the Brady Games Official Strategy Guide for Grand Theft Auto Vice
City, PC version, on eBay for a few bucks. If you do, be sure to check the
seller's ad to be sure it's the PC version you're bidding on and buying. It
has lots of useful maps, including ones for specific missions, and pictures and
descriptions of all the vehicles, weapons, and other features of the game. I'd
be open to other ideas for a little of the guidance, however (i.e. I.94 in this
guide). To be fair, it's an early effort that hasn't benefited from years of
millions of players trying out new ideas and sending them to message boards.
So it's official, though none of us voted for it. It's a totalitarian leader
that's colorful to have around except for all the unnecessary deaths. It's
Castro's new Cuba, which is where Tony Montana came from; then again, he got
killed.... No, no, no--actually, the Brady guide has been very helpful. Some
of the strategies haven't been topped yet.
Some whole categories of important concern, like the locations of armor and
police bribes, are best helped with maps. The Gamefaqs web site and BradyGames
Official Strategy Guide are good sources for them. Some of the best advice
you're going to get is to get copies or print outs of them and make notes all
over the print outs. Nobody expects you to memorize all this "2nd block from
the E and 3rd from the W" stuff of mine.
There are various other things that can only be done with, or are features
special to, the PC version; there are unnecessary but fun things and related
interests, and I'll add my notes for them. I'll thank everybody I can remember
who hipped me to anything, all the while trying to avoid legal suits with
anybody--they didn't help the Beatles get along any better. I'll change to a
different horse midstream if I find out different.
Some of the following is True:
Thanks to the artists at developer Rockstar North (sort of the
Brothers Grimm of Scotland, but more tuneful), and the publishers Rockstar and
Take2 Interactive Inc, the little Dodo and the PCJ 600, and Ray Liotta and the
whole cast of "Vice City." It's my favorite game:
http://www.rockstarnorth.com/
http://www.rockstargames.com/
http://www.take2games.com/
Rockstar was previously Dan and Sam Houser and Jamie King, of the video
games publishing division of BMG Interactive, and Terry Donovan, of Arista
Records, who'd all worked with DMA Design of Dundee, with a small branch in
Edinburgh, on the 1st GTA games. BMG Interactive was sold by BMG to Take 2
Interactive in 1998, the year Rockstar Games was founded and the Houser
brothers, King, and Donovan moved to New York. They picked a DMA team based
around Leslie Benzies, Aaron Garbut, Obbe Vermeij and Adam Fowler, which they
built up in a big studio in the Leigh district of Edinburgh (which is the
beautiful, so says Glen True, capital city of Scotland) as Rockstar North.
Rockstar North has been part of the Rockstar Games companies since it was
bought, in Sept., 1999, by the parent company Take 2 Interactive Inc of NYC.
It's worked closely and creatively with its NYC publishing branch Rockstar
Games, which is one of the subsidiaries of Take-Two that Take-Two publishes
and develops games through (other subsidiaries include Gathering of
Developers).
http://www.designmuseum.org/design/index.php?id=67
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.07/rockstar_pr.html
http://www.rockstarnorth.com/
Thanks to Rusk and his time honored, proven strategies and research, which
is what this walk-through originated with, and for being the oldest friend I
know here:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/
thanks to A.M.S. Siva Ganesh Maharajan, aka HandsomeRockus, for graciously
letting me help communicate his ideas for his walk-through of "Vice City" at the
Gamefaqs web site, teaching me some things in the process, his spelling and
spacing corrections, and for being such a nice friend:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/
("A.M.S.," in his culture, Tamil Nadu, refers to the 1st initial of those on
the paternal line you may honor that way. For great-grandfather to father,
that's Ayyadurai, Maharajan, and Subbaraj. You can call me H.W. Glenster, if
you want. I never met my Dad's Dad Howard, who died before I was born, but my
Dad's parents meant so much to him, as mine do to me, that I'd honor him that
way. My Dad's given name was William but he used the common nickname for it,
Bill, in his work as an artist/cartoonist.)
thank you very much to the Gamefaqs web site for patiently hosting this
ponderous walk-through from the start and always taking care of the trailing
spaces for me:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/
thanks to Stephen Ng and the IGN web site for kindly finding a place on the
reference shelf somewhere in the library for such a dauntingly large reference
book of a walk-through:
http://ign.com/
thanks to Dennis and the Supercheats web site for allowing more of an
occasional data file modifier than a super cheater to find their way in there:
http://www.supercheats.com/index.htm
thanks to Kevin Walter and the StuckGamer web site for making a trek from the
old-fashioned (pre-high speed Internet video) way into the future of videogame
guides about "San Andreas" so enjoyable:
http://www.stuckgamer.com/
thanks to the neoseeker web site for letting a delapidated old seeker look
around:
http://www.neoseeker.com/
thanks to Brooks Huber and the 1UP web site for scattering some empowerment
for me and many others around the scenery:
http://www.1up.com/
thanks to Spenser Hall and the GamerHelp web site for letting me help the
helpers help those in need of help (it's the 1st Lennon tune on the soundtrack):
http://www.gamerhelp.com/
thanks to Ben "Cerbera" Millard for sharing so much information that can
help anyone understand how to modify vehicles in "Vice City," and providing his
Rescaler and CFGStudio tools to make it easier still:
http://www.projectcerbera.com/
thanks to the enigmatic and industrious modder spaceeinstein for the well-
researched repository of some of the glitches and tricks I've read about at his
web site, showing me where the brakes are on a helicopter, pointing me to
Cerbera's web site, various helpful tips scattered throughout the walk-through,
(and when my computer is upgraded in mid-2005, I have to try his latest "All In
One" mod again):
http://spaceeinstein.xmgfree.com/vicecity.html
thanks to Madeye, alias some name, alias Mohammed Kahn, for the "Ocean Beach
Triangle" way to go through Ghost World, the shooting the garbage bags tip, and
some much-appreciated web site help most of all:
http://www.mktutorials.com/
thanks to Demarest, of the tfads and GTA Forums web sites, for supplying
some much-appreciated information on how to change the files of the game to make
RC Bandit and going for a two-wheeler easier, a way to get to Starfish Island
early; the Timetwister mods that let you pick any mission of "III" and "Vice
City" from the beginning of the game; and, with spaceeinstein and the rest of
the team behind it, for the Liberty City mod (a pretty ponderous piece of work
in its own right, I'm sure):
http://www.tfads.com/gta3code/
http://www.gtaforums.com/
thanks to the ardent quests of Chris Phillips for finding an invisible plate
in the roof of the Schuman Health Center, a way to get a two-wheeler Stat with
a helicopter, and some tips on English slang (and giving me a preview of "San
Andreas" with MSN Messenger; the man tears a mean rampage, even at the military
base):
http://www.thegtaplace.com/vicecity/glitches.php
thanks to helpful modder DiCanio for fun ideas like the RC mod and his
adaptation of Yoyo's '57 Chevy Bel Air (like my Dad's car) mod:
http://www.codenamevice.co.uk
thanks to Klarnetist at a Russian web site for several hardtop versions
(even more like my Dad's car) of Yoyo's 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air:
http://spc.gta.com.ua/
thanks to Gunslinger for the mods and skins for Tommy and lady pedestrians
that just can't be beat:
http://gunslinger.codenamenetwork.com/
thanks to the http://www.imdb.com/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/ web sites,
and "Leonard Maltin's 1998 Movie and Video Guide," 1997, edited by fellow
Buster Keaton fan Leonard Maltin, for much of the information about movies,
thanks to the educational web site "A Dictionary of Slang," which
specializes in the British perspective, for some U.K. slang definitions:
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/
thanks to the research of modder Nuclear Hedgehog's web site for the real
names of some of the land and flying vehicles (click "Info" then
"PCGaming.times.lv" then "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" "--Car Information"):
http://www.nuclearhedgehog.tk/
thanks to Tobias Nilsson for the real names of some of the other land and
flying vehicles. This is a Swedish site of his:
http://www.sanandreas.info.se/
thanks to explorer yOman69, in message board posts for the PC version of
"Vice City" at Gamefaqs, for the PC super jump discovery. His post is no
longer there, but you can find the Gamefaqs message board at:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/
thanks to dare demon stunt man Gav, in a Gav's Stunt Guide (v.1) post at the
message boards at GTA Forums/GTA Vice City/Gameplay, for some extra jump spots
and grinds information. The last time I checked, it was still at:
http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=151429
thanks to video bike pilot Brad Ward, aka ThaShoka89 and Southern Finest,
for the BSM--Bike Stuck Method--which uses a PCJ 600 as a portable jump ramp
for a 2nd PCJ 600. Like yOman69, he shared his find with us at the message
boards for the PC "Vice City" at Gamefaqs. Thanks on top of that for tipping
me to the Cab Climbing, Air Grabbing, etc., stunting tutorials by Ghostchild,
Kaneda, and others at:
http://s8.invisionfree.com/theghostchildren/index.php?act=idx
http://www.gtastunting.com/forums/
thanks to stunt man's stunt man Ghostchild for making it easy for many of us
to understand so many ways to do some of those stunts, and for letting me pass
it along to you:
http://s8.invisionfree.com/theghostchildren/index.php?act=idx
thanks to Reverend Ted for the Havana Outfit Bug Fix--amen:
http://www.planetgrandtheftauto.com/gtavc/miscmods/
thanks to eL dudE for the Game Script FAQ at the Gamefaqs web site:
At http://www.gamefaqs.com/, go to "PC," "G," "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City,"
"FAQs," "In-Depth FAQs," then "Game Script (PS2)."
thanks to Aggrosk8er's full walk-though and FAQ for "Vice City" for the Pilot
ratings:
At http://www.gamefaqs.com/, go to "PC," "G," "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City,"
"FAQs," "General FAQs," then the "FAQ/Walkthrough (PS2)" by Aggrosk8er.
thanks to the "Criminal Rating/Media/Money FAQ" by Zarathustra for the
Highest media attention level and CRiminal Rating scores, and for the fastest
way to get the "Godfather" CRiminal Rating:
At http://www.gamefaqs.com/, go to "PC," "G," "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City,"
"FAQs," "In-Depth FAQs," then "Criminal Rating/Media/Money FAQ (PS2)."
thanks to the BradyGames Official Strategy Guide by Tim Bogenn for some
historical and technical information about a few of the weapons, a few
strategies, some helpful maps and photos, and the "official" numbers of the
hidden packages, rampages, and jumps:
http://www.bradygames.com/
thanks to the gta-series web site for having such nice clear screen shots of
the Vice City vehicles:
http://www.gta-series.com/
thanks to these web sites for a lot of the, as Forrest would call them, "big,
fat ol'" pictures of vehicles:
http://www.motorcities.com/
http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/
http://www.ford-trucks.com/user_gallery/index.php
http://www.bikepics.com/
http://www.airliners.net/
http://www.helispot.com/
thanks to imageshack for letting me make copies of a lot of the pictures so
you wouldn't have pop-ups or have the pictures disappear when sales are over:
http://imageshack.us/
thanks to the web site given below, which lets you type in phrases that it
translates into ANSII art:
http://www.network-science.de/ascii/
thanks to all the other people with individual tips mentioned in the text;
and thanks to eBay for being a good way to get stuff cheap:
http://www.ebay.com/
If any of the web sites given in this guide become obsolete, you might lop
the end off of it, try the basic web site, and look around in it for the
information referred to. You might also try a search engine for it, or see if
it turns up at http://www.archive.org/ (thanks again to HandsomeRockus for the
archive web site tip).
PC info: I have a PC--no big deal. You should be saving up for one of those
top end Athlon 64 bit processors (with the 939 socket and 90nm with a mother-
board that uses SLI or Crossfire and PCI Express), when they start making them
to do more and cost even less than 32 bit ones, the way I was told they would,
and work The Cell into it. As long as the other requirements were met, I bet
most everyone's "Vice City" would run smoothly then. Damn, I bet most every-
one's "Morrowind" would run smoothly then--even "The Sims" would be zippy.
I got a good PC to use Cakewalk Producer, a MIDI Strat, Yamaha DD-55 drums,
M-Audio Oxygen 8 keyboard, etc., with, to do something about the music and
comedy I've come up with since I was in high school. I fell in love with "Vice
City" as a side track. The ability to aim and explore the world with the mouse
and keyboard as with a hand held camera seems as good a way to format a game as
you could like, and, in some ways, better than PS2. The exclusive availability
of some games to certain consoles seems like a bad telemarketer scam to me, as
if the Beatles made a deal in hell to only sell their albums to people with
Pioneer hi-fis or such.
Personal info: "Winstein" is pronounced "Win," like win or lose, and "stein,"
like beer stein or Steinway piano; so many people have called me "Weinstein" I
usually joke I might as well convert. It was originally "Windstein" a long
time ago, but somebody that came from Germany or France had bad handwriting.
"Glen" is Scotch/Irish and is a little wooded valley, like in "Danny Boy";
with two "n"'s, it's someone that lives in it. "True" is Scotch/Irish, my
Mom's maiden name, and the etymology goes back to "constant, like the hardness
of a tree."
So just think "In a shady valley constantly hard by the piano" and it's easy
to remember, if misleading.
The main thing to know about me is I'll always love my Mom and Dad. How you
can tell from a town like this, I have no idea.
He was an artist/cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Press and this is something
visual. Me and each of them watched movies and listened to music together. I
remember him in the art room with some swing or Dixieland playing. My Mom
mainly went for what you might call MOR (middle of the road) music, but it
included more recent music. So I put in a few appropriate MP3s and make some
movie scenes for them now and then.
We even had our own words for things. An outsider would never understand.
"Glenster's Guide to Some of Vice City" copyright 2004, 2005, and 2006 Glen T.
Winstein.
This may be not be reproduced under any circumstances except for personal,
private use. It may not be placed on any web site or otherwise distributed
publicly without advance written permission. Use of this guide on any other web
site or as a part of any public display is strictly prohibited, and a violation
of copyright.
I hope I didn't scare anyone. You're supposed to say that.
"Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" copyright 2003 Rockstar Games, Inc. Rockstar
Games, Rockstar North, the R* logo, Grand Theft Auto and the Grand Theft Auto
logo and A Take-Two Company logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
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I.1 Prelude to a prequel
The intro, showing a command being typed into a computer to start the game,
looks like the start of an old Commodore 64 game. (Likewise, the ships you see
on the horizon of the sea during the game look like the ships from a video game
of the time, based on a board game, called "Battleship.")
The song clip is from "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles, heard on
Flash FM.
The silhouette of trees is similar to the one in "Scarface," 1983 (I.2).
Then you see a Squalo II speed boat, Haitian gangsters, and Tommy and Mercedes
on a Freeway motorcycle on the road that goes by the Ocean View apartment.
If you want to recreate the intro scene of the car doing a jump, it's a Sabre
Turbo driving on the bridge that connects Leaf Links to the west island, then
jumping from the stairs of the "stilt" building. The "stilt' building is on
the E island, NW side of the 3rd block from the E and 2nd block from the S.
Then you see a Maverick, and a Chartered Libertine Lines ship docked at the
SE corner of the west island.
The little Dodo with pontoons, the Skimmer, becomes available at I.79.
Then you see a Mean Street Taxis bench, a Marquis 69 sail boat, and
Washington Beach by the low beachfront wall.
The final shot is of the Standing Vice Point hotel. It's about halfway up
the E island, SE of the Malibu Club.
As with "GTA III," don't look for some of the things in the Stephen Bliss
cartoon montage, also shown on the front of the box the game comes in, during
the game. The game doesn't have a helicopter with rails on the bottom that has
two machine guns; the most similar motorcycle in the game, the PCJ 600, doesn't
have a standard headlight--it has one that looks like an evil grin; Sonny
Forelli doesn't look like the cartoon in the top center section; and the Pole
Position pole dancer doesn't wear long black hair and a pink bikini.
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I.2 Paying Tributes, making references, or at least having things in
common
"Grand Theft Auto: Vice City"
Al Capone--"Scarface"
"The Untouchables" starring Robert De Niro as Al Capone
The novel "Scarface" by "Armitage Trail" (Maurice Coons), followed by Paul Muni
as "Scarface" Tony Camonte, followed by Al Pacino as "Scarface" Tony Montana
The "Vice City/"Scarface" (with Al Pacino) similarities
"Cop Land" starring Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Frank Vincent, Michael
Rapaport, and Deborah Harry
"No Escape" starring Ray Liotta
"Blow" starring Ray Liotta and Johnny Depp
Pablo Escobar
"Carlito's Way" starring Al Pacino and Luis Guzman
"The Godfather" starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino
"Goodfellas" starring Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta with Frank Vincent and
Debi Mazar, directed by Martin Scorcese
"Mean Streets" and "Taxi Driver" starring Robert De Niro and directed by Martin
Scorcese, "Blue Thunder" starring a helicopter, and Samuel L. Jackson
"Heat," starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Tom Sizemore, William Fichtner,
and Danny Trejo, "Heat" and "Manhunter" directed by Michael Mann, the executive
producer and a writer for "Miami Vice," and "Manhunt"
"The Sopranos," Lawrence Taylor--the MVP of the NFL in 1986, and Fairuza Balk
John Wayne and "Easy Rider"
"Boogie Nights" starring Luis Guzman and Burt Reynolds
George Romero, writer and director of "Night of the Living Dead"
"Miami Vice" starring Phillip Michael Thomas and Don Johnson
Miss Cleo, the Psychic Friends Network,
wiccans, selling witchcraft as a way to get practical help from spirits,
and the lunar landing hoax hoax
"Sgt. Bilko" starring Phil Silvers, "Taxi" starring Andy Kaufman, "Top Gun,"
and "Iron Eagles" starring Lou Gossett, Jr.
Game makers and voice actors
Soundalike game names
Celebrity soundalikes
Captain Scott and Dundee, Scotland
Look-alike mall and soundalike island
Little Havana, Little Haiti, and Liberty City--Miami
"Grand Theft Auto: Vice City"
In honor and recognition of your esteemed gaming goodness
"Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" has received "best of" awards and acclaim from
all over the gaming community, including the AIAS (Academy of Interactive Arts
and Sciences) award for Console Action Adventure Game of the Year, 2002
("III" won for Computer Action Game of the Year), and even winning a handful of
BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) awards in 2004 (design,
sound, action title, PS2 title, and PC title).
Since "III," Grand Theft Auto has also been one of the most popular and
successful video game series in the world.
According to the gamerankings web site on Feb. 8, 2006, "Vice City" was 2nd
only to "Half Life 2" as the most popular PC game. "III" was 6th and "San An-
dreas" was 17th. You can go to the web site given below to see the latest
scores.
http://www.gamerankings.com/
Also see http://www.designmuseum.org/designerex/rockstar-games.htm for an
interview with Dan Houser, one of the creators of "Vice City."
Among other things, I notice his mention of the concern of the creators of
the GTA games to take the interactive features of games and combine them with a
love of movies, music, and books, not so much to make more such games but to
make examples of a new kind of interactive movie. I think this has a lot to do
with why I like the blend they come up with so much.
A new game that takes place in Vice City, "Vice City Stories," will be avail-
able on PSP on Oct.17, 2006. Like "Liberty City Stories," it should be out on
the usual GTA formats, like PC, some time after that.
http://psp.ign.com/articles/707/707025p1.html
Al Capone--"Scarface"
Alphonse Capone, "Scarface," built his criminal empire in Chicago and Cicero,
Ill., in the 1920's. He moved, with his wife Mae and son Albert, "Sonny,"
to 93 Palm Avenue (built by brewer Clarence Busch), Miami, Florida, in 1928.
(Unlike Sonny Forelli, Sonny Capone didn't choose a life of crime.) It was the
year before Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon, began having him
investigated by the IRS and Eliot Ness. It remained the home of the brutal
organized crime leader, when he wasn't in prison, for the rest of his life--
till 1/25/1947. (If you send Tommy to the prostitutes a lot, remember that the
original Scarface died at 48 years old, ravaged by syphilis, so have him put a
helmet on that little soldier.)
A good source for material on Al Capone is http://www.crimelibrary.com/
Put "Al Capone" in the search engine.
"The Untouchables" starring Robert De Niro as Al Capone
Robert De Niro starred for "Scarface," 1983, director Brian De Palma in "The
Untouchables," 1987, in which he played Al Capone, Kevin Costner played Eliot
Ness, and Sean Connery played Jim Malone. Some of Robert's earliest movie
roles--as Jon Rubin in "Greetings," 1968, as Cecil (as Robert Denero) in "The
Wedding Party" 1969, and as Jon Rubin in "Hi, Mom!" 1970, were directed by
Brian De Palma.
http://www.askmen.com/men/entertainment/28_robert_de_niro.html
Sean Connery, who has a wonderful and distinctive voice, does the voice acting
and supplies the physical likeness for the 2005 Electronic Arts Xbox and PS2 (I
guess to get the kinks out of it before they release it for PC) game based on
the James Bond movie "From Russia with Love," 1963 (I was in the theater). Rob-
ert Shaw, mentioned in the Boats section, I.9.E, in this guide as playing Quint
in "Jaws," 1975, and also blessed with a distinctive voice, reprises his role as
Donald "Red" Grant, too.
http://www.seanconnery.com/index.cfm
http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/launchreview.asp?reviewid=635208
For the real story of Eliot Ness, go to http://www.crimelibrary.com/, put
"Eliot Ness" in the search engine, and pick "Eliot Ness: The Man Behind the
Myth."
The novel "Scarface" by "Armitage Trail" (Maurice Coons), followed by Paul
Muni as "Scarface" Tony Camonte, followed by Al Pacino as "Scarface" Tony
Montana
"Scarface," 1983, starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana and directed by Brian De
Palma, takes its basic story from "Scarface," 1932, starring Paul Muni as Tony
Camonte, directed by Howard Hawks, and produced by the uncredited Howard
Hughes. Among the differences, the 1983 movie changes the story about Chicago
bootleggers to one about Miami cocaine dealers. Among the similarities, the
blimp in the 1983 version says the same thing as the statue in the pool in Tony
Montana's mansion when he's shot to death, which says the same thing that's
found on a billboard seen outside of Tony Camonte's apartment when he's shot to
death: "The World is Yours."
"Scarface," 1932, a fictional account of a Capone-like gangster and thinly-
disguised portrayals of related gangsters, was loosely adapted, largely by Ben
Hecht, from the novel "Scarface," 1930, by Maurice Coons, who wrote it using
the name "Armitage Trail." In the novel, as in real life, Scarface isn't
killed by the authorities.
Like "Vice City," both movies had their problems with people demanding
revisions or censorship. Modern versions of the 1932 version have restored
the original ending in which Camonte is shot to death by the police instead of
being apprehended, judged, and hanged offscreen.
The "Vice City"/"Scarface" (with Al Pacino) similarities
Both "Vice City," 2002, starring voice actor Ray Liotta as Tommy Vercetti,
and "Scarface," 1983, starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana, take place in 1980's
Miami.
http://www.rayliotta.net/
http://velvet_peach.tripod.com/apacino.html
Tommy Vercetti and Tony Montana each come from prison, do menial labor jobs
when they 1st get into Florida, and work their way up the criminal ladder of
success. Tony Montana gets a job as a dishwasher in El Paraiso, across from
the Little Havana Restaurante; at the Little Havana, he gets work from Frank
Lopez via Omar Suarez (F. Murray Abraham). Tommy Vercetti gets jobs from
Umberto Robina (voice acted by Danny Trejo) at Umberto Robina's Cafe in Little
Havana. (And there is a Little Havana Restaurant which serves Cuban food in
North Miami.)
In "Vice City," the neon-lit side of the street the Ocean View Hotel is part
of, and the area of grass and trees, a low wall, and then beach on the other
side, looks like a street in Florida used in filming the exterior scenes of the
chainsaw segment of "Scarface," 1983. (The neon-lit buildings remind me of
pictures I've seen of the Art Deco section of South Beach in Miami.)
The Deacon Motel is one door to the S of Tommy Vercetti's 1st apartment, at
the Ocean View, and three doors S of the Deacon is the Colon hotel. The
chainsaw murder in "Scarface" takes place in the Sun Ray Motel; the Beacon
Hotel is on the left of it and The Colony is on the right. (And Miriam Colon
plays Mama Montana in "Scarface.")
Apartment 3C has bloodstains on the walls and floor indicating a bloody
torture of someone, which look like the stains on a wall and the floor of the
room of the Staunton police station that Claude, the lead character, breaks a
Yazuka free from for Kenji in "GTA III," and call to mind the chainsaw murder
scene in "Scarface," 1983, especially since Apartment 3C is where you can also
find a chainsaw icon in Vice City.
The clothes Tony Montana wears in the chainsaw segment of "Scarface" look like
the ones Diaz wears in "Vice City."
In "Vice City," the Voodoo is a reddish-brown 1960 Chevrolet Impala lowrider;
the car Tony drives in the chainsaw segment is a little more recent reddish-
brown Chevrolet Impala.
In "GTA III," Flashback FM is a radio station hosted by Toni (as in "Tony
Montana"). All it plays are five of the synthesizer-oriented songs, by Giogio
Moroder, from the movie "Scarface," 1983. The station seems to be an ongoing
concern, despite the playlist restriction. One of the songs, "Rush Rush," has
lyrics and a lead vocal by Deborah Harry.
Toni hosts Flash FM in "Vice City," which also ribs 80's synthesizer music in
a Synth and Son commercial. Deborah Harry does the voice acting for the
Kaufman Cabs taxi dispatcher. And in "Jury Fury," Tommy muscles some jurists
to give Giorgio a verdict of "innocent."
Tony Montana tells Alejandro Sosa (Paul Shenar) that Bell 209 assault
helicopters are among the hazards of bringing cocaine into Florida; the Sea
Sparrow in "Vice City" is a Bell 47G.
Robert Loggia is the voice actor for crooked policeman Ray Machowski in "GTA
III," who's similar to crooked policeman Mel Bernstein (Harris Yulin) in
"Scarface," 1983. Robert Loggia plays crooked BMW car salesman/crime leader
Frank Lopez in "Scarface," 1983.
Frank tells Tony he needs a guy with steel in his b**ls. Umberto tells Tommy
he wants to hire someone with big cajones (which may be a Peruvian or flamenco
percussion instrument or a Jimmy Durante reference--I'm not sure).
One of the cars Tony Montana drives is a silver-gray BMW that looks a little
bit like a rounded off "Vice City" Deluxo (a DeLorean).
The purple triangular neon-lit and draped stage by a dance floor in the
Malibu Club has similarities to the disco concert stage and dance floor of the
Babylon in "Scarface," 1983.
Tony likes to smoke cigars. A lady who sells cigars from a horizontal box
hanging from her neck is one of the pedestrians you may see around the Ocean
View, and there's a La Tradicion Cuban Cigar Factory store in Little Haiti in
"Vice City."
The title of "Vice City" is shown over a mostly orange picture of palm trees,
which is also seen as a picture on the wall in the TV room of the mansion, and
on the wall of the upstairs room and behind the 1st floor bar of the Malibu
Club, which is very similar to the picture of palm trees on the wall in Frank
Lopez' office in "Scarface," 1983.
Tony Montana refers disparagingly (take a wild guess how) to the Diaz
brothers; Tommy Vercetti works for, then kills, a crack baron named Diaz.
Tony goes to Elvira, who's lounging by an L (for "Lopez") shaped pool.
There's a Rockstar logo shaped pool in back of a house, where hidden package 53
is, on Starfish Island in "Vice City."
Tony kills Lopez. Tommy kills Diaz.
The blimp in "Scarface," 1983, says, "The World Is Yours.." The "Vice City"
blimp, on one side, says, "GASH," the name of the "Vice City" parody of the
Gap clothing stores. (The other side of it has the mirror image of "GASH.")
Tony launders his cocaine money at the corrupt Tri-American City Bank. Tommy
holds up El Banco Currupto in Little Havana.
There's a tiger skin rug in the TV room of Tommy's mansion, and a tiger skin
on the back of the couch in Tommy's apartment in the Ocean View. There's a
tiger in "Scarface," 1983. The tiger on Montana's property is suggestive of
the private zoo on Escobar's (see below) property.
Tony is chauffeured in a white car. Tommy's Stretch limo is white.
The clothes Tony Montana wears near the end of "Scarface" look like the Ver-
cetti outfit of "Vice City" except the shirt is pink instead of white.
Tony's mansion has statues of women in robes by it. Tommy's mansion has
statues of women in robes in the 1st floor indoor pool room that opens to the
back yard.
Tommy's office door at the back of the 2nd floor, big stairway to the 1st
floor before it with balconies and portraits on either side, and the emphasis
of the color red inside the main entrance room of his mansion, are like Tony
Montana's, except Tony's has a staircase that goes down along the wall from
either side of his office and a small pool with a "The World is Yours" statue
in the middle of the 1st floor instead of a central staircase.
Tommy's office, with a high back black chair at a desk and twelve monitors in
the back right corner, facing the desk, is like Tony Montana's, except Tony has
six monitors in two horizontal rows of three.
In "Vice City," the twelve monitors are in the main office of the Starfish
Island mansion, 1st seen in "The Chase." The monitors show the same scenes
throughout the game, notably when Diaz looks at them and realizes his mansion
is being invaded in "Rub Out," and when Tommy starts his war against Sonny's
Mafia men in the same office in "Keep Your Friends Close." The twelve monitors
show the scenes shown on two of the six monitors in "Scarface," 1983, when Tony
Montana realizes his mansion is being invaded--not the estate of the "Vice
City" mansion. Six show the curved stairs and the small pool with the "The
World is Yours" statue in Tony's mansion--the monitor Tony has in the middle of
his bottom row of three. Six show the exterior, pillars, and driveway of
Tony's mansion at night, lit by lamp light--Tony's lower left monitor.
When Tony defends his mansion against Sosa's invading Columbian henchmen, he
uses a machine gun (M16?) that also shoots a grenade from a thicker lower
barrel. When Tommy Vercetti has to defend the mansion against invasion at the
end of the main story missions of "Vice City," however, I recommend the
Minigun over the Rocket Launcher. Either way, go ahead and equip the Rocket
Launcher at the door of the main room, overlooking the stairs, and give it a
"Say hello to my little friend,"--pa-HOOM!--for me. (It's also one of the
"Scarface," 1983, lines the peds say in "GTA III." In "Vice City," an Hispanic
ped says, "You want to meet my little friend?")
Cliff O'Neill's web site web site showing some of the "Vice City"/"Scarface,"
1983, similarities is at:
http://www.gamechronicles.com/features/gtascarface/body.htm
A brunette pedestrian with a pink top and pale blue short skirt in "Vice
City" says she graduated from Scarford (a pun on "Scarface" and "Stanford," I
think).
Another game is in development, "Scarface: The World is Yours" by Radical
Games for VU Games, due to be released in early 2006. It will feature a number
of the same actors from the 1983 movie as voice actors, except Al Pacino will
only be represented visually with someone else providing the voice. It starts
with Tony Montana in the office in his mansion, like at the end of the movie,
but he lives (I guess, after major crime leader Tony Montana had the ammunition
for the east coast poured into him, Al Pacino figured he's had it, or, at least,
should have).
Beside original cast members like Robert Loggia (Ray Machowski, "III"), it
will feature Michael Rappaport (Joey Leone, "III"), Robert Davi (Col. Cortez,
"Vice City"), and James Woods (Mike Toreno, "San Andreas"). It sounds like it
has a lot going for it. I hope it has interesting pedestrians and jumps (I sup-
pose the Dodo is too much to ask for).
http://xbox360.ign.com/objects/744/744735.html
"Cop Land" starring Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Frank Vincent, Michael
Rapaport, and Deborah Harry
Ray Liotta stars as coke addict Gary Figgis in "Cop Land," 1997. It also
stars Robert De Niro as Lt. Moe Tilden, Frank Vincent as PDA President Vincent
Lassaro, Michael Rapaport as Murray "Superboy" Babitch, and Deborah Harry as
Delores. Frank Vincent and Michael Rapaport do the voices of Joey and
Salvatore Leone, respectively, in "GTA III." Vincent as Salvatore is in
"Grand Theft Auto San Andreas," 2004, too. And Deborah Harry is the voice of
the Taxi Controller in "Vice City."
http://www.deborahharry.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rapaport
"No Escape" starring Ray Liotta
Ray Liotta starred in "No Escape," 1994, in which he plays Robbins, a
prisoner who wants to escape from various strange brutal places.
"Cop Land" and "No Escape" are also the names of two of the missions in
"Vice City" in which you can get Tommy a policeman's outfit.
"Blow" starring Ray Liotta and Johnny Depp
Ray Liotta played Fred Jung, the father of George Jung, played by Johnny
Depp, in "Blow," 2001. George Jung claimed he imported 85% of the U.S. supply
of cocaine in the 1970's (working with Carlos Lehder--Diego Delgado, in the
movie--as a U.S. extension of the activities of Pablo Escobar).
http://www.deppimpact.com/
http://www.lawbuzz.com/movies/blow/blow.htm
However, he never claimed that his packages could glow lime green while he
helped screw up a lot of people's lives.
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/051/051145p1.html
http://www.smokemag.com/0901/cover.htm
Pablo Escobar
Shortly after the opening scenes in "Vice City," Tommy tries to make a
cocaine deal for Sonny at Escobar International Airport (S end of the west
island). (Escobar is also the name of the neighborhood in the SW section of
the industrial sector in "GTA 2.") The most successful cocaine dealer through
this period in the real world was Pablo Escobar.
Various points are disputed in the variety of web sites I checked. I'll try
to weed out the points that are repeated.
He is said to have started his criminal career grinding the writing from
tombstones and stealing cars and selling them.
The little jets at the airport may suggest private jets used to make some of
the illegal transactions made with his group. Forbes Magazine listed him as
the 7th wealthiest person in the world in 1989. He was also a violent criminal.
(Some say he invented the Columbian necktie, whereby a person's tongue was
pulled through a hole cut in their neck, but http://en.wikipedia.org/ says it
was invented during the 1950's Columbian civil war. Sounds like something he'd
have done, though.) He had at least 100 people murdered while holding Columbia
under a reign of terror for his own gain. Hundreds of others were murdered by
his mob. His hit men fired snub nosed machine guns in drive-bys from the back
of motorcycles.
He proudly had his picture taken in front of a car he owned that once
belonged to Al Capone.
Pablo's brother Roberto says Pablo showed off one which was full of bullet
holes that he claimed was owned by Bonnie and Clyde.
http://gangstersinc.tripod.com/tele.html
He tried, like Al Capone, to use some of his wealth to buy respectability,
and deflect some criticism from the credulous--and deflect some of the all-too
prevalent bullets--with some very public shows of charity. Like Capone, he was
imagined to be a folk hero by some of the poor people of his area, who admired
anyone who could give them money, wherever it came from.
In a country with an awful record for human rights, he nevertheless
progressed from desperate efforts to validate his ego to desperate attempts to
stay alive, and was shot to death at 44 years old in 1993. Police Colonel
Aquilar claims to have shot him.
http://cocaine.org/colombia/pabloescobar-killer.html
But the identity of the one who can claim credit is disputed. (For the 1st
web address, you have to Copy and Paste the 2nd line to the 1st line in the ad-
dress bar.)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/archive/godfathercocaine.
html
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0011/12/cgs.00.html
(Editorial note: don't ever do anything to help finance organized crime. The
money used for whatever you buy goes to finance the whole operation, including
some of the worst people in the world. My substantiation for that from a
victim's view goes beyond the scope of this article.)
"Carlito's Way" starring Al Pacino, Sean Penn, and Luis Guzman
Ken Rosenberg, Tommy's cocaine-addicted lawyer, gets ex-con Tommy involved in
more crimes. Cocaine-addicted lawyer David Kleinfeld, played by Sean Penn,
gets ex-con Corlito Brigante, played by Al Pacino, involved in crime again in
"Carlito's Way," 1993 (based on a true story).
Like "Scarface," 1983, before it, it stars Al Pacino and was directed by
Brian De Palma.
Again, in "Scarface," Tony Montana curses the Diaz brothers; Carlito's
bodyguard is played by Luis Guzman, who does the voice acting for Diaz in "Vice
City."
http://luisguzman.com/
"The Godfather" starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino
In "GTA III," 2001, and the "GTA III" set in the film studio in "Vice City,"
there are movie posters for "Badfellas" that feature a drawing of Marlon Brando
as he appears as Don Vito Corleone in the title role of "The Godfather," 1972,
which also stars Al Pacino as Michael Corleone, James Caan as Santino "Sonny"
Corleone, and Robert Duvall as Tom Hagen. It won the Academy Award for Best
Picture and Best Actor (Marlon Brando) of 1972.
http://brando.crosscity.com/
And Electronic Arts has released a PC, PS2, Xbox game of "The Godfather,"
starring the voices of over 20 people from the movie, including Marlon Brando
(made for the game before he was taken from us), Robert Duvall, and James Caan,
(no Al Pacino?), with their visual likenesses, in March, 2006.
http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/the-godfather/
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/thegodfather/
Robert De Niro got one of his Academy Awards, for Best Supporting Actor, for
"The Godfather Part II," 1974.
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800010759/bio
"Goodfellas" starring Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta with Frank Vincent and
Debi Mazar, directed by Martin Scorcese
During the opening scenes with Sonny Forelli in "Vice City," you can see
someone hung on a meat hook in a freezer, which is how Frankie Carbone (Frank
Sivero) ended up in "Goodfellas," 1990, directed by Martin Scorsese and
starring Robert De Niro as Jimmy Conway, Ray Liotta as Henry Hill, Joe Pesci as
Tommy DeVito, and Paul Sorvino as Paul Cicero. Joe Pesci won the 1990 Academy
Award for Best supporting Actor.
http://www.scorsesefilms.com/
"Goodfellas" also features Frank Vincent as Billy Batts (the guy who's
stomped on and ends up being brutally murdered in a car trunk) and Debi Mazar
as Sandy, who did the voice acting for Salvatore Leone and Maria, respectively,
in "GTA III."
http://www.frankvincent.com/
http://www.heavenlycelebrities.com/debi_mazar.html
Frank Vincent, as Phil Leotardo, kills Angelo Garepe, who pleads from the
trunk of a car, in one of the episodes of the TV show "The Sopranos." He also
plays Frank Marino in the Scorsese/De Niro/Pesci movie "Casino," 1995.
Somehow, the Joe Pesci and Paul Sorvino ("Goodfellas") look-alikes ended up
in the game "Mafia," 2002 (best seen on PC), which began production before "GTA
III" yet isn't a prequel. It's a "Goodfella" parallelogram.
"Goodfellas" is largely based on the true experiences of mobster-turned-
informant Henry Hill, played in the movie by Ray Liotta. Here's an interesting
account of the real story behind "Goodfellas" (if the link still works by the
time you read this):
http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/goodfellas.php
The link at the bottom of that, about the 1978 Lufthansa heist, is informa-
tive, too.
Further information about actual criminals as the models for characters in
"Goodfellas" and "The Sopranos" can be found at this web site (you have to Copy
and Paste the 2nd to the 1st line of the link in your address bar):
http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/lucchese1/
8.html?sect=16
"Mean Streets" and "Taxi Driver" starring Robert De Niro and directed by
Martin Scorcese, "Blue Thunder" starring a helicopter, and Samuel L. Jackson
Robert De Niro starred as John "Johnny Boy" Civello in "Mean Streets," 1973,
and as Travis ("You talkin' to me?") Bickle (as Robert DeNiro) in "Taxi
Driver," 1976, earlier than "Goodfellas," 1990, for director Martin Scorcese.
"GTA III" has Mean Streets Taxis, which is advertised on benches in "Vice
City"--you can see one of the benches during the intro. In Little Havana,
there's a "Mean Street Taxis" building; the window of the "Pizza Face" place
beside it says "DINERO WITHOUT LIMITE," which is Spanish for "money without
limits."
In "Scarface," 1983, Tony Montana fails to impress Elvira Hancock (Michelle
Pfeiffer) with a pale yellow Cadillac with fins and a zebra skin interior. The
rewards for dropping off 100 fares with a cab in "Vice City" include the Zebra
Cab, which is a combined Al Pacino and Robert De Niro reference, but I wouldn't
try to impress Michelle Pfeiffer with it.
Ryton Aide in Little Haiti in "Vice City" advertises Martin's Sciateze Back
Tablets.
Papaya Studio is developing a "Taxi Driver" game to be published by Majesco
and released in 2006.
http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/taxi-driver/
The Vigilante Mission, if done with the Hunter, is called "Brown Thunder."
There was a 1983 movie, then a 1984 TV show, about an advanced experimental
attack helicopter called "Blue Thunder."
According to a web page devoted to "Blue Thunder" by Greg Donner:
"Contributor Eddie Duca notes that writer's Dan O'Bannon and Don Jakoby's
original concept was similar to the movie "Taxi Driver" with Robert De-
Niro. According to interviews O'Bannon did for the July/August '83 issue
of Film Comment Magazine and an August '85 issue of the L.A. Times, the
original story had Murphy as a paranoid schizophrenic who would have bi-
zarre hallucinations from his helicopter. Eventually he becomes convinced
he's a reincarnation of the Norse god THOR, god of thunder. As O'Bannon
put it, he would devastate L.A., turning it into a Beirut like nightmare.
O'Bannon mentioned that they even had a scene where the Hollywood freeway
collapses (never filmed.) The story was changed to make Murphy heroic (and
therefore more commercial.)"
http://www.gregdonner.org/blue_thunder/blue_thunder.html
PS: I wonder if this had anything to do with Thor being a guest on KCHAT?
"Chicks 'N Guns," on movie poster in the trailer at Phil's Place, was the
title of the video watched by Robert De Niro and Samuel Jackson at the
beginning of the movie "Jackie Brown". (Thanks again to Rusk for the "Jackie
Brown" tip.) Besides that 1997 movie, Samuel L. Jackson is Stacks Edwards, the
big heist assistant shot on his bed in "Goodfellas," and is the voice of
Officer Frank Tenpenny in "San Andreas."
http://www.samuelljackson.com/
(You may hear a mention of Robert De Negro in the radio tracks of "Grand
Theft Auto 2." While that is a soundalike name, it is the name (nickname?)
of a real person. He helped with the music for the 1st "GTA," did the vocals
for "Grand Theft Auto" by Da Shootaz on LIPS 106 for "III," and, as Robbott De
Negro, did the vocal for Beatbox for "Vice City." Beatboxing is vocally
imitating percussion, particularly as it's done for hip hop and such, but I'm
not sure just where he shows up on the soundtrack.)
"Heat," starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Tom Sizemore, William Fichtner,
and Danny Trejo, "Heat" and "Manhunter" directed by Michael Mann, the executive
producer and a writer for "Miami Vice," and "Manhunt"
"Heat," 1995, starred Robert De Niro as Neil McCauley and Al Pacino as Lt.
Vincent Hanna. It also starred Tom Sizemore as Michael Cherrito, William
Fichtner as Roger Van Zant, and Danny Trejo as Trejo--Sonny Forelli, Ken
Rosenberg, and Umberto Robina, respectively, in "Vice City."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sizemore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fichtner
http://www.webbedcrow.com/fichtnerfansite/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Trejo
"Heat" was directed by Michael Mann, who also directed "Manhunter," 1986, in
which Brian Cox plays Hannibal Lector.
Michael Mann was also the executive producer and a writer for the TV series
"Miami Vice," 1984, and is the writer/director for an upcoming movie based on
the show.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Mann_%28film_director%29
Brian Cox did the voice acting for the TV director in Rockstar North's
M-rated violent action stealth game "Manhunt," 2003 (what are you kids watching
on TV here?). It's not by the same basic group of people of Rockstar North
that work on the "Grand Theft Auto" series, although there are some (such as
Renaud Sebbane, Hunter Platin, Navid Khonsari, and writers Alan Davidson and
James Worrall) in common. (I'm guessing that the son of "Vice City"'s Gregory
Sims is Greg Sims II in "Manhunt.")
Danny Trejo, Umberto Robina in "Vice City," had a minor role as a guy named
Scarface in a teen comedy called "Trojan War," 1997, which also featured Lee
Majors, the voice of Mitch Baker in "Vice City."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Majors
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120376/fullcredits
"The Sopranos," Lawrence Taylor--the MVP of the NFL in 1986, Fairuza Balk,
and Jorge Pupo
"The Sopranos" won the Emmy Award for Best Drama in 2004.
Lawrence Taylor, the voice of B.J. Smith in "Vice City," was the Most
Valuable Player in the NFL in 1986, the year "Vice City" takes place in. He
has also guested as himself in 2004 in the "All Happy Families..." episode of
"The Sopranos," a TV show about fictional mob leader Tony Soprano.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Taylor
http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.jsp?player_id=212
Fairuza Balk, the voice of Mercedes Cortez in "Vice City," is in two 1999
episodes of "The Sopranos" as FBI Agent Deborah Ciccerone, and in a 2001
episode as FBI Agent Deborah Ciccerone/Danielle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairuza_Balk
http://www.fairuza.com/
Jorge Pupo, the voice of Gonzales--Diaz' right hand man who betrays him--in
"Vice City" is the 2nd valet in the "All Happy Families" episode of "The
Sopranos," 2004.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0700664/
http://www.members.aol.com/jpnapoleon/clips/JPupoResume.pdf
Joe Pantoliano was also on "The Sopranos" as Ralph Oifaretto, 2001-2002; he's
the voice of Luigi Goterelli in "GTA III."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Pantoliano
John Wayne and "Easy Rider"
Dennis Hopper, the voice of Steve Scott in "Vice City," also plays Dave
Hastings in "The Sons of Katie Elder," 1965, and Moon in "True Grit," 1969. In
both of them he has death scenes with John Wayne (who plays John Elder and
"Rooster" Cogburn, respectively, and who won the Best Actor Award in 1969).
This may be why one of the "Vice City" missions is called "The Shootist"--it's
the title of John's last movie, in which John plays John Bernard Books. "The
Shootist," 1976, is also a poignant reflection on the life and career of John
Wayne.
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/364/364793p1.html
http://www.salon.com/july97/wayne970711.html
http://www.jwayne.com/biography.shtml
According to Dennis Hopper, on the Maximonline web site, John, during the
making of "True Grit," figured Dennis persuaded John's daughter to go to an
Eldridge Cleaver (Black Panthers) speech. John got out of a helicopter and
pulled out a .45: "Where's that go***mned Hopper?" He chased Dennis around, so
Dennis hid in Glen Campbell's trailer for a while.
I think the red, white, and blue cycles in front of Mitch Baker's Biker Bar
are supposed to look like the bike Peter Fonda rode in "Easy Rider," 1969,
which "Vice City" voice actor Dennis Hopper directed, and which he also starred
in and co-wrote (with Terry Southern) with producer Fonda (as Billy and Wyatt,
respectively). The Bikers are one of the most non-violent gangs in "Vice
City."
(P.S.: I'd also enjoy Jack Nicholson as a voice actor for Rockstar North to
get for Grand Theft Auto. He played alcoholic lawyer George Hanson in "Easy
Rider" and won one of his three Academy Awards for playing Randle Patrick
McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"," 1975. He has a distinctive
voice and he's played all kinds of parts. You usually think of a celebrity for
the cut scenes, but you hear the pedestrians more, although you stand a better
chance of being run over or shot that way. How about having him on the
radio?--covering a basketball game?--something.)
Peter Fonda is the voice actor for The Truth in "Grand Theft Auto San
Andreas," 2004. He also starred with Luis Guzman in "The Limey," 1999.
http://www.becksincrediblefilmfest.co.nz/fonda.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fonda
Dennis Hopper plays Frank Booth in "Blue Velvet," 1986, directed by David
Lynch and starring Kyle MacLachian as Jeffrey Beaumont. Kyle MacLachian does
the voice acting for Donald Love in "GTA III." The joke I know for this one
is that Dennis called David Lynch about getting the role of the psychopathic,
nitros-oxide-sniffing guy who's brutal to Isabella Rosselini's character.
Dennis pleaded, "You have to let me play Frank Booth--because I am Frank
Booth!" This raised a question for David: "That's great for the movie, but
how are we going to have lunch with him?"
http://www.dennis-hopper.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hopper
You might also go to the section on videos for "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City"
at the Planet Grand Theft Auto web site to download the "Vice City Voice
Actors" video featuring Dennis Hopper, Youree Cleomili Harris/Miss Cleo, and
others. You need Apple Quicktime to play it.
http://www.planetgrandtheftauto.com/gtavc/videos/
"Boogie Nights" starring Luis Guzman and Burt Reynolds
Burt Reynolds, who does the voice acting for Avery Carrington in "Vice City,"
stars as Jack Horner, for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting
Actor, in "Boogie Nights," 1997, which also stars Luis Guzman as Maurice T.
Rodriguez.
http://www.burtreynolds.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Reynolds
George Romero, writer and director of "Night of the Living Dead"
Funeraria Romero, just S of the pizza place in Little Haiti, features a
display window containing a photo of Bela Lugosi as Dracula that someone has
drawn a mustache, etc., on. It's in front of an alley where you'll find a
shallow open grave of a skeleton missing the left forearm, and is just a bit N
of Carnizero Romero Family Butchers shop, which features hanging pig carcasses,
a human arm, and a box labeled "HUMAN ORGAN for transplant" in the window.
http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/2139/00gta1screenvc96lp.jpg
http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/4265/00gta1screenvc100sd.jpg
http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/6933/00gta1screenvc89hd.jpg
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/5522/00gta1screenvc63mi.jpg
It's probably named after director/writer George Romero, who made "Night of
the Living Dead," 1968, "Dawn of the Dead," 1978, "Day of the Dead," 1985, and
scripted a remake of "Night of the Living Dead," 1990. They're all horror
movies about people trying to survive when recently dead people come to (basic
instinctive) life, need to eat other people's flesh to survive, and are only
stopped if their brains are destroyed.
http://www.georgeromero.com/
"Miami Vice" starring Phillip Michael Thomas and Don Johnson
The voice of Lance Vance is provided by Phillip Michael Thomas of the 1984-
1989 TV show "Miami Vice." The pair of guys who come after Tommy in a "Vice"
Cheetah if his wanted rating goes to three stars may look vaguely like Crockett
and Tubbs from that show. I do mean "vaguely": when the pair who show up are a
black and a white guy and not two white guys, that handsome Phillip Michael
Thomas is represented by the pedestrian you see that has a Gilligan-type sailor
cap pulled down over his eyes, and that handsome Don Johnson is represented by
some guy with a goatee.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Michael_Thomas
The "Vice" Cheetah does look like Crockett's white Ferrari Testarossa of the
last three seasons of the show. The Stinger looks like the Ferrari Daytona
Spyder he drove in the 1st two seasons. The Spyder was actually a replica built
on the chassis of a 1980 Corvette, which is a slightly earlier model Corvette
than the one the Banshee in Vice City is based on.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086759/trivia
http://www.buyersmls.com/miamivice/facts.htm
I didn't see "Miami Vice," but I've read that there are similarities, such as
with the scenery and variety of vehicles. The heroes were savvy to the ways of
the criminals they were after, and Tommy Vercetti sure is. It wasn't a
prequel, but Don Johnson lit up between 11 and 12 (no, no, no....).
Luis Guzman (the voice of Diaz in "Vice City") was in a couple of episodes of
"Miami Vice," too--as Miguel in a 1985 episode and as the 1st Goon in a 1986
episode. I'm starting to think I have to give Luiz Guzman his own walk-
through--he's in everything, this guy.
Jan Hammer (the Mahavishnu Orchestra) came up with music for "Miami Vice"
such as "Crockett's Theme," which is played on Emotion 98.3 in "Vice City."
http://www.janhammer.com/
Miss Cleo, the Psychic Friends Network, wiccans, attempts to sell the ability
to acquire paranormal abilities, and the lunar landing hoax hoax
Youree Cleomili Harris, who plays the Haitian gang leader Auntie Poulette who
seems to have Tommy Vercetti under her spell in "Vice City," is also known as
Miss Cleo and claims to be a psychic of a line of Jamaican shamans. (Uh-oh.
Somebody call James Randi. Shirley McLaine was unavailable?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Cleo
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/lifestyle/60478_misscleo.shtml
According to the Bella Online web page by Lisa Shea, Youree was actually born
in Los Angeles to American parents. Miss Cleo's Mind and Spirit Psychic
Network, started in 1999, was the most popular telephone psychic service in the
country, advertised on TV, with Youree fronting it but phones answered by
people using scripts, telemarketer-style. It was built by South Florida
businessman, Steven Feder, with his cousin, Peter Stolz, who before had created
Dionne Warwick's Psychic Friends Network, which was promoted by celebrities
such as Philip Michael Thomas, the voice of Lance Vance in "Vice City." Youree
also helped "hawk a Web-based psychic consultation service, a line of at-home
tarot products distributed by the Walgreens drug store chain, apparel, and even
an online dating service," according to a Jan.17, 2002, web site about the
company and controversy around it. It also says that Youree claims a distance
between herself and the practices of the business people of it.
http://www.courttv.com/news/feature/cleo/misscleo_ctv.html
The Miss Cleo...Network, after an investigation by Court TV and several
Attorney Generals, was shut down. She appeared as Miss Cleo in early 2005 in
TV ads for a Miami used car dealership.
http://www.weht.net/WEHT/Miss_Cleo.html
A Sept.-Oct., 1995, Skeptical Enquirer report that says a bit about a psychic
network that includes the Philip Michael Thomas Network is at:
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2843/is_n5_v19/ai_17450601
A 2002 CSICOP report is at:
http://www.csicop.org/misscleo/
A web site about Philip Michael Thomas winning a suit for back payment from
the Psychic Readers Network is at:
http://extratv.warnerbros.com/dailynews/extra/06_02/06_06e.html
You might also go to the James Randi Educational, or CSICOP, home page and
put "Miss Cleo" and "psychics" or such in the search engine.
Fairuza Balk, Mercedes Cortez in "Vice City," was named Fairuza by her father
regarding her blue eyes--"Fairuza" is Persian for "turquoise." She used to, at
least, claim she was a wiccan (member of a wicca/witchcraft-oriented religion;
a witch), and ran a store for it, Panpipes Magickal, she's since sold.
Probably related to that, she stars as Nancy Downs, one of the high school
girls who form a coven of witches who practice "The Craft," 1996. I think the
segment by Gethsemanee (Lynn Lipton) the witch on KCHAT in "Vice City" is meant
to be a parody of that.
Konstantinos, a guest on VCPR, has a web site: http://konstantinos.com/
For various fees, you can buy books in which the victim is promised to catch
the dead on audio and video tape, summon spirits to locate treasure, control
the weather, guard their home while they're away (I could have used that a few
times), combat "psychic vampires" who use mind over matter to kill people, etc.
It's not given as a philosophical speculation on a possibility, pro or con, but
something you can pay him to learn to be able to do.
You might also go to the James Randi Educational, or CSICOP, home page and
put various topics Konstantinos brings up in the search engine.
If the lunar landing stage at Interglobal films calls to mind the lunar
landing hoax rumor, which it probably parodies, you might want to look at a
good criticism of the rumor at:
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html
http://www.csicop.org/si/2003-03/commentary.html
"Sgt. Bilko" starring Phil Silvers, "Taxi" starring Andy Kaufman, "Top Gun,"
and "Iron Eagles" starring Lou Gossett, Jr.
I think Fort Baxter is named after the Fort Baxter in the 1950's TV comedy
"Sgt. Bilko" that starred Phil Silvers. Rockstar North is based in Scotland,
and "Sgt. Bilko" is as popular on TV in Great Britain as "The Honeymooners" is
here in the United States. I don't know why "Sgt. Bilko" isn't more popular
here--I thought it was pretty good in the reruns I saw.
The interior of Kaufman Cabs looks like the main set of the 1978-1983 TV
comedy "Taxi." Someone has written that if you drive a cab out of it, you may
hear an Andy Kaufman as Latke Gravis-type voice say, "Stop--What are you
doing?," but that's actually something a (Kaufman only?) cab driver says if
Tommy jacks his cab. Non-working "Pogo the Monkey" and "Degenatron" arcade
games, advertised on the radio in "GTA III," are found here and Little Haiti
Well Stacked Pizza place. The very simple working versions are on the Internet
at:
http://www.pogothemonkey.com/
http://www.degenatron.com/
Some of the titles given in the Statistics section on Flight ratings are from
the movie "Top Gun," 1986. (Thanks to the FAQ by Aggrosk8er at Gamefaqs.) The
"top fun" logo on some vans is similar to the "Top Gun" logo. "Chappy" is
taken from the "Iron Eagles" movies I, 1986, through IV, 1995, starring Lou
Gossett, Jr., as Colonel Charles "Chappy" Sinclair.
Game makers and voice actors
Sam and Dan Houser and Jamie King worked for BMG Interactive, later
Rockstar. Terry Donovan worked for Arista, later Rockstar. Together with DMA
Designs, later Rockstar North, they created the Grand Theft Auto series. Dan
worked on them from "2" on, and Terry began on the series by joining Dan to
work with Buka Entertainment to create "London 1969." Dan also worked on
"Manhunt" and the "Midnight Club" games for Rockstar, and the other games Sam
and Terry helped with include Take-Two Interactive's "Oni" (I have it),
Gathering of Developers' "Serious Sam: The Second Encounter," and, for Rockstar
Games, the "Midnight Club" games, "Max Payne," "Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max
Payne," "Mafia" (I have it), and others. For a much larger list by each of
them, go to http://www.mobygames.com/ and put their names in the search engine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockstar_North
http://www.dmadesign.org/
"Mafia: City of Lost Heaven," 2002, a game best admired for the PC version,
has a some other people in common with "Vice City" and "III," too.
Name "Mafia" "III" "Vice City"
Renaud Sebbane producer/ Barry Stark/producer: pedestrian dialogue
director: ("Vice City" and "III")
voice overs
Chris Phillips various voices Marty Chonks/
El Burro
George Dicenzo Salieri Ernest Kelly (Print Works)
Laura Maxwell Michelle (as Laura Bubbles) pedestrian
Judy Henderson casting casting
John Zurhellen various voices Jethro (Boatyard--wears a flowered
shirt)
Others who did various voices for "Mafia" include "Vice City" voice actors
Adam Davidson and Steve Kenezevitch/Kenzevich (pedestrians, both also in
"III"), Gilliam Telling (radio caller), Laura Paterson (commercials and "III"
pedestrian), and Gene/Gean Hilgreen (commercial voice).
Note: George Dicenzo also played District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi in
"Helter Skelter," 1976, Major Benchley in "Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind,"
1977, and Sam Baines in "Back to the Future," 1985.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0225191/
http://www.randomactsoftheater.com/ABOUTgeorge.html
The game "Max Payne," 2001, shares Renaud Sebbane, Jane Gennaro (Maude the
Ice Cream lady), and Navid Khonsari (Dwayne of the Boatyard--he wears a yellow
jersey) with "Vice City." And in "Grand Theft Auto 2," a Max Paint garage does
what a Pay 'n' Spray does in subsequent installments of the series.
Navid also does voice acting in "GTA III" (the one who calls Lazlow about
killer bees), "Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne," 2003 (the porn host),
"Manhunt," 2003 (Cerberus guard #3), and reprises Dwayne in "San Andreas." He
also directed the motion capture for the cut scenes, helped Dan Houser direct
the audio for the cut scenes, and helped write the pedestrian dialogue for
"Vice City."
Robert Davi, Col. Cortez in "Vice City," is the voice of the SpecOps leader
in the game "Halo 2," 2004.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Davi
http://www.thespiannet.com/actors/D/davi_robert/index.shtml
And you can find Jenna Jameson, Candy Suxxx in "Vice City," as Daisy, the
skater you have to complete the game, etc., to unlock (oo-oo) in "Tony Hawk's
Pro Skater 4," 2003.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenna_Jameson
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/7264/00gta1jennajameson1da.jpg
Soundalike game names
In the "Autocide" assassination mission in "Vice City, you're to have Tommy
kill six people with names like characters in other crime games:
- Mike Griffin--like Mace Griffin in "Mace Griffin Bounty Hunter," 2003.
- Dick Tanner--the same as Tanner in "Driv3r," 2004, who, like Tony Cipriani
in GTA's "III," 2001, and Rafferty in the game "True Crime: Streets of LA,"
2003, is voice acted by Michael Madsen. He also stars as Sonny Black in "Donny
Brasco," 1997, which stars Al Pacino as Benjamin "Lefty" Ruggiero, and plays
Vladimir in the movie based on the game "Bloodrayne," 2002. In the mission
"Madd Dogg's Rhymes" in "San Andreas," a man plays a video game and says, "This
sucks. I mean, how could Refractions mess up so bad? Tanner, you suck ass!"
"Driv3r," 2004, is designed by Reflections Interactive.
- Marcus Hammond and Franco Carter--like Mark Hammond and Frank Carter in "The
Getaway," 2002.
- Nick Kong--like Nick Kang in "True Crime: Streets of LA."
- Charlie Dilson--like Charlie Jolson in "The Getaway."
Thanks to this web site for the "Autocide" game references:
http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0314123/trivia
Celebrity soundalikes
Maybe it's just a coincidence, but some of the other pedestrians sound like
celebrities not listed in the cast.
The police man shouting, "Dangerous driving is a crime" sounds like Jim
Carrey;
the light brunette guy in a brown leather jacket who says, "Do you want me to
push you?" sounds like Gene Hackman as Popeye Doyle in "The French Connection,"
1971 (or Brian Doyle Murray, Bill's brother);
one of the policemen sounds like comic/TV game show "Family Feud" host Louis
Anderson: "I'd chase you if I didn't have so many doughnuts";
a matronly business lady says, "Oh, no, you don't" like Goldie Hawn;
the lady selling cigars by the Ocean View sounds like Olive Oyl of "Popeye"
cartoons;
some business guy says,"Mm-mm, yes" like the late Jim Backus;
the victimized shopkeepers of "Shakedown" all sound vaguely like Woody Allen:
"My livelihood--destroyed";
the construction worker who says, "I'll dunk your f-in' doughnut" and "Ha ha,
you missed" sounds like someone from "The Simpsons";
and the ped who says, "Money is the root of all evil--gimme some," "Jesus,
Joseph, and Mary," and "Somebody should hit you with a brick," etc., sounds
like the late Walter Brennan. Someone named Dream Projects at the Gamefaqs
message boards recently wrote that you hear that last voice say a lot of funny
things if you get into a lot of fights with what he called "hillbillies" in the
construction area. They're barefoot with blue jeans, red jerseys, brown
sweaters, black hair and beards.
More funny things pedestrians say
An old lady: "I think I s**t my pants."
A tramp: "Fire in the hole!"; a drunken one: "I'm lost again."
The skater lady: "Gangway, Disco Duck!"
A rich businessman: "Where the hell is my yacht?"
A young black lady in jeans: "S**tknockers!" ("S**tknockers"?)
For me, part of the fun is thinking of things you'd say in response to them.
In response to some of the harsher things, I get a lot of mileage out of an im-
pression of Andy Griffith as Andy Taylor on the 1960-1968 TV show "The Andy
Griffith Show": "That wouldn't be very sociable" or "I don't think I'd be par-
tial to that." And shaking your head "No" like an exasperated Don Rickles about
to say, "You dummy" comes up when a member of the Vercetti gang says, "Where are
we?" (These are the people I have to protect me if homicidal criminals come
around....) And when the police radio dispatcher seems to know what vehicle
Tommy is in when he has a wanted level--"suspect last seen in a helicopter"--
it's enough to say something like "I'll have to keep an eye out for that; I al-
ways try to do my civic duty...."
Captain Scott and Dundee, Scotland
According to Amnesiac at the Easter Eggs Archive web site, a billboard by the
airport which says "Come to Dundee," shows the ship "Discovery," which Captain
Scott sailed to Antarctica and which currently resides at Dundee, Scotland, and
the sign says that because some of the Rockstar North programmers came from DMA
Designs in Dundee. (It also says, "Look, we have a boat that belonged to a
loser!" which is a harsh joke. Robert Falcon Scott made a couple of pioneering
expeditions to the Antarctic, fraught with tragedy but bringing scientific dis-
covery and acclaim. In his 2nd effort, he led a team that tried to be the 1st
to reach the South Pole but were beaten there by a Norwegian group led by Roald
Amundsen that got there 21 days earlier. The effort by Scott's group was also
made at the cost of their lives, having gotten caught in blizzards in 1904.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Scott
Update: there's another billboard about Dundee in "San Andreas" on the roof of
a Vinyl Countdown in N Rodeo.
http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/7535/00gta1dundeesa4jy.jpg
Look-alike mall and soundalike island
Washington Mall looks like the Bal Harbor Mall in Miami, which has expensive
stores like Gucci's. (Thanks to the Secrets FAQ by THaguyINgta3 at the
Gamefaqs web site for the Bal Harbor Mall tip.)
http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/grand_theft_auto_vice_city_h.txt
If you want to see it, go to this web site:
http://www.balharbourshops.com/
The porn film studio is on Prawn Island. "Prawn," besides being a name for
edible crustaceans, is a pun that sounds like "prOn," deliberately illiterate
Internet slang for "porn."
Little Havana, Little Haiti, and Liberty City--Miami
There's a Little Havana district, named after the capital of Cuba and which
has a predominantly Cuban population, in SW Miami. It's centered along SW 8th
St.--"Calle Ocho" (8th St.). It began growing with people fleeing the Cuban
revolution in 1959.
Little Haiti, with a predominantly Haitian population, is about 15 miles NW of
it in Miami. It spans NW 12th to 19th Aves. and 62nd to 73rd Sts.. It began
growing with refugees fleeing extreme poverty in Haiti in the 1960's. As in the
game, Little Haiti has more poverty and crime of the two, indicated in the game
with the shacks of Auntie Poulet's neighborhood and the harsher behavior of the
Little Haiti gangsters.
I'm no big sociology professor--I don't even follow the news as much as some.
But the conflict in real life doesn't seem to be as much a matter of how the
immigrants of one group get along with the members of the other, although Miami
is a relatively segregated place of recent great changes in proportions of
ethnic groups, but more over differences in how the attempts at immigration
from each country to the U.S. have been considered and handled.
1980 saw a wave of immigration from both and pointed up this difference.
While the Haitians were accepted in NYC they were rejected in Miami, considered
as fleeing an American protectorate in comparison with Cubans who were accepted
as fleeing communism and Fidel Castro. Castro opened the harbor at Mariel and
made sure the 1000's of Cubans taken from it to the U.S. were from jails and
hospitals for the criminally insane. (Though it was done to spite the U.S.
view of him as cruel, it ironically reaffirmed the U.S. view that he could be a
real nutcake.) The crime rate went up.
There is a Liberty City section of Miami, too, which is the largest African-
American section of Miami, about two miles from Little Havana. It originated
in the 1930's with people moving from overcrowding in the African-American
Miami neighborhood of Overtown to the concrete buildings with indoor plumbing
in what became known as Liberty City. Many of them viewed the difference
above, with the Cuban-Americans being more successfully accepted and integrated
into Miami, as having the added factor of racism.
Liberty City hasn't recovered from the riots there after the all white jury
acquittal of the white policemen who beat Arthur McDuffie to death in 1980. Mc-
Duffie was a black insurance man. The officers said he was killed when his mo-
torcycle crashed after a high speed getaway attempt, then changed it when one
officer said he was beaten to death with flashlights when he forcefully resisted
arrest.
In 2002, the U.S. Census Bureau named Miami as the poorest large urban center
in the United States.
Among many sources, you might read:
http://www.asje.org/mg.html
http://web2.uwindsor.ca/flipside/vol3/jan00/00ja23a.htm
http://www.co.miami-dade.fl.us/transit/BH/Liberty_City.htm
Other places "Vice City" is based on
Wikipedia has a good article about places "Vice City" is based on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_city
A few examples:
The lighthouse is based on Cape Florida lighthouse in Key Biscayne.
http://img478.imageshack.us/img478/6702/00gta1lighthousevc19tj.jpg
http://img478.imageshack.us/img478/8862/00gta1lighthousevc2pn.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Florida_lighthouse
The park at the S end of the E island is like South Pointe Park.
http://img452.imageshack.us/img452/1984/00gta1southpointepark9vk.jpg
North Point Mall is a parody of Aventura Mall.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aventura_Mall
One of the places Starfish Island seems like, and the one that the name is
based on, is Star Island.
http://www.star-island.com/
Leaf Links seems to represent a number of Country Clubs on the E side of
Miami. The name comes from Leith Links, which is in Leith near Edinburgh, Scot-
land, where Rockstar North is. Leith Links is where the earliest record of golf
is found. It's considered the "home of golf" because the first official rules
were formed there.
"Rockstar North is located on Leith Street, the road (continued as Leith
Walk) to Leith from central Edinburgh. Prior to this, the company was
based within Leith itself--in an office building situated next to Leith
Links park. The park itself is honoured in the fourth Grand Theft Auto
game, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, where the local country club is called
Leaf Links."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leith
GTW notes:
The name of the WK Chariot hotel is probably a variation of the name of the
"JW Marriot Hotel" of Miami. The curved porch roof is similar, too.
http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/4909/00gta1jwmarriotthotelvc3fo.jpg
One of the Miami Beach life guard huts:
http://img452.imageshack.us/img452/6021/00gta1lifeguardhut14dh.jpg
The Art Deco district of Ocean Drive in South Beach, Miami:
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/1492/00gta1artdecodistrict4gb.jpg
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/9638/00gta1artdecodistrict16qf.jpg
http://img489.imageshack.us/img489/1738/00gta1artdeco21ir.jpg
Downtown Miami:
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/1871/00gta1downtownmiami5vr.jpg
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I.3 How to go to New York and get there a couple years before you leave:
some of the "Grand Theft Auto III" tie-ins with "Vice City."
People and the Dodo
Places
Things
Walk out over thin air (hoo-ha!)
Darkel and discarded game ideas
PS: "San Andreas," "GTA," "Wild Metal Country," and "GTA 2"
"Grand Theft Auto Vice City" is a prequel, set in 1986 Vice City/Miami, to
"Grand Theft Auto III," set in 2001? Liberty City/New York City, of the
same world, if not main story line.
People and the Dodo
Sonny Forelli (Tom Sizemore), who seems to have set Tommy Vercetti up to go
to prison for 15 years, sends him to Vice City, and is killed by him in the
end, must have criminal relatives. In "GTA III," Joey Leone (Michael
Rappaport) wants Claude (Claude Speed of "Grand Theft Auto 2"?), the lead
character, to deal with the Forelli brothers.
Lazlow Jones, one of the GTA writers, hosts VROCK in "Vice City." One of the
CDs of "Vice City," and extra, songs reveals how Lazlow got kicked off the rock
station. (See the "Radio Station Scripts" FAQ by Kintaro Oe age 25 at
Gamefaqs. Basically, the normally level-headed Lazlow gets a little naively
carried away with his rock star wild man effort.) He hosts Chatterbox FM in
"III."
Fernando (Frank Chavez) hosts Emotion 98.3 in "Vice City." He's a pimp
pretending he's something better to the increasing annoyance of Lazlow on
Chatterbox FM in "GTA III."
Barry Stark, the guest who's a nudist on VCPR in "Vice City," is a nudist
who calls in to Chatterbox FM in "III." He's voice acted by Renaud Sebbane,
who produced the pedestrian dialogue for "Vice City" and "III."
The British fellow who calls in to KCHAT and wants to be spanked in "Vice
City" calls in to Chatterbox FM wanting the same thing in "III."
The caller to KCHAT who's a fan of Claude Maginot (John Mauceri) in "Vice
City" is Morgan Merryweather (Gerry Cosgrove), who's the DJ of the classical
station Double Clef FM in "III."
Toni (Maria Chambers) hosts Flash in "Vice City" and Flashback FM in "III."
The group onstage at the Malibu Club is a Village People-looking group of
Vice City pedestrians (except the Native American Indian and cowboy are
replaced by a fireman). A pedestrian ribs the lyrics of songs by the Village
People ("Young man," "There's a place you can go," "In the navy," etc.) in "GTA
III."
8 Ball has a bomb shop in "Vice City," and is one of the characters, voice
acted by Guru, and has three bomb shops, each with a different way to detonate
bombs, in "III."
Donald Love, as Avery Carrington's silent stenographer in "Vice City," picks
up on Avery's line "...nothing brings down real estate prices quicker than a
good old-fashioned gang war, 'cept maybe a disaster, like a biblical plague..."
and uses a slightly paraphrased version of it himself as a media mogul, voice
acted by Kyle MacLachen, in "III." (I think "Donald" may be meant to suggest
Donald Trump. The wealthy media mogul part reminds me a bit of Ted Turner.)
Diaz (Luis Guzman), the crack dealing crime boss, complains to Tommy Vercetti
that his favorite "El burro" movie wouldn't play. El Burro (Chris Phillips),
leader of the Diablos gang, gives Claude, the lead character of "GTA III," some
missions in Portland and likes porno of...el burro. (El Burro also gives
missions in the 1st "Grand Theft Auto.")
El Burro is among the Stephen Bliss cartoon representations of a few
characters of "GTA III" you can find in "Vice City" (El Burro is that fat guy
laughing and pulling his t-shirt off his belly to show a tattoo). You can find
him with 8 Ball, Kenji Kasen, and Maria in the display window of the Rockstar
Video Games store, S end of the east island, 2nd street from the E, a little
over half a block up on the E side of the street. You can find ones of Luigi
Goterellio, Misty, Asuka Kasen, and Toni Cipriani as targets in the windows of
the 2nd and 3rd shooting tests in "The Shootist" and in "Rifle Range."
http://www.stephenbliss.com/
Phil Cassidy (Gary Busey), who has heavy artillery to sell Tommy and loses
his arm in "Vice City," has an Army Surplus place and is featured as the One
Armed Bandit in the "Arms Shortage" mission for Ray Machowski (Robert Loggia)
in "GTA III."
http://www.garybusey.com/
http://www.buseyworld.com/
Hunter Platin, the Psycho in "Vice City," is Phil Cassidy, Curly Bob, and
Chico in "III."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1066291/
Kim Gurney, who is one of the people who supply the voices of pedestrians in
"Vice City" and "San Andreas," is the voice of Misty in "III."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1065373/
The little Dodo (you can't fly), pulling a sign behind it, and the Skimmer (a
Dodo with pontoons you can fly) in "Vice City," show up as a Dodo (you can fly)
with clipped wings at the airport, and a Dodo (you can't fly) flying overhead,
in "GTA III." As the "Vice City" Dodo (you can't fly), it's afforded the
special status of being the only thing (and person, considering that there must
be someone in there flying it) that you can get 30 criminal rating points and a
three star wanted level for destroying, which may create the biggest explosion
of the game. Like Tommy, however, it won't stay lying down no matter what you
do to it--it keeps coming back. Both the non-flyable "Vice City" Dodo and at
least the flyable Dodo in "III" have Y-ME369, as in "Why me?" (369 implying a
trio of mutual oral sex?) written on the side of it, meaning they're the same
small plane(s).
I like it. It's in "San Andreas," too, and they fixed the wings.
Places
There's a set of a bit of the Broadway-like Bedford Point section of Staunton
Island of "GTA III" at Interglobal Films on Prawn Island in "Vice City." It's
the one with the huge half of a hamburger marquee.
(You can find a lot more Liberty City/New York City and New Jersey
similarities by going to the http://en.wikipedia.org/ web site and putting
"Liberty City" in their search engine.)
If there's a "GTA III" Shoreside Vale unfinished tunnel in "Vice City," it's
the big tan sewer pipe sticking out from the land into the water at the base of
the V in the water between Fort Baxter and Little Havana. You could type the
"seaways" code and drive into it to the length of a small car, but that's it.
It's about as exciting. I haven't heard about anyone wondering what's behind
it, though.
Things
The terrarium in Tommy's Ocean View apartment contains a rock arch and a
light house which resemble the ones behind Mafia leader Salvatore Leone's
(Frank Vincent) Portland mansion in "GTA III." The open chest in it seems to
refer to the open chest that Claude, the lead character of "GTA III," finds at
Donald Love's place as he realizes that Donald Love has disappeared. A poster
of Claude is on the Ocean View wall.
Between 23:00 and midnight, the lights in the windows of the WK Chariot Hotel
in "Vice City" depict the outline of a huge c**ck and balls, and spray squirts
periodically from the roof. (The WK Chariot is east and across the street from
the parking lot of the Malibu Club.) The "Zombie Elvis" papers that litter the
city are put out by the Liberty C**k. The guy with a ponytail by Liberty
College in Staunton in "III" has a sketch on his notepad by someone that might
have had the WK Chariot in mind. The fans at the stadium hold up cards that
spell the name of their team: C**KS. I wonder if the PC "San Andreas" is going
to have something like that.
(Update: in "San Andreas," W of Verdant Meadows, is the GTA version of Big
Stoney of Kodachrome Basin, Utah. I leave it to some modder to figure out how
to put Regular Tom on top of it.)
http://www.mnmuseumofthems.org/Faces/labels/Stoney.html
The Degenatron and Pogo the Monkey (non-working) arcade games in Kaufman Cabs
and a Little Haiti pizza store in "Vice City" are advertised on the radio in
"III."
The Predator, the police boat with a built-in machine gun (I.9.E), is in
"Paparazzi Purge" in "GTA III."
Some billboards by the airport in "Vice City" say "Take a vacation in Liberty
City." It may be the "GTA III" guy in the blue car in the foreground of it--
it's too blurry to tell. In "GTA III," an ad in the tunnel to the airport, and
an ad for the airport on a billboard in Staunton Island, says, "see you in
MIAMI." There's a small picture of palm trees on a beach that says, "GETAWAY"
on the refrigerator in the trailer at Phil's Place in "Vice City." On a wall
of the Portland hideout in "III" is a poster of the same thing.
The Bitch 'n' Dog Food trucks in "Vice City" have boxes with a human face
drawn on them in the back (knock the back door off with a night stick or such
to see them). In the "Her Lover" mission in "III," Marty Chonks (Chris
Phillips) intends that the lover of his late wife is going to give the dogs of
Liberty City a new flavor that month.
Walk out over thin air (hoo-ha!)
In "GTA III," you could jump from atop an Ambulance, backed onto a mound of
dirt along the wall on the top level of Marco's Bistro (ac