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Winstein (glenster1 at Gamefaqs and IGN, and glenster at Super Cheats, StuckGamer, neoseeker, 1UP, My Cheats, GamerHelp, Game Revolution, Game- Border, and Gamesradar) glenster (who's at) rediffmail.com This walk-through, with active links for the web addresses I use, is at: http://www.freewebs.com/glenster1/index.htm 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. While you're there, you might want see if you find any useful information in "Glenster's Guide to GTJ Brooklyn," which is also at the next link: http://gtw6437.tripod.com/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& 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--(update): or Vista Home Premium Edition. Written with 1280x1024 resolution and Lucida Console font--size 10. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& 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," Martin Scorsese, Tiger Cabs, "Blue Thunder," Samuel L. Jackson, Quentin Tarantino, Joanna Taylor, Robert De Negro, "Heat," "Manhunter," "Miami Vice," "Manhunt," "The Sopranos," "Nice Dreams," John Wayne, "Easy Rider," "Speed," "Boogie Nights," "To Live and Die in L.A.," George Romero, "Lady Frankenstein," "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, "Top Gun," "Iron Eagle," Iron Maiden, "Spycatcher," Frank Sinatra, "Disco Inferno," "We Close Our Eyes," Roger Wayland, Allan Robertson, Rambo, "The Final Countdown," "Driving Miss Daisy," Game makers and voice actors, soundalike game names, celebrity soundalikes (Walter Brennan, etc.), more funny things pedestrians say, 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 and use one processor core Take-Two Games web site and support 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 A checklist for 100% completion 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 Gamepad controls 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 How to put your convertible roof or Teddy Bear up or down, change the things you can find in delivery trucks, and make other quick vehicle changes with instant replays Bus driver income and bus "routes" Police cars: safe collisions and spike strip-proof tires Securicars 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--see I.32; and fly it--see 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 360 degree Stoppie The flip gimmick The PC Super Jump The BSM Airgrabs Headers Half pipe stunts Climbing and jumping from trees Hitting poles Wallrides 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 Flying the Skimmer upside down Dodo emeritus Dodo ephemeralis The real names of the solid motionless jets The real name of the solid, motionless lunar module The real name of the solid, motionless UFO 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 Battleship I.9.F General vehicle information Healing vehicles with "aspirine," garages, and Pay 'n' Sprays Keeping vehicles from disappearing Handling Bailing Donuts Drive-bys Picking up prostitutes Fast switch to the MP3 station 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 Ring_of_Fire's way to make interior graphics load in Ghost World Let me see Ghost World--I've got a Bazooka here The Lithjoe's Trainer Jetpack (No Clip) Way to Visit Ghost World 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 pickups 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 &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& 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. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& 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. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& 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 GTA_Loc's way to get $1,000 per store and not confront the police 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. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& 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. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& 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 &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& 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," mak- ing 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 Attack- ers--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 Mali- bu Club and Sunshine Autos asset missions--as little as possible to jack Hila- ry's Sabre Turbo (just as an option for something different to do--it's not bul- let-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. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& 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) GTA_Loc's "Felony Allowed" gimmick 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 &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Please consider this before continuing beyond "Psycho Killer" with the mis- sions: 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 de- stroyed 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 ex- plained 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 mis- sion, and possibly another vehicle to use with it to make a roadblock for Hila- ry, might make the Angel disappear. So I scheduled "The Driver" twice: option- ally, 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 "Mess- ing 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 as- set 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 Au- tos 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 Sun- shine 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 mis- sions 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. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& 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 GTA_Loc's "Never Wanted" gimmick (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, and how to get a BP/FP/EP Sabre Turbo from Hilary on 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.) A checklist for 100% completion &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& 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 Make your own skin I.100.D Mods I.100.D.a Uncheck the green dot I.100.D.b Make backups (and where to find other VC backup files) I.100.D.c Tools: The IMG Tool v.2 DMagic1's Wheel Mod v.3 The Vice TXD Tool The Rescaler and CFG Studio 2 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 The hot Cougar scandal 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 Carl Johnson in Vice City I.100.D.ff Trainers Pizzadox' +10 Trainer Alper Saracoglu's GTA Vice City Administrative Console Lithjoe's Vice City Ultimate Trainer 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, the Easy Graphic Converter, and Virtual Dub How I make videos &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& 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 fanta- sy 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 some- times 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 subur- ban 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 cinemat- ic 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 Stan- dard 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 mis- sions, doing some of the side missions early on gives Tommy benefits and abili- ties that can help him in the rest of the side missions and main storyline mis- sions. 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 guides for "GTA III" and "San Andreas," which have the same basic structure and strategic assistance. I basically use his advice, often hard to improve on, with the same basic con- cern to supply the easiest way to do things, and change something if it's dif- ferent 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 Cas- tro'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 in- terests, 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 any- body--they didn't help the Beatles get along any better. I'll change to a dif- ferent 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 Take-Two Inter- active 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-Two 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-Two 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 subsidiar- ies 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 pon- derous 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 occa- sional 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 dilapidated old seeker look around: http://www.neoseeker.com/ thanks to Brooks Huber and the 1UP and My Cheats web sites for scattering some empowerment for me and many others around the scenery: http://www.1up.com/ http://www.mycheats.com/list/hot/0/games thanks to Spenser Hall and the GamerHelp web site for letting me help: http://www.gamerhelp.com/ thanks to Tim and the Game Revolution web site for letting me have a place in their revolution: http://www.gamerevolution.com/ thanks to Emanuele and the GameBorder web site for hosting this big fat Sun- day newspaper complete with the funnies: http://www.gameborder.com/ thanks to Paul Ryan and the gamesradar web site for helping my walk-through travel safe and sound: http://www.gamesradar.com/us/index.jsp 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 CFG Studio 2 to make it easier still: http://www.projectcerbera.com/ thanks to the enigmatic and industrious modder spaceeinstein for the well-re- searched 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 Cer- bera's web site, various helpful tips scattered throughout the walk-through, and his latest "All In One Mod": http://www.freewebs.com/spaceeinstein/grandtheftauto.htm http://www.youtube.com/user/spaceeinstein 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, thanks to Demarest, of the GTA Forums (and now defunct tfads) web site, 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 Star- fish 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://hosted.filefront.com/ThunderPower/ http://web.archive.org/web/20070221164812/www.tfads.com/sacode/released.html http://www.gtaforums.com/ thanks to the ardent quests of Chris Phillips for finding an invisible plate in the roof of the Schuman Health Care 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 mil- itary base): http://www.thegtaplace.com/vicecity/glitches.php thanks to U.K. reader Colin Attle several times over for the correct calcula- tion for pay for the Paramedic, Firetruck, and Vigilante Sub-missions, and var- ious references, including that that Fizz Bombs ("Love Juice") are candies in the U.K., that "Broons" is also a reference to the Scottish comic strip "The Broons," where the graffiti for the Rockstar Vancouver game "Bully" is, and that the Ocean View apartment magazine "ERSE" probably refers to the U.K. videogame magazine "Edge." thanks to helpful modder DiCanio for fun ideas like the RC mod and his adap- tation of Yoyo's '57 Chevy Bel Air (like my Dad's car) mod: http://www.gtagaming.com/downloads?p=file&id=535 http://grandtheftauto.filefront.com/file/1957_Chevrolet_Bel_Air_Convertible; 63196 thanks to Klarnetist, whom I learned of from a Russian web site, for several hardtop versions (even more like my Dad's car) of Yoyo's 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air: http://www.gta-classics.de/ http://gta.com.ua/klarny/ thanks to Gunslinger for the models and skins for Tommy and lady pedestrians that just can't be beat. The codenamenetwork web site seems to have changed hands, so I don't know if we'll see his http://gunslinger.codenamenetwork.com/ site again. If not, it's a shame--it was a distinctive one. You can still find a number of his skins and models at: http://www.gta-downloads.com/database.php?act=file&id=1915 http://www.gta-downloads.com/database.php?act=file&id=1133 http://www.gta-downloads.com/database.php?act=file&id=1912 http://www.gta-downloads.com/database.php?act=file&id=1913 http://gtaplanet.gamigo.de/content/index.php?seite=filezone&ordner_id=60&sz=2 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 for the real names of some of the land and flying vehicles, 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 oth- ers at: http://z8.invisionfree.com/theghostchildren/index.php? 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? thanks to GTA_Loc's post at GTA Forums for the "Felony Allowed" (I.53) and Never Wanted (I.61) gimmicks, useful for Knocking Off Stores (I.24), 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 High- est 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 his- torical 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 infor- mation 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 ar- chive web site tip). PC info: I have a PC--no big deal. You should be saving up for one of those top end (64 bit when related software uses it--128 bit is down the road) quad core (more cores are down the road) 45nm (smaller is down the road) processors with a motherboard that uses SLI or Crossfire and PCI Express 2, when they start making them to do more and cost even less, the way I was told they would. As long as the other requirements were met, I bet most everyone's "Vice City" would run smoothly then. Damn, I bet most everyone's "The Elder Scrolls" would run smoothly then--even "The Sims" would be zippy. On one hand, I hope the speed of these changes doesn't create a compatibility problem with PCs for game developers who may take a couple years to work on a PC game. On the other hand, I hope the improved technology for PCs and of PS3 al- lows developers an easier time of transferring game titles from PC to PS3 and vice versa, especially if you can use keyboard and mouse or a gamepad for either one. 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 come- dy 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 Pio- neer 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 vi- sual. Me and each of them watched movies and listened to music together. I re- member 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, 2006, 2007, and 2008 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 pub- licly 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. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& 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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64 The song clip heard during the typing is from the 1979 song by The Buggles, "Video Killed the Radio Star," which is heard on radio station Flash FM in the game. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWtHEmVjVw8 http://artists.letssingit.com/buggles-video-killed-the-radio-star-mz5ht6j http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_killed_the_radio_star As the game prompted, "Vice City," begins, alternating bands of color are seen while a bit of music that sounds like a calliope played by a MIDI machine is heard. The musical phrase played is the one that accompanies the appearance, in the upper left corner of the screen, of the pager that makes announcements in "GTA III." GTAs, from "III" on, use Pricedown font for the "Grand Theft Auto" title. It's similar to the font used since 1972 for the title of the TV game show "The Price is Right." Ray Larabie created the Pricedown font and named it in 1998. The name of the font combines "Price" with the word "down" of the line used on the show to call an audience member to be a contestant: "Come on down." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_%28series%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Larabie 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 car- toon 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. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& 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, "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," Martin Scorsese, Tiger Cabs, "Blue Thunder," Samuel L. Jackson, Quentin Tarantino, Joanna Taylor, Robert De Negro, "Heat," "Manhunter," "Miami Vice," "Manhunt," "The Sopranos," "Nice Dreams," John Wayne, "Easy Rider," "Speed," "Boogie Nights," "To Live and Die in L.A.," George Romero, "Lady Frankenstein," "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, "Top Gun," "Iron Eagle," Iron Maiden, "Spycatcher," Frank Sinatra, "Disco Inferno," "We Close Our Eyes," Roger Wayland, Allan Robertson, Rambo, "The Final Countdown," "Driving Miss Daisy," Game makers and voice actors, soundalike game names, celebrity soundalikes (Walter Brennan, etc.), more funny things pedestrians say, 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 "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, ac- tion title, PS2 title, and PC title). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAFTA_Games_Awards http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314123/awards Since "III," Grand Theft Auto has also been one of the most popular and suc- cessful video game series in the world. According to the gamerankings web site on July 8, 2008, "Vice City" was the 4th best PC game--"III" was 9th and "San Andreas" was 18th. 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 in- terview 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 ex- amples 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," was released on PSP in 2006 and PS2 in 2007. http://psp.ign.com/articles/707/707025p1.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto:_Vice_City_Stories 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 be- fore 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 lit- tle soldier.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Untouchables_%281987_film%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_de_niro http://www.askmen.com/men/entertainment/28_robert_de_niro.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Costner Sean Connery, originally from Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, and who has a wonder- ful and distinctive voice, did the voice acting and supplied the physical like- ness for the 2005 Electronic Arts Xbox, PS2, GameCube, and PlayStation Portable game based on the James Bond movie "From Russia with Love," 1963 (I was in the theater). Robert 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, re- prised his role as Donald "Red" Grant, too. http://www.seanconnery.com/index.cfm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Connery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shaw_%28actor%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Russia_with_Love http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Russia_with_Love_%28video_game%29 http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/launchreview.asp?reviewid=635208 For the real story of Eliot Ness, go to... http://www.crimelibrary.com/ ...and put "Eliot Ness" in the search engine, and pick "Eliot Ness: The Man Behind the Myth." Another good source is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Ness The novel "Scarface" by "Armitage Trail" (Maurice Coons), followed by Paul Mu- ni 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 bootleg- gers 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." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarface_%281983_film%29 "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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarface_%281932_film%29 Like "Vice City," both movies had their problems with people demanding revi- sions 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 Mi- ami. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Liotta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_pacino http://www.rayliotta.net/ http://velvet_peach.tripod.com/apacino.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Vercetti http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Montana 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 Ro- bina (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 Mi- ami.) 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 pic- tures 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 chain- saw 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 tor- ture 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 in Vice City. http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/8838/00gta1screenvc367pm3.jpg http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/5152/00gta1screenvc362vi1.jpg http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/7133/00gta1screenvc349nd1.jpg The clothes Tony Montana wears in the chainsaw segment of "Scarface" look like the ones Diaz wears in "Vice City" except the pattern of flowers on the shirt is a little different. http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/2947/00gta1screenvc171np7.jpg http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/4114/00gta1screenvc161nt3.jpg In "Vice City," the Voodoo is a reddish-brown '60 Chevrolet Bel Air (much of the body is the same as an Impala) lowrider... http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/4410/00gta1screenvc372gq4.jpg http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/5902/00gta1voodoo60chevbelair1ng2.jpg http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/3851/00gta1voodoo60chevbelair3wc7.jpg ...and the car Tony drives in the chainsaw segment of "Scarface" is a reddish- brown '68 Chevrolet Impala. http://img468.imageshack.us/img468/8372/00gta1screenvc350pm1.jpg http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/9063/00gta1screenvc36668impalats9.jpg In "GTA III," Flashback FM is a radio station hosted by Toni (as in "Tony Mon- tana"). All it plays are five of the synthesizer-oriented songs, by Giogio Mor- oder, from the movie "Scarface," 1983. The station seems to be an ongoing con- cern, despite the playlist restriction. One of the songs, "Rush Rush," has lyr- ics and a lead vocal by Deborah Harry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Moroder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 Cab company 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 helicop- ters are among the hazards of bringing cocaine into Florida; the Sea Sparrow in "Vice City" is a Bell 47G. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH-1_Cobra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 "Scar- face," 1983. Robert Loggia plays crooked BMW car salesman/crime leader Frank Lopez in "Scarface," 1983. http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/1918/00gta1screenvc351wn4.jpg 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. http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/5832/00gta1screenvc128gs1.jpg http://img468.imageshack.us/img468/1848/00gta1screenvc347qy2.jpg 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." You have to use the "certaindeath" code to get Tommy to smoke, though. http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/9277/00gta1screenvc353of1.jpg http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/7876/00gta1screenvc365sv7.jpg 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. http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/2825/00gta1screenvc127ayo7.jpg http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/6391/00gta1screenvc127bcu7.jpg http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1028/00gta1screenvc352lb7.jpg Tony Montana refers disparagingly (take a wild guess how) to the Diaz broth- ers; Tommy Vercetti works for, then kills, a crack baron named Diaz. (For the next link, Copy and paste the 2nd line to the 1st in the Address bar.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_that_most_frequently_use_the_ word_fuck 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 ti- ger in "Scarface," 1983. The tiger on Montana's property is suggestive of the private zoo on Escobar's (see below) property. http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/5152/00gta1screenvc127uv4.jpg http://img429.imageshack.us/img429/4350/00gta1screenvc246mu3.jpg 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 Tony's shirt is white--not pink. http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/3258/00gta1screenvc162ic8.jpg http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/1150/00gta1screenvc142ajb4.jpg http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/6775/00gta1screenvc159bq9.jpg Tony's mansion has statues of women in robes by it. Tommy's mansion has stat- ues of women in robes in the 1st floor indoor pool room that opens to the back yard. http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/3309/00gta1screenvc363wo4.jpg 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 Mon- tana'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. http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/2443/00gta1screenvc140rm9.jpg 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. http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/6559/00gta1screenvc141qx7.jpg In "Vice City," the twelve monitors are in the main office of the Starfish Is- land 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 "Scar- face," 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 bot- tom 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. http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/1260/guide18monqc9.jpg http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/9818/00gta1screenvc348fv1.jpg When Tony defends his mansion against Sosa's invading Columbian henchmen, he uses a machine gun that also shoots a grenade from a thicker lower barrel. Wi- kipedia says it's an M16 fitted with an M203 grenade launcher. The M4 is the weapon Tommy has that looks the most like it. http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/9613/00gta1screenvc121na0.jpg http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/5135/00gta1screenvc157et1.jpg http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/364/00gta1screenvc157aja4.jpg http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/3296/00gta1screenvc158sx3.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarface_%281983_film%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M16_rifle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M203_grenade_launcher 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?") http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/1894/00gta1screenvc123tv4.jpg 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 PC game, "Scarface: The World is Yours" by Radical Games for VU Games, was released in October, 2006. It features a number of the same actors from the 1983 movie as voice actors. Al Pacino, except for some clips from the film at the beginning, is only represented with a visual likeness with someone else pro- viding 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. Al Pacino allowed his likeness to be used and chose the voice actor, Andre Sogliuzzo, though.) http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0812220/ Besides original cast members like Robert Loggia (Ray Machowski, "III"), it features Michael Rapaport (Joey Leone, "III"), Robert Davi (Col. Cortez, "Vice City"), and James Woods (Mike Toreno, "San Andreas"). I haven't tried it yet, but it sounds like it has a lot going for it; no cycle jumps, though. I hope it has interesting pedestrians and car jumps. (I suppose the Dodo is too much to ask for). http://www.scarfacegame.com/us/ http://pc.ign.com/articles/737/737783p1.html http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451192/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarface:_The_World_is_Yours "Cop Land" starring Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Frank Vincent, Michael Rapa- port, 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 Salvatore and Joey and Leone, respectively, in "GTA III"--Vincent returns as Salvatore in "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas," 2004. And Deborah Harry is the voice of the Taxi Con- troller 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 co- caine 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 industri- al 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 tomb- stones 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 prev- alent 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 vic- tim's view goes beyond the scope of this article.) The main terminel building at Escobar International looks like the TWA Flight Center, Terminel 5, designed by Eero Saarinen, at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. (Thanks to dogzilla for the tip.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_Center "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 "Carli- to'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 body- guard is played by Luis Guzman, who does the voice acting for Diaz in "Vice City." http://www.myspace.com/elpaposwing "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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_godfather The last name of Salvatore Leone (Frank Vincent) of "III" and "San Andreas" is an abbreviated version of the last name of Don Vito "Corleone." Salvatore's son Joey is a bit like Don Vito's son Michael. Thanks to Konstantinos for this reference: Hyman Memorial Stadium may be named after the character of Hyman Roth, the Florida-based jewish gangster from "The Godfather Part II." Roth himself was based on the real life famous gangster Meyer Lansky. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godfather_Part_II http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_Roth And Electronic Arts released a PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Xbox, Xbox 360, and Wii game of "The Godfather" starring the voices of over 20 people from the movie, includ- ing Marlon Brando (made for the game before he was taken from us), Robert Du- vall, and James Caan, (no Al Pacino?), with their visual likenesses, in March, 2006. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godfather:_The_Game http://pc.ign.com/articles/697/697319p1.html http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/the-godfather/701193p1.html http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/thegodfather/review.html?om_act=convert&om_ clk=tabs&tag=tabs;reviews Robert De Niro got one of his Academy Awards, for Best Supporting Actor, for "The Godfather Part II," 1974. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godfather_Part_II 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 Scorsese During the opening scenes with Sonny Forelli in "Vice City," you can see some- one hung on a meat hook in a freezer, which is how Frankie Carbone (Frank Si- vero) 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 De- Vito, and Paul Sorvino as Paul Cicero. Joe Pesci won the 1990 Academy Award for Best supporting Actor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodfellas 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." Joe Pesci vs. Frank Vincent in Scorsese movies with Batts/bats: - Joey La Motta (Joe Pesci) beats up Salvy Batts (Frank Vincent) in "Raging Bull," 1980, then - Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci) and Jimmy Conway (Robert Di Niro) stomp and shoot Billy Batts (Frank Vincent) to death, for which DeVito's own mob later kills him for, in "Goodfellas," 1990, then - Frank Marino (Frank Vincent) leads a group of men who beat Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci) nearly to death with bats then bury him alive in "Casino," 1995. Don't ever kill Joe Pesci or Frank Vincent. They're mighty, mighty men. You'll just make them mad, and they'll come back and hurt you. 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-in- formant 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 Mar- tin Scorsese, Tiger Cabs, "Blue Thunder" starring a helicopter, and Samuel L. Jackson, Quentin Tarantino, Joanna Taylor, and Robert De Negro 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 Scorsese. "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." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqLyTdcMLhc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_Streets http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver According to Wikipedia, a couple of related references are: "In the first Grand Theft Auto game one of the available characters with the default name 'Travis' sports a mohawk and wears a green jacket." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_%28video_game%29 "In the video game Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, an unlockable taxi cab named the Bickle '76 is available after completing 100 fares in the 'Taxi Driver' side mission." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_City_Stories Ryton Aide in Little Haiti in "Vice City" advertises Martin's Sciateze Back Tablets. http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/9837/00gta1screenvc46ri0.jpg 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. Thanks to reader Jeff Sims who sent me his theory that the Zebra Cab is a ref- erence to a taxi company called Tiger Cabs, a front for a drug running (and oth- er criminal business) outfit in Miami, in the book "American Tabloid" by James Ellroy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Tabloid (The other GTA reference to "Zebra" is the Zebra Bar, a reference to inter-ra- cial sex, in "San Andeas." So it may be a sex pun-related way to come up with an alternative name for Tiger Cabs.) Papaya Studio has cancelled plans for a "Taxi Driver" game which was 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 at- tack 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 a 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.) In "Vice City," "chickswithguns" is a code that replaces the Vercetti gang with women in bikinis carrying guns. http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/8194/00gta1screenvc169xl4.jpg http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/5854/00gta1screenvc170bg0.jpg Samuel L. Jackson, besides starring in "Jackie Brown," 1997, is Stacks Ed- wards, the big heist assistant shot on his bed in "Goodfellas," and is the voice of Officer Frank Tenpenny in "San Andreas." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Brown_%28film%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Tenpenny#Officer_Frank_Tenpenny http://www.samuelljackson.com/ "Jackie Brown" was directed by Quentin Tarantino, who has used a camera shot made from the trunk of a car in several movies. Lance has Diaz think his name is Quentin in the opening of "Phnom Penh '86," and a camera shot made from a car trunk is used in the opening of the mission "Rub Out." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino Joanna Taylor's picture on the cover of a Maxim magazine is altered for the "Fun Bags" poster in the bedroom of the trailer at Phil's Place. http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/979/00gta1screenvc168vb2.jpg http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2192/00gta1screenvc167joannataylorsy5.jpg http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314123/trivia Robert De Negro is mentioned in the radio tracks of "Grand Theft Auto 2." While that sounds like a play on the name "Robert De Niro," it's the name (nick- name?) 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 Rob- bott 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. http://imdb.com/name/nm1013613/ "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 Ficht- ner as Roger Van Zant, and Danny Trejo as Trejo--Sonny Forelli, Ken Rosenberg, and Umberto Robina, respectively, in "Vice City." http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/4562/00gta1screenvc125ob1.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sizemore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fichtner http://www.williamfichtner.org/ 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_%28director%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 Seb- bane, Hunter Platin, Navid Khonsari, and writers Alan Davidson and James Wor- rall) 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 Ma- jors, 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. (B.J. is a co- medic take on O.J. Simpson, another football star from the period who, unfortu- nately, murdered a couple of people in 1994 and went to live in Miami and play golf.) Lawrence has also guested as himself in 2004 in the "All Happy Fami- lies..." 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.J._Simpson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson_murder_case http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sopranos Fairuza Balk, the voice of Mercedes Cortez in "Vice City," is in two 1999 epi- sodes 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 Sopra- nos," 2004. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0700664/ 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 "Nice Dreams" The mission "Distribution" for the Cherry Poppers ice cream factory is similar to Cheech and Chong using a truck to sell ice cream that contains experimental marijuana in the 1981 movie "Nice Dreams." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_Dreams Thanks again to reader Colin Attle for the tip that the Cherry Poppers mission is also likely a reference to the Glascow Ice Cream Wars of the 1980's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Ice_Cream_Wars John Wayne and "Easy Rider" Dennis Hopper, the voice of Steve Scott in "Vice City," also plays Dave Hast- ings 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 mak- ing of "True Grit," figured Dennis persuaded John's daughter to go to an El- dridge 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, respec- tively). 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 McMur- phy 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 An- dreas," 2004. He also starred with Luis Guzman in "The Limey," 1999. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001228/ 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, ni- tros-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/ "Speed" The idea of a vehicle that will blow up unless it goes at least a certain speed, used in the Love Fist mission "Publicity Tour," was seen in the 1994 mov- ie "Speed," in which Dennis Hopper played Howard Payne. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_%28film%29 "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. Rod- riguez. http://www.burtreynolds.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Reynolds "To Live and Die in L.A." According to the International Movie Data Base web site, "Vice City" has a number of connections with the movie "To Live and Die in L.A." The movie's last line, "You work for me now," is something Diaz tells Tommy, both feature the Wang Chung tune "Dance Hall Days," the perspective of Waxman when he's murdered is like that of Diaz when he's killed by Tommy and Lance, and both feature coun- terfeiting. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314123/movieconnections http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Live_and_Die_in_L.A._%28film%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_Hall_Days George Romero, writer and director of "Night of the Living Dead" Funeraria Romero, just S of the pizza place in Little Haiti, features a dis- play 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 Carni- zero 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 mov- ies about people trying to survive when recently dead people come to (basic in- stinctive) life, need to eat other people's flesh to survive, and are only stopped if their brains are destroyed. http://www.georgeromero.com/ "Lady Frankenstein" Flicko found that the poster with the line "ONLY THE MONSTER SHE MADE COULD SATISFY HER STRANGE DESIRES" is for the 1971 movie "Lady Frankenstein." The poster is on the N outer wall of Interglobal Films. http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/2212/vcladyfrankensteinbu1.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Frankenstein "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 Spy- der 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 ep- isode. 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 Poulet 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 Net- work, 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 War- wick'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 prod- ucts 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 her- self 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 Attor- ney 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 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. Proba- bly 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 land- ing 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 Phil Silvers, Andy Kaufman, "Top Gun," "Iron Eagle," Iron Maiden, "Spycatcher," Frank Sinatra, "Disco Inferno," "We Close Our Eyes," Roger Wayland, Allan Robertson, Rambo, "The Final Countdown," and "Driving Miss Daisy" 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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phil_Silvers_Show http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Silvers The interior of Kaufman Cabs looks like the main set of the 1978-1983 TV come- dy "Taxi." Someone has written that if you drive a cab out of it, you may hear an Andy Kaufman as Latka Gravas-type voice say, "Stop--What are you doing?," but that's actually something a (Kaufman only?) cab driver says if Tommy jacks his cab. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_%28TV_series%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Kaufman 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 Eagle" movies I, 1986, through IV, 1995, starring Lou Gossett, Jr., as Colonel Charles "Chappy" Sinclair. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gun_%28film%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Eagle The Iron Maiden poster of a skeleton playing guitar is parodied on a window of the Downtown Rock City record store. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_the_Head "The Number of the Beast," a 1982 Iron Maiden album title, is parodied for the Love Fist ad "The Number of the Breast" at Vinyl Countdown at North Point Mall. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Number_of_the_Beast_%28album%29 The font used for the Iron Maiden logo is basically the same as that used for the Downtown Love Fist billboard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Maiden Thanks to Konstantinos for the Love Fist/Iron Maiden connections. I'll add that Couzin Ed and Lazlow talk about Iron Maiden and their mascot Eddie the Head (parodied by the skeleton on the poster at Rock City) on VROCK. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_the_Head Colin Attle caught a reference across the street to the E of the Pole Position club. "Mairis bestsellers" advertises the "Book of the North" (not "month," so I guess it might refer to Rockstar North) a book of "insect espionage" called "Flycatcher," which is a reference to the 1987 book "Spycatcher." It was con- troversial because the British government tried to ban it. http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/6034/0tommyflycatchergd9.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spycatcher Colin also noticed that the store next door to the N is a travel agency called "Avec Moi Holidays" (see I.3 Places) and has a symbol of a jet pointing to the store with "fly...." The combination "fly...." and "Avec Moi," which is French for "with me," like the COMEFLYWITHME code, refers to the 1958 Frank Sinatra al- bum and single "Come Fly with Me." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Fly_with_Me_%28album%29 (I'll add that since the nearby store "Burn Baby Burn" also has a sign that says "since 1977," "Burn Baby Burn" seems to refer to a line from The Trammps song "Disco Inferno." It was released in 1976 but became more popular as part of the soundtrack of the 1977 movie "Saturday Night Fever.") http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/4857/0tommyburnbabyburnjm8.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Inferno_%28The_Trammps_song%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Fever North of the Pole Position club and across the road is a shop called "jacks prosthetics" with modeling mannequins in the window. Colin thinks this may re- fer to the mannequins seen in the music video "We Close Our Eyes" by Go West, which has "Call Me" on Flash FM. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl3PYk_s4Kk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Close_Our_Eyes The next shop north is wayland surfboards, which Colin caught as a referece to surfboard builder Roger Wayland. http://www.vagabondsurf.com/WaylandAbout.html http://www.vagabondsurf.com/WaylandGallery.html The next shop is a golf store and features the name a robertson, which Colin knew to refer to the famous Scottish golfer Allan Robertson. http://www.golfeurope.com/almanac/players/robertson.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Robertson Colin saw that across from the police station in Little Havana is Calegg's Delicatessen, and on the roof of it is a billboard that shows a fiery explosion and advertises a movie starring Howitzer called "Exploder--Evacuator Part II." It's a reference to "Rambo: First Blood Part II." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambo:_First_Blood_Part_II A couple of blocks E of it is a shop called "Pizza Face." Colin recognized that the name is a U.K. slang phrase for a face with a bad complexion such as one with acne. http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/p.htm Colin Attle also saw that in the middle of the 1st floor of the Escobar air- port terminal is a booth for Cut 'n' Shut automobile rentals. "Cut 'n' shut" refers to cutting the bad part from one car, and using another car to cut a re- placement section from to weld to the 1st one. The car is probably unsafe, since it may come apart easily where it was welded, and is usually made by crim- inals. http://www.autotrader.co.uk/CARS/buying/cut_and_shuts.jsp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_%28automobile%29 "Vinyl Countdown," the name of the record store at North point Mall, is a pun that refers to the 1986 single and album by Europe called "The Final Countdown" (thanks to derty). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Countdown_%28song%29 One confused-sounding black guy says, "Is that you, Miss Daisy?" referring to the 1989 movie "Driving Miss Daisy." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving_miss_daisy 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 Develop- ers' "Serious Sam: The Second Encounter," and, for Rockstar Games, the "Mid- night 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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia:_The_City_of_Lost_Heaven http://pc.ign.com/articles/369/369550p1.html 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 Ad- am Davidson and Steve Kenezevitch/Kenzevich (pedestrians, both also in "III"), Gilliam Telling (radio caller), Laura Paterson (commercials and "III" pedestri- an), and Gene/Gean Hilgreen (commercial voice). Note: George Dicenzo also played District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi in "Hel- ter 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 jer- sey) 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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Payne 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), "Man- hunt," 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." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Payne_2:_The_Fall_of_Max_Payne http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhunt_%28video_game%29 After Navid played a caller who told Lazlow that killer ants are more dan- gerous than killer bees on the radio station Chatterbox FM in "GTA III," 2001, a reference seems to have been made about it in "Half-Life 2," 2004. http://www.lazlow.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazlow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Life_2 In the chapter "Sandtraps" of "Half-Life 2," an antlion kills a man and an- other man says, "Dear God! Poor Laszlo! The finest mind of his generation come to such an end." 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_2 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hawk%27s_Pro_Skater_4 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 (Walter Brennan, etc.) 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 Car- rey; (And the pool of water and sky backdrop at Interglobal film studio reminds me of the end of "The Truman Show," 1998, starring Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank. The idea of manipulating a character for a video game is similar, too.) http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/817/00gta1screenvc40qe5.jpg http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3033/00gta1screenvc39yg1.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truman_Show 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); http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_French_Connection_%28film%29 one of the policemen sounds like comic/TV game show "Family Feud" host Louie Anderson: "I'd chase you if I didn't have so many doughnuts"; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louie_Anderson a matronly business lady says, "Oh, no, you don't" like Goldie Hawn; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldie_Hawn the lady selling cigars by the Ocean View sounds like Olive Oyl of "Popeye" cartoons; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Oyl some business guy says,"Mm-mm, yes" like the late Jim Backus (another hint is that he refers to Jim Backus' role in the '60's sitcom "Gilligan's Island" by saying something like "Save me, Thurston Howell") http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Backus the victimized shopkeepers of "Shakedown" all sound vaguely like Woody Allen: "My livelihood--destroyed"; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_allen the construction worker who says, "I'll dunk your f-in' doughnut" and "Ha ha, you missed" sounds like someone from "The Simpsons"; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsons and the ped who says, "Money is the root of all evil--gimme some," "Jesus, Jo- seph, 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 construc- tion area. They're barefoot with blue jeans, red jerseys, brown sweaters, black hair and beards. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Brennan 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 los- er!" 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 liv