Way back in 2002, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City was originally released on the PlayStation 2. While Grand Theft Auto 3 established the franchise as a major brand, it was Vice City was the game that solidified that status and helped turn it into the juggernaut that it is today. Over its lifetime, the game would go on to sell over 18M copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling PlayStation 2 games ever. Despite the rocky launch of the Grand Theft Auto Trilogy, fans are still creating their own tributes to the twenty-year-old game.
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In the past, fans have come up with some interesting tributes to the game. One, for example, made a Grand Theft Auto: Vice City gaming cabinet using the game’s iconic images. More recently, Reddit user bunzurr revealed a pink Vice City neon sign that they made months earlier and looks like something straight out of the 1980s. The sign is covered with what appears to be smoke and/or fog in a style that is identical to Vice City’s logo.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City was arguably Rockstar’s biggest tribute to the mobster movie, with the film borrowing much of its pilot and aesthetic from the 1983 Al Pacino film, Scarface. Taking place in the fictional Vice City in Florida, the story followed Ray Liotta’s Tommy Vercetti; an Italian mobster who gradually took control of the city’s various crime rackets after a drug deal went horribly wrong. It was only one of two instances where the city was used in the Grand Theft Auto universe with the second being Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. This, however, may be about to change.
Over the past couple of years, development on Rockstar’s next game, Grand Theft Auto 6 has begun to heat up. One of the most common rumors about Grand Theft Auto 6 is that it will take place in Vice City though no official sources have confirmed this. If true, however, fans may be able to discover what became of several of the game’s key characters and continue to serve as inspiration for neon signs like this.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City originally released in 2002 for PS2.
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