Basics
Title: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Rating: M for Mature
Release Date: October 27, 2002 (USA)
Genre: Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller
Platforms: PlayStation 2, Windows, Xbox
Synopsis
Tommy Vercetti is a Mafia hitman who has recently been released from prison in Liberty City after serving a long prison sentence in connection with fifteen contract killings. The Mafia family for whom he used to work, the Forellis, fearful that Tommy's presence in the neighborhood will heighten tensions and bring unwanted attention upon their criminal activities, ostensibly "promote" Tommy and send him to the titular Vice City to act as their buyer for a series of cocaine deals. During Tommy's first meeting with the drug dealers, they are ambushed by a group of machine-gun wielding Colombians, resulting in the death of Tommy's body guards and one of the cocaine dealers, Victor Vance. Tommy narrowly escapes with his life, though in the process of escaping, he loses both the Forelli's drug money and the cocaine.
Tasked by Sonny Forelli with retrieving the money and cocaine and killing whoever was responsible for the ambush, Tommy sets up permanent residence in a beach front hotel. He makes contact with the Forellis only other connection in Vice City, a corrupt, coke-addict lawyer named Ken Rosenberg, who, upon hearing of the ambush, has holed himself up in his office and begun popping stimulants for fear of being killed in his sleep. Rosenberg nonetheless proves to be a vital connection, and through him, Tommy starts working with Colonel Cortez who in exchange for his services will find who organized the ambush. While working for Cortez, Tommy meets Lance Vance and forms a partnership with him and Ricardo Diaz, a Colombian crime lord and Vice City's most powerful mobster. After working with Diaz in certain assignments Cortez informs Tommy that his (Cortez) right hand man, Gonzalez, informed Diaz abut the exchange and Diaz was the one who organized the ambush, leading Tommy and Lance to plan on taking him out.
However Lance tries to take him out alone and is captured by Diaz and is sent to be tortured in a junkyard, however Tommy rescues him and after helping Cortez escape from the French government due to Cortez robbing missile technology, Lance and Tommy set off to kill Diaz. Tommy and Lance enter Diaz's mansion and after taking out Diaz's men they confront Diaz in his office and kill him.
With Diaz dead, his empire quickly crumbles, and Tommy and Lance personally take over all of Diaz's old business, not only becoming Vice City's cocaine kingpins, but also start seizing the assets of several near-bankrupted companies and brining them back to the top, among those businesses are the Interglobal Films Studio ran by Steve Scott giving them control over pornography, control over alcoholic drinks by purchasing the Malibu Club from Kent Paul, counterfeiting by buying the Vice City Print Works from Earnest Kelly, transportation by buying the Kaufman Cabs agency and the Vice City Harbor and food by buying the Cherry Popper Ice Cream Factory from Maude Hanson.
They also gain fabour from celbrities like heavy metal band Love Fist, help from other gangs such as The Cuban Gang and The Biker Gang and help from major bussinesses like Avery Carrington's real estate enterprise.
The men personally buy or otherwise acquire these properties and businesses with no assistance from the Forelli family. Instead, Tommy becomes the head of his own organization, the Vercetti Gang. The more powerful and rich Tommy and Lance become, however, the more Lance begins to exhibit paranoid and sociopathic behaviors, to the point that he begins to physically abuse his own bodyguards and constantly calls Tommy in states of hysteria.
Eventually, the Forellis find out that Tommy has taken over crime in Vice City, cutting them out completely. The Forelli's send a couple of collectors to force money out of the assets that Tommy and Lance took over, however Tommy finds out about this and shoots the collectors dead, angered Sonny Forelli decides to take the matter in his own hands and kill Tommy. Sonny Forelli arrives in town with a small army of Mafioso and street thugs, intent on on wiping Tommy out once and for all. Lance, having come to resent Tommy's substantial share of their profits, betrays Tommy and allies himself with the Forellis and attempts to have Tommy whacked. In the game's climax-- a pastiche on the end of the Brian De Palma film Scarface-- Lance, Sonny, and Sonny's henchmen raid Tommy's mansion in an attempt to kill him and seize his assets. Tommy confronts Lance on the roof of his mansion and the two men engage in a gun battle that ends with Tommy fatally shooting Lance. Tommy and Sonny then have a final gunfight in the entrance of the mansion, the fight ends when Tommy brutally takes out Sonny in a barrage of bullets.
His enemies now vanquished, Tommy establishes himself as the undisputed crime kingpin of Vice City, taking on Ken Rosenberg as his right-hand-man.
Voice Talent
Ray Liotta ... Tommy Vercetti
William Fichtner... Ken Rosenberg
Tom Sizemore... Sonny Forelli
Dennis Hopper... Steve Scott
Burt Reynolds... Avery Carrington
Luis Guzmán... Ricardo Diaz
Philip Michael Thomas... Lance Vance
Robert Davi... Colonel Juan Garcia Cortez
Danny Trejo... Umberto Robina
Gary Busey... Phil Cassidy
Lee Majors... 'Big' Mitch Baker
Fairuza Balk... Mercedes Cortez
Danny Dyer... 'Kent' Paul
Kevin McKidd... Jezz Torrent
Deborah Harry... Delores
Jenna Jameson... Candy Suxxx
Lawrence Taylor... BJ Smith