
In VCS you play as Vic Vance, brother of Vice City's Lance Vance. Related: The Best Improvements In GTA: The Trilogy's Latest Patch Each game has its own unique story and protagonist, new licensed songs on the radio, and a cast of celebrity voice actors including Gary Busey, Danny Trejo, and in a rare video game appearance, British acting legend Timothy Spall. The cities are partly recycled, but otherwise no expense was spared. At the time, many were still doubtful about Sony's handheld, so Rockstar releasing not one, but two proper GTA games was a big deal.

VCS originally launched for the PSP in 2006, hot on the heels of Liberty City Stories, another spin-off. However, in Vice City Stories, not only did Rockstar feature an actual pop superstar, but it made him part of the story and the focus of one of the series' best missions. Dre appears briefly as himself in GTA Online's Cayo Perico heist. Debbie Harry plays a cab dispatcher in Vice City, and Dr.

Dre, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Kenny Loggins, and Frank Ocean are just a few of the music giants Rockstar have put in their games over the years-but usually in a relatively minor role. The first game where the Manana, Perennial, Idaho, etc had a mixture of sounds from previous games.GTA is full of cameo appearances by musicians.

Also interestingly in the same photo of the bike (in the full size photo) on the right you can see the beta Vice City version of the Blista Compact, which looked more like the real life Honda CRX and even was named Blista GPX, quite strange how they brought it back and then removed it again. The removal of this motorcycle makes absolutely no sense, there had to be some reason for them to remove such an unique bike. It does a better job of the empire building concept than the Saints Row reboot.Īlso in some pre-release screenshots there was a motorcycle not featured in the final game, resembling something of a 1980s Suzuki:Ī shame it was cut, would have fit in the setting quite well, and helped with Vice City Stories lack of new vehicles. Kinda underrated compared to the other GTAs of this era.
