Ocean Drive
Pastel deco hotels, rollerskates and convertibles. Where every hustle in Vice City starts.
Vice City
The world
A pastel, humid Miami analog where money is loud, cops are bought and every neon sign hides a front business.
Viceport
Container yards and cranes under sodium light. Deals happen here. So do ambushes.
Washington Beach
Mid-rise condos, law offices and the kind of lawyers who sweat.
Liberty City
Snow, brick and old debts. The Forelli family runs it from the back of a restaurant.
Downtown
Neon, rain and glass towers. The bank is here, if anyone's brave enough.
Vice City
The skyline at dusk. Everybody here wants something.
Ocean Beach
Sun, sand, neon swimwear. The quiet part of a loud town.
Vice Point
Clubs with velvet ropes and limousines. The night belongs to whoever owns the door.
The people
Who's who
Every face here is an original AI creation, designed for the show. None is based on a real person or an actor.
Tommy Vercetti
Fifteen years inside for the Forelli family. Sent south to babysit one deal. Doesn't stay a babysitter.
still, watchful, then sudden. Rarely smiles; when he does, it's a threat.
Carl Johnson
In from Los Santos for a summer that keeps turning into a job. Easy, dry, and sharper than he lets on.
Calls everyone "man". Disbelief as comedy, never panic.
Niko Bellic
Off the boat from Liberty City and tired already. Slow, deliberate, and the last man in the room to panic.
Long pauses. Dry humour he never flags. "My friend" to people who aren't.
Michael De Santa
Retired, allegedly. Rich, sardonic and incapable of leaving a quiet life alone.
Theatrical sighs. Barking anger that ends in a joke at his own expense.
Franklin Clinton
The one who asks whether any of this is a good idea. Then drives anyway.
Exasperation instead of anger. "Why me" as a way of life.
Trevor Philips
Soft murmur to full scream in one sentence. Michael's problem, and now everyone's.
Manic laughter. Sudden tenderness that is worse than the anger.
Lucia Caminos
Says less than she knows. Funny without smiling. The plan is always hers.
Low and controlled. Counts it twice.
Jason Duval
Warm, laid-back, reckless in a way that sounds reasonable. Lucia's partner, in every sense.
Laughs easily. "Darlin'". Back in ten. Twenty.
Toni Cipriani
Liberty City muscle. Absolute respect for his mother, and for nobody else.
Loud and rough. Calls his mother mid-job.
Johnny Klebitz
Biker. Blunt, raspy, tired of everyone's plan. Wants his crew paid and nobody dead this week.
"Brother" as a warning.
Luis Lopez
Holds the door at the best club in town, and holds the trouble that comes with it.
Smooth and quick. A doorman's "no" that sounds like a favour.
Huang Lee
Prep-school polish over a kid in over his head, spending money he hasn't earned yet.
Quick, sarcastic, entitled, and smaller than he sounds.
Mike
The quietest man in any room, by choice. Wants one name, and the man behind it.
Flat, cold, names and numbers. No small talk.
Victor Vance
Lance's older brother. Quiet, careful, and at the docks the night it all went wrong.
Around town
Lance Vance
Fast talker, sharp dresser, always in the middle of something. Knows the docks better than he lets on.
Ken Rosenberg
Tommy's lawyer, technically. Mostly a bundle of nerves in a powder-blue suit.
Sonny Forelli
Boss of the Forelli family in Liberty City. Soft voice. Long memory. Wants his money.
Ricardo Diaz
Runs the cocaine trade from a mansion on Starfish Island. Screams first, laughs later.
Colonel Cortez
An exiled colonel with a yacht, impeccable manners and a drink for everyone.
VCN Anchor
VCN's evening anchor. Perfect hair, perfect diction, and a bulletin for every mess in town.