Ocean View Hotel

Neon reading OCEAN VIEW on the beachfront, with a police officer standing in front of it and a second hotel's sign beyond.

The letters are large, pink and mounted flat against the facade above the entrance. The frame catches them at night from below, with the neon at full brightness.

A uniformed officer in a short-sleeved blue shirt stands in the foreground, and the scene around him is the busy version of Ocean Drive — a patrol car with its lights on, people on the pavement.

Ocean View is one of the most recognisable real hotel names on Miami's own Ocean Drive, and Rockstar has kept it. Another hotel sign is partly visible further along the same block.

How to recognise it

• OCEAN VIEW in large pink neon, flat against the facade
• Photographed at night from below
• A uniformed officer in the foreground
• A second hotel sign further along the block

The frame it comes from

The frame is a still from the official Press pack, which carries no timecode. It is 3840 by 2160, and the subject occupies 998 by 389 of it. Also in it: Vice City and a police car.

What we still do not know

• Whether the hotel is enterable
• Whether this is the same building as another named hotel nearby
• What the police are there for
• Its exact position on the strip