Locations

Vice City

The city the game is named after, and the one Rockstar photographs most: twelve official screenshots, from a beach at midday to a tower at dusk to a club floor at 3am.

The twelve cover the city rather than a corner of it. A daylight overview with basketball courts, low white buildings, a marina and the skyline behind. A crowded public beach with a lifeguard tower and a quad on the sand. Ocean Drive at night, neon along the hotel strip, a police car with VICEBEACH POLICE on the boot and a crowd around it. Two curved residential towers on a spit of land with speedboats in the bay. A night overview with a Ferris wheel, the Sahara Arena and the Vice City Arts Center picked out in light.

Three of the twelve are interiors or close-ups rather than views: a club stage with cash in the air, two men in the street shot from a foot away, a man with a gold AK and a phone. The city is a place where things happen as much as it is a skyline.

One of the twelve is the sign. Giant letters spelling VICE CITY stand against a sunset with a business jet passing low over them, and that image has its own page here because the sign is a landmark in its own right.

The one thing the images make unmistakable is scale and variety. Miami Beach art deco, mid-century motels, glass towers, a mural-painted underpass and a stilt-house waterfront are all photographed as parts of the same city.

How to recognise it

Twelve official screenshots, the most of any location
Art deco hotel strip, glass towers, painted underpasses and a public beach in the same set
VICEBEACH POLICE lettering on a patrol car
A Ferris wheel, the Sahara Arena and the Vice City Arts Center visible in the night overview
The VICE CITY sign, with a jet passing over it

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 vehicle occupies 3840 by 2160 of it. Also in it: Hotel Valetta and Bus.