The Vice City sign

Giant letters spelling VICE CITY stand against a sunset with a business jet passing low over them. It is the establishing shot of the whole game.

The letters are structures, not a sign: weathered concrete or steel, several storeys tall, standing in a row on open ground with scaffolding-like bracing visible behind them. The sun is setting directly behind and the light comes through the gaps between letters.

A twin-engine business jet crosses the frame above them with its landing gear up, close enough to read the shape of the airframe.

Whether this is a monument, a film-set relic or an airport marker, the image does not say. What it does is give the city an icon that is not a skyline, which is what the VICE letters elsewhere in the material do too.

How to recognise it

• Letters several storeys tall, built as structures
• Weathered concrete or steel, with bracing behind
• Backlit by a low sun
• A business jet crossing low overhead

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 3840 by 1512 of it. Also in it: Vice City, Buckingham Shamal, and Buckingham Shamal.

What we still do not know

• What the letters are for
• Where in the map they stand
• Whether they can be climbed or entered
• Whether they relate to the separate VICE letters monument