Vice City is Leonida’s beating heart, and easily the most detailed city Rockstar has ever built — a modern reimagining of the same neon-drenched Miami the studio first brought to life in 2002’s Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, this time set in the present day. Rockstar’s own tagline for it says as much: it might be a long way from the ’80s, but Vice City is still the sun and fun capital of America.
That mix of glamour and grit runs through the whole city. Pastel Art Deco hotels and white-sand beaches sit a few blocks from the flea markets of Tisha-Wocka and the panaderías of Little Cuba, and the Vice City Port doubles as one of the busiest cruise hubs in the game’s world.
A giant VICE sign standing near the airport runway does for this city what the Vinewood sign does for Los Santos.
It’s also where a lot of the supporting cast does business — Boobie Ike’s strip club and record label, Dre’Quan Priest’s Only Raw Records, and plenty of the nightlife Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos get pulled into once the story moves them out of the Keys.