GTA 6: 10 Vice City Landmarks Fans Want To See
Vice City's Malibu Club HAS to return... right??
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00:00Grand Theft Auto is coming back and it's coming back to Vice City, which means there's a chance
00:04for fans to revisit their favorite locations from their prior adventures in Grand Theft Auto's
00:09Miami. So I'm Si for WhatCulture.com and here are 10 Vice City landmarks we want to see in
00:15Grand Theft Auto 6. Number 10, Tommy Vercetti's Scarface Mansion. You can't really have an
00:21adventure in Vice City without being able to at least visit the iconic mansion, right? If you
00:25cast your mind back to the original Vice City, the mansion is actually probably the most important
00:29building in the entire game. It acts as the center of Tommy Vercetti's criminal empire and is involved
00:34in loads of missions, including iconic ones such as killing Ricardo Diaz, its previous owner,
00:39or the final showdown against Lance Vance. Plus it was just a really cool place. Despite it being
00:44quite empty, it felt awesome to be given your own mansion, which was itself of course heavily
00:49inspired by Scarface, as is Tommy Vercetti himself. The red interior, the office with the screens,
00:54it's Scarface in all but name. Now imagine seeing it in 4K HD. The mansion has to be included in
01:00Grand Theft Auto 6, whether as an unlockable place to visit or in fact own, or just a really
01:05cool easter egg for fans of the series. Bonus points if we can get a mission in there as well.
01:10Number 9, the Malibu Club. Continuing on the theme of Vice City landmarks being inspired by Scarface,
01:16this time it's the Malibu Club, which was inspired by the Babylon Club from the film. If you've played
01:20Vice City, you'll remember this place fondly. Not only is it the backdrop of several missions,
01:25including meeting everyone's favourite cockney idiot Kent Paul, it's also able to be purchased
01:29later on by Tommy and becomes part of his empire. It's actually one of the few landmarks in Vice
01:34City that you can actively go inside of. And if you do, you'll find a bunch of patrons strutting
01:38their stuff on the dance floor, while four NPCs who look suspiciously just like the village people
01:43are performing live on stage. As with any GTA playthrough, it can be tempting to cause some
01:47mayhem in the club, however doing so will prompt the bartender to instantly whip out a stubby
01:52shotgun and proceed to really ruin your day. With the power of modern consoles, you could fill this
01:57with people, missions, events, and, uh, yes, more chaos and stubby shotguns I expect. Number 8,
02:02Interglobal Studios. Interglobal Studios, aka Vice City's answer to Universal Studios, is one of the
02:08most memorable locations in the city. In the original game, it's a, uh, adult studio where
02:14director Steve Scott, a parody of Steven Spielberg, filmed the appropriately named Candy Sucks in
02:19several classic movies such as Bite, Closer Encounters, Fun Bags, and Return of the Anaconda.
02:26In Vice City Stories, the studios are repurposed by Rainey Vosselmayer, who is using it to film
02:30commercials and edgy pop music videos. It would be really cool to see it again in GTA 6. The
02:35studios had some great sets in the original with battleships and moon landing sets and even a
02:40gothic showcase. Perhaps a series of missions with Steve Scott, now somehow even worse than he
02:44originally was, relegated to filming absolute drivel could be the perfect way to integrate
02:48it straight into GTA 6's Vice City. Number 7, Hyman Memorial Stadium. Given the series' huge
02:54obsession with racing, an arena just like the Hyman Memorial Studio, which appeared in Vice City,
02:59is a must for Grand Theft Auto 6. In Vice City, the stadium was home to three events, the Hot
03:04Ring, the Blood Ring, and the Dirt Ring. Like the Malibu Club, it's again one of the locations which
03:08has its own interior in Vice City. The Hot Ring is a NASCAR-style race, the Blood Ring is Demolition
03:13Derby, and the Dirt Ring places you on a dirt bike to complete stunts. All three types of race were
03:18great fun in the original, and with the technology Rockstar is no doubt pumping into Grand Theft Auto
03:226, it could really be something special to beef it up. And a little bit of trivia while we're here.
03:28Using the word Hyman might seem like a joke based on sex, because, you know, Grand Theft Auto, but
03:32it might in fact be a reference to another gangster movie. This could be a nod to Hyman Roth, who is
03:37in The Godfather Part 2 and lived in Miami. There you go.
03:416. Ocean View Hotel
03:43Everyone will recognise the Ocean View Hotel. It's the very first safe house in Vice City,
03:48and you'll end up going there a lot to save your game. Remember the days before autosave?
03:52You'll also remember it for being the place where you could take Tommy to change back into
03:56his stunning Hawaiian shirt or street clothes. Most likely after you've been dressed up in one
04:00of the other hideous outfits the game has to offer and wanted to get rid of it immediately.
04:05Like lots of other things in Grand Theft Auto Vice City,
04:07the Ocean View is based on a real-life location. This time it's the Clevelander Hotel.
04:12You'll probably remember the ocean road the hotel is onto in Vice City,
04:15with sun beaming down on you and the glorious neon-tinged buildings all around you.
04:19Ah, can't wait to see that. Such a memorable location has to be at least referenced in
04:24Grand Theft Auto 6, if not be a major part of the story in fact. Very curious to see
04:29who could own the Ocean View Hotel in this iteration of Vice City.
04:335. Starfish Island Starfish Island in its entirety would have
04:37to be in Grand Theft Auto 6 if it takes place in Vice City. It's the central hub of the rich and
04:41the famous of the town. Not only is it where Tommy Vercetti's aforementioned iconic mansion resides,
04:47but it's also home to loads of other huge houses too, including those with
04:51swimming pools in the shape of a woman's body and another that looks just like the Rockstar logo.
04:56It adds something to Vice City's overall aesthetic and also includes some of the
05:00coolest sports cars, aircraft and speedboats available in the game,
05:04just waiting for you to steal them. It's an exciting prospect for GTA 6 as
05:08Rockstar is well known for creating truly stunning open worlds. You can only imagine
05:13how opulent their take would be on an island made for the rich and famous using the technology they
05:17have available to them now. The trivia for you in this one is that it was originally meant to
05:21be called Star Island, and Tommy even refers to it as such in one mission before the change was made.
05:27Number 4, The Pole Position Club
05:30If there's one thing you could probably remember this club for, it's the terrible,
05:33terrible dance moves of the NPCs inside. The Pole Position Club is, again, one of the few
05:37locations in Vice City you can go inside of. It's a strip club themed on motorsports and
05:42is also one of the locations Tommy can actually purchase as part of his empire.
05:46But boy, oh boy, those dance moves were something else, weren't they? It doesn't help that to
05:50complete the club's missions and have it generate revenue, you have to sit through at least $300
05:54of these dances. In GTA 6, at least a nod to the strip club from the original would definitely be
05:59appreciated. While Grand Theft Auto is perhaps a tad more tasteful than it once was, just a tad,
06:05mind you, they probably still couldn't shy away from including the strip club as part of the city.
06:09And in fact, why not? Because there's a pole position in Los Santos in Grand Theft Auto 5,
06:13so clearly it became a chain after the 1980s.
06:16Number 3, Fort Baxter Air Base
06:19It's almost a rite of passage in a Grand Theft Auto game that somewhere in there,
06:22there'll be a military base. And inside that military base, there's some kind of excellent
06:26object that allows you to cause untold destruction in the most efficient manner possible. In Vice
06:31City, that honour goes to Fort Baxter Air Base. If you enter the base, you'll instantly get shot
06:35by the soldiers inside. That is, of course, unless you're wearing a cop outfit or army fatigues. And
06:40if you are, you can just waltz right on in there and steal whatever you want, which of course,
06:45is the Rhino Tank. And if you've collected all the hidden packages, the Hunter Helicopter.
06:49Just like other GTA games before it, Grand Theft Auto 6 surely has to contain a military base,
06:54complete with all kinds of goodies inside. I mean, really, would it be a Grand Theft Auto
06:59game without the ability to drive a tank down Main Street? Don't try and fix what ain't
07:03broken if you're gonna have a military base, it might as well be Fort Baxter.
07:06Number 2, Little Havana slash Little Haiti
07:09There's a significant plot arc in Vice City where Tommy is unbeknown to each gang,
07:13working for both the Cubans and the Haitians at the same time, causing havoc and gang wars
07:18between the two. The bulk of these missions take place in and around Little Haiti and Little
07:22Havana, featuring such iconic locations as the weird shack where Tommy is drugged, the junkyard
07:27where you have to rescue Lance Vance, and that weird cafe where Umberto Rubina always hangs out
07:31and shouts at people about nonsense. They're also home to Tommy's printing press for making fake
07:36money, a huge solvent factory that you can blow up, and Kaufman cabs which Tommy can also purchase.
07:42There's such a vast and sprawling area of Vice City that it would be a shame not to see them
07:46represented in Grand Theft Auto 6. It'd be interesting to see how they've changed over
07:50time, perhaps they've become gentrified, or perhaps they're an unfortunate war zone.
07:54And Number 1, Leaflinks Golf Course
07:57Remember the first time you got into the Leaflinks Golf Course in Vice City,
08:00had all your weapons taken off of you in the metal detectors, and then found that the only
08:03methods you had for causing havoc were to run people over in a golf cart or thwack them with
08:08a golf club? Ah yes, good times. While there's no way to actually play golf at Leaflinks,
08:12it's still a really cool location to visit. You can even get yourself a nifty little golf outfit
08:17for Tommy, just so he looks the part while he's out there on the course. Leaflinks is also home
08:21to one of the three Cement Shoe Men, unfortunate souls who have been given concrete shoes by the
08:26Mafia and then sunk to the bottom of the ocean. Visit the west side of the island to find him,
08:30just don't fall in because Tommy Visetti can't swim. Hopefully that's not the case with your
08:34character in Grand Theft Auto 6, and hopefully you can play golf this time. And again, that was
08:38in Grand Theft Auto 5, so why not? As was vast character creation, so I want to see lots of
08:43different golf outfits please. But most importantly, just let me run people over in a golf
08:48cart again, it's quite simple. Let us know which Vice City locations you're excited to see in Grand
08:53Theft Auto 6 in the comments below. Don't forget to like this video, there's a link on screen now
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