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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – Action Game Review
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is a Action/Entertainment/Adventure game from Rockstar Games, Inc., first launched in 6th December 2012.
It’s rated 17+ and currently has 16,212+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stand Out
Welcome back to Vice City. Welcome back to the 1980s.
From the decade of big hair, excess and pastel suits comes a story of one man's rise to the top of the criminal pile. Vice City, a huge urban sprawl ranging from the beach to the swamps and the glitz to the ghetto, was one of the most varied, complete and alive digital cities ever created. Combining open-world gameplay with a character driven narrative, you arrive in a town brimming with delights and degradation and given the opportunity to take it over as you choose.
To celebrate its 10 year anniversary, Rockstar Games brings Grand Theft Auto: Vice City to mobile devices with high-resolution graphics, updated controls and a host of new features including:
• Beautifully updated graphics, character models and lighting effects
• New, precisely tailored firing and targeting options
• Custom controls with a fully customizable layout
• iCloud save game support
• Massive campaign with countless hours of gameplay
• Support for Retina display devices
• Custom iTunes Playlist*
*To listen to your custom playlist, simply create a playlist titled “VICECITY”, launch the game, and select the radio station “Tape Deck”
Universal App:
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is supported on iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, all iPad models and 4th and 5th generation iPod Touch.
For optimal performance, we recommend re-booting your device after downloading and closing other applications when playing Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
Languages Supported: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Korean, Russian, and Japanese.
Mobile Version developed by War Drum Studios
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This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 21st May 2019
Recent improvements include:
Addressed an issue with the MIXTAPE radio station not playing custom playlists.
Download & Availability
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Grand Theft Auto: Vice City on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Its plays just like our ps2 we love this.
Rest in peace Ray Liotta This game was the best thing that happened many memories we had with vice city especially the old version we remember first time playing it was more nostalgic this game made our childhood so special im not good with words but we will always say that gta vice city was and it will be the best game ever made thank you rockstar for making this game all gta games are amazing especially vice city and San Andreas and iv and v.
Solid polished gameplay that runs better than the PS2.
Just gives you bursts of nostalgia. If you know you know.
We like this game its old school it not bad we love it so much.
Like the title says. It looks great, runs great, and itches that nostalgia bone.
Please please please add nice city stories.
Very great game we have nostalgia.
Awesome gameplay on phone to kill time.
We LIVE THIS GAME ITS VERY UNIQUE AND ME. Like all the other games thats made and fun and adventurous and thrilling and life breathtaking.
It is the best sandbox game ever it even has a better gore system than gta V but parents be warned the are strip clubs guns killing innocent people and tons of drugs.
Starting the story as a billionaire is wild.
Ya as you can se its perfect we love it so much we cant quit playing.
Cant believe we did the RC helicopter mission on the iPhone version of this game. Its not hard people just git good. Long live 80s new wave.
Played Vice City for one more time before VICE CITY 2026 – GRAND THEFT AUTO VI HAS ME SUPER HYPED.
This game is good we love it that all we gotta say twin dnt pmo sybau.
Theres not really much to say but other than its a classic! Great music, great story, and overall a great classic brought on to mobile! :3.
We love the fact the Rockstar has made a grand theft auto based in the 80s,because Im a big huge fan of the 80s,thank you Rockstar.
It works really well on our phone we like it a lot.
Have yall tried it with a controller? Only thing we cant do is change camera view but thats nothing.
This game bring so much memories its such a fun game to play.
We love thes game we remember playing thes in 2003 And it was the best ignor bad radis.
One of the best experiencess ever.
It the best game ever we like it so much we played it for 10 year.
While we'll admit it has its promlems on mobil, like San Andreas its almost perfect on MAC. Sure theres no cheat codes or the old blood spatters but if you want to play the game and want to save a buck its a great version, much better than the definitive edition.
Its so good we love stealing ppls cars lol.
We couldve sworn that the game had blood on the screen whenever using the chainsaw and drops of water whenever its raining and youre driving. Yet on this version its missing. Our older iPhone seems to have those features. Im playing on the iPhone 16 as well.
This game changed our life completely.
Wonderful game holds up for a PS2/xbox 2000s game running on iOS.
Only complaint we have is where is gta vice city stories thats the only one they left out . They got gta 3, vice city,San Andreas and liberty city stories they missing vice city stories.
Hope rockstar never get rid of this game.
We played this back when it first came out and had a lot of fun doing so. Definitely different playing it on an iPad but the music makes it all worthwhile. Looking forward to checking out Vice City again and familiarizing ourselves with all the old spots.
Its so so so good pause not like the.
This game is good but the only bad thing about it is glitches.
What a time to be living in from the console to mobile incredibly. We cant wait for GTA 4 on mobile.
Its the perfect game for your phone. No other way to say it. And for people that are really new and know nothing about this game, it was made back in 2002. Theyre all super unrealistic and arcadey now. Its perfect.
This game is awesome and reminds us of being a kid again. Blows our mind we can play it on our phone now, love it.
Great game better than the remaster in 2021.
Okay, so maybe not the best way overall to play the game but this comes in at a close second to the original PS2 release and the subsequent PC release. With certain areas of the game being more difficult, and other areas being easier – this labor of love is the best way to experience Vice City in an authentic manner. We would suggest playing this version over the Definitive Edition.
This game is goated it never gets old.
This is great cant wait for gta 6 especially cant wait for a modern day Florida & we grew up here rockstar pls drop this year:4.
Shi sends us back to Home Screen every time we try to play.
This is our favorite game because its fun to play and Tommy is our favorite character we play this game everyday and everywhere we go because its so much fun.
10/10 would recommend for every iPhone or iPad user would recommend when your on long drives and do not have wi fi.
Im playing it in 2024 and it exactly feels like old times which we used to play it on our windows xp pc.
This is the first GTA we played and when bought it out for playing on our phone. They made history for us and we have Xbox streaming and we play this more than we play our Xbox streaming. This a throw back that will never be forgotten and the fact that we can use our Backbone to play it multiplies it 100 times more. Thank you Rockstarr for making progress and allowing us to continue to enjoy this game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.8
- Size: 1,117.24 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, RU, ES
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes, Frequent/Intense Profanity or Crude Humor, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Frequent/Intense Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity, Frequent/Intense Realistic Violence
- Developer: Rockstar Games, Inc.
Last updated: 21st May 2019 | Genre: Action, Entertainment | Developer: Rockstar Games, Inc.