AGrand Theft Autofan has created an impressive pinkVice Cityneon sign. The sign itself is in the style of the 2002 game’s logo and had been created several months ago. It is one of manyGrand Theft Auto: Vice Citytributes that can be found on the internet.
Way back in 2002,Grand Theft Auto: Vice Citywas originally released on the PlayStation 2. WhileGrand Theft Auto 3established the franchise as a major brand, it wasVice Citywas the game that solidified that status and helped turn it into the juggernaut that it is today. Over its lifetime, the game would go on to sell over 18M copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling PlayStation 2 games ever. Despite therocky launch of theGrand Theft Auto Trilogy, fans are still creating their own tributes to the twenty-year-old game.
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In the past, fans have come up with some interesting tributes to the game. One, for example, made aGrand Theft Auto: Vice Citygaming cabinetusing the game’s iconic images. More recently, Reddit user bunzurr revealed a pink Vice City neon sign that they made months earlier and looks like something straight out of the 1980s. The sign is covered with what appears to be smoke and/or fog in a style that is identical toVice City’s logo.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice Citywas arguably Rockstar’s biggest tribute to the mobster movie, with the film borrowing much of its pilot and aesthetic from the 1983 Al Pacino film,Scarface. Taking place in the fictional Vice City in Florida, the story followedRay Liotta’s Tommy Vercetti; an Italian mobster who gradually took control of the city’s various crime rackets after a drug deal went horribly wrong. It was only one of two instances where the city was used in theGrand Theft Autouniverse with the second beingGrand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. This, however, may be about to change.
Over the past couple of years, development on Rockstar’s next game,Grand Theft Auto 6has begun to heat up. One of the most commonrumors aboutGrand Theft Auto 6is that it will take place in Vice Citythough no official sources have confirmed this. If true, however, fans may be able to discover what became of several of the game’s key characters and continue to serve as inspiration for neon signs like this.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice Cityoriginally released in 2002 for PS2.
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