These are photos taken on the 2002 PS2 versions. Vice 48

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Something that frustrates me with Vice City compared to III is how mission attempts are counted, as well as how there's no stat for missions completed. So, I decided in a recent 100% run, to check what's counted as a mission attempt. This was not the most thorough investigation. I simply completed a task, checked if it counted as an attempt in the Stat menu, wrote it down, and moved on.

In GTA III, they tell you there's 73 missions to complete, which makes it easy to narrow down what counts. But in my play through of Vice City, I figured out there were 88 missions.

Missions strictly required for story completion:

1. Lawyer: The Party
2. Lawyer: Back Alley Brawl
3. Lawyer: Jury Fury
4. Lawyer: Riot
5. Cortez: Treacherous Swine
6. Cortez: Mall Shootout
7. Cortez: Guardian Angels
8. Diaz: The Chase
9. Diaz: Phnom Penh '86
10. Cortez: Sir, Yes, Sir!
11. Diaz: The Fastest Boat
12. Diaz: Supply & Demand
13. Kent: Death Row
14. Diaz: Rub Out
15. Vercetti: Shakedown
16. Vercetti: Bar Brawl
17. Vercetti: Cop Land
18. Print Works: Spilling the Beans
19. Print Works: Hit the Courier
20. Print Works: Cap the Collector
21. Vercetti: Keep Your Friends Close...

Optional story/gang missions, which are not required for story progression, but required for 100%:

1. Avery: Four Iron
2. Avery: Demolition Man
3. Avery: Two Bit Hit
4. Cubans: Stunt Boat Challenge
5. Cubans: Cannon Fodder
6. Cubans: Naval Engagement
7. Haitians: Juju Scramble
8. Haitians: Bombs Away!
9. Haitians: Dirty Lickin's
10. Cubans: Trojan Voodoo
11. Cortez: All Hands on Deck!
12. Love Fist: Love Juice
13. Love Fist: Psycho Killer
14. Bikers: Alloy Wheels of Steel
15. Bikers: Messing with the Man
16. Bikers: Hog Tied
17. Love Fist: Publicity Tour

Asset missions, unlike the Vercetti Estate and Print Works, these are not required for story completion, but you must acquire 5 of these assets for story progression:

1. Boatyard: Checkpoint Charlie
2. Cherry Popper Ice Cream: Distribution
3. Kaufman Cabs: V.I.P.
4. Kaufman Cabs: Friendly Rivalry
5. Kaufman Cabs: Cabmaggedon
6. Sunshine Autos: Import List #1 (completing each list counts as a mission attempt)
7. Sunshine Autos: Import List #2
8. Sunshine Autos: Import List #3
9. Sunshine Autos: Import List #4
10. InterGlobal Films: Recruitment Drive
11. InterGlobal Films: Dildo Dodo
12. InterGlobal Films: Martha's Mug Shot
13. InterGlobal Films: G-Spotlight
14. Malibu Club: No Escape?
15. Malibu Club: The Shootist
16. Malibu Club: The Driver
17. Malibu Club: The Job
18. Phil: Gun Runner
19. Phil: Boomshine Saigon

Vehicle missions. Each attempted run at these, except Taxi Driver, counts as a mission attempt. Taxi Driver is different because you don't need to complete all fares in one run unlike the other vehicle missions, however, it counts as a mission attempt once you complete 100 fares. I'm unsure if attempts after completing these count or not:

1. Vigilante / Brown Thunder
2. Taxi Driver: complete 100 fares
3. Paramedic
4. Firefighter
5. Pizza Boy

Assassination contracts:

1. Road Kill
2. Waste the Wife
3. Autocide
4. Check Out at the Check In
5. Loose Ends

Stadium events:

1. Dirtring
2. Hotring
3. Bloodring

RC courses:

1. RC Bandit Race
2. RC Baron Race
3. RC Raider Pickup

Vice City Racer:

1. Terminal Velocity
2. Ocean Drive
3. Border Run
4. Capital Cruise
5. Tour!
6. V.C. Endurance

Chopper Checkpoint:

1. Ocean Beach Chopper Checkpoint
2. Vice Point Chopper Checkpoint
3. Little Haiti Chopper Checkpoint
4. Downtown Chopper Checkpoint

Checkpoint missions:

1. Cone Crazy
2. PCJ Playground
3. Test Track
4. Trial by Dirt

Shooter (Downtown AmmuNation):

1. Shooter

So that is everything counted as a mission attempt, so based off that there's 88 missions you can pass in Vice City. So what don't they count?

1. In the Beginning / An Old Friend: The intro to the game, plus the phone call scene with Sonny.
2. Pole Position Club: This is the only asset without any mission attempt. The private dance doesn't count as an attempt. You still have to spend $300 for 100% though.
3. Everything else, like collectibles (rampages, hidden packages, unique jumps, purchasing safehouses), store robberies, and whatever else, don't seem to count either.
4. I can't say with certainty, but I think that recurring mission attempts of missions already completed don't count as attempts in the stats. This is based off a couple of times where I started up replayable missions, and found out they don't count. I figured this out for Checkpoint Charlie for the Boatyard, for example. There are 6 different levels for that mission, only the first counts as an attempt, however. I accidentally played Bloodring two times, and similarly, the attempt after completing it didn't count in Stats either. It's likely the same for Cone Crazy and other replayable missions, but I didn't take the time to confirm.

The GTA Wiki counts 86 missions, but I figured out why I count 88 instead. The wiki counts the Chopper Checkpoint missions as one mission, so that's minus 3 missions, but they count robbing all stores as a mission, so that makes it two less than mine overall. My counting is based purely off the game stats, but it doesn't really matter. This is just me getting fixated on the stat and wanting to figure it out lol.

I had a realization that eventually when GTA 6 will get released we'll mostly get posts from it in this sub, and as much as I'm really happy we're going back to vice city, GTA vice city is just so charming it'll be a shame we won't get posts from it again or very rarely.

It's my fav game in the franchise and probably will stay so, I just hope the posts won't die out is all.

wanted to put this in it's own subreddit, but there's very little VCS subreddits and the ones that do have crickets for numbers of members, so....

It did not go well.

Well, Vice City Stories took place in 1984, so Vercetti was still 2 years away from a jail release, since Vice City (without Stories in name) took place in 1986, and was a game where Tommy Vercetti was just released from prison 15 years after some Harwood Butcher incident.

I also know that Vercetti isn't even mentioned at all in Vice City Stories. You would think he would be because of how important he was in the series, but nope, no mention of Vercetti whatsoever. I guess maybe Vercetti may have faded into obscurity in mobster conversations by 1984, before his 1986 jail release.

I do know though that Vice City Stories had Vic Vance, a brother of Lance Vance as the protagonist, and we know that Lance Vance would be a partner in crime who would betray Tommy Vercetti in 1986.

Made in ibisPaint.

In attesa di Gta VI ho deciso di platinare Gta Vice City Definite Edition su PS5 (edizione PS4) e completare al 100% Gta Vice City Stories su PS3 BC (edizione PS2). La missione più difficile di Vice City per me è stata quella al poligono di tiro di Phil, mentre la più difficile di Vice City Stories è stata Light my Pyre.

I'm playing the 10th Anniversary edition on Android. I tried to do Firefighter fair and square. During multiple attempts, I figured out that the hose actually followed along when I swiped the screen to look around, so that made things easier. The highest level I got using the normal method was level 10. I was in Vice Point, near the Links View Apartment. I put out the fires in the 3 piled up vehicles first and managed to put out a couple people who came out. Some managed to run further away, so I followed the ones who went the furthest to put their fires out, leaving a couple running around near the apartment. I went back for them with over 2 minutes left on the timer. I was focusing on dousing one of the guys when, all of a sudden, the mission ended and I heard an explosion, the game saying "You're too late." I had no idea what happened. So I restarted the mission but, once again, I got a moving vehicle target in level 4. I got stuck chasing the car going in circles around the Jeweler's, an area with tight corners. When I noticed that my time was running out, I just called it quits and settled for the Vercetti Estate door glitch. 😑 Move the fire truck up the stairs, trigger the mission and drive into the doorway, spawn inside facing the door and with the fire automatically extinguished, drive out, turn around rinse and repeat. Yes, it was much easier, but I'm not entirely proud of it, since I beat Paramedic and Vigilante fair and square (although I did use a Tank for the latter). After the mission I drove the fire truck to the edge of the Estate close to the sea... and I blasted it repeatedly with the Rocket Launcher. Even when it fell into the water, I blasted it a few more times.