ybakker Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 (edited) . VICE CITY VS. MIAMI This topic is a comparative look at R*’s imitations of Vice City’s real life Miami counterparts. All Maimi pictures were found through Google Images. All Vice City pictures are from the PC version of GTA: Vice City. The maps were found through Google Maps. edit: images lost... Edited June 15, 2008 by ybakker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ybakker Posted September 5, 2006 Author Share Posted September 5, 2006 (edited) edit: images lost Edited June 15, 2008 by ybakker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 This is sweet! Loving the obvious similarities with Starfish Island and the hotels. Excellent work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent Ryder Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 Port bridge has better looking since the graphics.The real one is more brighter. The bridge connecting Leaf links and Little Haiti was so dark like hell and very sh*tty looking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fubu Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 Very nice finds. How do you get the photos from the real world? That's all i have to say this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canoxa Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 Nice job rounding up the information. It was a good read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ybakker Posted September 5, 2006 Author Share Posted September 5, 2006 Thanks. Anyone know any other similarities I haven't found? I just used Google Images and Google Maps. (Im too lazy to write all the sites I got the images from ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canoxa Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 Try to get a picture of sunset in Vice Point (picture from up in North Vice Point facing south) and one from Miami. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demarest Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 Watching CSI: Miami I see a lot of "familiar" things. But this takes the case. Nice job, nice layout, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canoxa Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 Watching CSI: Miami I see a lot of "familiar" things. But this takes the case. Nice job, nice layout, etc. Ah, that's exactly what I thought when suggested the Vice Point shot. I remember seeing lots of those in CSI: Miami. Would be ncie if we got something of that type. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rashon. Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 You have an excellent eye. You did the same for San Andreas. I'm amazed but not surpised, I knew you'd do something like this again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demarest Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 Watching CSI: Miami I see a lot of "familiar" things. But this takes the case. Nice job, nice layout, etc. Ah, that's exactly what I thought when suggested the Vice Point shot. I remember seeing lots of those in CSI: Miami. Would be ncie if we got something of that type. I have seasons 2 and 3 right here and my dad has season 1 (they're all his). If somebody posts a pic they think would be in CSI, I can provide the CSI pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canoxa Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 I remember lots of between-scenes shots of scenery. Strolling around GTANet's screenshot gallery, I found things like this and this. I'm not satisfied with these screenshots, because I saw much better ones, but what can ya do? How about comparing the Malibu with the real Miami club? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
segvirion Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 Nice topic, very interesting info. Would love to see more of these similarities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spuds725 Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 This isn't exactly a miami reference but to the show Miami vice-- the under cover cops in the police cheetah's at 3 stars in VC are based on the crockett and tubbs from Miami vice.... Not sure if this is an exact fit to this topic but thought I'd mention it anyway.... I saw a web site or thread on this before-- was a few years ago--- I'll see if google turns up anything Spuds' GTA V 100% Checklist // My IV & Vice City Videos "I want to design a video game where you take care of all the people shot in all the other video games.... It's called Busy Hospital II" -- Demetri Martin RIP BDP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ybakker Posted September 8, 2006 Author Share Posted September 8, 2006 does anyone know the real name of the Malibu? The interior is taken from scarface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintdave Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 There is no real name for the Malibu but I assume you want to know the name of club in Scarface that it is based on? The club in Scarface is called the Babylon. This site shows some of the similarities with VC and Scarface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glenster Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 (edited) Ybakker: excellent detective work! Every example looks right to me. (I think I once saw a picture of a water tower in Miami like the one across from the Malibu. I didn't see it the last time I looked for it.) Here's what I had for that: Washington Mall looks like the Bal Harbor Mall in Miami, which has expensive stores like Gucci's. (Thanks to the Secrets FAQ by THaguyINgta3 at the Gamefaqs web site for the Bal Harbor Mall tip.) http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/gr...vice_city_h.txt If you want to see it, go to this web site: http://www.balharbourshops.com/ Wikipedia has a good article about places "Vice City" is based on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_city A few examples: The lighthouse is based on Cape Florida lighthouse in Key Biscayne. http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/9817/00...inovc14qpn7.jpg http://img478.imageshack.us/img478/6702/00...housevc19tj.jpg http://img478.imageshack.us/img478/8862/00...thousevc2pn.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Florida_lighthouse The park at the S end of the E island is like South Pointe Park. http://img452.imageshack.us/img452/1984/00...intepark9vk.jpg North Point Mall is a parody of Aventura Mall. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aventura_Mall One of the places Starfish Island seems like, and the one that the name is based on, is Star Island. (See ybakker's picture of Belle Isle, above, for a good comparison of the layout of the island itself.) http://www.star-island.com/ Leaf Links seems to represent a number of Country Clubs on the E side of Mi- ami. The name comes from Leith Links, which is in Leith near Edinburgh, Scot- land, where Rockstar North is. Leith Links is where the earliest record of golf is found. It's considered the "home of golf" because the first official rules were formed there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_%28golf%29 "Rockstar North is located on Leith Street, the road (continued as Leith Walk) to Leith from central Edinburgh. Prior to this, the company was based within Leith itself--in an office building situated next to Leith Links park. The park itself is honoured in the fourth Grand Theft Auto game, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, where the local country club is called Leaf Links." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leith GTW notes: The name of the WK Chariot hotel is probably a variation of the name of the "JW Marriot Hotel" of Miami. The curved porch roof is similar, too. http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/2807/00...eenvc922nv5.jpg http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/4909/00...thotelvc3fo.jpg The water tower at Interglobal Films is probably meant as symbolic of the water tower of Warner Bros. studios at 4000 Warner Blvd. in Burbank, CA. A couple similar water towers appear in Interglobal Film Studios in Los Santos in "San Andreas," too. (Thanks to reader and contributor Wolfie2k5.) http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/9387/00...eenvc917nk6.jpg http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4756/00...creen970vi9.jpg One of the Miami Beach life guard huts: http://img452.imageshack.us/img452/6021/00...uardhut14dh.jpg The Art Deco district of Ocean Drive in South Beach, Miami: http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/1492/00...district4gb.jpg http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/9638/00...istrict16qf.jpg http://img489.imageshack.us/img489/1738/00...artdeco21ir.jpg The logo for the Mailbu Club looks something like the logo for the Malibu Country Club, which has a golf course on Encinal Canyon Road (which you'd prob- ably reach from Mulholland Highway, which, in turn, suggests stephen Mulholland of Rockstar North and an intersection in "San Andreas") in Malibu, CA. http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/212/00g...eenvc187af3.jpg http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/8797/00...eenvc190bq3.jpg http://www.malibucountryclub.net/page/81-2054.htm Downtown Miami: http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/1871/00...ownmiami5vr.jpg Edited September 29, 2006 by glenster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayank Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 NICe JOB I like these types of forums All must put forums like this Well done Mr. whoever you are .... HAH THNX u made me happy today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spis Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 I know for a fact that the mall i Washington Beach is based on a real life out doors mall, if i could just remember where i saw it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NARFALICIOUS Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 Nice job with the comparisons. I noticed them when I made a trip to Miami and Miami Beach this past January. It was awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james_root Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 nice topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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