ClassicsFeb 16, 2026
Vice City's Easter Eggs and Secrets
Hidden packages, the Apartment 3C, the Ghost Town, the Domestobot — Vice City's twenty-two-year-old secrets, what's real, and what's twenty-two years of fan myth.
Marc Reyes 3 min read
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Hidden packages, the Apartment 3C, the Ghost Town, the Domestobot — Vice City's twenty-two-year-old secrets, what's real, and what's twenty-two years of fan myth.
A guide to the GTA 3 characters: Toni Cipriani, the Leone family, 8-Ball, Donald Love, Ray Machowski and the Hollywood voice cast behind Liberty City.
From the bank job to the mall shootout to Keep Your Friends Close — the ten Grand Theft Auto: Vice City missions every fan can quote on cue.
GTA 3 rampages: there are exactly 20 across Liberty City, all required for 100%. Here is where every rampage hides, plus tips for the 2-minute kill and destroy runs.
The Cheetah, the Infernus, the Hotring Racer, the Sea Sparrow — every iconic Grand Theft Auto: Vice City vehicle, what it's based on, and where to find it.
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All GTA 3 weapons explained: the full roster from fists to the rocket launcher, what Ammu-Nation sells, and the hideout spawns that hand you heavy firepower.
Vice City introduced the buyable-property system that defined the modern GTA. Here's what each property does, how much it earns, and the order to acquire them in.
How to make money in GTA 3 fast: the taxi, vigilante, ambulance and firefighter side missions, Import/Export crane payouts, rampages and mission cash.
V-Rock, Flash FM, Wave 103, Fever 105 — every Grand Theft Auto: Vice City radio station, ranked, with the iconic 1986 tracks each one made famous again.
GTA 3 hidden packages explained: where all 100 are split across the three islands, the staged weapon and armor rewards at each hideout, and the cash totals.
The 2006 prequel Vice City Stories is set two years before the original, follows Victor Vance, and quietly retconned several Vice City character arcs. Here's the comparison.
From Ocean Beach to Starfish Island to the Malibu Club — every district of Vice City's 1986 map, what it's modelled on, and what to do in each.
GTA 3 100 percent completion explained: every story mission, 100 hidden packages, 20 rampages, 20 stunt jumps, the side jobs, and the exact reward.
Tommy Vercetti is the GTA series's first voiced protagonist — and Ray Liotta's only video-game lead role. Here's the full Tommy primer: backstory, arc, and legacy.
Twenty-five years after release, Grand Theft Auto III remains the foundational text of the modern open-world genre. Here's what it invented, what it perfected, and what every GTA since owes it.
GTA III's three named women — Catalina, Asuka Kasen, Maria Latore — drive most of the campaign's actual plot. Here's how each one reshapes the story.
Every Grand Theft Auto III cheat that still works in 2026 — typed text codes on PC, button combos on PlayStation and Xbox. Plus what each one breaks.
Claude is the only fully-silent protagonist in mainline Grand Theft Auto. Here's what we know about him — name, history, what GTA III tells you and what GTA San Andreas later confirmed.
Twenty-five years on, these are the GTA III missions every fan still remembers — bank heists, betrayals, the dam finale, and the boat ride that introduced 8-Ball.
Banshee, Stinger, Patriot, Cartel Cruiser — the vehicles that defined Grand Theft Auto III in 2001, before customisation, before BMX bikes, before motorcycles.
Portland, Staunton Island, Shoreside Vale — the three islands of GTA III's Liberty City split the campaign into three distinct acts. Here's what defines each.
Liberty City's seven gangs in 2001 — who runs what, who's allied with whom, and how the campaign rewrites the entire balance of power by the end.
Nine in-game radio stations and the talk-radio masterpiece Chatterbox FM — every Grand Theft Auto III station, ranked, with the standout tracks worth seeking out.