Vice City has been around for decades, and comparing pics from the new GTA 6 trailer and the old-school PS2 game is quite the eye-opener.
We’ve only seen 90 seconds of it, and GTA 6 already seems to be the best-looking video game ever, but then developer Rockstar Games is filthy rich and have been working on it for almost 10 years.
As previous leaks made clear, the setting of the game is Vice City, which first appeared in the original 2D Grand Theft Auto from 1998 but is best known for its appearance in 2002 PlayStation 2 game GTA: Vice City and 2006 spin-off Vice City Stories for the PSP.
Both games were set in the 80s, so not only is there a world of difference between the graphics in those old games, and today, but GTA 6 is set in the modern day and not the neon nightmare of the 1980s. Even so, it is possible to make some interesting comparisons between the games.
The version of Vice City in GTA 6 isn’t meant to be identical to the one from the PlayStation 2 era but some of the buildings and locations are clearly the same, even if they’ve been moved about and redesigned.
There’s a lot of construction going on near the beach in the GTA 6 trailer but you can see that the skyline is roughly the same, even if there’s considerably less people hanging around in the old version.
The main street with all the clubs is also broadly the same between the two games, and while there’s less 80s neon in the trailer you can still see it’s the same place.
That’s in part because both games are based on the real Miami and while it’s not meant to be a 1:1 recreation (the same way Liberty City isn’t really New York City) there are a lot of very similar landmarks.
The image above is the whole of Vice City from the original PlayStation 2 game, which you can see is very small by modern standards.
So far Rockstar hasn’t said anything about how big GTA 6’s game world is but rumours suggest it features several smaller towns and large wilderness areas.
This shot is very reminiscent of the real Miami but it also seems to be Links Bridge from the original game, or at least something similar to it.
Note how different the water effects are between the two games, with GTA 6 looking almost photorealistic and Vice City… looking like a PlayStation 2 game.
We can’t offer a comparison shot of the female lead of GTA 6 because there’s never been one in the series before, but this is her boyfriend, who’s believed to becalled Jason.
The comparison to Tommy Vercetti from Vice City is incredible and arguably the biggest difference between the graphics from one era to the next.
Of course, having great graphics doesn’t guarantee a great game but by this point everyone knows what to expect from GTA and much of the appeal from the original games was just wandering around and exploring, even when the gameplay wasn’t that great.
GTA 6 isn’t out until 2025, so it’s going to be a long time till we find out how it plays, but what we do know already is that it looks amazing.
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