GTA Vice City Beta Map Analysis

I decided to take closer look at the original map design for GTA Vice City.

[Callewaerty]

It’s true, the Vice City airport is such a weird change

[KingMasey]

Awesome, loved the plane crash scene of the video a+ editing. So funny haha!

[Bahraini_Carguy]

8:06 I dunno why but I couldn't help but laugh at the edit of that clip. Seriously tho, nice video! I wish if we ever had a beta version of GTA Vice City or any other GTA for the matter, I just find the changes and behind the scenes of my favorite games to be somewhat interesting.

[Zmeeed]

I feel like the mainland part of Vice City should've been at least twice as big as Vice Beach. The current mainland feels weird considering one third of it is airport, another third are the ghetto districts, and the last third is the actual downtown but it doesn't actually feel like commercial district or heart of the city. What they should've done in my opinion is to expand the landmass towards West and make it downtown almost entirely while breathing in some life to the alleys of already existing downtown. The ghetto and airport are already big enough.

Vice Beach is mostly fine but I wish they shrunk the beach a little in favour of city development.

[CookiePLMonster]

I like how you focused on the game design aspect of those changes, that's something new (unlike the analysis itself)! Totally plausible insights, too.

[hazelnotxyz]

Oh shit, you know how Vice City was originally supposed to be an expansion pack for III? Maybe the mainland part wasn't supposed to be in until they decided to turn the expansion into a full game, so they threw it together fairly quickly after painstakingly making the first island.

[Udayjeet_singh]

This channel need more subs and views i actually enjoy the video

[GuiPT]

Vice City is my favorite GTA but the city looked improved in Vice City Stories.

A lot of areas that were empty in VC, had buildings in VCS. Like the trailer park next to Sunshine Autos, the amusement park on the first island and all the new businesses you could buy throughout the city. Plus they added more neon lights to the buildings. The city just looked more vibrant and packed in VCS.

[ItzFlameyFazbear]

I honestly think this would be the
perfect Vice City map, in general:

•Final Road Layouts
•Final Beaches Added
•Added Lighthouse
•Added Stadium
•Beta Bridges
•Beta Airport Design

[KidNamedKewlHam]

Another interesting fact is that in the beta, Vice Point Mall was supposed to be a suburban area. It can be seen when you load the western part of the map

[Zayjug]

VC mainland always seemed to be strange and kinna developed in hurry. You get plenty of unused area and strange objects.

[Feliplayz]

Now I'm curious to see how the swamps would look like in Vice City.

[marz_mitzi]

A speedrunner also found out accidentally that one street at the bottom of the west island was way different in the beta, when he's driving down to the docks, near the ships on the road closest to the sea on, a low-detailed distanced car can be seen driving upwards a bit and drive through and into the boatyard... leading people to think the street there used to be wider and shaped different based on that beta path :o it's like the ghost tower in that regards.

[Duckingheights]

To be honest, the final map that we got in-game is better, but, should of done some more things on the west island.

[DJ_Thanos]

"Hey, guys. It's Ken Rosenberg- Ah-ahh, jeez!" 😂😂

[demoleramera]

I've always felt Vice City's map had a slight unsettling or sinister vibe over it. A sort of rundown, after it's prime kind of feel. Especially on the PS2 with a CRT-tv. Even playing it today it feels like there's more to the map/city somehow

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Very impressive, I have known this map for long yet you manage to get so much more out of it than I knew by looking closer and researching more. Great job.

[themarcinfromgtagames]

Welcome Badger. So you want to hear my thoughts about the changes made in Grand Theft Auto Vice City map. Here they come. Looking through smaller part of the beach in Ocean Beach, for me it's definitely beneficial because in my opinion the amount of beach left in Beta map is enough already to be chilled there, enjoy views and sunny weather or boat wrecks. But there's also a minus because we couldn't have a lighthouse which gives great nostalgia, besides it's the place of very first hidden package so it would come to asking where was it's location during that time :/ The size of the airport is much better in final concept in my opinion even that it has Fort Baxter base which gives us much more opportunities to experience how Vice City soldiers live. When we talk Hyman Memorial Stadium's existence, it's definitely better that it exists because we've got much more content such as side missions. The streets look in both first and second island may be a perfect occasion to sightseeing the city, that's because I'm looking on GTA games like a person, I don't play them ONLY to complete them on 100 %, I'm interested in in-depth story such as alpha, beta changes, history of all characters, even the minor ones. Regards to you and I'm looking forward to your next video.MarciN

[Garfield]

Yup, this channel is awesome. I love to find out secrets of my favourite games that I used to play. Keep up the good work!

[mazensoliman]

A throughly interesting video once again, as you suggested I’d really enjoy a video on the GTA IV beta map.