First Vice City Stories trailer debuts

Rockstar Games launches preview and Web site for its forthcoming PSP game, revealing soundtrack and story details; trailer inside.

In less than two months, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories will hit store shelves. This evening, its publisher, Take-Two Interactive subsidiary Rockstar Games, released the first trailer for the much-anticipated title, which will be the second GTA game for the PlayStation Portable.

Vice City Stories

Grand Theft Auto returns to the PSP.

Clocking in at just over a minute, the trailer confirms some rumored plot details. Vice City Stories will indeed center on Vic Vance, the ex-soldier brother of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City character Lance Vance. It will also be a prequel to the best-selling PlayStation 2 game and a much younger and less stylish Lance Vance is shown.

The trailer also appears to confirm some casting details about GTA: VCS. Lance Vance appears not to be voiced by Phillip Michael Thomas (Miami Vice), who played the character in Vice City. Vic Vance's dialogue is definitely not spoken by Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction), as had been rumored.

One Vice City voice actor that does appear to be returning in VCS is Danny Trejo (Heat, Desperado). His character, Cuban gangster Umberto Robina, appears in the trailer and appears to have the veteran character actor's trademark gravelly baritone.

The trailer also reveals at least one song that will be featured on the Vice City Stories soundtrack. As numerous scenes of chaos involving motorcycles, helicopters, and explosions dot the screen, the 1984 ballad "I Wanna Know What Love Is" from early-80s rock band Foreigner plays in the background.

Rockstar also launched the official Vice City Stories Web site. It offered a brief summary of the game, which reads as follows:

Vice City, 1984. Opportunity abounds in a city emerging from the swamps, its growth fueled by the violent power struggle in a lucrative drug trade. Construction is everywhere as a shining metropolis rises from foundations of crime and betrayal.

As a soldier, Vic Vance has always protected his dysfunctional family, his country, [and] himself. One bad decision later and that job is about to get much harder. Kicked out onto the streets of a city torn between glamour and gluttony, Vic is faced with a stark choice--build an empire or be crushed.

The site also confirmed that Vice City Stories will indeed have multiplayer but had no details. It also has sported several risqué commercials, including one for too-tight Camus Jeans and several other brands. The Web site also has a brief promotional trailer for disco channel Paradise FM and rock station V-Rock, which will once again feature the character of DJ Lazlo.

Also included on the site are several mock news stories, including one for the "Bait and Switch" Vice City boat show and the "Domestebot" home robot from Vice City. Also included are reports on the so-called "Trailer Park Mafia" taking over some of Vice City's poorer districts.

140 Comments

  • Nunio11

    Posted Sep 25, 2006 9:16 am PT

    What ?????????? A baby???????? :O
    Look at the 00:22 seconds of the video...

  • mercypoo

    Posted Sep 18, 2006 8:14 pm PT

    vic's the one who got shot up during the deal in the beggining of vc, right?

  • johnno92

    Posted Sep 18, 2006 9:36 am PT

    this wll be awesome

  • thebuft

    Posted Sep 16, 2006 4:01 am PT

    no they mean vic vance, lances brother

  • Enigma2K99

    Posted Sep 14, 2006 11:41 pm PT

    I think you mean Lance Vance

  • vergilskater

    Posted Sep 13, 2006 4:12 pm PT

    can't wait.dude this is gonna rock.

  • XanderKage

    Posted Sep 12, 2006 5:58 am PT

    Nice... but I wonder... what will the ending be... In all GTA games, the ending was just a astory ending, setting the player loose in the city afterwards... But Vic Vance in killed in the VC game... So there might be a solid "the end", with no free-roam after completing the story... If so, that would suck, as many attend to side missions only after beating the story...

  • gtasavc3

    Posted Sep 11, 2006 5:48 pm PT

    first of all they wouldnt release it for ps2, because like 1 month after VCS comes out PS3 is comin out, so if anything they will release it for ps3, which i highly doubt because gta 4 is comin out october 16 '07

  • sugreev2001

    Posted Sep 11, 2006 7:39 am PT

    Please no timed missions..they take the whole fun out of the game.And i hope this is never released for the Ps2,otherwise whats the point of spending dollars for the PSP.

  • jff54

    Posted Sep 10, 2006 6:22 am PT

    Looks good! I hope we can see a PS2 version in spring 2007 or something.

  • kalkhaja

    Posted Sep 9, 2006 7:08 am PT

    trailer looks corny and cheesy. but so was LCS trailer, so im sure VCS will kick arse

  • Carlo_14

    Posted Sep 9, 2006 3:58 am PT

    This will definetly be one of the best games on the PSP to date. I cannot wait until the day it comes out.

  • fart_poo_cheese

    Posted Sep 7, 2006 6:41 pm PT

    Awsome cant wait to get it

  • Ash16

    Posted Sep 7, 2006 1:30 pm PT

    Im just gonna wait for the PS2 version.(hopefully)

  • Gleba2388

    Posted Sep 7, 2006 8:57 am PT

    Maybe this time we'll have a true GTA experience on Sony's portable console.

  • guldlox

    Posted Sep 7, 2006 6:15 am PT

    the trailer looks awsome! i think it i'll be an amazing game!

  • tr00pa_26

    Posted Sep 7, 2006 5:49 am PT

    yehey!!!

  • M_22

    Posted Sep 7, 2006 3:30 am PT

    looks great ! i wish i had a psp...............

  • lilmp89

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 10:09 pm PT

    All that I've heard already sounds good....

    but from this trailer...the graphics are looking very good for a GTA game....and I've got 3, SA, and LCS.

  • greenday1093

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 9:02 pm PT

    awsome............too bad my analog is broken lol 90 friggen bucks to fix it!!! I HATE YOU SONY!! AARRGG!

  • Ocram_Zepol

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 8:22 pm PT

    HELL YES!! I can't wait till this game comes out!! It better be better than LCS (even though LCS was pretty good.) I want this game to be BETTER than Vice City.

  • comthitnuong

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 7:04 pm PT

    well its too bad i dont have a psp

  • Enigma2K99

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 6:16 pm PT

    To quote the guy in AmmuNation...

    "You hard yet?"

  • Gblock2016

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 5:44 pm PT

    sweet!

  • Evilone1414

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 5:38 pm PT

    Bananna

  • puppiemaster

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 5:25 pm PT

    At last a reason to put down the DS and start playing the PSP again.

  • dEaThAwAiTs013

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 4:52 pm PT

    Should be good. Definitely picking it up.

  • Mortz_88

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 3:34 pm PT

    looks freakin' sweet!

  • carcrazy426

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 2:55 pm PT

    Can't wait for this one. Vice City was my favorite GTA setting, and it looks like they are pulling out all the stops with this one. I will be getting it the day it comes out for sure.

  • dounowhatiam

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 2:48 pm PT

    ok might need to go find my need to go find my psp to dust it off to play this port of vicity.

  • _Sam_

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 2:48 pm PT

    looks good. I need a PSP...

  • dennis_phong

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 2:48 pm PT

    hells yeah!!!

  • Demonbob

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 2:45 pm PT

    Trailer Park Mafia? w00t.

  • Rossdaboss777

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 2:14 pm PT

    gta 2 go nice

  • MadGamer132

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 2:03 pm PT

    the game will kick a**. GTA 4EVER!

  • silverfoxfoxfox

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 1:00 pm PT

    IIIII CAAAAAAAAANNT WAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • etramleinad12

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 12:42 pm PT

    Yes! Man I haven't felt this happy since Vice City was just two months away!

  • mangodude202

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 12:31 pm PT

    fancy that!

  • icemancell

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 12:11 pm PT

    this is startin to look good, but i wonder how hes gonna fit in all of the GTA storyline.

  • MROmeo10

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 11:45 am PT

    Ohhhhh, me likes the helicopter

  • B-bad

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 11:24 am PT

    looking good vice city is cool on the ps2 and vcs will be cool on the psp....I'm looking forward to it.

  • linksdeity

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 11:20 am PT

    Even though this is just another gimped version of a PS2 game on the PSP (sigh, anyone sick of those?), It's the best reason i would have to buy one. I'm a huge fan of Vice City, and i really hope they do this one well.

  • Vash67

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 11:00 am PT

    GTA + PSP + Foreigner = win

    Granted there are better songs they could have used from them.... but meh. At least there is a sign that it hopefully will have good and lisenced music, unlike LCS.

  • Squids-Ahoy

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 10:38 am PT

    Wow, that was a surprisingly good trailer. Interested in the game.

  • universquall

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 10:32 am PT

    or his 'mom'
    What?

  • odinswarrior

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 10:24 am PT

    hmmm, san andreas stories, maybe cj brother could be the main character.......

  • AngelCage

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 10:21 am PT

    Please rockstar, put on, some of the marvelous free-mods of vice city (or something like that)

    the Acrobatic Sand Castle in Washington Beach gives me hours and hours of GREAT fun in the PCJ-600.... Wee need something like that in VCS ^^ (i'm dreaming now )

  • alanmusso

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 10:10 am PT

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  • panasonicyouth

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 10:09 am PT

    "they got competition from saints row now"

    no they dont.
    saints row is an overdone less funny really boring version of gta:sa

  • AngelnX

    Posted Sep 6, 2006 10:06 am PT

    I'm getting sick and tired of GTA. Don't get me wrong I loved GTAIII when it first came out. It helped create history in video gaming, but releasing Vice City Stories which is basically the game damn game play like the rest of the GTA games, its getting very tiring. If Rockstar wants to create something new in the GTA franchise, it should be like a 1920's Chicago gangsters story that will include a mob boss whose like Al Capone. Thats whats missing!

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