Ocean Beach: the Art Deco strip
Ocean Drive, South Beach, Miami Beach, FL
Rockstar's Ocean Beach is a clear match for Ocean Drive: pastel Art Deco hotels, neon at dusk and a park between the strip and the sand. Here is how to walk it.
Region
Vice City
Based on Miami and Miami Beach. The heart of Leonida. Ocean Beach, the Bayside waterfront and the mural-covered Stockyard district all have obvious real-world twins across Miami and Miami Beach.
Places in Vice City
Neon, Art Deco and the causeways between them.
Vice Beach and its lifeguard towers
South Beach lifeguard towers, Miami Beach, FL
The candy-colored lifeguard stands in the trailer are a clear match for the real ones on South Beach. Walk the sand from South Pointe to 15th Street and you pass a dozen.
The downtown skyline: Brickell and beyond
Brickell and Downtown Miami, Miami, FL
The glass towers behind every Vice City shot are Brickell and Downtown Miami. Where to see the skyline for real, from a free elevated train to the causeway viewpoints.
Bayside: the waterfront Rockstar named
Bayside Marketplace and the downtown bayfront, Downtown Miami, FL
Rockstar named Bayside as a Vice City district in the Extended Look. The real bayfront is Bayside Marketplace, Bayfront Park and the boat docks at the foot of the skyline.
Stockyard: the mural district in Wynwood
Wynwood Walls, Wynwood, Miami, FL
Rockstar named Stockyard as Vice City's mural district. The real thing is Wynwood, a former warehouse quarter painted wall to wall, with Wynwood Walls at its heart.
The causeway toll booths on the Venetian
Venetian Causeway, Miami to Miami Beach, FL
The toll booths a car rolls through in the second trailer are a clear match for the Venetian Causeway, a 1926 island-hopping road between Miami and the Beach.
Stilt houses on the bay: Stiltsville
Stiltsville, Biscayne Bay, Miami, FL
The pastel houses on stilts that a boat races past in the second trailer are a clear match for Stiltsville, seven surviving shacks in the shallows of Biscayne Bay.
The abandoned graffiti stadium on Virginia Key
Miami Marine Stadium, Virginia Key, Miami, FL
A concert in a graffiti-covered concrete grandstand on the water: fans have matched the trailer scene to Miami Marine Stadium, a 1963 landmark empty since 1992.
The waterfront mansion pool party
Star Island and Palm Island, Miami Beach, FL
The trailer's pool party at a white mansion on the water looks like the celebrity islands off the MacArthur Causeway. You cannot get in, but a boat tour gets you close.
The port cranes on the skyline
PortMiami, Miami, FL
The cranes on the horizon in the second trailer look like PortMiami's gantry cranes. You cannot walk the port, but South Pointe Park puts you next to the ships.
Flamingos at the racetrack: Hialeah Park
Hialeah Park, Hialeah, FL
A flock of flamingos in front of a grand old building: fans matched the trailer's shot to Hialeah Park, the 1920s racetrack whose flamingo colony opened Miami Vice.
The causeway highway: the MacArthur
MacArthur Causeway (I-395), Miami, FL
The wide highway over the water with the skyline behind, seen in both trailers, looks like the MacArthur Causeway, Miami's six-lane link between downtown and South Beach.
Boats and jet skis on Biscayne Bay
Biscayne Bay, Miami, FL
Jet skis, rafted-up boats and parties on the water run through both trailers. Biscayne Bay is the real thing, and you can rent a jet ski or join a sandbar crowd yourself.
Neon nightlife and the club circuit
Downtown and South Beach nightclubs, Miami, FL
Neon clubs, DJs and strip clubs run through the second trailer and the Extended Look. Miami's real circuit is South Beach, Mid-Beach and the downtown club blocks.
Vice City's Cuban quarter: Little Havana
Calle Ocho, Little Havana, Miami, FL
GTA: Vice City had a Little Havana in 2002; nothing in the GTA VI footage confirms one yet. Miami's real Cuban quarter along Calle Ocho is worth the trip either way.
The pale tower downtown: Freedom Tower
Freedom Tower, Downtown Miami, FL
Fans keep looking for the 1925 Freedom Tower among Vice City's glass; nothing official shows it yet. The real one stands across from Bayside and is the oldest thing on the skyline.
Trips through Vice City
Three days in Vice City
Three days across Miami Beach, downtown and the bay: the Art Deco strip, the lifeguard towers, the causeways, the Wynwood murals and the stilt houses that Vice City borrows from.