The sport is performed from a third-person perspective, and its world is navigated on foot or by automobile. The open-world design lets the participant freely roam Vice Metropolis, consisting of two primary islands. The sport’s plot is predicated on a number of real-world individuals and occasions in Miami reminiscent of Cubans, Haitians, and biker gangs, the 1980s crack epidemic, the Mafioso drug lords of Miami, and the dominance of glam metallic. The sport was additionally influenced by the movie and tv of the period, together with Scarface and Miami Vice. A lot of the event work constituted creating the sports world to suit the inspiration and time interval; the event group performed in-depth area analysis in Miami whereas creating the world. The sport was launched in October 2002 for the PlayStation 2, in Could 2003 for Microsoft Home windows, and in October 2003 for the Xbox.