![]() How many games ask you to stop Phil Collins from being assassinated? Not enough, frankly. He's playing at a stadium in Vice City, and in a mission called In the Air Tonight, Vic is hired by Barry to keep Collins safe from Forelli hitmen while he performs on stage. Vice City Stories is set in the 1980s, when Collins was at the height of his fame, so his presence in the game makes perfect sense. ![]() The client? It's only bloody Phil Collins. If you don't know what that sounds like, just watch any Ozzy Osboune interview.īarry is deep in debt with the Forelli crime family, and they're planning to sabotage one of his client's gigs. ![]() Halfway through the story, Vic and Lance meet a talent manager called Barry Mickelthwaite, who's played brilliantly by Spall with the strongest Birmingham accent ever to grace a video game. Vic is dishonorably discharged from the military and becomes a career criminal, working with, and making enemies of, a typical GTA selection of gangsters, corrupt government officials, and drug lords. In VCS you play as Vic Vance, brother of Vice City's Lance Vance. Related: The Best Improvements In GTA: The Trilogy's Latest Patch Each game has its own unique story and protagonist, new licensed songs on the radio, and a cast of celebrity voice actors including Gary Busey, Danny Trejo, and in a rare video game appearance, British acting legend Timothy Spall. ![]() The cities are partly recycled, but otherwise no expense was spared. At the time, many were still doubtful about Sony's handheld, so Rockstar releasing not one, but two proper GTA games was a big deal. VCS originally launched for the PSP in 2006, hot on the heels of Liberty City Stories, another spin-off. However, in Vice City Stories, not only did Rockstar feature an actual pop superstar, but it made him part of the story and the focus of one of the series' best missions. Dre appears briefly as himself in GTA Online's Cayo Perico heist. Debbie Harry plays a cab dispatcher in Vice City, and Dr. Dre, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Kenny Loggins, and Frank Ocean are just a few of the music giants Rockstar have put in their games over the years-but usually in a relatively minor role. GTA is full of cameo appearances by musicians.
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