Vice Beach

Vice Beach is Vice City’s oceanfront district: the strip of white sand, hotels and clubs that sums up the city’s luxury and excess. It is Miami Beach’s alter ego inside the state of Leonida.

At night, the district revolves around the Jack of Hearts, the club owned by Boobie Ike, one of the characters confirmed by Rockstar. By day, the boardwalk and beaches are among the most repeated postcards in the official material.

The district shows up across much of the trailers and the game’s artwork, always as Vice City’s brightest face.

Confirmed context

Vice Beach is part of Vice City, which Game Informer describes as “completely rebuilt and expanded”. The venue Rockstar cites most is the Jack of Hearts, Boobie Ike’s club, and by extension Only Raw Records, the label his business funds.

Wealth and contrast

Rupert Humphries, senior vice president of narrative, said the game works when rich and poor live “door to door”. Vice Beach is the bright side of that contrast, against Port Gellhorn’s tourist decay and the harshness of the interior: our comparison of the six regions helps show it.

What we don’t know

Rockstar has not published a map of the neighborhood or lists of streets or businesses. Everything shown here is what the official material names.