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GTA 6 vs Vice City 2002: beaches, crowds and lighting compared
A comparison spotted by jeuxvideo.com sets 2002's Vice City against GTA 6 footage: busier beaches, stocked interiors, rebuilt lighting.
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A comparison spotted by jeuxvideo.com sets 2002's Vice City against GTA 6 footage: busier beaches, stocked interiors, rebuilt lighting.
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Twenty-four years after Ocean Beach, how much of Vice City is left in GTA 6? A comparison spotted by jeuxvideo.com puts the beaches, streets and interiors of the 2002 game next to the footage Rockstar has released. The verdict comes down to one word: density.
The first gap shows on the sand. According to jeuxvideo.com, South Beach in GTA 6 has nothing left of the empty stretches of the original, with its three angular swimmers and little else. The footage shows joggers, dog walkers and holidaymakers packed under parasols. At night, the pavements modelled on Ocean Drive overflow with partygoers weaving between big cars.
Gabriel Janvier, who spent hours on those pavements in 2002, puts it differently: back then the city was a backdrop you drove past. Here it looks like somewhere people live.
The PlayStation 2 held Vice City's lighting back. The comparison points out that GTA 6 scenes lean on haze, reflections on water and facades, and sunsets. Car bodies now mirror their surroundings. Shops follow: the corner stores with blurry shelf textures give way to stocked aisles, down to bags of chips and labelled cans, and apartments are littered with everyday objects.
यह भी पढ़ें GTA 6: होटल डिक्सन, तीन साल बाद, ग्राफिक्स बहस को फिर से शुरू करता है
One caveat: the comparison rests on images and footage published by Rockstar. It says nothing about how the game will run on PS5 or Xbox Series at launch.
We already studied the Vice City screenshots Rockstar published, and the opposite debate exists too: the Hotel Dixon, three years on, showed that graphics comparisons do not always flatter the game. For the sound of this Florida, the radio page lists the announced stations.
Nothing for the date, still set for 19 November 2026. But this kind of comparison gives a simple measure of the gap: an open world that stopped being empty the moment you turned the camera. Whether that density holds outside Rockstar's chosen sequences is something only the release will tell.
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By Gabriel Janvier · VI Countdown newsroom, OKALAM Studio
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