Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is an impressive enough game on its own. Your appreciation of it will deepen when you realize it was made in only nine months. It is shocking how Rockstar Games not only managed to make a fully functioning open-world title in this time window, but also managed to pack it full of detail.

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You'd think no one on the team would have had the time to put any of these small easter eggs into Vice City, but they did it nonetheless. Vice City's narrative is more open than the other two titles in the PS2 trilogy, so you might happen upon these by accident while journeying through the campaign.

9 Hidden F-Bombs

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The series would not embrace the F word until Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and then it started using it more than most other words in the English language.

There are hidden F-bombs in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, however. Go to Phil's place in the junkyard and inside the trailers you can see several posters using the world. Nobody says it out loud, but you are more than free to read it.

8 Steven Mulholland RIP

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In Little Haiti (located in the center of the second island you unlock) there is a funeral home called Funeraria Romero. Written on one of the headstones is a written "Steven Mullholland RIP".

He is a map designer who worked on both Vice City and San Andreas. Considering he worked on future games in the franchise, it is safe to say Steven was still alive during Vice City's development.

7 Literal Easter Egg

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Go to the northwest part of the map to find the Vice City news building. There is a window you can jump through there and inside you will find the closest thing to a literal easter egg you can find in a video game.

There is a chocolate egg with the words "Happy Easter" written on top of it. It's hard to tell if this makes it the most creative or the laziest easter egg in Vice City.

6 The Village People

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You frequent the Malibu Club during the Vice City storyline. You can even buy it as an asset and use the club to plan an elaborate bank robbery. You could do all this and completely miss the performers on stage in the club.

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They are all dressed up in various service jobs like a police officer and a construction worker. This is an obvious nod to the Village People, a popular group from the 1970s and 1980s. Curiously, the group does not have a single song on the soundtrack. It is safe to say the performers in the Malibu Club are similar to, but legally distinct from, the Village People.

5 Submarine North Of The Mall

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Go to the North Point Mall on the northern part of the first island. Off the coast of this shopping center, you can see a submarine underneath the water. There are no pilotable underwater vehicles in Vice City - such a mechanic would not come to be until Grand Theft Auto 5.

You can't help but wonder what the submarine is doing there. Maybe it is just a nod to paranoia and spying of the time, since the Cold War was finally coming to a close in the 1980s.

4 Frank Sinatra Portrait

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The first cutscene in the game takes place in Marco's Bistro in Liberty City. The room is decorated like a classic mafia scene from a movie.

One of the portraits on the wall is none other than Frank Sinatra. The singer was legendary for his alleged ties to organized crime, something which was not uncommon in the popular music scene of the era.

3 Billboard With Mikhail Gorbachev Getting Shot By Ronald Reagan

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There is a hidden picture of Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in the game world. To find it, you have to go to the Ammu-Nation in the northern area of the second island.

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Stand in a certain spot and then aim the RPG at the wall. The camera will clip through the wall and you will see the photo. The 1980s vibe is partly defined by the Cold War, so this easter egg is appropriate.

2 The Man Sleeping With The Fishes

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Go north of the golf course and find this poor soul who was killed and weighed down with cement to forever stay at the bottom of the Vice City river.

Knowing Tommy Vercetti, he is not someone likely to report this finding to the authorities. In fact, we're surprised Tommy never does this to anybody during the course of the campaign.

1 Blood And Chainsaw Room

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Apartment 3C is located on the south end of the first island. There is a room here with a chainsaw and a pool of blood. This is a reference to a famous scene from Scarface, one of the most iconic films of the 1980s. The movie, which stars Al Pacino, is an obvious influence on Vice City.

Ricardo Diaz's mansion on Starfish that Tommy takes over bears a striking similarity to Tony Montana's estate in the movie. The Scarface references go back to GTA 3 as well. The Flashback FM radio station uses songs from the film's soundtrack.

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