[cas-97]

Can someone tell me where the Scarface Apartment is at? i can't find it anywhere

[Carbonox]

Along with the ghost tower, there's a building which seems to notably have changed between the beta and final version. Incidentally, it's the hotel whose lights make that penis shape at night - namely the one close to Malibu and the smaller hotel where some missions took place. From the mainland, it looks like a relatively small building with three different 'tiers' to it. After the loading screen, however, it's true shape (a large hotel with no differing roof heights) is revealed. The final version is also taller than the highest roof of the one you see from the mainland.

Kind of interesting. I have never heard any stories of why this building was changed into what it became, and only learned about it in a VC beta video in Youtube, where it was briefly featured.

[SkyDan]

QUOTE (Carbonox @ Thursday, Sep 22 2011, 10:58)

Along with the ghost tower, there's a building which seems to notably have changed between the beta and final version. Incidentally, it's the hotel whose lights make that penis shape at night - namely the one close to Malibu and the smaller hotel where some missions took place. From the mainland, it looks like a relatively small building with three different 'tiers' to it. After the loading screen, however, it's true shape (a large hotel with no differing roof heights) is revealed. The final version is also taller than the highest roof of the one you see from the mainland. Kind of interesting. I have never heard any stories of why this building was changed into what it became, and only learned about it in a VC beta video in Youtube, where it was briefly featured.

Infact they are an interesting find. Now I get the difference between the fort Baxter buildings in beta and final.

The light which is penis shaped is kinda pointed at front side.

[Nukey Shay]

QUOTE (cas-97 @ Wednesday, Aug 10 2011, 10:27)

Can someone tell me where the Scarface Apartment is at? i can't find it anywhere

It's the white and pink building that features a Chopper Checkpoint mission on the roof (once the bridges are clear)...just Southeast of the Washington Pay-N-Spray. IIRC a Hermes car spawns on the East side of the apartment building. The apartment interior is entered on the 2nd floor of the Southeast corner.

[steph123]

How can i get past level 10

[Pitta93]

something to add to the fact that the office in the mansion, previously owned by diaz. if you look carefully to the security camera screens on the right, the images presented on the screens aren´t from vercetti´s masion, but from tony montana´s in Scarface, taken straight from the movie.

[glenster]

"Miami Vice" starring Phillip Michael Thomas and Don Johnson

The voice of Lance Vance is provided by Phillip Michael Thomas of the 1984-
1990 TV show "Miami Vice." The pairing of Tommy Vercetti and Lance Vance is
similar to the team of Crockett and Tubbs, and the pair of guys who come after
Tommy in a "Vice" Cheetah if his wanted rating goes to three stars, if one is
African-American and the other is European-American, look vaguely like Crockett
and Tubbs from that show. I do mean "vaguely"--that handsome Phillip Michael
Thomas is represented by the pedestrian you see that has a Gilligan-type sailor
cap pulled down over his eyes, and that handsome Don Johnson is represented by
some guy with a goatee.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Michael_Thomas

The "Vice" Cheetah looks like Crockett's white Ferrari Testarossa of the last
three seasons of the show. The Stinger looks like the black Ferrari Daytona
Spyder he drove in the 1st two seasons. The Spyder was actually a replica built
on the chassis of a 1980 Corvette, which is a slightly earlier model Corvette
than the one the Banshee in Vice City is based on.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086759/trivia
http://www.buyersmls.com/miamivice/facts.htm

Luis Guzman (the voice of Diaz in "Vice City") was in a couple of episodes of
"Miami Vice," too--as Miguel in a 1985 episode and as the 1st Goon in a 1986 ep-
isode. I'm starting to think I have to give Luiz Guzman his own walk-through--
he's in everything, this guy.

Jan Hammer (the Mahavishnu Orchestra) came up with music for "Miami Vice" such
as "Crockett's Theme," which is played on Emotion 98.3 in "Vice City."
http://www.janhammer.com/

fluffyheretic of GTAForums: thanks for telling me several references. "Milk
Run," the 12th episode, Jan.4, 1985, of the first season of the TV series "Miami
Vice," "revolves around two New York kids looking to strike it big by smuggling
some cocaine into the States" in statues that are like "Vice City" Hidden Pack-
ages.

In the episode, Crockett and Tubbs go after a south Miami drug ring that puts
cocaine in hollow statues. Each is packed with a bag of 90+% pure cocaine and
has a street value of $25,000. Tubbs says the statues look like "Chango, god of
the Santeria, a religion popular in Columbia--actually originated in Nigeria."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santer%C3%ADa

Each statue is shaped like an oblong vase designed like a gray-green simpli-
fied man with a hat that has a sideways hatchet shape on top and who wears a
grey yellow necklace. Each "blade" of the hatchet-shaped hat has a design that
looks like a closed eye. They're similar in color, and basically similar in
shape, to the Vice City Tiki statues used as Hidden Packages of cocaine.
http://www.nbc.com/classic-tv/miami-vice/v...ilk-run/n30549/
http://miamivice.wikia.com/wiki/Milk_Run

Also, he recognized the Stubby Shotgun as a kind carried by Ricardo Tubbs.
Tubbs carried an Ithaca 37 pump-action shotgun--an Ithaca Stakeout--in a halter
under his jacket during the 2nd season of the series.
http://gta.wikia.com/Stubby_Shotgun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaca_37#Versions

He adds that the CROCS BAR in Little Haiti (across the street from, and NW of,
the Well Stacked Pizza Co.) "might be referencing the pet alligator Elvis owned
by Detective Crockett." If you add that "Croc" sounds like the 1st syllable of
"Crockett," and that the bar features a couple of pictures of crocodiles, which
look much like alligators, I think it probably refers to both Crockett and his
alligator.

Other similarities I noticed in the episode:

A guy by a boxing ring wears a blue suit that looks similar to the "Vice City"
Soiree clothes pickup suit, although it's probably meant to look like one worn
by Al Pacino in "Scarface."
http://gta.wikia.com/Clothing_in_GTA_Vice_City

The "Miami Vice" intro shows a man playing lacrosse, which is represented by a
silhoette in the Vice City intro. The "Miami Vice" intro also shows The Atlan-
tis Condominium, 2025 Brickell Ave, Miami, Florida, 33129, a building with a
rectangular horizontal hole in it similar to the horizontal hole in the first
building jumped to in "G-Spotlight." According to Wikipedia, The Atlantis "was
also featured briefly in Scarface for exterior shots of where Frank Lopez (Rob-
ert Loggia) lived (interior shots were done elsewhere)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacrosse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis_Condominium

The Miami International Airport sign over the terminal is similar to the Esco-
bar International Airport sign over the terminal in "Vice city.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_International_Airport

(From Glenster's Guide to Some of Vice City")

[fluffyheretic]

QUOTE (glenster @ Thursday, May 2 2013, 21:03)

Tubbs carried an Ithaca 37 pump-action shotgun--an Ithaca Stakeout--in a halter under his jacket during the 2nd season of the series.

Oh hey glenster.

Not that it matters, but he also has that Ithaca at least 2 or 3 times in season 1 that I've seen.

They really like guns in this show. Like really like guns.

[Urban Legend]

QUOTE (Nukey Shay @ Friday, Oct 21 2011, 21:06)

QUOTE (cas-97 @ Wednesday, Aug 10 2011, 10:27) Can someone tell me where the Scarface Apartment is at? i can't find it anywhere It's the white and pink building that features a Chopper Checkpoint mission on the roof (once the bridges are clear)...just Southeast of the Washington Pay-N-Spray. IIRC a Hermes car spawns on the East side of the apartment building. The apartment interior is entered on the 2nd floor of the Southeast corner.

Furthermore, if you attempt the mission "PCJ Playground" - the last checkpoint will land you on the roof of the apartment building. Just check around. The east side has the Hermes in front. West has nothing...north has nothing...It's the south park of this building. Good luck!