Neglect these clickbait YouTube thumbnails that appeared to indicate the opposite: Tommy Vercetti nonetheless can’t swim in GTA Vice City within the GTA Trilogy. Footage of Rockstar’s remaster is beginning to be shared online, and naturally one of many first issues followers have been attempting is leaping within the ocean. As you’ll be able to see from the timestamp embedded above, nonetheless, it doesn’t finish nicely.
Wasted!
Vercetti’s lack of ability to swim has been a sore level for nicely over a decade now. Vice Metropolis is, after all, impressed by Miami, and its wealthy blue waters appear ripe for paddling. The reality is that the Scottish developer didn’t have time so as to add the system into the unique, and textual content in its PS2 handbook encourages you to remain out of the water as a result of presence of sharks.
Some mods added to the sport within the years since its 2002 debut have included swimming techniques, and there was some hope that Rockstar would retroactively combine one thing comparable within the remaster. Nonetheless, leaked footage confirms that the open world classic plays identically to the unique, which suggests you’ll drown do you have to fall into Vice Metropolis’s crisp oceans.
