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Tommy Vercetti | |
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Grand Theft Auto character | |
Tommy Vercetti as he appears in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City | |
First appearance | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002) |
Created by | Rockstar North |
Voiced by | Ray Liotta[1] |
Motion capture | Jonathan Sale[2] |
In-universe information | |
Gender | Male |
Occupation | Mobster Gun-for-hire (formerly) Drug lord Crime boss Owner of various businesses |
Affiliation | Forelli Crime Family (formerly) Vercetti Gang Los Cabrones Vice City Bikers |
Origin | Liberty City, State of Liberty, United States |
Nationality | Italian-American |
Tommy Vercetti is a fictional character, the protagonist and playable character in the 2002video gameGrand Theft Auto: Vice City, the fourth main title in the Grand Theft Auto series. He is voiced by Ray Liotta.[3] Tommy is the first playable protagonist in the Grand Theft Auto series that has a proper voice actor, with full dialogue.
Tommy is an ex-gangster or ex-made man for the Forelli family, a fictional Italian Mafiafamily in the Grand Theft Auto universe. After being released from prison in 1986, Tommy agrees to take part in a deal for his old boss and friend, in which he is ambushed. In an attempt to find the man who set up the ambush, Tommy rises through the ranks of Vice City's criminal underworld. After murdering the man who set up the ambush, he takes over his criminal empire, which he further expands, ultimately becoming the kingpin of Vice City.
Character design[edit]
Tommy, an Italian-American, is portrayed with a swarthy, handsome appearance, combed dark brown, almost black hair, and a constant five o'clock shadow. He first appears wearing a light blue-green Hawaiian shirt with dark blue palm trees printed on it, a gold pearl necklace around his neck, a gold watch around his left wrist, and a pair of blue jeans and white sneakers. This outfit becomes known as Tommy's 'street' clothes. As the game progresses, Tommy is offered more wardrobe options: he obtains a blue-purple pastel suit with the sleeves rolled up over a black dress shirt and black loafers, as well as the option of a dark pinstripe suit labeled as 'Mr. Vercetti' (which bears similarities to Tony Montana's uniform). A light green costume is available to perform a bank robbery, complete with a hockey mask, and is even able to wear the uniform for an allied gang, among many others.
Tommy Vercetti, in several ways, exhibits characteristics of fictional drug lord Tony Montana from the 1983 film Scarface. This coincides with the heavy themes and appearance of the movie that has been implemented into Vice City. Among these characteristics, his exile from his old home (Liberty City), his rise to power (acquiring property and wealth in the city, and a mansion which also sports an interior similar to that of Montana's mansion). Tommy is also a hired assassin, has killed his own collaborators (Lance Vance), taken over his temporary boss's business (Ricardo Diaz) and rebelled against his former leader (Sonny Forelli), as Tony Montana had. The only notable difference is that the final gunfight in Montana's mansion sees Montana eventually killed, whereas the final gunfight in Tommy's mansion sees Tommy managing to single-handedly take down his captors and survive.[4]
Characteristics[edit]
Tommy Vercetti | |
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Grand Theft Auto character | |
Tommy Vercetti as he appears in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City | |
First appearance | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002) |
Created by | Rockstar North |
Voiced by | Ray Liotta[1] |
Motion capture | Jonathan Sale[2] |
In-universe information | |
Gender | Male |
Occupation | Mobster Gun-for-hire (formerly) Drug lord Crime boss Owner of various businesses |
Affiliation | Forelli Crime Family (formerly) Vercetti Gang Los Cabrones Vice City Bikers |
Origin | Liberty City, State of Liberty, United States |
Nationality | Italian-American |
Tommy Vercetti is a fictional character, the protagonist and playable character in the 2002video gameGrand Theft Auto: Vice City, the fourth main title in the Grand Theft Auto series. He is voiced by Ray Liotta.[3] Tommy is the first playable protagonist in the Grand Theft Auto series that has a proper voice actor, with full dialogue.
Tommy is an ex-gangster or ex-made man for the Forelli family, a fictional Italian Mafiafamily in the Grand Theft Auto universe. After being released from prison in 1986, Tommy agrees to take part in a deal for his old boss and friend, in which he is ambushed. In an attempt to find the man who set up the ambush, Tommy rises through the ranks of Vice City's criminal underworld. After murdering the man who set up the ambush, he takes over his criminal empire, which he further expands, ultimately becoming the kingpin of Vice City.
Character design[edit]
Tommy, an Italian-American, is portrayed with a swarthy, handsome appearance, combed dark brown, almost black hair, and a constant five o'clock shadow. He first appears wearing a light blue-green Hawaiian shirt with dark blue palm trees printed on it, a gold pearl necklace around his neck, a gold watch around his left wrist, and a pair of blue jeans and white sneakers. This outfit becomes known as Tommy's 'street' clothes. As the game progresses, Tommy is offered more wardrobe options: he obtains a blue-purple pastel suit with the sleeves rolled up over a black dress shirt and black loafers, as well as the option of a dark pinstripe suit labeled as 'Mr. Vercetti' (which bears similarities to Tony Montana's uniform). A light green costume is available to perform a bank robbery, complete with a hockey mask, and is even able to wear the uniform for an allied gang, among many others.
Tommy Vercetti, in several ways, exhibits characteristics of fictional drug lord Tony Montana from the 1983 film Scarface. This coincides with the heavy themes and appearance of the movie that has been implemented into Vice City. Among these characteristics, his exile from his old home (Liberty City), his rise to power (acquiring property and wealth in the city, and a mansion which also sports an interior similar to that of Montana's mansion). Tommy is also a hired assassin, has killed his own collaborators (Lance Vance), taken over his temporary boss's business (Ricardo Diaz) and rebelled against his former leader (Sonny Forelli), as Tony Montana had. The only notable difference is that the final gunfight in Montana's mansion sees Montana eventually killed, whereas the final gunfight in Tommy's mansion sees Tommy managing to single-handedly take down his captors and survive.[4]
Characteristics[edit]
Tommy Vercetti is depicted as both intelligent and temperamental; he is easily angered and quick to resort to violence. He has no hesitation about killing, though many of his victims are in turn trying to kill Tommy as well, or have done something that requires them to be killed. Despite all this, Tommy does also show a softer side as seen with his relations with Mercedes Cortez, the daughter of Juan Garcia Cortez, and Earnest Kelly, an elderly employee at the Print Works printing company that he buys later in the game: the former serves as a love interest for Tommy, while the latter is more of a father figure due to his childhood memories of working with his father at a printworks.
Biography[edit]
Early life[edit]
Tommy Vercetti was born to an Italian-American family and was raised in Liberty City, where his father worked for an unknown company (presumably the Liberty Tree) as a printing press operator working on its printers. It is unknown whether he owned the printing company or not but Tommy used to clean its rollers and suggests he lived a normal and moral life.[5] When he was a teenager, he would befriend Mafia mobster Sonny Forelli, whom was a rising force in the Forelli Crime Family (it is unknown whether or not he was already Don, but can be assumed as police information say Sonny became Boss of the Mafia at an early age) and would start working for the Forelli family, earning the syndicates' trust and eventually becoming a made man in the Mafia.[6]
In 1971, jealous and nervous of Tommy's rising reputation inside the Mafia and the Liberty City crime scene, Sonny sent Tommy to kill a key mobster (presumably of the Leone family) in the Harwood District for unknown reasons (presumably because of the Mafia's scuffles over rackets and revenge). In actuality, what was supposed to be Tommy's clean hit would turn out to be a threat set up by Sonny. When Tommy arrived, eleven men would ambush him due to Sonny having probably warned Tommy's enemies of the impending threat posed by him (or even having organized the ambush himself). Tommy would miraculously survive after killing all eleven of them, but would end up being arrested in the process and sent to prison for multiple charges of murder.[7] He would be placed on death row, but due to the Forelli Mafia's influence and possibly interference, he only served fifteen years. He also earned the title 'The Harwood Butcher' for how he singlehandedly slew eleven men on his own.[6]
Release from prison[edit]
Fresh out of prison in 1986, Tommy is immediately dispatched by then Don Sonny Forelli to Vice City in order to participate in a drug deal. This deal was organized due to Sonny's fear that Tommy's presence in Liberty City would cause problems for his organization (whom by this time was the most powerful Mafia family in Liberty City) as Tommy's Harwood Slaughter of 1971 was still fresh in the minds of police and would thus cause the law enforcers in Liberty City to start possibly harassing the Forelli family. Sonny orders Tommy to expand into the drug business in the south and to stay there for a while finding opportunities for a good business.
Tommy arrives at the deal as a supervisor between the Forelli Crime Family and the nearly wiped out Vance Crime Family, led by brothers Lance and Victor Vance. Just then, a group of masked assailants open fire on them, killing Victor Vance and Forelli's men (Harry and Lee), resulting in Tommy losing both the money and the drugs, from which he narrowly escapes with Ken Rosenberg, the Forellis' crooked lawyer and his contact in Vice City. With the promise to Sonny to retrieve both the drugs and money, he then sets out to find and kill the party responsible. While investigating, Tommy makes a number of allies and employers who offer him help, including retired Colonel Juan Garcia Cortez, who helped set up the exchange; music producer Kent Paul, who maintains connections with the city's criminal underworld; Lance Vance, who seeks revenge for his brother's death and to reclaim their stolen money and drugs; Texan real estate developer Avery Carrington; and drug baron Ricardo Diaz (who is later revealed to be responsible for the ambushed deal).
Business ventures[edit]
After Tommy and Lance lead an assault on Diaz's estate and kill him, Tommy begins to disobey Sonny's orders and enjoys the empire he claimed from Diaz, without paying any tribute to the Forelli family, enraging Sonny, who constantly demands a larger cut of the profits from Tommy, and Lance, who wants more respect from Tommy and also more control in the family. During this time, Tommy forms his own organization, called the 'Vercetti Gang,' from the remains of Diaz's gang, and becomes acquainted with Umberto Robina, leader of the Los Cabrones Cuban street gang, whom he helps end a war against a rival Haitian gang, as well as 'Big' Mitch Baker, leader of the Vice City Bikers, whom he helps with a few favours, seeking to establish a partnership with both gangs. He also briefly works for the heavy metal band Love Fist, now managed by Kent Paul, helps Cortez leave the city with stolen military equipment, and buys out several nearly bankrupt companies to use as fronts for illicit businesses.
Tommy and the Forelli family's conflict reaches a boiling point when Tommy kills Forelli henchmen sent to seize his business revenue, and Sonny personally visits him in Vice City. Due to Lance's betrayal, he is forced into a large shootout with the Forelli crew, in which he kills Sonny, Lance, and the hit squad, finally securing his empire and gang in the city, with Ken Rosenberg as his main partner. It is also during this major gunfight that Tommy discovers that Sonny actually set up the eleven people to ambush Tommy and caused him to spend fifteen years in prison.[8] No ads for mac.
At the end of the game, Tommy is shown to have become an extremely powerful figure in Vice City's criminal underworld. He is in charge of the Vercetti Gang, the most powerful organization in Vice City, has alliances with both the Los Cabrones and Vice City Bikers, lives in a huge mansion, owns many businesses that he uses as fronts for his illegal operations, and is also in charge of the drug trade in Vice City. Furthermore, Sonny's death marked the beginning of the Forelli family's decline in Liberty City, so most likely the Forellis never bothered Tommy again. Tommy, at the end of the game, is the kingpin of Vice City.
Later life[edit]
Not much is known about Tommy's life after the events of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, though he most likely continued ruling over Vice City's criminal underworld undisputed. By 1992, he cut his ties with Ken Rosenberg after sending him to rehab in the state of San Andreas. Tommy is mentioned in The Introduction, a short prologue film to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, in a scene where Ken tries to call Tommy after getting out of rehab, but fails, leading him to search for a new job.[9]
Influences and analysis[edit]
Prior to the release of Vice City, IGN stated that Tommy was likely to 'leave the same kind of imprint on kids today that [actor Ray Liotta's] portrayal of Ray Sinclair left on every high school and college kid who saw Something Wild back in 1986.' They also compared Liotta's portrayal of Tommy to his portrayal of Henry Hill in Goodfellas.[10]
When asked about his portrayal of Tommy, Liotta stated that 'it was hard work.' He said that 'you're pretty much putting yourself in [the game developers'] hands and doing whatever they want so there's not much for you to do creatively.'[11]
Reception[edit]
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The character of Tommy Vercetti received very positive reviews and remarks from critics and players of Vice City, making it to many lists of the best video game characters. IGN said that they 'were ready for a more fleshed-out protagonist' after Grand Theft Auto III's Claude.[6]Crave Online stated that playing as Tommy was 'a breath of fresh air'.[12]The Age praised Ray Liotta's voice acting and stated 'while the character riffs on Tony Montana throughout the game, Liotta's speeches give him a reckless sense of humour that makes him more likeable'.[13]GameDaily praised Liotta's portrayal as having transformed him from a generic-looking thug to a 'tough guy who ruled the 80's.'[14]The Telegraph described Tommy as 'the most amoral' Grand Theft Auto protagonist.[15] Liotta won the award for Best Live Action/Voice Male Performance at the 2003 G-Phoria Awards and Best Performance by a Human at the 2003 Spike Video Game Awards.[16][17]
References[edit]
- ^'Full Grand Theft Auto: Vice City credits'. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved October 1, 2006.
- ^Grieser, Andy (June 9, 2003). 'The Body Behind Vice City's Tommy Vercetti'. ESC Mag. Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. Retrieved April 21, 2013.
- ^McLaughlin, Rus; Thomas, Lucas M. (July 3, 2012). 'IGN Presents The History of Grand Theft Auto'. IGN. Retrieved April 17, 2013.
- ^O'Neill, Cliff. 'Examining Grand Theft Auto's Scarface Connection'. Game Chronicles. Retrieved March 29, 2008.
- ^Rockstar North (October 29, 2002). Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (PlayStation 2). Rockstar Games.
Mission: 'Spilling the Beans'
Earnest Kelly: 'Mr. Vercetti? Hey. You bought the old print works?' / Tommy Vercetti: 'Yeah, my old man used to work on these [printing machines].. I used to spend the evenings with him, cleaning the rollers. I was going to follow him in his trade, but.. I lived a different life.' - ^ abcScheeden, Jesse (April 28, 2008). 'Grand Theft Auto: Favorite Badasses'. IGN. Retrieved April 20, 2013.
- ^Rockstar North (October 29, 2002). Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (PlayStation 2). Rockstar Games.
Mission: 'Keep Your Friends Close..'
Sonny Forelli: 'Didn't I say your temper would get you into trouble, huh?..How many was it? Ten? No, eleven men. That's how you get to be called the Harwood Butcher!' / Tommy Vercetti: 'You sent me to kill one man, ONE MAN. They knew I was coming Sonny..' - ^Rockstar North (October 29, 2002). Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (PlayStation 2). Rockstar Games.
Mission: 'Keep Your Friends Close..'
Tommy: You took fifteen years from me, Sonny, and now I'm gonna make you pay!
Sonny: You still don't get it, do you? I OWN you, Tommy. Those fifteen years were mine to spend! - ^Rockstar North (October 26, 2004). Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PlayStation 2). Rockstar Games.
Scene: 'The Introduction'
Ken: 'Ah, yes. Tommy Vercetti please. Tell him Ken Rosenbeg called. Ken Rosenberg. You haven't heard of me? Who are you?.. Ken Rosenberg. Rosenberg!.. Oh! Oh really? You told him I called? Look, I made that ingrate, and now he won't answer my calls?.. Just put him on the phone right now! Hello? Hello? Damn it!' - ^IGN Staff (25 October 2002). 'The Voice of Vice City'. IGN. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
- ^McAnulty, Nick (12 January 2010). 'Ray Liotta recalls his Grand Theft Auto days as Tommy Vercetti'. MTV.ca. Archived from the original on 18 December 2011.
- ^Tamburro, Paul (November 2, 2012). 'Top 10 Most Memorable GTA Characters'. PlayStation Beyond. Archived from the original on December 20, 2014. Retrieved April 21, 2013.
- ^'The Top 50 Xbox Characters of All Time'. The Age. September 30, 2008. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
- ^Buffa, Chris. 'Top 25 Anti-Heroes Gallery and Images'. Archived from the original on April 27, 2009. Retrieved June 8, 2013.
- ^Cowen, Nick; Hoggins, Tom (September 16, 2009). 'Top 10 game anti-heroes'. The Telegraph. Retrieved April 21, 2013.
- ^'G-Phoria Report'. IGN. July 31, 2003. Retrieved June 15, 2014.
- ^'Video Game Awards The Results'. megagames. December 5, 2003. Retrieved June 15, 2014.