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Old Oct 4, 2007 | 03:34 PM
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Ok...

THE ONLY FUCKING THING THE SAME IS THAT THEY ARE SET IN THE 1980's!!!!!!!

You also never mentioned GTA 'Vice city' which is the one I presume you mean?

Here the plot of that... roughly set in Miami not spain by the way

Vice City draws much of its inspiration from 1980s culture. Set in 1986, the story revolves around Mafia member Tommy Vercetti, who was recently released from prison. After being involved in a drug deal gone wrong, Tommy is forced to seek out those responsible. Throughout the game, Tommy forges out a criminal empire in Vice City, gradually obtaining contacts, running businesses and seizing power from the other criminal organizations present in the city

and the Film...

The film is told from the viewpoint of Peckham-Frankie (Dyer - born with very little prospects), who narrates, in a particularly colourful fashion, his experiences following his murder of his mother's abusive boyfriend. To escape justice for his crime, he accepts a job delivering a bag to bar-owner and fellow criminal ex-pat "the Playboy" Charlie (Hassan) in Spain. Impressed by his honesty in not opening the bag, Charlie takes a liking to Frankie, introduces him to his business associates, including the psychotic Sammy (Bell), and invites him to remain in Spain and work as his driver. Deciding he prefers an exciting life of sun, drugs, women and crime, to being a nobody back in London, Frankie accepts and becomes involved in the business of smuggling cannabis across the Strait of Gibraltar from Morocco.

The film then follows the rise-and-fall pattern common to many gangster films, showing first the criminals living the high life as their cannabis trade is booming, and then the downfall as greed and jealousy (not helped by the obvious attraction between Frankie and Sammy's girl Carly (Chapman)) introduce rivalries between them, and eventually split them up. Charlie and Frankie decide to go into business alone, importing cocaine instead of cannabis, but this is the cause of the final catastrophe. Not only do they both become increasingly addicted to the drug itself, but also the Mayor, who had been happy to ignore the cannabis trade but had warned them not to import cocaine, discovers what they are doing and uses the weight of the law to shut them down.

A few years later (6 months before the 'real-time' narration), Frankie and Charlie are homeless thugs in need of a wash and reduced to stealing in order to survive. While organising a disappointing reunion party at Charlie's old bar, Frankie meets Carly again and decides to make one last deal. He invites Sammy in on a pick-up, but while both intend to betray the other, Carly has given Sammy a pistol with an empty clip. Sammy tries to shoot Frankie, who in turn beats him with a rock and escapes through a sewer as the Spanish police shoot Sammy to death. Frankie emerges from the sewer to meet Carly, who had masterminded the whole thing, finally getting his happy ending. But at the last minute, he realises he can't trust Carly, so he knocks her out and drives off into the sunset on his own



So basically.... they are both set in the 80's and thats it!


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