Ocean Beach
Ocean Beach is Vice City's pastel Art Deco beachfront in GTA VI, Rockstar's version of South Beach. It is also where the 2002 Vice City began, and Rockstar's pre-order pack is built around it.
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What Rockstar has said
Rockstar's Vice City page starts its list of neighbourhoods with "the pastel art deco hotels and bright white sands of Ocean Beach". The Vintage Vice City Pack calls it "the world-famous Ocean Beach" and includes a garage "alongside" it: the Shore Court personal garage, "just a stone's throw from the glistening sands of Ocean Beach". The same pack invites players to cruise Shore Drive in a '55 Vapid Stanier, and one of its images shows Jason and Lucia outside the Ocean View Hotel.
[1][2][3]Ocean Beach in the trailersUnconfirmed
The trailers never caption Ocean Beach by name, but local press had no trouble placing the scenes. Miami New Times called Trailer 1's Art Deco strip an "obligatory, if unoriginal, ode to Miami Beach's most notorious strip", down to the red-cement sidewalks. Domus picked out buildings inspired by the Colony Hotel and a sign for the Ocean View Hotel. After Trailer 2, New Times placed Jason working out in Lummus Park and a night pool party at what it called "what can only be the Clevelander".
[4][5][6][7]Real-world model: South Beach and Ocean DriveUnconfirmed
The closest real model is South Beach in Miami Beach, with Ocean Drive and its Art Deco hotels at its centre. Rockstar has not confirmed the match. Our Shore Drive page has the comparison with the real street.
[8][9]Ocean Beach in 2002Unconfirmed
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002), set in 1986, also used the name Ocean Beach. Game Rant notes that the original map's South Bridge led from Little Havana to Ocean Beach, and recalls the Ocean View Hotel as the first place players could save their progress. GTA VI keeps the district name and the hotel, and Rockstar's pre-order pack is built on that nostalgia.
[10][11]What is still unknownUnconfirmed
Rockstar has not published Ocean Beach's boundaries, which hotels can be entered, or how it connects to the mainland. The cover image, a "Vice City" sign with a jet overhead, is an official Vice City shot but is not captioned as Ocean Beach.
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Sources
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Follow the evidence. An Unconfirmed label means the detail has not been established as fact.
- Rockstar Games: Vice City, GTA VI People & Placeswww.rockstargames.com / Checked 2026-09-23
- Rockstar Games: Grand Theft Auto VIwww.rockstargames.com / Checked 2026-09-23
- Rockstar Games: Grand Theft Auto VI Editionswww.rockstargames.com / Checked 2026-10-06
- Rockstar Games: Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 (YouTube)www.youtube.com / Checked 2026-10-06
- Miami New Times: All the Real-Life Easter Eggs in the Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer (Jose D. Duran, 2023-12-06)www.miaminewtimes.com / Checked 2026-10-06
- New Times: New GTA 6 Trailer Unveils a Trove of Recognizable Vice City Locations (Ryan Yousefi, 2025-05-08)www.browardpalmbeach.com / Checked 2026-10-06
- Domus: 5 places and architectures that inspired GTA 6's new Vice City (2024-06-16)www.domusweb.it / Checked 2026-10-06
- Wikipedia: Ocean Drive (South Beach)en.wikipedia.org / Checked 2026-10-06
- Wikipedia: South Beachen.wikipedia.org / Checked 2026-10-06
- Game Rant: Original Vice City Landmarks In Grand Theft Auto 6 (2023-12-05)gamerant.com / Checked 2026-10-06
- Wikipedia: Grand Theft Auto: Vice Cityen.wikipedia.org / Checked 2026-10-06