Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories was originally released in North America on October 31, 2006 for the PlayStation Portable. It is the second Grand Theft Auto on the PSP (the first being Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories) and the ninth game in the series. The game was later ported to the PlayStation 2 on March 6, 2007 without any of the multiplayer components of the original.

Story
The game takes place in Vice City, 1984. The game starts out on the second island in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City at the military base near the airport where you start out playing as Victor Vance, the brother of Lance Vance from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Vic Vance recently joined the marines to help out his dysfunctional family. Victor's family are his, brothers, Lance and Pete Vance, where as Pete has asthma and is sick while Lance is "Sick in a totally different way." as Vic says. His mother, Janet Vance, has an addiction to cocaine. Not being a fit parent the three Lance brothers were raised buy their Aunt Enid. Only being a Corporal, Vic get's a Dishonorable Discharge from the marines. Now he must protect his family through a difficult life.

Trivia

 * For Empire Mode, there are game elements taken from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
 * This is the first Grand theft auto on PSP that actually lets you swim
 * Vice City Stories happens in 1984, two years before the events of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.