GTA Vice City Cheats: Health, Weapons, Tank and Wanted Codes
The essential GTA Vice City cheats for PC, PlayStation and Xbox — full health and armour, all three weapon sets, wanted-level codes and the PANZER tank — with the save-file warnings every player should know.
The essential GTA Vice City cheats for PC, PlayStation and Xbox — full health and armour, all three weapon sets, wanted-level codes and the PANZER tank — with the save-file warnings every player should know.
Yes — GTA Vice City keeps the series' old-school cheats, and they work in both the 2002 original and the Definitive Edition remaster. On PC you simply type a word while playing; on PlayStation and Xbox you tap out a button combo. The codes below cover health, armour, all three weapon sets, the wanted level, and spawning a tank whenever you need one.
How do cheat codes work in Vice City?
There is no cheat menu and nothing to unlock first. On PC, just start typing the word on your keyboard during normal gameplay — Tommy keeps moving as you type, so pick a quiet moment rather than the middle of a gunfight. On console, press the button sequence quickly without pausing. A brief "Cheat activated" message confirms most codes. Some are one-shot effects, like restoring health, while others, such as the weather codes, toggle off if you enter them again. A handful of cheats were removed from the remaster for technical reasons, but every code listed here works in the Definitive Edition as well as in the original releases.
What are the health, armour and weapon codes?
These are the codes you will reach for constantly, especially just before a hard mission:
- Full health — PC: ASPIRINE. PlayStation: R1, R2, L1, Circle, Left, Down, Right, Up, Left, Down, Right, Up.
- Full armour — PC: PRECIOUSPROTECTION. PlayStation: R1, R2, L1, X, Left, Down, Right, Up, Left, Down, Right, Up.
- Weapon set 1 — PC: THUGSTOOLS, the basic tier of melee weapons, a pistol and a shotgun. PlayStation: R1, R2, L1, R2, Left, Down, Right, Up, Left, Down, Right, Up.
- Weapon set 2 — PC: PROFESSIONALTOOLS, a stronger spread with rifles and explosives. PlayStation: R1, R2, L1, R2, Left, Down, Right, Up, Left, Down, Down, Left.
- Weapon set 3 — PC: NUTTERTOOLS, the heavy arsenal, up to minigun class. PlayStation: R1, R2, L1, R2, Left, Down, Right, Up, Left, Down, Down, Down.
Xbox players use the same patterns with that console's equivalent buttons in the same positions. One handy side effect: entering the health code while Tommy is sitting in a damaged car repairs the vehicle too, which has saved many an escort mission over the years.
How do you clear your wanted level or spawn a tank?
- Lower wanted level — PC: LEAVEMEALONE. PlayStation: R1, R1, Circle, R2, Up, Down, Up, Down, Up, Down.
- Raise wanted level — PC: YOUWONTTAKEMEALIVE. PlayStation: R1, R1, Circle, R2, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right.
- Spawn a Rhino tank — PC: PANZER. PlayStation: Circle, Circle, L1, Circle, Circle, Circle, L1, L2, R1, Triangle, Circle, Triangle.
The Rhino is slow but nearly unstoppable: it shrugs off roadblocks, flattens traffic and is still the easiest way to bully through early rampages and vigilante missions. Just summon it somewhere open, because it drops in right next to Tommy and has a habit of landing on whatever — or whoever — is standing there.
Which Vice City cheats are just for fun?
BIGBANG blows up every vehicle in sight and is spectacular roughly once per session. COMEFLYWITHME gives cars lift, so a fast run-up lets you float across the water and reach the second island early, while SEAWAYS lets you drive on the water itself. ONSPEED speeds the whole game world up and BOOOOOORING slows it down. FANNYMAGNET draws an entourage of followers to Tommy wherever he goes. All of them are harmless fun — provided you do not save the game while the chaotic ones are running.
Can you spawn other vehicles with cheats?
The Rhino is the headline act, but Vice City hides a small fleet of spawn codes for when you need specific wheels in a hurry. GETTHEREFAST summons a Sabre Turbo, GETTHEREQUICKLY a Bloodring Banger, GETTHEREVERYFASTINDEED a full Hotring racer, THELASTRIDE a Romero hearse and RUBBISHCAR a humble garbage truck. As with the tank, the vehicle appears right beside Tommy, so use these in open ground rather than a narrow alley. They are a genuine blessing for the game's timed missions and rampages, where walking to a decent car first can eat half your clock.
Can cheats break your save or block 100%?
Mostly no, with two big exceptions. The pedestrian behaviour codes — FIGHTFIGHTFIGHT, which starts a city-wide riot, and NOBODYLIKESME, which makes everyone attack Tommy — cannot be switched off once activated. Save with either of them running and that file is stuck with a permanently hostile city. Some cheats can also drag down your criminal rating, and in the Definitive Edition, activating cheats can pause trophy and achievement progress for that session. The golden rule from 2002 still applies: keep one clean save that you never cheat on, and do all your experimenting on a second slot.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do Vice City cheats work in the Definitive Edition?
Almost all of them do. Rockstar removed a small number of codes from the remaster for technical reasons, but the health, armour, weapon, wanted level and tank codes all work exactly as listed here.
Is there a money cheat in Vice City?
No. No code gives Tommy cash directly. The fastest legitimate earners are the story missions, the purchasable asset businesses, taxi fares and the vehicle list side jobs — cheats only help you survive them.
How do you turn a Vice City cheat off?
Toggle-style cheats, such as the weather and game-speed codes, switch off when you type them again. One-shot codes like full health cannot be undone, and the pedestrian riot codes can never be disabled — only avoided by reloading an earlier save.
Will cheats stop me reaching 100% completion?
The standard codes will not lock you out of 100%, but saving with the pedestrian riot or aggression cheats active can make a file miserable to finish. Keep a separate clean save for your completion run.
