{{Персонаж GTA
|протагонист = да
|протагонист_игра = Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
|имя = Томми Версетти
|изображение = Shar2.jpg200px
|возраст = 
|пол = мужской
|национальность = итальянец
|особенности = нет
|вселенная = Grand Theft Auto III
|озвучка = Рэй Лиотта
}}

== Биография в GTA: Vice City ==
=== Пролог ===
Версетти попадает в тюрьму в Либерти-Сити в 1971 году<ref>В игре говорится, что Томми отсидел 15 лет, а действие происходит в 1986 году</ref> по обвинению в нескольких убийствах. Томми послан семьей Форелли убить одного человека, и делает это успешно, но попадает в окружение и в попытке вырваться убивает еще 11 человек. Благодаря связям семьи Форелли он избегает смертной казни, но получает 15 лет тюремного срока.

=== Вайс-Сити ===
Благодаря влиянию Сонни Форелли, главы мафиозной семьи Форелли, Томми выходит на свободу в 1986 году. Санни понимает, что возвращение Томми в Либерти-Сити плохо повлияет на бизнес семьи, и решает послать Томми в Вайс-Сити для того, чтобы тот проконтролировал важную сделку по продаже наркотиков и, косвенно, для разработки новых рынков сбыта.
Томми и два парня Форелли, Гарри и Ли, встречаются с Кеном Розенбергом, Виктора Вэнса). Томми, уворачиваясь от выстрелов, прыгает в машину Кена.
Кен доезжает до своего офиса и в панике прячется в нем, Томми берет его машину и едет в свой отель. Там он звонит Сонни и информирует его о провале. Сонни приходит в жуткую ярость, Томми обещает вернуть деньги и наркотики.

Во время поиска каких-нибудь следов, ведущих к сорвавшему сделку человеку, Томми знакомится с Лэнсом Вэнсом, братом убитого во время сделки Виктора. Вместе они выясняют, что самый влиятельный наркобарон Вайс Сити, Рикардо Диаз, и есть тот самый человек. Томми получает доверие Диаза, выполнив несколько заданий для него. Несмотря на это, Лэнс предпринимает попытку убить Диаза самостоятельно.

Попытка оказывается неудачной, Лэнса ловят и отвозят на свалку Вайс-Сити для допроса. Томми спасает его, убив людей Диаза, и тем самым перечеркивает все результаты своих усилий, теряя доверие Диаза. Как только Лэнс поправляется и выходит из больницы, Томми предлагает ему план убийства Диаза. Они проникают в особняк Рикардо, убивая всех членов банды на пути. Недалеко от своего офиса они натыкаются на яростно отстреливающегося Диаза, Томми удается его убить.

left|thumb|Банда Томми Версетти на фоне его особняка

Томми становится владельцем особняка, также он становится главным криминальным авторитетом города. Затем он в течение долгого времени укрепляет свою империю, покупая различную недвижимость и развивая ее. В это время Лэнсу начинает казаться, что Томми «нянчится» с ним, он постоянно жалуется по телефону, и не может разобраться с мизерными проблемами.

{{General CVG character|width=240px
| name=Thomas Vercetti
| image = 180px|Tommy Vercetti
| firstgame = ''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City'' (2002)
| series = ''Grand Theft Auto''
| occupation = Entrepreneur
| voiceactor = Ray Liotta<ref name="Voice actor"></ref>
| motionactor = Jonathan Sale<ref name="Motion actor"></ref>
}}
'''Thomas “Tommy” Vercetti''' (voiced by Grand Theft Auto'' playable character in ''his own syndicate.

==Role==
===Prologue===
Tommy Vercetti indicates that his father worked all his life in a printing shop and adds that years later, he still has fond childhood memories of helping his father clean the rollers.<ref name="Print rollers">'''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.” (Opening cut scene of “Spilling the Beans,” ''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City''.)</ref> Vercetti once had dreams of following in his father’s footsteps, but he has chosen a different path, instead becoming a criminal in the employment of the Forelli family of the Liberty City Mafia.<ref name="Print rollers"/> 

Vercetti is sent to prison in Liberty City during the 1970s for multiple counts of Sonny Forelli, to assassinate just one man), earning him the nickname “The Harwood Butcher,” a reference to the Liberty City neighborhood in which the murders occur. It appears that Tommy successfully assassinates the man he was sent to kill, but is then surrounded and has to fight his way out.<ref name="Final confrontation">'''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...” (Opening cut scene of “Keep Your Friends Close...”, ''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City''.)</ref> With the help of the Forelli family’s connections, he is spared the death penalty and only serves 15 years for manslaughter.

===Arrival in Vice City===
Due to Sonny’s influence, Tommy is released early from prison in Vance Crime Family. Tommy and the two Forelli soldatos with him, Harry and Lee, meet with Ken Rosenberg, a bent lawyer serving as the Forelli family’s contact in Vice City. The deal is supposed to be the beginning of the family’s expansion “down south,” but during the exchange, concealed masked gunmen kill three of the people involved in the deal (Harry, Lee and Victor Vance), stealing both the drugs and the money Tommy was charged with protecting. Having narrowly escaped with Ken, Tommy immediately informs Sonny of the botched deal. The furious Sonny demands that Tommy get back both the cocaine and the lost money, or lose his life as a consequence. Tommy assures Sonny that a painful death awaits those responsible for the ambush.

During his search for leads within Vice City’s underworld, Tommy teams up with Lance Vance, the surviving member of the Vance Crime Family who is seeking vengeance for the death of his brother Victor. Together, and through the help of recently acquired friends and contacts Ricardo Diaz, was responsible for the ambushed deal and the death of Lance’s brother. Tommy manages to gain Ricardo’s trust over time by performing multiple tasks for him, and becomes a trusted member of Diaz’s gang. However, Lance, who has already infiltrated the gang, is spurred by the death of his brother into staging a premature attempt on Diaz’s life.

Lance fails to kill Diaz and is captured by members of his gang to a junkyard to be tortured before Tommy manages to rescue him, blowing his cover as an associate of Diaz’s gang in the process. After Lance recovers in a hospital, Tommy assures him it would be best to forcefully invade Diaz’s estate in order to take him out before the drug baron has them both killed. The two men infiltrate the grounds of the mansion, killing Diaz’s men while making their way to his office, where they murder him, thus exacting revenge for the ambushed deal. Tommy then assumes control of Diaz’s huge mansion and its accompanying grounds, renaming it the “Vercetti Estate.” Following the death of Diaz, Tommy takes over his huge drug trafficking empire and expands its operations into gun-running, car theft, prostitution, protection rackets and various odd jobs(mostly illegal) Tommy then goes on to acquire multiple businesses and assets within the city, including the Cherry Popper ice cream factory and the Malibu Club, as fronts for his his illegal activities and ways to launder the money, thus forming the Vercetti Gang transforming Tommy into one of Vice City’s richest, most powerful, and most influential men in the process. However, Lance begins to feel that Tommy is treating him like a child, as his brother Victor used to, and repeatedly complains of his dissatisfaction with his cut of Tommy’s vast profits.

Sonny Forelli becomes increasingly infuriated with Tommy’s obfuscation of his gradual lordship over Vice City’s underworld, constantly phoning him and demanding that he not only locate the lost money and drugs, but also share his burgeoning wealth with the Forelli family. After it becomes clear that Tommy has officially abandoned the Forelli family, Sonny sends collectors to attempt to forcibly tax and take control of Vercetti’s many businesses. His plans are immediately thwarted, when Tommy kills all of the collectors before they can accomplish their goals. After this, Sonny comes down to Vice City personally, accompanied by numerous Forelli family soldiers. Forewarned of Sonny’s arrival, Tommy sets aside $20 million of the money he has been counterfeiting at the print works in an attempt to placate him. When Sonny arrives at the Vercetti Estate with his entourage, he makes clear his disappointment that Tommy could not see what was “good for business,” and is about to accept the counterfeit cash when Lance openly betrays Tommy and informs Sonny that the real money is in Tommy’s office safe (citing “business” as the reason for his betrayal).

As a result of these multiple revelations, a huge gunfight erupts in the mansion. Tommy holds off the Forelli members trying to storm the office, then heads to the roof to take out the treacherous Lance. The final showdown is at the foyer where Sonny reveals that he orchestrated the incident which resulted in Tommy’s original imprisonment. This riles Tommy and he proceeds to finish off Sonny and the rest of the Forelli gang in a climactic gun battle.