The protagonist travels by Morrowind, eastern province of the Septim Empire in Tamriel. He/she can save it from enslavement or explore for personal purposes.
In 1986, after doing a 15 year prison stint for the Forelli crime family in Liberty City, gangster Tommy Vercetti is sent away to Vice City, Florida to take over the town and rise to the top of the criminal empire.
The kidnapping of Mark Hammond's son leads him on a journey through London's criminal underworld as he does jobs for the kidnapper, crime lord Charlie Jolson, in order to clear himself of his wife's murder. Meanwhile, DCI Frank Carter searches through the empire for answers.