The Hammer is a melee weapon featured in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and, as part of the Special and Collector's Editions, Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online.
Design[]
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City[]
The Hammer in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City has a red/black handle with a grey head. Tommy Vercetti will wield and use it in a similar manner to the Baseball Bat and the Nightstick.
Grand Theft Auto V and Online[]
The Hammer reappears in Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online with a wooden handle and a black head. Aside from these details, the Hammer remains identical to the 3D Universe iteration.
The weapon is used in a similar way to most club-type weapons like the Crowbar, being wielded with a single hand.
Performance[]
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City[]
The Hammer has a short range but deals a good amount of damage, causing the person being attacked to collapse.
GTA Vice City Overview[]
| Damage | Fire Rate [?] | Range (m / ft) |
Ammo Specifications/ Capacity |
Reload Mechanism | Reload Speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 250 | 1.5 / 4.9 | 1000 | N/A | 100 |
| N/A | N/A | Cannot be determined | N/A | N/A | 0.1 second |
Grand Theft Auto V and Online[]
The Hammer is fairly powerful, being comparable to the Crowbar, but it can be swung much faster and the longer range allows the player (if timed right) to hit a sprinting person, which makes it useful in a number of scenarios. If swung from the correct range, the Hammer may connect with the victim's face, knocking them out instantly or even killing them. It is also capable of denting and removing parts of vehicles, and, if swung enough times, has the ability to damage a vehicle to the point of it igniting.
Being a single-handed weapon, it can be used while on a motorcycle, albeit only in Grand Theft Auto Online.
GTA V and Online Overview[]
| Damage (per shot) [?] |
Fire Rate [?] | Range (m / ft) [?] |
Ammo Specifications/ Capacity |
Reload Mechanism | Reload Speed [?] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 0 | 1.6 / 5.2 | 0 | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
 |
Damage | 10% 10% | |||
| Fire Rate/Speed | 15% 15% | ||||
| Accuracy | |||||
| Range | 1% 1% | ||||
| Clip Size | |||||
Image Gallery[]
In-game model[]
HUD icon[]
First Person View[]
Locations[]
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City[]
The Hammer, along with the Screwdriver and the MP5, are the only weapons that do not have a spawn point in the city and have to be purchased.
- Washington Beach, Vice Beach – Available to buy from Bunch of Tools for $20.
- North Point Mall, Vice Point, Vice Beach – Available to buy from Tooled Up for $20.
- Little Havana, Vice City Mainland – Available to buy from Screw This after completion of Phnom Penh '86 for $20.
- Dropped by a worker at the start of Jury Fury, and used by a worker in the yard during The Fastest Boat.
Grand Theft Auto V[]
- An unusable Hammer can be found in Maintenance Tunnel.
- Original version
- Available in Ammu-Nation for free if the player has the Special/Collector's Edition.
- Enhanced Version
- The Hammer is available for $500 in Ammu-Nation, after the mission Repossession.
- Returning Special/Collector's edition players will not have to pay for it.
Grand Theft Auto Online[]
- The Hammer is available for $500 in Ammu-Nation regardless of rank.
- Returning Special/Collector's edition players will not have to pay for it.
- In the mission First Dose 2 - Designated Driver, the player can pick up the Hammer from the corpse of one of the two workers who are not far from the Packer parked (if it spawns) on the east side of Terminal.
Trivia[]
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City[]
- The appearance of the Hammer seems to be inspired by the hammers found on several artworks for the Pink Floyd album The Wall.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas[]
- The Hammer is listed alongside other intentionally disabled GTA Vice City items on the
default.ide. The weapon was not planned to make a return whatsoever.
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories[]
- A few models from the PlayStation 2 version of GTA Vice City, including the Hammer, the Ruger, the Tear Gas and the MP5, are left unused in the files for Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories.
Grand Theft Auto IV[]
- The Hammer also appears as a pedestrian prop for construction worker animations in Grand Theft Auto IV.
Grand Theft Auto Online[]
- If the Hammer is picked up, it will be stored in the player's inventory permanently.