“This carbon steel cleaver can be used for cutting up large bones, pork chops, and cartilage. Good for commercial or street use.”
— Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Website.The Meat Cleaver is a weapon in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories.
Design
3D Universe
The Meat Cleaver is a large knife purposed primarily for butchers to cut slabs of meat into thinner slices. In both games, it can be used as a melee weapon.
Design
3D Universe
Like other melee weapons in the game, the Meat Cleaver can damage cars and people, leaving the victim bleeding, with a trail of blood dropping on the ground.
Statistic-wise, it appears to be identical to the Machete in terms of damage, but has a slightly lower range.
3D Universe Overview
| Damage | Fire Rate [?] | Range (m / ft) |
Ammo Specifications/ Capacity |
Reload Mechanism | Reload Speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 (GTA Vice City) | 250 (GTA Vice City) | 1.9 / 6.2 (GTA Vice City) | 1000 (GTA Vice City) | N/A | 100 (GTA Vice City) |
| N/A | N/A | Cannot be determined | N/A | N/A | 0.1 second |
Image Gallery
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, 10th anniversary edition.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - The Definitive Edition.
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories.
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, Mobile Version.
Locations
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- Vice Point, Vice Beach - Behind The Well Stacked Pizza Co.
- North Point Mall, Vice Point, Vice Beach - Available to buy from Tooled Up for $50.
- Washington Beach, Vice Beach - Available to buy from Bunch of Tools for $50.
- Little Havana, Vice City Mainland - Available to buy from Screw This for $50.
- The Meat Cleaver is dropped by a chef during the mission "Back Alley Brawl."
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
- Chinatown, Portland Island - Available in the middle of the only-pedestrian alley in Chinatown next to a noodle stand
- Some Triads can be seen wielding the meat cleaver.
Trivia
3D Universe
- The Meat Cleaver was originally supposed to be in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, but was cut in development [citation/verification needed].
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