The Screwdriver is a melee weapon featured in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. It is also featured only as a prop in Grand Theft Auto IV and only used to hotwire cars in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.
Design
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
The Screwdriver is a small tool that can be used as a weapon. It is a long, flat-blade screwdriver with a brownish handle. When used, Tommy Vercetti uses it in a similar manner to most bladed weapons, although the files suggest it uses its own animation.
The Screwdriver is the second cheapest weapon in the Grand Theft Auto series, with the Baseball Bat costing only $5.
Performance
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Despite its small size and seemingly harmless appearance, the Screwdriver is a fairly good melee weapon. The screwdriver uses a stabbing motion and can be used to stab victims or damage vehicles. It can kill pedestrians in 1-3 stabs and rarely attracts a wanted level. Targets may occasionally attempt to flee from the player once they are attacked, but they die after running a certain distance due to blood loss, making the Screwdriver a dangerous and subtle weapon.
Based on the files, it is the strongest melee weapon, even surpassing the Chainsaw. Its range is identical to the Knife.
GTA Vice City Overview
| Damage | Fire Rate [?] | Range (m / ft) |
Ammo Specifications/ Capacity |
Reload Mechanism | Reload Speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45 | 250 | 1.8 / 5.9 | 1000 | N/A | 100 |
| N/A | N/A | Cannot be determined | N/A | N/A | 0.1 second |
Image Gallery
In-game model
HUD icon
Others
Locations
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
The Screwdriver, along with the MP5 and Hammer, 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 $10.
- North Point Mall, Vice Point, Vice Beach - Available to buy from Tooled Up for $10.
- Little Havana, Vice City Mainland - Available to buy from Screw This after the completion of Phnom Penh '86 for $10.
- It is held by one worker inside the Boatyard in the mission The Fastest Boat, at the switch where Tommy releases the boat.
Trivia
3D Universe
- The Screwdriver was originally supposed to be in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, but was cut in development [citation/verification needed].
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