The Screwdriver is a melee weapon featured in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
The weapon was intended to appear in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories but was cut during the development of both titles.
Design[]
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City[]
The Screwdriver is a generic flat-blade screwdriver with a brownish handle, which Tommy uses in a similar manner to most bladed weapons. It is the second cheapest weapon in the Grand Theft Auto series, with the Baseball Bat costing only $5 in GTA IV.
Performance[]
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City[]
Despite its small size and seemingly harmless appearance, the Screwdriver is a fairly good melee weapon. The weapon 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 one of the strongest melee weapons, even surpassing the Chainsaw (though, obviously, it does not have a continuous usage like the aforementioned weapon). 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 |
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.
Beta Content[]
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas[]
Main article: Beta Content in GTA San Andreas/Items and Weapons
The Screwdriver was intended to return in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and had two defined spawn points on the San Andreas map at some point in development, which are mentioned in the developer notes in the uncompiled initial.sc script file accidentally left in the files for The Definitive Edition:
CREATE_PICKUP_WITH_AMMO TEARGAS PICKUP_ON_STREET_SLOW 10 2213.0 -2283.0 15.0 pickup_weapon[46] // - Screwdriver //Ocean Docks freight train terminal
CREATE_PICKUP Gun_dildo2 PICKUP_ON_STREET_SLOW -2401.0 2360.0 5.0 pickup_weapon[130] // - screwdriver //behind the skip
While the model itself is no longer found in the files, the texture image used for the Screwdriver is still present in the gun_melee texture image shared between multiple melee weapons, also reused from GTA Vice City.
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories[]
The Screwdriver was intended to return in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, reusing the same model from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, although using slightly darker textures. The texture container reveals an early art style for the HUD icons – edited versions of the ones from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City with Grand Theft Auto III colors. The weapon was replaced by the Chisel, an equivalent melee weapon in the final version of the game.
Leftovers can be found in Lucid Games' mobile port of the game, which uses an earlier version of the GTA3.IMG file.
![The Screwdriver model. [1]](/wiki/File:Screwdriver-GTALCS.png "Screwdriver-GTALCS.png (1.1 MB)")
![HUD icon. [2]](/wiki/File:Screwdriver-GTALCS-HUDIcon.png "Screwdriver-GTALCS-HUDIcon.png (3 KB)")
Trivia[]
3D Universe[]
- The Screwdriver is one of few melee weapons in GTA Vice City that is unable to damage vehicles unless the player is walking/running into them at the same time.
HD Universe[]
- The Screwdriver also appears as a static prop in Grand Theft Auto IV, Grand Theft Auto V, and only used to hotwire cars in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.