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Jun 13th, 2009 at 01:41:45 - Grand Theft Auto IV (360) |
Tonight:
Completed the first island's 10 Most Wanted. But coordinated it out of my Albany Ave. safehouse. Best place to jack a police cruiser: just south of your Albany Ave. safehouse. Take the middle one to avoid a wanted level.
Wound up answering Packie's phone call and getting sucked into the Undertaker mission. But at least I don't have to worry about those phone calls anymore.
Read somewhere that the Playboy X safehouse had Clyde's clothes from Liberty City Stories---green fatigue pants and black jacket. So I had to go check it out. It's true. Changed immediately---no more Statue of Happiness sweatshirt. Kate seemed to like it.
While finishing up the Most Wanted on the first island, I stocked up on weapons with Jacob, and then went on a rocket launcher run.
I took a cab to Big Horn Dr. in Alderney and jacked the private Maverick. I took that to the rocket launcher pickups at the top of the Kakagawa building and on the half-sunken freighter.
While doing this, Dwayne called and wanted to go to a strip club. So I took the helicopter, picked him up, and completed the whole friend outing with the helicopter. Did several more friend activities---got the Liberty City achievement.
Also completed the remaining Exotic Exports. These were the last 7:
Sanchez
Patriot
Cavalcade
Intruder
Feltzer
Banshee
NRG900
Now:
63.47%
$381801
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Jun 11th, 2009 at 23:35:01 - Grand Theft Auto IV (360) |
Played some more tonight. Meant to go straight into Most Wanted, but got a call from Roman, so I wound up going to play pool with him instead. Then I just decided to go ahead and hang out for a little while with everybody, just to keep them off my back.
Afterwards, I stole another car for Brucie (#3), and things didn't go quite as planned. The cab dropped me off right onto top of the car I was supposed to steal, and its owners immediately started hitting me with baseball bats when I got out. I was close to death by the time I took care of them and the car had taken off. Then I had to steal a car, and got a wanted level, and still had to chase them down. Once I got away from the cops, I stopped and got a hot dog to bring my health back up, and took off after my target. Caught up with them with little problem, got the car, and delivered it to Brucie.
I also did a Most Wanted mission in Dukes (#6). After I located the perps, I accidentally flipped my cruiser upside down, so I ended up chasing them down the street on foot and taking them out with my SMG. Then I caught a cab back to Albany Ave. and took a nap. I'm at 59.11%.
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Jun 11th, 2009 at 01:14:02 - Grand Theft Auto IV (360) |
There is one new feature that makes GTA IV stand out from the other GTAs, and I didn't really appreciate it until I went back and played San And for a little while. I wanted to get across the map, and for a second I started looking for a taxi. Then I remembered---taxis don't pick you up in San And, you typically have to drive wherever you want to go. Not that there's anything wrong with that, being that it is a driving game. But, man, I love being able to hop in a taxi and go anywhere in seconds.
In GTA IV, when I was hunting for pigeons on the first island, it got much easier once I finished Bull in a China Shop, which opens up the ability to hail a cab. It doesn't take too much money to take a cab to the far reaches of the island, take out all the pigeons in that area, and then take a cab back to the safehouse to save.
Don't have enough money to take cabs? Rob a Securicar. I did this several times early in the game to fatten my bank account. I tried doing taxi missions for Roman, but it takes too long and brings in too little cash. But Securicars can be found driving around pretty often. Jack one and drive it back to your safehouse.
If you look across the street, there's an empty lot next to a building. Crash the Securicar against the building over and over until it catches on fire. Let it blow up and gather the money. You usually rake in around $1000. Sometimes you'll get a wanted level, sometimes not, but it's no big deal anyway, as you can just run over to your safehouse and save.
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Jun 11th, 2009 at 00:06:25 - Grand Theft Auto IV (360) |
Another quick entry to correct my misnaming of the Cavalcade---it is Cavalcade FXT, not XLT. And let me just say that I've really come to appreciate this line of cars. The standard Cavalcade is a luxury SUV, and the FXT model is a pickup. Both are sturdy, stable, fast, and can drift well. They're also pretty readily available. I've used them in several chases and police evasions and they've always worked well.
Speaking of readily available cars, the best continually-spawning car that you can get early in the game is the Turismo. It's fast, sleek, and handles great, and can always be found near your first safehouse---in a driveway off Shinnecock Ave. Grab a couple of these and store them at your safehouse. Having a car like that at your safehouse, one that it won't matter if you lose it, as you can always get another, makes it more fun to go out for a fast ride through the city, like on a gun run.
The first place I would hit would be the body armor off Sundance St., up the driveway through the gap in the wall and behind the porch. The I would grab the SMG in the alley north of Boone St. And you gotta have an AK, and luckily there's a convenient one relatively nearby.
Set a waypoint for the eastern intersection of Valley Forge and Hooper. When you get there, look north to see a dirt ramp that runs from Hooper up to the bridge. Run up the hill and out onto the bridge, then jump off onto the Silverback building. After you pick up the weapon, run over to the west side of the roof, and look off near the phone pole to see a fire escape that you can jump down to. Then run back around to your car. I would do this several times in a row to stock up on some good hardware early in the game.
Hopefully I'll find time to play again in the next couple of days and keep chipping away at it.
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