Grand Theft Auto IV

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*McLaren*
There aren't any.

As for Dwayne....
He sends you backup when you befriend him enough.
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That actually could have been useful... Damn oh well. Just like real life you make mistakes.

*McLaren*
Here's a question. Has anyone actually seen a bus moving? They're all over Star Junction, but I've yet to see one in traffic.
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Just saw one right now as I turned a corner chasing some guys in a mission.
 
Some of these may have already been discussed here, but I saw this article and thought some might like to check it out:

Grand Theft Auto IV: Five Cool Secrets

The Grand Theft Auto games have a rich history of in-jokes, parodies and hidden surprises. Seeing as Grand Theft Auto IV is the biggest and best in the series so far, it's hardly a shocker that it's also packed with treats for the inquisitive player. Here are five of our favorites:

Fruit computers

Head for one of the Tw@ internet cafes, and point your in-game web browser to www.fruitcomputers.com. You'll be greeted with a sparse, suspiciously familiar web page advertising fruit-shaped computers - an obvious parody of Apple. There's even a banana-shaped iFruit phone. ("No buttons. No reception. No storage capacity. All ego.")


Somebody answer the phone

Speaking of cell phones, GTA IV plays a cruel trick on the cell-addicted. When you're driving a car and Niko receives a call from one of his friends, your TV speakers will imitate the telltale chirps of cellular interference just before Niko's phone rings. Hands up - how many of you have reached for your own phones upon hearing it? Yeah, us too.


To Catch A Predator

GTA IV features its own TV-style child predator sting operation. Just drop into a Tw@ cafe and visit the web site www.littlelacysurprisepageant.com. What's that? You just wanted to watch a sting, not be the subject of one yourself? Too late. Better get running, because the cops are probably already at the cafe door.


Visit The Heart Of Liberty City

Liberty City might seem living and breathing, but who'd have thought it actually had a beating heart as well? You'll need a chopper and access to the entire map to discover it. Head for the Statue of Happiness, and bail out so you land on top of it. Inside the statue you'll find a ladder that leads up to - well, go there and see for yourself.


What's the emergency?

Low on health? Being hassled by street hoodlums? On fire? Just dial 911 on your handy cell phone, and a friendly dispatcher will send you your choice of emergency service vehicles right to your location. Pro Tip: pedestrians don't like it when you steal a fire truck and spray them down with water. (Incidentally, you can call for backup from a police car computer, too.)
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VIPERGTSR01
I have twice attempted her to remove my wanted stars and both times she couldn't, one was when I went through the airport runway area and instantly got 5 stars, the other was during a mission. I guess you can only remove a couple stars max and not during missions.

Oh and I met Kiki though love-meet.com, I thought a lawyer would be handy, is that how everyone did?
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Well Kiki dumped me.....:(.... :lol:

I took her on a date to a restuarnt she didn't like, then on the way back I accidentally car jacked a cab when I was supposed to get in the back, which she obviously didn't like. A while later I got a SMS from her saying she dumped me. Oh well, she was weird anyway :p

I found her quite handy when I did some dumb thing like drive drunk and got heat on me for it.
 
Well I just did the Three Leaf Clover mission, all I can say is WOW..... did you feel the 'Heat'? ;). I did it on my first attempt, I feel like doing it again, that was awesome,
 
Yeah it certainly was very cool on it's first run but after you fail a couple of times you just want to get it over with.

I'm taking a break for the night I can't seem to do anything right. First I do the mission with patrick for Derrick in the Booth Tunnel and I screw up after I lose the wanted level and i'm not far from the last point I need to be at. Then I do the first mission for Jimmy and I didn't know I could destory the "offering" while I was trying to rundown some guys in a car. So I failed that too. Gah, tomorrow.
 
VIPERGTSR01
Well I just did the Three Leaf Clover mission, all I can say is WOW..... did you feel the 'Heat'? ;). I did it on my first attempt, I feel like doing it again, that was awesome,
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I felt the heat. Then, after spending an hour trying to shake the cops and then dying, I remembered pay n spray.
 
If a girl rejects you first date is there anyway to get them again?

I need the lawyer girl to get cops off me.
 
Omnis
I felt the heat. Then, after spending an hour trying to shake the cops and then dying, I remembered pay n spray.
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i dont understand how you guys cant shake 3 stars... its so easy ive never had any trouble yet.... I guess its because i can somewhat drive, its not hard to loose the cops then i just avoid them on the map until im out of the circle.

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Another cool feature, i ran over some fire in the car and my front tyre caught fire and then burnt out... All the rubber was gone and it was down to its rims haha.
 
Jeremy Clarkson: GTA didn’t make me want to “chop off a prostitute’s head”
May 4th, 2008 @ 12:19
Writing in the Sun, Brit car show presenter Jeremy Clarkson has said that playing Grand Theft Auto didn’t make him feel violent.

“This week the latest version of videogame Grand Theft Auto hit the shelves — and pretty soon it will be cited as the reason why people feel compelled to lock their children in cellars, why Israel cannot find peace with the Palestinians and why everyone in Britain has been stabbed.

“Hmmm, I played an earlier version of the game and must say that at no point did I feel the need to go outside and chop off a prostitute’s head.

“In fact, as is the case with most videogames, I hadn’t a clue what was going on. I sat there, frantically stabbing at all the buttons, until a message on the screen told me the game was over.

“It was annoying. Not dangerous.”
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Not his usual witty self, but just imagining Clarkson playing GTA4 is hilarious in itself.

Hopefully Yahtzee will be posting his review of GTAIV soon enough... that'll be enough wit to make up for Clarkson's subdued response and then some. :D
 
Is anyone having trouble with Pegorino's Pride? Or am I the only idiot who can't seem to do it right like I think? :indiff:
 
Small_Fryz
i dont understand how you guys cant shake 3 stars... its so easy ive never had any trouble yet.... I guess its because i can somewhat drive, its not hard to loose the cops then i just avoid them on the map until im out of the circle.
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Yeah, after my suggestion earlier of stopping so the cop cars stop then get going again worked again for me on the Three Leaf Clover mission. Took about 3 stop and goes but it worked, aided with going onto some grass where it's about 200 ft from a road.

Cool mission though :) - done it first try. I thought I had to outrun 5 stars until it dropped to 3. :nervous:
 
G.T
Yeah, after my suggestion earlier of stopping so the cop cars stop then get going again worked again for me on the Three Leaf Clover mission. Took about 3 stop and goes but it worked, aided with going onto some grass where it's about 200 ft from a road.

Cool mission though :) - done it first try. I thought I had to outrun 5 stars until it dropped to 3. :nervous:
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In my second attempt, in which I blew myself up, I took out the annihilator before going into the subway. But uh does that thing even show up when you resurface? I don't know because I didn't shoot it down the third and final time because I didn't have an RPG then.
 
It appeared on my mini-map after I left the subway and drove off again, but it never caught back up with me, even when I had a big crash on the bridge. Right after I lost my wanted level I ended up setting the jeep I was driving on fire, and had a momont of panick as I scrambled to get out. We just made it found the corner when the thing exploded, sending a door and wleel flying past me.


I hailed a cab to get us back. :dopey:
 
Oh man all these missions i've failed today and this one was worth all that. First off I need to piss off the "feds" and grab one of thier Dodge Charger looking cars that's honestly the first car in GTA that I drooled over. Than after that trying to get rid of a 3 star wanted level A cop cuts me off when I was trying to make a right effectively making me skid straight so I began to back up and the cop was a little slow and out of nowhere a Bus that you never see driving nowhere close to The Triangle blindsighted, t-boned whatever the cop car and swept it really fast off my screen. That bus had to have been going top speed it was the funniest thing i've seen in GTAIV yet. 👍
 
Gen.
If a girl rejects you first date is there anyway to get them again?

I need the lawyer girl to get cops off me.
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She's not even really worth it, she can only get rid of 1 or 2 stars and apparently not during a mission.
 
I was cruising around Alderney just exploring and I noticed the prison on the paper map so I went down to it and found a jump that would allow you to stunt over the wall and into the prison yard.

So when I was there I starting running over guards and prisoners and quickly got a 4 star wanted level. Liberty Rock was on the radio and the commercials finished and Thin Lizzy's "Jailbreak" came on! There I was driving around the prison in the Turismo listening to "Jailbreak", trying to find to escape as prison guards are chasing me and shooting the car.

Pure brilliance, couldn't have been timed better.
 
I was at near top speed in a corquet when i hit a stationary car (trying to fit up the middle of 2 lans..) and i flew out of the windscreen so far it wasnt funny. Not only that but i landed on my head bounced up and did about 3 cartwheels in the air, hit the ground again and did another cartwheel before finally coming back down and skidding along the pavement until i hit another car. Got back up and i swear i just flew 50 - 60m from the crash site. Insane...
 
If i die while getting out of a car and then getting sandwiched between my car and another car stopping nearby, one more time, i'm going to throw my PS3 out the window.
 
Wow that kidnapping mission is a real pain in the ass! :mad: I seriously cannot do this goddamn mission without flipping that stupid car. Finally, Niko has not done something more satisfying than knocking her out.
 
Giancarlo
If i die while getting out of a car and then getting sandwiched between my car and another car stopping nearby, one more time, i'm going to throw my PS3 out the window.
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Hope you live nearby, im saving for a ps3 and ill gladly have a dented ps3 that has been thrown out of a window...i hope the disc is included with the ps3 lol.
 

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