Grand Theft Auto 4 Game Guide

Chapter 3 - Side Missions

Grand Theft Auto IV’s story mode is just the beginning. There are plenty of side jobs and missions you can complete for additional cash, unlock achievements on the Xbox 360, or make progress on 100% game completion. This section covers the various side missions you can participate in during or after the story mode.

Taxi Driver

Early in the game (at least before the single player mission Roman’s Sorrow) you can join Roman in his profession as a cab driver. Roman will give you a cell phone call after the mission Jamaican Heat and suggest joining the family business. Afterward you can phone Roman and select "Job" to become a taxi driver! Get Roman’s taxi from the cab depot and pick up and drop off fares. It’s an easy way to earn extra money.

Little Jacob and Badman Packages

After you meet Little Jacob’s friend Badman in the single-player mission Shadow, you receive a call from Little Jacob about some side work. Little Jacob and Badman have packages that need delivered. Open your cell phone and call Little Jacob. Select the "Job" option from the list. He’ll tell you that there’s a car with the package parked by the café and also provide the package’s destination.

Proceed to the marked location to find the car (it begins in the same place for each delivery). Then follow the mission orders to deliver the package. If you fail to deliver the package for any reason, you can call up Little Jacob again and retry the task. There are 10 packages to deliver; complete all 10 to unlock the Courier Service achievement on the Xbox 360 as well as make progress toward 100% game completion.

The list below reveals all package objectives with details on how to complete each one. The tasks remain the same though the order is random.

• Take the car to Meadows Park. Exit the vehicle to stash the package for the buyer. Walk into the marker. A rival gang knows about the stash ponint. Wipe them all out. Surrounded in this alley. Kill all enemies. You call Jacob after the enemies are dead.
• Take the package to Willis, the buyer will meet you there. In a back alley, the buyers are there. Exit the vehicle and do the deal. The cops arrive! Two-star wanted level. Lose your wanted level.
• Get to the package to the tower block in Steinway by approximately 50 minutes. The buyer won’t wait around. Pull out and go left onto the main road. Just jump the median. Follow the remainder of the marked route but you must drive fast. Try and cut corners across the grass and around poles. As you approach the projects, pull off and toward the building. Drive toward the marker, get out, and approach the buyer.
• Get the package to the East Island City tunnel by approximately 45 minutes. The buyer is getting jumpy. It’s inside the tunnel. If you follow the marked route you’ll be right above it. You can keep going and drive off, land, then reverse into the tunnel to the marked location. Exit the vehicle and do the deal.
• Take the package to the Festival Towers Meadows Park, the buyer will meet you there. Pull up to the buyers. Exit the vehicle to do this deal. Approach the marker. The cops are onto the deal! Lose your wanted level.
• Take the package to Schottler by approximately 30 minutes. Follow the marked route. As you get close, the marker is underneath the overpass. Go behind it and find a tunnel in the back. Drive up to the marker. Exit the vehicle and do the deal.
• Get the package to Beachwood City by approximately 25 minutes. Drive forward and left out onto the freeway (otherwise the marked route sends you to do a u-turn). As soon as the marker approaches, turn left and into the auto parts garage. Exit the vehicle and do the deal.
• Take the package to the bridge in Outlook Park.Drive over to the park and walk over to the bridge. Jump down and go to the marker underneath. A rival gang knows about the stash point. Enemies surround you underneath the bridge. Equip and weapon and eliminate them.
• Take the package to the Cerveza Heights car stack. Pull into the alley and walk to the marker. A rival gang knows about the stash point. Two guards up high in front of you; another up high behind you. A car blocks you in with two more enemies. Eliminate them all.
• Drop the package in Meadow Hills. Exit the vehicle to stash the package for the buyer. Exit and walk onto the marker. Wipe them all out. Surrounded by enemies; two in cars to the sides and a single gunman in front of you.

Vigilante and Most Wanted

Steal a police car and you can enact your own form of street justice on common criminals or the most wanted.

Obtain a cop car by any means necessary—dial 911 and just steal it when the officer arrives or grab one a parked one at a police station or other location—then you can participate in the old school Grand Theft Auto vigilante missions as well as the most wanted tasks. Complete 20 vigilante missions to unlock the Cleaned the Mean Streets achievement on the Xbox 360 as well as make progress toward 100% game completion. Finish all 30 most wanted tasks to earn the Manhunt achievement on the Xbox 360 as well as progress toward 100% game completion.

To begin the vigilante missions, get inside a police car and access the police computer. Select "View Current Crimes" then just select an option from the list. These tasks are essentially randomized. Gang activity involves just driving to a location and finding a group of thugs looking for a fight; just gun them down to clear the crime scene and finish the task. Vehicle stolen involves chasing down a stolen vehicle. Shoot it off the road—don’t worry about recovering the stolen vehicle, just blow it up and eliminate the criminal to finish the task. Choose criminal on foot and you will find a single adversary wandering the streets. Drive to his location and gun him down to finish the task.

To begin the most wanted tasks, grab a police car and access the police computer inside. Select "View Most Wanted" and you receive a list of the most wanted criminals on the current island. There are 10 most wanted for each of the three islands for a total of 30 tasks. It’s a good idea to remain well stocked with health, armor, and ammunition between most wanted missions.

Here are the targets and their crimes separated by island (you get the corresponding list when you’re on that island). Just pick your desired target and follow the mission instructions to hunt him down. It’s a good idea to be armored and stocked with weapons before seeking out these dangerous criminals.

Broker, Dukes, and Bohan

Algonquin

Alderney