Key To Her Heart
In order to get the keycard from the croupier, you’re going to need to follow her around town until she hits up a sex shop. After you grab the gimp suit inside, keep following her and wait outside until the gimp approaches; he’ll arrive on foot, and won’t be wearing a shirt, so kill him, grab his...weapon, and head inside to pick up a new girlfriend.
In order to get her keycard, you’ll have to take her out on dates. You can take her out immediately after you finish this mission - the Steakhouse is your best bet for big love, and is represented by a fork-and-knife on your map - but she’ll likely require multiple dates before giving with the goods. You can get more missions from Wu Zi in the meantime, so check back every once in a while and treat her nice. After a few dates, she’ll call you on your cell phone and let you know that she’s left the card in her bedroom, so head into her house and grab it.
Dam And Blast
Because all casino heists involve knocking out the power to an entire city - it’s the law - CJ has to destroy the dam that supplies electricity to Las Venturas. You can’t just drive over to the dam and say, "Excuse me, would you mind if I blow this up?" though; you’ll need to grab a plane from the airport and do a little James Bondish parachuting to reach your destination.
You can’t just jump out of the plane when you’re directly over the dam; that’d be too easy. Instead, you’ll have to make it all the way up to a corona in the sky before you’re able to bail out. The corona is way, way up there, too; you’ll have to keep rising all the way from the airport to the marker to hit it. If you can’t quite get there, fly past it and make a hard bank to return. When you hit the corona, bail out and orient CJ towards the new marker on the ground below. If you’re really good with the parachutes, you might be able to land directly in the circle, but if worst comes to worst, you can just bail into the water and swim from there to the quay.
After making your way past the security guards (you’ll need to get silent kills on these guys), you’ll be inside the dam. There are four more people inside here, including two guards that will pace along the left wall. You can take the workers out fairly easily with your knife, but for the guards, you’ll have to hide in one of the dark cubicles along the wall and wait for them to pass you by before slitting their throats. If anyone sees you, you’ll have a more difficult time placing your charges on the generators, but you should be able to complete the mission either way, especially if you have body armor. Regardless, plant your charges and hit the exit to complete the mission.
Cop Wheels
This is another mission that’s difficult to beat on your first try, so don’t get too discouraged. The gist of it is that you have 12 minutes to track down four police bikes from all over Las Venturas and drive them to a truck. The catch is that you can’t, of course, drive more than one bike at a time, and that the truck will be roaming around the city on the freeway, forcing you to catch up to it when you do have a bike in your possession.
The trick here is to know where the truck is, even when you can’t see it on the map. It begins its journey on the eastern side of town, so start by grabbing the southeasternmost bike. Since the Packer drives clockwise, you can then proceed to the west, north, and northeastern bikes and get them onto the truck as it passes by their position. Needless to say, if you grab the northern bike while the Packer is on the southern freeway, you’re going to be adding a couple of minutes to your commute time. If you go in the correct clockwise order, though, you should be able to complete the mission with over four minutes to spare.
The other big sticker here are the cops themselves. They’re not going to view your theft of their property too kindly, and if you get to two or more stars, you’re going to have lots of problems getting the bikes back to the truck without getting run over. Thus, it’s important not to kill the cops while you’re stealing their bikes. This may be unavoidable, in the cases of the bikes that take off as you approach them, so if you do get a couple of stars, keep an eye out for the star pickups around town that will reduce your wanted level.
Up, Up, And Away
Now that you have your cop bikes for the decoy truck, you need the decoy truck itself. Unfortunately, a street-level jacking is a bit too risky, so you’ll have to infiltrate a heavily-guarded military base, steal a helicopter with a loading hook, find a truck on the ground, hook it up, and take it to a safe location to be painted. Which, of course, is far preferable to sticking a gun in some armored car driver’s face.... This mission has a high incidence of combat, so be sure that you have body armor and plenty of ammo before you head in.
If you can get atop these crates, you should be able to avoid the bulk of the baddies in the hangar.
When you leave the casino, jack a car and head towards the base. As you arrive, a Hummer will be coming out, so take the opportunity and drive through the gates as they open. Immediately take a left and drive past the open hangar doors; note the huge number of M4-wielding badasses inside. You can stop the car and proceed through there, if you wish - there are health and armor pickups inside, so it’s doable - but a more workable solution is to keep heading around the building until you find some shipping crates. If you get on top of these, you’ll be spotted by some guards, but they’ll likely bunch up near the wall, allowing you to use a rocket or grenade to blow them all to hell. When they’re gone, jump across to the wall and fall down; you’ll now be on the rear side of the hangar, and you can run past the rear doorway and deal with any pursuers as they come out. Or, if you’re running low on health and ammo, you can clear out the hangar with your M4 and get the pickups.
Proceed up the steps, killing any guards you find, until you get a message about incoming gunships. There’s a minigun emplacement nearby, highlighted with a red circle, so hop into it and blast the gunships, then grab your own helicopter and jet out.
After you get the helicopter, make your way to the parked security truck and lift it up with the winch. In order to avoid damaging your heli, extend your winch as far down as it’ll go, then hover over the truck; you’ll automatically grab it with the magnet when it’s close enough. When you do have a good grip on the truck, reel the winch in as far as it’ll go and head out to the airstrip that you own. You’ll have to drop the truck into a fairly small circle when you arrive, so go slow, and use the L3 click to level yourself out. If you’re having trouble, you can drag the truck into the circle after dropping it somwhere else.
When you have the truck safely stowed, land in the indicated area and save your game afterwards. You don’t want to have to do all that again if you do something stupid, now do you?
