Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Missions FAQ and Walkthrough Written by Chase "AggroSk8er" Ansok Version 0.1b -- 26 October 2004 (b being beta) "And so I says to Mable, I says 'READ THE FAQ!' And then I says, 'Before asking me a question about the location of something, check the map that came with your game!'" ******************************************************************************* --_________----_________------------------________----------------___--------_- -|---------|--|---------|---|-------__---|--------|-------|------|---|------|-| -|---______|--|__-----__|--|-|-----|__|--|--______|------|-|-----|-||-|-----|-| -|--|------------|---|----|---|----------|-|------------|---|----|-|-|-|----|-| -|--|______------|---|---|--|--|---------|-|_______----|--|--|---|-|--|-|---|-| -|--_____--|-----|---|--|--|-|--|--------|_______--|--|--|-|--|--|-|---|-|--|-| -|-|-----|-|-----|---|-|--|___|--|---------------|-|-|--|___|--|-|-|---|-|--|-| -|-|-----|-|-----|---|-|---__----|--------_______|-|-|---__----|-|-|----|-|-|-| -|-|_____|-|-----|---|-|--|--|-|-|--__---|---------|-|--|--|-|-|-|-|----|-|-|-| -|_________|-----|___|-|__|--|___|-|__|--|_________|-|__|--|___|-|_|----|_____| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------___-------_---___------______---______---------------_________--- ------|------|---|-----|-|-|---|----|------|-|------|------|------|---------|-- -----|-|-----|-||-|----|-|-|--_-|---|--__--|-|--____|-----|-|-----|--_______|-- ----|---|----|-|-|-|---|-|-|-|-|-|--|-|--|-|-|-|---------|---|----|-|---------- ---|--|--|---|-|--|-|--|-|-|-|--|-|-|-|__|-|-|-|____----|--|--|---|-|_______--- --|--|-|--|--|-|--|-|--|-|-|-|--|-|-|-----_|-|--____|--|--|-|--|--|______---|-- -|--|___|--|-|-|--|-|--|-|-|-|--|-|-|--|-|---|-|------|--|___|--|--------|--|-- -|---__----|-|-|--|-|--|-|-|-|_|-|--|-|-|-|--|-|____--|---__----|--______|--|-- -|--|--|-|-|-|-|--|--|_|-|-|----|---|-|-|-|--|------|-|--|--|---|-|---------|-- -|__|--|___|-|_|--|______|-|___|----|_|--|_|-|______|-|__|--|___|-|_________|-- ******************************************************************************* My ASCII art sucks. Bite me. Current completion progress: 7.5% I am: Enjoying have maxed muscle and stamina, now exploring Los Santos. Crying about the size of this game. O. Version History (dd/mm/yy) 1.0b -- 26/10/04 -- I was, of course, planning to write a guide for this game. However, I picked up the Brady Games guide today... It's 273 pages long. There's more to do in this game than I ever fathomed. There is more to respect, more to stats, more to R3 missions, more to races, odd jobs, arcade games, casinos, stadium events, and well, everything It's not possible to cover all of this information. I'm going to write a Missions only guide, which will probably go up on the IGN Insider guide as I write it. I know a lot of people enjoyed my Vice guide and were looking forward to this, but with going to school and working, I don't have the time to write a complete guide to all of the information in this game. I highly suggest you pick up the Brady guide for your side missions and oddjobs. There are things that you wouldn't have fathomed. It also has pretty picutres of the snapshots, oysters, sprays, and horse shoes, none of which you could find on your own. Looking at some of these snapshots, one of them is to take a picture of a bench in a park. Like hell I would've figured that out. Good luck to everyone on San Andreas. If you do have questions about the game, I still have my gmail address up and running at sanandreasfaq@gmail.com, and I'll do my best to help. 0.1b -- 25/10/04 -- Got the game today. Playing my ass off. Added basic stuff. 0.04b - 23/10/04 -- Bunches of new information. 0.03b - 19/10/04 -- Las Venturas update. 0.02b - 25/09/04 -- San Fierro update...finally. 0.01b - 12/09/04 -- More updates; preparing for a big update on the main site. 0.0b -- 30/08/04 -- Very first version of the guide. I'm using the basics from my GTA:VC to run guide, which has saved me a LOT of time. I plan on picking the game up on release date and just going nuts on it. ******************************************************************************* Table of Contents O. Version History I. Introduction a. Personal Rant b. About This Guide c. What I Want (And Don't Want) d. Bonus Pointer II. *Walkthrough* a. Sean "Sweet" Johnson 1. Ryder 2. Tagging Up Turf 3. Cleaning The Hood 4. Drive-Thru 5. Nines and AKs 6. Drive-By 7. Sweet's Girl 8. Cesar Vialpando b. Lance "Ryder" Wilson 1. Home Invasion 2. Catalyst 3. Robbing Uncle Sam c. Melvin "Big Smoke" Harris 1. OG Loc 2. Running Dog 3. Wrong Side Of The Tracks 4. Just Business III. *Non-Storyline Walkthrough* a. Cesar Vialpando 1. High Stakes, Low-Rider IV. Side Missions a. 'R3' Missions V. FAQ a. Basic Questions b. When can I... c. Last Missions and 100% d. How do I... e. Why..., Why not..., and What is... f. Cheats and Tech Support g. Other VI. Contact Information VII. Special Thanks ******************************************************************************* I. Introduction Hello and welcome to my Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Mission Walkthrough and FAQ. GTA:SA, as it will be referred to as of now, is the next installment of Rockstar's ground-breaking series. Grand Theft Auto 3 has won world-wide prestige for the amount of freedom and advanced gameplay that gamers had yet to see. GTA:VC, released a little over a year later, took the same game and made it even better. More weapons, more cars, more freedom. GTA:SA is the third installment of to GTA3, and looks to have the most freedom of all. The possibilities for this game are endless. A. Personal Rant This guide takes up a lot, a lot, a LOT of time. I go to school full time. I play for a travel hockey team out of San Mateo, California. I DO have a social life. So please, be gentle with me. I will work on this guide as much as possible, but I do have other things to do. As far as I know, I'm not getting paid for this. If someone wants to give me money to hurry up, then contact me. Money is good. B. About This Guide This is a MISSION walkthrough for San Andreas. Unfortunately, I am not able to write a complete guide for San Andreas, just because of the sheer size of this game. I would love to, and I may write one later on with this information, but right now, it's just not possible. C. What I Want (And Don't Want) Here is what I want: Suggestions for missions, cool tricks that I haven't found, important information, pleasant e-mails, questions that I haven't answered 40,000 times, and asking my permission for use of this guide. What I don't want: Questions that I've already answered in the guide, questions answered in your instruction manual, mindless rants, viruses, bad porn (good porn is fine, so long as it's free), spam, and things in AOL gibberish. Please use decent grammar. "how i do M4-1 plz hlp" gets the trash can real fast. If it isn't in either one, feel free to send it in. If it's good, I'll post it, if not, I'll probably give you a reply. Also note that it really helps if your title has something to do with your e-mail. "San Andreas", "GTA", "Question", and "(no subject)" get responded to last usually, because I don't know whether they're good things or not. d. Bonus Pointer Rockstar has claimed that "no two people will have the same game experience because of San Andreas' amount of openness". If that is true, then I will have to play through this game a few times to get everything down. If you choose a different path than me, explain what decisions you made. It will really help me. ******************************************************************************* II. Legal Junk This document is copyrighted material of Chase Ansok and may not be used without expressed written consent of Chase Ansok. No part of this guide can be used without proper quoting and/or recognition. Any person(s) found violating this copyright is/are punishable by law and will be to the fullest extent. Please contact me at sanandreasfaq@gmail.com if you wish to use this. The following sites have permission to use this guide: www.GameFAQs.com www.IGN.com www.GTAGuides.com www.CheatCC.com If you see another site using my guide and it is not listed here, please contact me with the title "Copyright Infringement". Your geocities, angelfire, livejournal, sphosting, etc. sites CANNOT use this guide! Registered websites dedicated to gaming or San Andreas can use this guide with my permission. You can LINK to my guide at the following address: http://pages.sbcglobal.net/cowoflight/samissionsfaq.txt GameFAQs is the best place to look for the guide, but you can't link directly to the FAQs there. That's the best link you'll get, since it's my webspace and I'll have it updated as soon as possible. However, it has limited bandwith. Don't be sad if it's down for the day. ******************************************************************************* III. Storyline Walkthrough Opening Mission: Ride the stupid bike home. Get a feel for the controls. Giggle as you ram into like twenty polls trying to get used to a bicycle. A. Sean "SWEET" Johnson, YO BROTHA (Part I) 1. *Big Smoke* Difficulty: 3/10 This is actually a pretty hard first mission because you're on a bike with no way to defend yourself against the Ballas. Watch the two cutscenes and follow Sweet. When Sweet breaks off, follow Ryder. Stay RIGHT behind them. Ballas will come up along side you, and they can't die for some reason. I watched Ryder get drilled with like three clips and he just kept riding and yelling at me. When you get back, sweet calls. Reward: Sweet opens as a boss; Respect Earned (get used to that) 2. *Ryder* Difficulty: 1/10 You're a taxi now. Drive to Reece's barber shop and get a cheap $50 cut, since Reece doesn't offer anything cool for under $400. Then, head to Cluckin' Bell, run out when Ryder screws up and gets shot, and drive back to the Grove. Woo. Exciting. Reward: Respect Earned 3. *Tagging Up Turf* Difficulty: 1/10 If you can read, you can do this. Just listen to what you're told and do what it says. Drive to the blip, spray paint the tags, repeat a second time. And hey, 7/100 on tags. Only 93 more to find!!!! Reward: $200 + Respect Earned 4. *Cleaning the Hood* Difficulty: 2/10 Take Ryder to B-Dup's house and watch the inspiring cut scene. Check the minimap for the crack dealer, target him, and start punching the ever living crap out of him. When he hits the floor, take the bat, get back in the car, and cross the street. Go inside and target the people one by one, starting with the guy with the bat. When they're all down, head back to Sweet's. Reward: Respect Earned 5. *Drive Thru* Difficulty: 3/10 Black people love dat chickin! Gotta have that fry chickin! Anyway, the Grove heads out, scopes out a Balla ride, and sees that they're planning a hit. Pin the Tornado against a wall and let the Groves do their thing. Make sure that when the car blows, you aren't still touching it. I did that once and they all died ; ; Afterwards, Sweet calls about the gym. Go there. Spend an hour or so just saving, working out, saving to a new day, working out. I have my stamina and muscle decked out and it helps an absolute ton. Reward: $500 + Respect Earned 6. *Nines and AKs* Difficulty: 1/10 Go see Emmet. Go through stupid tutorial. Drive to Binco. Try on ugly clothes. I went with a dog tag and a backwards green bandana. Leave Binco. Reward: Respect Earned (though you really shouldn't have expected more) 7. *Drive-By* Difficulty: 3/10 Whee. You still don't get to shoot anything. Get in the car and go to each set of Ballas and let the Grove take them out. Stay away from the cars, since they'll explode and wreck your ride. Aftewards, you get a two-star (oh nohs!) wanted rating. Head to the Pay-and-Spray for your complimentary tune up and cruise back to Sweet's. Reward: $500, Respect Earned, Ryder and Big Smoke open up as bosses. 8. *Sweet's Girl* Difficulty: 2/10 You get to shoot stuff! Finally! Well, maybe not, if you did it the way I did. Just come in, run over all the Ballas and knife the one on the stairs. Or shoot him. Whatever. Sweet will call, so grab him and his girl and high tail it back to the Grove. Reward: Respect Earned 9. *Cesar Vialpando* Difficulty: Depends how good you are at Amplitude Go to the garage on the map, look at the expensive mods that you can foolishly add to a car. Head over to the lowriding competition and place your bet. I bet $1000 and it wasn't even close. Easy money if you ask me. The beat is slow, move the control stick, blahblahblah. When that's done, watch the lovely cutscene, and breathe a sigh of relief, we're done with Sweet for now. Reward: Your bet winnings + Respect Earned -------------------- B. Lance "RYDER" Wilson, THE GANGSTER WHO _LOVES_ TO SAY 'NIGGA' 1. *Home Invasion* Difficulty: 3/10 This is your tutorial to home invasion. Nothing fancy here. Drive down to the guy's house quickly (try to make it by 6:30ish). Go in, follow the instructions by staying quiet. The six boxes are (1. In the first room, 2. Through the door on the right, 3. On the first flight of stairs, 4. At the end of the hallway, 5. In the guy's room to the left, and 6. In the guy's room behind his bed). You should have plenty of time to get them all, but I really don't know what getting them all adds. No reason not to though, really. Drive to the safe house and you're good to go. Reward: Respect Earned 2. *Catalyst* Difficulty: 3/10 Start again by running over all of the Vagos. When the Vagos are gone, the Ballas show up. Kill all four of them and head into the red blip. Now you get to play some stupid minigame. You have an unlimited amount of cases, so just check them for the minute you have. Ryder will catch enough to win. At one point, he pulls up right next to you, so it's not a big problem. End the mission by working you way around the police (it's only three stars) and into the Pay N' Spray. Head home to finish. Reward: Respect Earned 3. *Robbing Uncle Sam* Difficulty: 4.5/10 Follow the directions to the docks, jump over the wall (you should know how to do this by now), cap the guard, blow off the first security panel, then blow off the second security panel. Run in guns blazing and take out all of the National Guards. Get used to the fork lift, but expect to have to jump out a few times to help Ryder, and expect to get pulled out a few times by a magical guard that materializes right behind you. Take your time, and don't hit walls and drop the boxes. That's very bad. Drive the truck to the safehouse, dropping as many boxes as you see fit. If you can take out both of them, great. If you can't get it either, whatever. You can make it just fine. And that's it for Ryder. Reward: Respect Earned (Ryder's a cheap little ****, ain't he?) C. Melvin "BIG SMOKE" Harris, LOVES DAT FRI' CHICKIN 1. *OG Loc* Difficulty: /10 Description. Reward: 2. *Running Dog* Difficulty: /10 Description. Reward: 3. *Wrong Side of the Tracks* Difficulty: /10 Description. Reward: 4. *Just Business* Difficulty: /10 Description. Reward: ******************************************************************************* IV. *Non-Storyline Walkthrough* There are other missions that don't concern the storyline, but are much too big to go under the next section, "Side Missions." A. CESAR VIALPANDO, THE CHOLO THAT LOVES THE CHOCOLATE 1. *High Stakes, Low-Rider* Difficulty: 7/10 Guh. The CPU hits a pole, it falls right over. You hit a pole, you spin and lose complete control. Keep working at it. You want to floor it on the the three main straightaways and take it really slow during the turn section. You don't need a fast lowrider, you need one that handles well. I was a stubborn shit and tried to do this in the Picador from the mission where we met Cesar, and it took me about fifteen tries. Reward: $1000 ******************************************************************************* V. Side Missions A. 'R3' Missions In certain cars, pressing R3 will begin a special mission. After completing a certain amount of them, you get something. That's a good thing. San Andreas has many of these missions to offer. 1. Firefighter Activated by a Firetruck. Locate the fire on a map, put the fire out, then put the people who are on fire out. A person is added for every level. Reward for level 12: ? 2. Pizza Delivery Perhaps? 3. Paramedic Activated by an Ambulance. Do these in a small country town. Locate the injured person on a map, park next to them, drive them to the hospital. One person is added for every level. Reward for level 12: Extended health bar. 4. Taxi Driver Activated by any Taxi. Pick someone up on the road, drive them to their destination. Rinse, lather, repeat. This is a good way to learn a new area and to make some quick cash. Reward for 50 dropoffs (NOT IN A ROW): Hydraulic taxis. 5. Trucking After completeing Tanker Commander, pick up a truckload of something in west Los Santos. and drive it to the destination. Reward: ? 6. Vigilante Activated by any police car. Locate the enemy on the map and kill them in whatever way possible. A fugitive is added for every level. Reward for completing level 12: ? 7. Valet Parking A new addition. Don a Valet Parking uniform and park people's cars in the garage Downtown. Reward? 8. Freight Train Another new addition. Jacking the Brown Steam Express in San Fierro allows you to try out this mission. Stop the fast moving train at each stop on the map to earn some cash and bragging rights. Reward: ? 9. Pimpin' The pimping convertible is in the parking lot of the car wash near a Pay N' Spray. This isn't too hard as long as you stop by a Pay and Spray every once in a while. Reward for completing 10 of 10 pimps: Lots of cash and hookers now GIVE you money instead of taking it away. More to come. ******************************************************************************* VI. Frequently Asked Questions A. BASIC QUESTIONS Q: When was Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas released? A: GTA: San Andreas was released 26/10/04 in the US, and 29/10/04 outside of North America. Q: Why do some places say 25/10/04? A: Many stores sold the game at 6-7:00 on the 25th. Q: What is GTA: SA's ESRB rating? A: M (17+), get a parent/college student to buy it for you. Q: Do you work for Rockstar or any development company? A: No, no, a thousand times no. I'm a freelance FAQ writer. I cannot fix your glitches or explain why something happened. I just play the game like anyone else, and I accept donations. If anyone wants exclusive rights to this guide, please contact me and we'll negotiate something. -------------------------------------- B. 'WHEN CAN I...' -------------------------------------- C. LAST MISSIONS AND 100% Q: I finished the game and I only have ##%? Shouldn't I have 100%? A: Probably not. 99/100 times, people find out they missed some stupid detail. Q: WHY DON'T I HAVE 100%!?! I DID EVERYTHING!!! A: Apparently not. Double, triple, quadruple check to make sure you've done everything. If you're positive you have, then your game is glitched. Sorry. Remember, cheating induces glitches quite often. Q: If I did something in the secrets section, can I still get 100%? A: YES. SECRETS aren't cheats! -------------------------------------- D. 'HOW DO I...' Q: How do I turn off cheats? A: You can't. I told you not to save with them on. -------------------------------------- E. 'WHY...', 'WHY NOT...', and 'WHAT IS...' Q: What are L3 and R3? A: Press down on the left or right control stick for those buttons. -------------------------------------- F. CHEATS AND TECH SUPPORT Q: If I did something in the secrets section, can I still get 100%? A: YES. SECRETS aren't cheats! Q: How do I turn off cheats? A: You can't. I told you not to save with them on. Q: I have a problem with my game, and I can't fix it. Help. A: I'm not tech support. Call them, not me. Q: I cheated, am I screwed now? A: Maybe, maybe not. If you spawned something, change suits, or did anything besides the armor/health cheat, I'd be leery. All cheats are saved and if SA is anything like GTAIII or VC, they cannot be undone. -------------------------------------- G. OTHER Q: Vice City? And anything regarding it? A: NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. A thousand bloody times: NO. I stopped replying to Vice City e-mail in January of 2003. January of two thousand and three. Stop sending me e-mail about Vice City. The e-mail in that guide hasn't been answered in almost TWO YEARS. Q: Why didn't you post my submission/reply to my e-mail/read my IM? A: I receive a whole lot e-mails because of these guides. I am very busy, so some stuff never gets read. Odds are, if it says "I have codes", I don't care. Most of the codes are already posted here, and the rest are probably crap. Q: I found this and it's not in your guide, and you want it, how do I send it in? A: Awesome! My e-mail is sanandreasfaq@gmail.com! Remember, you get full credit for good finds, so don't hesitate to help. Q: I have a question that should be in this FAQ, can I send it in? A: Sure...it may not be posted, but it's worth a try. ******************************************************************************* VII. Contact Information Have a submission, idea, criticism, hate mail? Send it to me at sanandreasfaq@gmail.com! You can find me on GameFAQs as AggroSk8er. Mission info? Put what mission in the title. Make my life easier, please. If you have a question on something already answered, I will yell at you and call you stupid. I have very little patience for things like that. ******************************************************************************* VIII. Special Thanks I would like to thank Rockstar, Rockstar North, and all related companies for making this game! I would also like to thank GameFAQs for providing me with some good FREE info. It's too hard to name names, but I'll add them later I would also like to kick all the gaming pay sites that force you to click past the links to "GTA:SA info here!" only to find a question asking for how you'd like to pay. Lastly, I'd like to thank everyone who has IM'ed me or e-mailed me with good info. O, and boo to everyone who sent me stupid stuff. "I feel blessed."--Fernando Martinez ******************************************************************************* Das End. Copyright 2004 Chase Ansok.