Top 20 Missions to Love Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
- July 26, 2006 15:39 PM PST
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True to its history, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories has given us this "Carnival of Carnage" and we've bought extra tickets to all the rides.
Being asked to pick your favorite 20 missions in a Grand Theft Auto game is very much like being asked to pick your favorite 20 things to do at your local state fair. Ok, well that's not entirely true unless your local state fair has high powered weaponry, fast expensive cars you can destroy at will, police officials that are blind and more debauchery than you can find on any given shelf at an adult bookstore. Listed below are the top 20 "rides" Liberty City has to offer in this latest installment of the GTA series.
20. Night Of The Livid Dreads
Won't you be my friend?
When you are trying to take control of an entire city, it's important to get large gangs on your side. What better way to do this than to save a group of colorfully clothed Yardies that have found themselves trapped in an alley by an opposing family? You are tasked with getting this small, trapped group and its injured leader out to the sidewalk where they can get their bleeding friend into an ambulance. You whip out the AK and make your way through the waves of Sindacco family members that want to stop your progress and your heart. Your newfound friends help you out as much as they can, but as is par for the course, it is your own sure aim that eventually gets you out to the sidewalk and the ambulance. You receive financial gains for completing the mission, but more likely what you will notice, is that you are left standing alone, without a vehicle in a bad neighborhood.
19. The Whole 9 Yardies
No killing . . .please
You get to participate in some more "teamwork" with the Yardies, as long as "teamwork" is defined as "leaving your ass hanging out and hoping these boys have your back". You have to go down to the southern end of Staunton Island and walk right up into a pack of gun wielding Forelli family members and steal one of their motorcycles right from under their nose. Just so you know you must do this without giving in to the temptation to kill any of them. In the event you survive this suicidal step in the process, all you have left to do is cross your fingers, drive that bike with all your heart up to the north end of the island while avoiding the pursuing angry mob, and draw them into the trap the Yardies have set up for them. Make it, and you can help the Yardies lay these guys to rest. Don't make it, and you wake up standing in front of the hospital with no weapons, just like in real life.
18. Friggin' The Riggin'
Florida ain't got nothing on this
What does Donald Love call a warehouse full of goons, and Toni Cipriani with a flamethrower? Dinner, but that's another story altogether. Despite Donald's odd eye for cuisine, he still wants to be the Mayor of Liberty City, and he wants you grab a flamethrower and do away with the ballots and the machines that make them, as well as anyone that dares to stand in your way. Hell, he even pays for the flamethrower! All you have to do is go visit your favorite psychopath, skinhead, redneck from Vice City, Phil Cassidy, and he'll hook you up with the goods to get the job done. Complete the job successfully, and Donald still doesn't get to be the Mayor.
17. The Shoreside Redemption
I can hear Witney already
Salvatore Leone is being let out of jail and they are taking him to the courthouse to get things squared away. Of course, it would be beneficial to many families if he stayed in jail or died, so you are charged with protecting Sal during his transport from the jail in Shoreside Vale to the courthouse in Staunton Island. Because everything in Liberty City makes complete sense, you are going to protect the armored vehicle he is riding in with a much less suitable Liberty City patrol car. Since the other patrol car that is there to help you is instantly blown off the face of the earth from the first cut scene, you'll face off against roadblocks of Stingers and machine gun wielding goons who will mercilessly pursue you all the way to the courthouse. Freedom is breathing in open Liberty City air while climbing into your limo in a bright orange jumpsuit.
16. Dead Reckoning Captain goes down with the ship
Salvatore is not real thrilled about being tossed in the slam, and he wants the man responsible to pay. Paulie Sindacco is the target and he's going to be on his boat. You are going to be creative and take him out without leaving dry land. It's nothing you can't handle with a PCJ 600 and a rocket launcher. Sure, there are a couple of guys that stay on land and want to stop you, but swat them off like the annoying flies that they are and stick to your task. Sink Paulie and his boat and you'll be treated to one of those great clich?s that only Rockstar can provide.
