Top 20 Missions to Love Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (page 4)
- July 25, 2006 11:20 AM PST
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05. The Sicilian Gambit
"Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line"!
This mission has everything you could ask for. Of course, it would have to be chock full o' fun since it is the final storyline mission of the game. It starts with a car chase, with you (and Salvatore) being the chased. It moves across to another island where it becomes a gunfight, then off to the races again and you climb in a boat. In the boat you man a mini-gun and you stave off the pursuing boats and a helicopter and finally, you end up in more gun fights. There is one more thing that must be done, but lets leave that alone so as not to ruin this final level and incite hate mail. Complete this final mission, though and check your stats. If the storyline is all you have been following since you started the game, you'll only be around 40% complete with the game.
04. Bringing The House Down
Whoo . . . interconneted story
We're well into the top 5 now, and up to this point you've blown up people, cars, boats, helicopters and even a building or two. It's time to get serious. You're going to blow up a whole section of Staunton Island. You're going to solve the mystery of why the whole of Fort Staunton was under construction in GTA III. (For those of you that are out of the loop, Liberty City Stories is supposed to take place in 1998. GTA III was set in 2001.) You get to meet up with your old friend 8-Ball, load a van up with explosives and drive into the tunnels beneath Staunton Island. Evade some bad guys, set your charges and for cryin' out loud, get out of there and sit back for one of the best explosion cut scenes in GTA history. I laughed. I cried. It became a part of me.
03. More Deadly Than The Male
Every time a Yakuza dies an angel gets its wings
Starting off the top 3 missions of the game, this mission comes from somewhere probably unexpected by most. It's the first mission given to you by Toshiko Kasen, sister of Asuko Kasen from GTA III and the wife of Kazuki Kasen, the head of the Yakuza family. She's had enough of her husband's crap and she wants to make him suffer. She wants you to head down to the docks and steal a large arms shipment from him. Always happy to oblige, you head on down to the docks, wipe out a bunch of Yakuza by any means necessary and steal the boat with the shipment. Not quite out of the woods yet, you must get past a couple of boats that come after you, but eliminate this threat and you'll meet up with your old buddy Phil Cassidy at the north end of Staunton Island to unload this new booty.
02. Panlantic Land Grab
Trump baby
Our old buddy, Avery Carrington of Vice City fame makes his only (and short) appearance in Liberty City Stories as a mark for assassination. He's got some plans to build in the city, and Donald Love wants them. We won't even go into Donald's plans for Avery after he's dead. Avery arrives in Liberty City at the airport and you are going there to catch up with him, then chase him down and kill him to steal the plans. Avery's hired some Columbians to protect him, so you'll have to get rid of them first, but get them out of the way, and Rockstar didn't even have to pay the voiceover actor to do Avery's voice. Grab the plans and get them back to Donald's new home and you've managed to pull Donald out of his - uh - "slump"
01. The Made Man
And it's on!
If you're asking yourself how in the hell this mission made it to the number one spot on the list, there are some things you need to take into consideration. Grand Theft Auto, be it III, Vice City, or San Andreas has always in its very spirit been nothing more than a "mafia free-for-all". Bad mafia clich?s, corny one-liners and blatant public violence without regard for who sees you, Grand Theft Auto has always been an interactive "Godfather" flick. Keep in mind this does not belittle the game one bit. That said, what could be more fitting for the number one mission than the one that is virtually a scene ripped right out of "The Godfather"? You pick up J.D. O'Toole (who looks suspiciously like Big Smoke from San Andreas) under the false pretense that he is moving up in the business, you drive him to where this event is to occur, and when you get there, the guy in the back seat puts a bullet in his head. You take the car and dump it in the river. It couldn't be more beautiful. The only thing missing is that you don't get out of the car beforehand with the excuse that you "gotta take a piss". Don Corleone would be proud.
If every person who has bought and played Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories were asked, this list would probably be different for every single one of them. The point is if you've been a fan of the GTA series all along, you're not going to be able to play this game and NOT find something you like. Like every other game Rockstar has done, this one is filled with subtleties and innuendos and just downright rude stuff. Half the fun of these games is picking that stuff out, playing the game is only the beginning.
