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Series Plot Guide
by Adam Marx
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction [INT]
Version History [VER]
1971 [VICPRO]
1986 [VICMAI]
1987 [SANPRO]
1992 [SANMAI]
1994 [LIBPRO]
1998 [LIBMAI]
2000 [ADVMAI]
2001 [IIIMAI]
Dramatis Personae [CHAR]
8-Ball [CHAR001]
'Big' Mitch Baker [CHAR002]
B Dup [CHAR003]
Big Bear [CHAR004]
Big Smoke [CHAR005]
Ned Burner [CHAR006]
Michelle Cannes [CHAR007]
Avery Carrington [CHAR008]
Catalina [CHAR009]
Vincenzo 'Lucky' Chili [CHAR010]
Marty Chonks [CHAR011]
Ma Cipriani [CHAR012]
Toni Cipriani [CHAR013]
Cisco [CHAR014]
Juan Garcia Cortez [CHAR015]
Mercedes Cortez [CHAR016]
Ricardo Diaz [CHAR017]
D-Ice [CHAR018]
Dwaine [CHAR019]
El Burro [CHAR020]
Emmet [CHAR021]
Claude Fido [CHAR022]
Frederico Fido [CHAR023]
Sonny Forelli [CHAR024]
Luigi Goterelli [CHAR025]
Guppy [CHAR026]
Officer Jimmy Hernandez [CHAR027]
Jethro [CHAR028]
Jizzy B [CHAR029]
Jonnie [CHAR030]
Beverly Johnson [CHAR031]
Brian Johnson [CHAR032]
Carl 'CJ' Johnson [CHAR033]
Kendl Johnson [CHAR034]
Sean 'Sweet' Johnson [CHAR035]
Cam Jones [CHAR036]
Kasen Asuka [CHAR037]
Kasen Kazuki [CHAR038]
Kasen Kenji [CHAR039]
Kasen Toshiko [CHAR040]
Kasen Yuka [CHAR041]
Ernest Kelly [CHAR042]
Hilary King [CHAR043]
King Courtney [CHAR044]
Joey Leone [CHAR045]
Salvatore Leone [CHAR046]
Jeffrey 'OG Loc' [CHAR047]
Donald Love [CHAR048]
Love Fist [CHAR049]
Ran Fa Li [CHAR050]
Maccer [CHAR051]
Ray Machowski [CHAR052]
Madd Dogg [CHAR053]
Maria [CHAR054]
Leon McAffrey [CHAR055]
Miguel [CHAR056]
Mike [CHAR057]
Misty [CHAR058]
Wu Zi Mu [CHAR059]
JD O'Toole [CHAR060]
Kent Paul [CHAR061]
Officer Ralph Pendelbury [CHAR062]
Millie Perkins [CHAR063]
Auntie Poulet [CHAR064]
Officer Eddie Pulaski [CHAR065]
Umberto Robina [CHAR066]
Denise Robinson [CHAR067]
Ken Rosenberg [CHAR068]
Ryder [CHAR069]
Barbara Schternvart [CHAR070]
Steve Scott [CHAR071]
Alex Shrub [CHAR072]
Johnny Sindacco [CHAR073]
The Snakehead [CHAR074]
Candy Suxxx [CHAR075]
Suzie [CHAR076]
T-Bone [CHAR077]
Officer Frank Tenpenny [CHAR078]
Mike Toreno [CHAR079]
Massimo Torini [CHAR080]
The Truth [CHAR081]
Lance Vance [CHAR082]
Tommy Vercetti [CHARO83]
Cesar Vialpando [CHAR084]
Vinnie [CHARO85]
Helena Wankstein [CHAR086]
Zero [CHAR087]
Katie Zhan [CHAR088]
Hives of Corruption [HOC]
Liberty City [HOCLIB]
Vice City [HOCVIC]
Los Santos [HOCLOS]
San Fierro [HOCSAN]
Las Venturas [HOCLAS]
Gangs [GAN]
Bikers [GANBIK]
Blood Feather Triads [GANBFT]
Da Nang Boys [GANDNB]
Diablos [GANDIA]
Forellis [GANFOR]
Golfers [GANGOL]
Handlers [GANHAN]
Leones [GANLEO]
Liberty Cartel [GANLCC]
Liberty Triads [GANLCT]
Los Santos Vagos [GANLSV]
Mountain Cloud Triads [GANMCT]
Orange Grove Families [GANOGF]
Port Authorities [GANPOR]
Purple Nines [GANNIN]
Red Jacks [GANJAC]
Rollin' Heights Ballas [GANBAL]
San Fierro Rifa [GANSFR]
Seville Boulevard Families [GANSBF]
Sharks [GANSHA]
Sindaccos [GANSIN]
Street Wannabes [GANSTR]
Temple Drive Families [GANTDF]
Varrios Los Aztecas [GANVLA]
Vercettis [GANVER]
Vice Colombians [GANVCO]
Vice Cubans [GANVCU]
Vice Haitians [GANVCH]
Yakuza [GANYAK]
Yardies [GANYAR]
Legal Garbage [LEG]
Thanks [THA]
In Closing [CLO]
Those letters in square brackets are handy-dandy codes. Use your browser's
Search function (Ctrl+F in Internet Explorer) and type in the letters, square
brackets and all, then click "Find" or whatever. Click it again and you'll be
instantaneously transported to the desired section. So for example, to find the
information for Las Venturas, hit Ctrl+F (in Explorer), type in "HOCLAS" (with
square brackets), and hit Find twice. You're there! Maybe I'm explaining this
too thoroughly though; unless you've never read a FAQs before this shouldn't be
anything new.
I've tried to dictate the GTA plot by year because of the problems there
might be otherwise. The codes for them are derived from a combination of
which game the year relates to and which part of that game's story it
involves. Here's the key:
VIC = Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (PS2)
SAN = Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2)
LIB = Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (PSP)
ADV = Grand Theft Auto Advance (GBA)
III = Grand Theft Auto III (PS2)
PRO = prologue
MAI = main
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| INTRODUCTION [INT] |
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Grand Theft Auto is a great series of games. Actually, organized crime in
general seems to be in vogue right now. Visual entertainment such as The
Godfather or (more recently) The Sopranos are much-loved in North America as
mafia epics, and across the pond from me there are so many countries with
their own brand of gangster classics (Chinese movies about the Triads,
Japanese movies about the yakuza, European movies about biker gangs...) And
why not? It's compelling subject matter, after all. The freedom and poor
morale standards of the gangster are what attracted gamers to GTA in the
first place, after all.
If this is getting too cerebral, I apologize. My point is, I've seen a lot of
Plot Guides, Ending Guides, and whatnot on GameFAQs, so I was dimly aware
that I wanted to write one of my own. I enjoy that sort of analysis. I
noticed there was no such guide for the GTA series, and it was all over.
As you can see, this is a SERIES plot guide - I'm going in all the way, baby.
(Or at least as far in as I can go, which is not all the way, as I'll explain
in a minute.) I'm going to detail every aspect of the series, but only to a
certain degree - obviously, digging into the history of every radio station
and exploring every shop and hangout in the series would not only result in a
monster of a document mostly comprised of uninteresting information, it would
be hugely taxing on me personally! Never mind, rest assured I'll deliver the
best guide I possibly can.
I explained part of the format earlier, in regards to the over-arcing plot
itself. You should also know much of what you read here is possibly just my
interpretation of the events portrayed. That said, I'll try to keep the guide
relatively free of personal narrative, but I will sneak in random thoughts
that occur to me while reading as well as additional notes that may be of
use. This shouldn't be surprising - take a look and you'll see it's hardly a
formal FAQs!
We're not quite ready to begin - for the pedants among you, and I know there
will be a few, there are a few extremely important notes on how I wrote the
FAQs, and why I chose to do it the way I did.
Regrettably, I could not include GTA or GTA II in the FAQs, nor the
original's two London expansion packs. It's definitely a shame, but there are
several very good reasons for this:
1) The games aren't very good. They're also radically different from the
other five. Actually, this reason is weak, I direct your attention to the
other three.
2) Temporal ambiguity. I have one source that both the first and second GTA
take place in the 30s, then another that says GTA takes place in the 60s and
GTA II at some undefined time in the near future. What the heck? Time is all-
important in plot, and if I'm having difficulty even getting the DECADE
straight, it just gets harder from here on in.
3) Geography issues. All the cities in the games I'm covering are based on
real cities, but aren't; London, on the other hand, is in fact a real city.
(Sure, it's specifically said that Vice City is in Florida, which is a real
state, whereas San Andreas is not, but that was ONE instance, so I'm willing
to let that one slide.)
4) The lack of a reliable source. If I can't prove the sequence of events to
myself, the entire story is discredited.
The player-controlled character in GTA III does not have an official name. So
I picked one for him. I decided his name is Claude Fido. I can't just not
give a name, because that would get EXTREMELY annoying for me as the typist,
and lots of people decide to call him Claude, because, I'm told, this was the
name of the character in GTA II. Furthermore, after you beat all missions in
San Andreas, CJ gets a call from Catalina while having sex, in order to make
him jealous - as the call goes on she calls out the name Claude. And Maria
calls him Fido once - and there is a character in GTA Advance named Fernando
Fido, whom Mike kills. I put two and two together and ended up with Claude
Fido. It doesn't really matter anyway. And no, Mike does NOT kill GTA III's
main character, he kills some random drug dealer - Advance takes place BEFORE
III (believe it or not, a lot of people don't realize this.)
I shift between past- and present-tense as the situation demands it. If
you're a writer you'll understand why I do this when I do it, if not, just go
with it.
WHOA! L'KOUT!
THIS GUIDE CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS.
And I mean major.
I shouldn't have to actually say this, but I don't want to ruin anyone's
enjoyment of a game. There's no way I'm shying away from anything here.
You'll be treated to all the plotlines and endings of the series. This is
great for those of you who want it, but you may want to tread lightly.
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| VERSION HISTORY [VER] |
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Listed sequentially, with newer edits at the bottom.
Version 0.0
My first attempt failed spectacularly due to my horrendous inexperience.
However, the advent of Liberty City Stories inspired me to completely
overhaul it and try again.
Version 1.0
The initial version of this FAQs, the state it was in when it was first
posted on GameFAQs.
Version 1.1
I was floored by the amount of e-mail I received in response to this FAQs,
and most of it had to do with minor corrections and continuity issues. After
consolidating all mail on the subject, I've finally gotten around to making
the edits.
Version 1.2
I've finally, finally been able to add the Liberty City Stories stuff! No
more will my inbox overflow with mail asking about when it's going up! That
includes seven new profiles and updates to a number of others. Also added a
bunch more tiny additions that nevertheless improve the overall quality of
the guide, mostly to the Characters section.
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| 1971 [VICPRO] |
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The Forelli crime family has Liberty City in its iron grip. Tommy Vercetti is
the right-hand man of the Don, Sonny Forelli. This has been a way of life for
him for quite some time now.
One day, Tommy is ambushed and arrested by the local police department. Tommy
is charged and convicted of drug dealing and serial murders (he killed eleven
men). He's sentenced to fifteen years in federal prison with mental
counselling and no chance for parole. His bosses could easily make bail, but
instead they disown him. Without outside help, he's doomed to serve the
entire term.
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| 1986 [VICMAI] |
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After a decade and a half, Tommy Vercetti is finally released from prison
after serving his sentence. Sonny Forelli consults with his partners on how
to handle his problem student. Tommy caused a lot of trouble in the
seventies, and his sudden reappearance is liable to upset the locals.
With a view of continuing to keep his operations out of sight, Sonny
immediately carts him off to Vice City. The Forellis' man there is a crooked
lawyer called Ken Rosenberg. He'll be in charge of directing Tommy. Sonny
really doesn't care what Tommy does as long as he stays far away from Liberty
City.
Tommy catches the next flight to Vice City, where Rosenberg meets him at
Escobar International Airport. Unfortunately, things almost immediately take
a turn for the worst.
Ken's worked for a while now to set up a drug deal between the Forellis' Vice
City men and some suppliers. As Ken intends it, they got to the grower, then
fly it every so often in their helicopter to a pre-decided point, where one
of his boys picks it up. They in turn send it off to Liberty City, where
Sonny makes a whole lot of money off it through re-sale, and rewards them
handsomely for their efforts.
Tommy, Ken, Harry, and Lee meet on the Vice City docks as planned, but the
brothers quickly double-cross them. They kill Harry and Lee as Tommy and Ken
narrowly avoid the same fate, then run off with both the drugs and Sonny's
capital - three MILLION dollars.
Needless to say, Sonny is not impressed. Anybody else would be dead for this,
but because it's Tommy, he gives him a chance to redeem himself. After
swearing to return the money and put those responsible to justice (?), Tommy
regroups with Ken at his law office off Vice Beach.
Retired colonel Juan Garcia Cortez is holding a big party out on his yacht
and all the big names in Vice City are going to be there. Cortez was the man
who helped Ken set the cocaine deal in motion. Rosenberg obviously can't
attend, but he still has his invitation, and since Tommy is new in town, he
can go in his stead. After a quick trip to Rafael's to update his wardrobe,
Tommy jumps on board (literally) and rendezvous with Cortez. He has other
matters to attend to, being the sorta-life of the party after all, but asks
his daughter Mercedes to show Tommy a good time. She takes the liberty of
pointing out all the Vice City players.
This is valuable information, but she is soon distracted by the appearance of
Ricardo Diaz, one of her daddy's army buddies, and Tommy is left alone for
the rest of the night. He returns to the office. Now Tommy figures they need
a streetear, so Rosenberg suggests Kent Paul, an old friend, at The Malibu.
Tommy 'persuades' Paul to give up some information. Paul admits that the chef
at the Oceans hotel might be involved. The conversation with the chef isn't
productive, but Tommy meets Lance Vance in the kitchens. Lance shows him
around town and gets him a piece.
Tommy's already made some connections, but things aren't going so well - he
still hasn't found the money and his bosses are coming down to Vice City to
check up on him. To buy more time, Tommy has to intimidate a jury into
letting Sonny's cousin Giorgio go. Then, in another bid to keep the
barbarians outside the gate, Ken speaks with Avery Carrington, whom Tommy saw
at the yacht party. Carrington is interested in some land, but the owners
won't sell - Tommy convinces them it might be a good idea. In return,
Carrington promises to keep the locals off his back.
Meanwhile, Tommy has also been working for others, including Cortez and Diaz.
Cortez, for example, requests that he takes care of the shamefully behaving
Gonzalez, yet another face TV recognizes from the party. Next, he steals some
kind of mysterious technological wonder from a Frenchman, and along with
Lance Vance he oversees a business transaction between Ricardo Diaz and some
Haitians. But the Haitians betray Diaz and run off with the money and their
produce - this is starting to sound familiar. Diaz is almost killed, but
makes it through thanks to Lance's quick trigger finger. Tommy gives chase,
kills the snakes and returns Diaz's property.
Cortez really loves his toys. Being retired military, things that blow stuff
up are the best. He gives Tommy a big chance to put a bit of a dent in his
debt, hiring him to steal a bit of fancy new military hardware. Tommy duly
acquires it, but the French are quick on the riposte. Cortez now has two
pieces of their missile technology, and that's two more than they want him to
have. Cortez does the smart thing and quits while he's ahead, and alive.
Tommy escorts him to Vice City Docks and he races off back to his home
country, but not before offering Tommy his reserved boat launch as a token of
his appreciation.
Cortez may be gone, but Diaz is intrigued after Tommy's performance at the
exchange. They at the horse racetrack (ever the popular gangster place of
good times.) Diaz, like so many others in this town, is obsessed with making
money, which is why he bets so heavily, and why he hires Tommy to track down
one of his minions who is scalping him for 3% of what he should be getting.
He pays up...and not literally, either.
When Tommy sees him next, he's in a fury. Somebody's selling real estate on
his watch, and that's simply unacceptable. He orders Tommy to meet his friend
Quentin, who will fly him in so that Tommy can take care of business. In
reality, Quentin has Diaz completely fooled: He's actually Lance Vance. Diaz
killed Lance's brother and he suspects he intends to kill Vercetti as well.
Lance flies him in on a helicopter as Tommy rides shotgun. Eventually Lance
manages to land, then takes off, leaving Tommy to finish up.
It's also become clear that Diaz is insane. Tommy finds him shooting at
pigeons who land on his car. Diaz has heard that the Vice City boatyard has
just completed work on a boat that's even faster than his, and he wants it.
Tommy, of course, steals it for him. Tommy sure must be one smooth thief. He
soon finds a use for the speedboat he just stole, however. Every month a
freelancer moors off Vice City's coast and sells his cargo to the first guy
there. With Lance in tow and the speed demon dinghy, Tommy beats the other
bidders to the yacht, though not without a fierce gunfight. Now he knows Diaz
is responsible for the deal going wrong and he's collected more than enough
information on him.
Lance sees an opportunity and jumps Diaz, failing completely. Diaz holds him
at the junkyard. Kent Paul contacts Tommy unexpectedly and delivers the news.
Tommy breaks in and busts Lance loose, but thanks to that bit of idiocy all
his careful planning has gone to waste. Lance has forced Tommy's hand.
It's time to move. Lance reveals that he has saved up an impressive armoury
over the year. Tommy and Lance assault Diaz's mansion and kill him. With Diaz
out of the picture, Tommy is free to turn his old haunt into the Vercetti
Estates, and also to buy other real estate as it suits him. Ken Rosenberg and
Avery Carrington join them and the newly inaugurated gang, the Vercettis,
sets up shop. Everyone agrees that Tommy needs to start earning some respect
and getting his name out there. He starts by extorting the overdue protection
racquets from local small business owners.
Some problems arise when one of the Vercetti thugs is supposed to light up a
mall, but he gets the fuses wrong and the bomb ends up not going off. The
police are all over it like your dad on Velveeta. The cops are liable to
figure out who it was any second, and the Vercettis better not be at Vercetti
Estates when they do. Tommy thinks for a moment, then proposes the solution:
They steal some cops' uniforms, poke around the crime scene, then torch the
place, destroying all the evidence. They jump a few cops, steal their
uniforms and squad car, and take a look around the mall. When nobody's
looking, they set the bomb to blow and get the hell out of there.
This is all well and good, but Sonny Forelli is quite tired of waiting at
this point. He sends a man down to collect his money. Tommy takes it in
stride and just caps him, but he has to work fast. He has Rosenberg load up a
briefcase with three million dollars in counterfeit cash. Tommy grudgingly
gives him the fakeitude, but all is not well. Lance Vance sold him out to the
Forellis. A gunfight ensues. Tommy kills first Lance and then Sonny. Now he
has his three million dollars back (he recovered the original paper) and his
revenge is complete.
Ken returns and is aghast at the carnage. But he soon brightens up when he
realises what's happened. For now, Liberty City is out of the picture; it's
all about Vice City now. The remains of the Vercettis control the south.
Tommy has won.
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| 1987 [SANPRO] |
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Carl 'CJ' Johnson was born in small-town Los Santos - hardly the greatest
place for a kid to grow up, but he called it home for a long time. Despite
his mother's Christian influence he wasn't exactly a model individual,
though, and on top of that the crooked police officers who roamed his
neighbourhood constantly harassed him - and the rest of his family, for that
matter, but they took particular pleasure in pushing CJ around. In 1987, he
leaves to pursue bigger opportunities in Liberty City - and because he
allowed his brother Brian to die. He stays for five years.
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| 1992 [SANMAI] |
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CJ gets a call from his brother Sweet. Their mother is dead. Murdered,
perhaps. CJ returns to attend the funeral, but he arrives too late and misses
it. He takes a taxi away from the airport, but his old nemesis officer
Tenpenny and his cronies Pulaski and Hernandez pull him over and arrest him,
'confiscating' his money while they're at it. Tenpenny killed another officer
only moments ago because he threatened to expose them, though at this point
only the three officers know who did it, and tries right there to pin it on
CJ. On their way to the station, they receive a radio message regarding the
officer they just killed. Forced to abandon CJ and return to the crime scene,
they drop him off in Rollin' Heights Ballas turf. He finds a wreck of a bike
and makes his way to his old house, now owned by Big Smoke.
After Big Smoke's initial consternation at having a stranger in his house,
the two reunite as old friends. Big Smoke suggests they visit Sweet at the
cemetery, where CJ's mom is being interred momentarily. It is not a
particularly happy reunion. Sweet now leads the Grove Street Families, doing
his best and often failing to keep them clean, and in CJ's five-year absence
a lot of good boys have been killed in their turf wars with the Ballas, the
Grove Street's rivals since CJ was a kid. Meanwhile, Kendl is dating Cesar
Vialpando, whom Sweet heartily disapproves of. Los Santos has turned into one
big gangster battleground. In short, it is not a fun place to be. CJ is
determined not to get involved in all this, but he isn't given a choice. The
Ballas, knowing where they were going to be, have been staking out the
cemetery, and do a drive-by. Nobody is hurt, but Big Smoke's hot vintage car
gets caught in the crossfire and is totalled. The homies grab bikes and pedal
for all they're worth back to Grove Street, narrowly avoiding the Ballas'
wrath.
CJ intended to pay his respects and then get right back to his clean,
legitimate life in Liberty. He gets a haircut and puts on his colours, then
helps Ryder reclaim some of the Grove Street's tags, meanwhile blotting out
the Ballas. They're starting to reclaim their old hood. The former splendour
of Grove Street is starting to be restored. CJ and Ryder try to recruit their
old associates B Dup and Big Bear back into the fold, but are refused. CJ is
starting to realize that Los Santos, and Grove Street in particular, is way
more messed up than he thought. He's come home to a city of crackheads. He
resolves to start taking out the pushers. Several more confrontations with
the Ballas soon ensue, all of which CJ is involved in. They then strive to
procure firearms. All the gangsters have gotten more sophisticated and more
dangerous weaponry since CJ was last in town; their old supplier can hardly
even keep up nowadays. Nonetheless, they purchase some guns from him in case
the Ballas come marching down Grove Street. But with their new arms, they
strike back at the Ballas with a drive-by of their own.
The Seville Boulevard Families aren't pleased with the Grove Street
activities. Word gets out and Sweet has to hole up with his girl inside a
Seville Boulevard house. CJ rushes over and drives them away in the nick of
time, but the damage is done.
Sweet's dislike of Cesar Vialpando continues. When Kendl storms out of the
house to get to him and away from Sweet, Sweet tells CJ to follow her and
make sure Cesar doesn't try to pull anything cute. Kendl meets Cesar at a
low-riders car club, where CJ quickly schools Cesar. CJ and Cesar are
uneasily acquainted face-to-face. Afterwards, alone, CJ and Cesar decide that
although they aren't exactly friends and they definitely don't agree about
Cesar's relationship with Kendl, that doesn't mean they have to be on each
other's cases all the time. So they're cool, sort of.
Even though Big Bear and B Dup have become slaves to drugs, rapper (and self-
proclaimed gangsta) OG Loc is only too happy to rejoin them; he's just been
released from prison for a relatively minor infraction, and CJ, Sweet and Big
Smoke pick him up. OG Loc's first prerogative is to take his revenge on
Freddy, another rapper whom he claims stole OG's rhymes. They met in prison,
but that doesn't mean they're friends; OG kills him. For his part, CJ helps
out Big Smoke with a few small-time jobs, like busting up drug deals.
Meanwhile, Tenpenny is harrying Big Smoke for no reason in particular.
CJ is in tight now. He and Ryder got to a house on the East Beach and steal a
whole lot of guns from an ex-army suit, then from a local Nation Guard depot,
more than tripling their inventory.
OG Loc decides he's going to go hard-core gangsta rapper and get his image
out there. He decides he'll start building his reputation, and to do that he
needs to record a few songs. He's been working janitorial duty at the Burger
Shot, and he heard a van with a killer sound system come through the drive-
thru one day. Overhearing their plans for a beach party that evening, he has
CJ steal the van, then rips it all out. Next, he wants the rhyme book of
famed Los Santos rapper Madd Dogg. CJ breaks into Madd Dogg's mansion in the
hills and makes his way past the rapper's personal security squad to steal it
right out of the recording studio. CJ then takes out Madd Dogg's promotions
manager, Scipio, because he's slandering OG and cramping his style big time.
Being fired from Burger Shot for mouthing off is just the catalyst he needs.
It's finally time to get heard! OG hosts a party at his Grove Street house.
It isn't very well received, mostly because his songs are horrible. Halfway
through, a GSF homie runs in and tells them they have five minutes before
Ballas start swarming Grove Street. CJ, Sweet, Ryder, and others suit up, and
a couple more GSF boys drive ahead to block the road. They then proceed to
take down every Balla who so much as glances at Grove Street.
In the meantime, Tenpenny has come to see CJ as a potentially useful tool.
Using intimidation as a handy motivation, the first assignment he gives CJ is
to assassinate one of their problems, a Vagos ganger - no corpse, thanks. CJ
doesn't realize until after that he's trapped the guy's girl inside. He runs
in and drags out Denise Robinson. They agree to maybe go out or something,
sometime, yeah. Tenpenny alerts CJ to a meeting between the Russians and the
Ballas, which he listens in on. Next he pushes the Ballas out of Glen Park
with Sweet at his side. A Balla called Little Weasel gets dropped during that
fight. The Ballas hold a proper funeral for him, and the GSF homies jump
them, just like they had done to them at Beverly Johnson's burial. They catch
a ton of them in the same place at once, and the bloodshed is great. They
take out Kane, the Ballas leader. GSF is on the map!
Sweet has a plan to unite all the Families into one big syndicate. CJ, Sweet,
Ryder and Big Smoke hop in the van to meet the rest of the Families at the
Jefferson Motel. Somehow, though, the Los Santos Police Department has found
out about the gig, and they start to rappel from helicopters to apprehend the
GSF homies. Ryder and Big Smoke split, but CJ runs into the motel and joins
Sweet. They fight their way out and Big Smoke doubles back to pick them up.
The police give chase, but they escape after some insane driving and the
sacrifice of the car.
This failure is bad, but it's about to get much worse. Sweet plans to stick
it to the Ballas and tells a bunch of GSF homies to meet him under Mulholland
Bridge. Unfortunately, Big Smoke has sold them out. He too has become a slave
to drugs. Cesar Vialpando immediately takes it upon himself to show CJ. CJ is
alarmed as he realises Big Smoke knows about the rendezvous, and the GSF are
about to walk into a trap! He advises Cesar to take Kendl to a safe place and
races to head off Big Smoke and the Ballas. He arrives in the middle of a
heated gunfight between the GSF and the Ballas. CJ fights for so long, then
the police arrive to break it up. Tenpenny, Pulaski and Hernandez arrive,
dragging CJ out of the fray before he can be arrested. Sweet is caught and
put in prison hospital awaiting trial. Tenpenny wants CJ to do some more jobs
for them, as he needs them done. First, he has to take out a snitch who's
hiding on Mt Chiliad. He takes care of this job easily. CJ and Tenpenny are
sure to keep in touch.
One day in a bar, CJ is surprised to find a spicy, knife-wielding Mexican
woman holding it up, rather than the expected sight of Cesar knocking back a
beer. She is Catalina, and she's very dangerous. CJ goes along with her to
keep her placid. He helps her rob a gas station to start. Thwarted by
bulletproof glass, Catalina steals the gas tanker instead and pulls it up to
a truck yard. She sells it and its contents to a man named Whittaker for a
nice chunk of cash.
Tenpenny calls CJ to a motel. Here, he meets The Truth, an enigmatic
individual indeed. CJ helps him out with an aggressive problem he's having.
When CJ goes to The Truth's farm afterwards, he's still trying to sell him
drugs. CJ isn't interested at all. Cesar and Kendl are now hiding out in a
trailer park, and Cesar is convinced Big Smoke is selling drugs carted in
from San Fierro twice a week. That's supposedly how he's getting all his
money.
CJ goes to Catalina's house to apologize for his earlier misbehaviour. She
tackles him to the ground, but he sweet-talks her out of shooting him. They
set off on a merry quest to rob banks and kill random people. They proceed to
hold up a whole lot of Los Santos liquor stores and other small businesses.
Next time, they rob a real bank. But after that, Catalina is very hostile
towards CJ, apparently because he never calls. When they rob another bank,
the police show up. They steal police motorcycles and split.
Cesar calls CJ out to a farm to meet blind Triad leader Wu Zi Mu, or Woozie
as his friends call him. Even though he's blind, Woozie challenges CJ to a
car track-race (!) for pinks; CJ wins.
His next race is under less friendly circumstances. Catalina shows up with
Claude Fido in tow. She's in an almighty fury now; she takes it out on CJ's
car with a crowbar. Catalina challenges CJ to race Claude. Again, CJ wins
without much trouble, earning himself the deed to a San Fierro garage.
Catalina scoffs at his skills anyway, claiming that Claude was actually doing
two things at once while he was racing. She announces her intention to leave
Los Santos forever: She's going to Liberty City. CJ wishes her well.
Ironically, Catalina doesn't even love Claude at all, she's just taking him
for business reasons, and to get back at CJ. Subsequently, The Truth's farm
is attacked by police. They quickly torch his weed fields, then have to run.
They can't stay where they are and Los Santos is closed to CJ for now. They
flee to San Fierro, and CJ's homies (including Cesar and Kendl) set up shop
in the garage he won. He recruits two mechanics, Jethro and Dwaine, and a
technician, Zero. Kendl, the sharp businesswoman, realises that what they're
doing has potential; they could develop and sell property. CJ and Cesar set
to work fixing up the garage as she thinks about it some more.
Now that he's settled in, CJ decides to exert a little influence on the
landscape of San Fierro - a place which, by the way, he is thoroughly failing
to enjoy. He plants some drugs on a DA's car to get him off Tenpenny's back,
then takes over a construction site in retaliation for the workers thinking
Kendl is a prostitute. He also helps out Zero in his personal battles with
his nemesis, Berkley, which are really rather petty after the fact.
CJ is still trying to figure out what the deal is with the San Fierro drug
running. Cesar and Woozie both provide him with some information to that end.
The Triads have information about the T-Bonez, who may be involved. CJ
befriends and begins to work for Jizzy, gang co-leader and owner of the
Pleasure Domes Club, in order to get in close and find out if and how the T-
Bonez are involved. He's having a spat with T-Bone himself about how much
money he should be getting, but he soon sets it off to the side a little.
After getting in tight with the T-Bonez, he figures out when and where the
Ballas come to get their shipments, and decides to ambush them. Now that he
knows Jizzy is definitely involved in the Ballas' Los Santos drug operations,
he goes to the Pleasure Domes Club and pops him.
Shortly after, CJ, Cesar and the Triads set up to crash the meet. CJ hoists a
sniper rifle from the roof alongside Cesar. CJ and friends shoot all the
Ballas hanging around. Sadly, Ryder, too, has fallen by the wayside. He, T-
Bone and his sellers start showing up. Toreno flies by in a helicopter, sees
the bodies, panics, and floods the area with smoke bombs. CJ, Cesar and the
Triads work quickly to take out all the T-Bonez, T-Bone himself, and Ryder.
After that, CJ starts to work for Woozie. This is somewhat untimely, as a
brutal gang war has just erupted. A Vietnamese gang, the Da Nang Boys, is
relocating to San Fierro, and they don't like the idea that the Chinese got
there first. They wipe out the Blood Feathers, one of the Mountain Cloud's
strongest friends. (The Mountain Cloud Triad being Woozie's gang.) When CJ
visits Woozie in his Chinatown hideout again, he learns the apartment is
under Da Nang watch. CJ leads them away so that Woozie and the other Triads
inside the apartment can escape to a safer location. He also bugs a Da Nang
boat in the San Fierro harbour. In the meantime, Woozie has found out where
CJ's former friends' crack lab is. CJ promptly blows it to bits. The Triads-
Da Nang Boys war continues, but CJ leaves it alone for now. Cesar has a few
ideas for improving the business.
CJ gets an idea and goes out to the desert to make a better acquaintance of
Mike Toreno. The Truth begins working for Toreno, too. As it turns out,
Toreno actually works for a government agency. He asks CJ to commandeer a
trucker, then perform all manner of other tasks. He proves time and again
that he knows much more than he's letting on. He has some information about
Sweet's prison condition, and he assures CJ that he's also ensuring Sweet's
safety while there, since no one else can. He messes with CJ's mind. He also
makes CJ learn to fly a helicopter. Government assassinations, equipment
delivery, it's all fair.
Eventually Toreno gets clearance to take out his tails, so naturally, he has
CJ take care of that one too. Thanks to CJ's hard work, Toreno is now much
freer to go about his business, and he's working on getting Sweet out of
prison. The Truth calls CJ back to the airfield, his latest secret personal-
occult base. The Truth wants him to break into the Area 69 military research
base and retrieve the latest Black Project from inside. He then has CJ break
into a train in motion and steal a bucket of green goo. According to The
Truth, this is the ultimate knowledge of the universe. He's an interesting
guy, isn't he?
The time has come to move on from San Fierro. Woozie recently opened the Four
Dragons Casino in Las Venturas, and that's where CJ and his homies head. It's
a stressful business, though; they're Triads and Las Venturas is completely
under mafia control, not to mention Woozie's new casino is now in direct
competition with Caligula's Casino, the established mafia one. They push
Woozie, so CJ elects to pull a heist on Caligula's. He gets a bundle of
dynamite from a Las Venturas mine, and after some discussion with Woozie he
realises he needs a map of the casino layout. He breaks into the back and
photographs the blueprints. He procures a key card from Millie, the croupier.
(Rockstar finds the sickest way possible for him to accomplish this, too...)
By this point, eight people are in on the heist, up from the original two.
They're ready. CJ parachutes in and sneaks into a power generator, planting
satchel charges. When they go off, it'll cut the power to about ten square
blocks. He's almost caught, but manages to make it back to their base of
operations. They decide they're going into the casino disguised as the usual
cash escort - an armoured car and a few police motorcycles. The bikes are
easy, but for the truck they have to first steal a sky crane, then haul the
armoured car off to a secure location awaiting deployment.
Meanwhile, a fake chip is found in the casino. The Sindaccos, one of the
three primary partners in Caligula's, own a plastic factory across town. The
vengeful CJ blows it up.
Then CJ finds out The Truth took an English band into the desert to partake
in his spiritual rituals (if they can truly be called spiritual) and he lost
them, waking up back in Las Venturas with no idea how he got there. CJ goes
out to collect them and they ask to be taken back to Caligula's Casino to see
a guy they call Rosie - Ken Rosenberg. Also, one of the band guys happens to
be Kent Paul. And all of this opens up an opportunity to observe Caligula's
without arousing mafia suspicion.
It seems that although Rosie once stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Tommy
Vercetti, he's fallen on hard times. Any guesses what ruined his life? Yes,
drugs. After a stint with the Liberty City mob he wound up in Las Venturas,
running Caligula's as a neutral party - none of the three crime families
trusts the other two. The Sindaccos and the Forellis are now feuding. Rosie
is in fear for his life because there's a very good chance he'll get caught
in the crossfire. CJ, Rosie and others make a few house calls, however, and
soon all is well. Not so for Tenpenny. He realises 'the gig is almost up.' CJ
has more important things to think about.
Tenpenny calls CJ out to a remote house in the desert. He arrives accompanied
by Pulaski and Hernandez. Pulaski hits Hernandez upside the head with a spade
as Tenpenny wanders back to town for a night of fun, then orders CJ at
gunpoint to dig his own grave, to share with Hernandez. CJ tries to persuade
him to turn against Tenpenny, which would indeed be the smarter thing to do,
but before he can finish digging Hernandez wakes up and attacks Pulaski.
Pulaski shoots him and he falls into the ditch. CJ takes the opportunity to
attack Pulaski, gives chase, and kills him.
Back in Las Venturas another day, CJ comes across Madd Dogg standing on a
ledge; he's a jumper. Feeling guilty, CJ tries to coax him down. Madd Dogg
jumps anyway, but CJ is waiting with a pickup truck filled with cardboard
boxes. At the hospital, CJ offers to become his new manager - funny since he
was the guy who killed the old one. In other news, CJ, Maccer, Paul and Rosie
do a hit on the Forellis' St Marks Bistro in Liberty.
It's finally time to pull off the heist. The van pulls up to Caligula's,
Woozie and Zero inside. They're the support team; CJ joins them and gets an
earpiece. After one last check that everything's in position, CJ enters
through the staff door. Planted gas bombs knock out the two guards in the
safe room. CJ heads for the security door this time and uses Millie's swipe
card. He opens a door for use by Woozie, Suzie, Woozie's assistant, and the
owner of the apartment they used to plan the heist. Using the satchel charges
CJ planted so long ago, they cut power, then break into the safe with more
ordinary explosives. Mafia rush to the scene, but CJ holds them off. The
group hurries back to the heist van where Zero is waiting along with two
motorcycles. Two of them take the bikes, the others hop in the van and they
all drive away.
Back at the Four Dragons, Madd Dogg is back in action, and he wants to go
home. Trouble is, some pusher seized his mansion. Nonetheless, CJ decides
that everybody's going home to Los Santos. The Ballas got too strong to deal
with, but now it's time for him to push them out again. CJ and four Triads
parachute into Madd Dogg's mansion and kill everyone inside. They've
successfully repossessed it, and now they've got a place to work from.
Toreno waltzes back into the picture and needs CJ to do a few more, highly
dangerous, jobs for him. CJ has grown quite weary of this by now. When he
approaches CJ with yet another, CJ actually pulls a gun on him. He has good
news, though. Sweet is being released from prison! CJ has to go pick him up!
Aww, yeah. Sweet wants to head back to Grove Street right away to see what's
been happening in his absence (and CJ's for that matter.) When they get
there, they find it's been overrun with lowlifes and crack dealers. They run
them out and kill the pushers. Now Sweet wants to stay and fix things up. CJ
is done with the hood, for...good. He heads back to the mansion.
In a burst of insight, Madd Dogg realises who stole his rhyme book - it was
OG Loc! Actually, it was CJ, but he gave the book to OG, anyway. OG is
recording a video, so CJ proposes they crash the party. OG flees. They catch
up to him, along with his recorder, Jimmy Silverman.
CJ and Sweet pay a visit to B Dup to teach him a lesson. Big Bear turns on
him and denounces his druggie ways. He wants back into the GSF. CJ returns to
Grove Street to have a chat with Sweet. Sweet still obstinately wants to stay
in Grove Street. CJ wants to move on, but agrees he's never going to forget
where he came from. Grove 4 Life!
Back at the mansion, CJ, Sweet, Kendl, Cesar, Madd Dogg, The Truth, and
Maccer are watching a TV news report. Officers Tenpenny and Pulaski have been
charged with 'racketeering, corruption, narcotics and sexual assault.'
Ridiculously, all charges against Tenpenny are dropped due to lack of
evidence. Lack of evidence?? Come on! Los Santos is in a state of turmoil, so
Sweet, CJ and the gang take steps to make sure nobody messes with Grove
Street during the riots. Cesar plans to get the Varrios back in action. He,
CJ, and three Varrios boys get together and take Cesar's neighbourhood back
from the Vagos.
There's only one thing left to be done: Payback on Big Smoke. CJ and Sweet go
to the Crack Fortress and bust in. CJ fights and sneaks his way to the top.
CJ finds Big Smoke on the fourth floor. They talk for a time about what
happened, where did Big Smoke go astray? But Smoke tires of this after so
long and pulls a gun on CJ. A scuffle ensues but though Smoke has
substantially greater body mass, CJ overpowers him thanks to experience and
the fact that he isn't stoned. Big Smoke dies of internal injuries shortly
after.
Suddenly Tenpenny enters with a bead on CJ. He wants a nice fat bag of
Smoke's money, so CJ fills it up and carefully hands it over. Tenpenny is
about to kill CJ, but CJ tricks him and manages to jump behind cover.
Tenpenny fires madly at him but CJ is nowhere to be found. CJ gets away. They
both leave the building, separately of course, and Tenpenny commandeers a
fire engine. Just before it shoots away Sweet jumps on the back. There is a
struggle. Eventually Tenpenny manages to drive the truck off a bridge where
it lands in Grove Street. Tenpenny stumbles out then falls, dying on the
ground.
Everybody heads back to the mansion. Rosie, Madd Dogg, Maccer and Paul join
them. Madd Dogg's had a hit! It's been a long, grim road, but it seems
they've won. The rapping, the garage, the casino - the GSF controls all of
San Andreas!
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| 1994 [LIBPRO] |
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Throughout its history, no one entity has been able to maintain overall
control of Liberty City for long, but this is especially true of the early to
mid-90s. In particular, there could be observed brutal competition between
the three largest mafia families in the country: The Forellis, the Sindaccos,
and the Leones. The Forellis were in charge during the 80s, but after Sonny
Forelli's death they were pushed back. Salvatore Leone has his sights set on
taking over, but we're still in the opening moves. One of his earliest plays
is to have his most loyal mafioso, Toni Cipriani, whack a made man. This
could easily bring on a huge gang war as honour among thieves makes killing a
made man anything less than blasphemy if his family authorizes it. As such,
Toni, fearing for his life and those of his fellows, immediately flees to
Vice City, where he lies low for four years, waiting for the situation to
blow over.
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| 1998 [LIBMAI] |
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After a term of cautious observation, the time is finally right for Toni to
return to Liberty City. The first thing he does is catch up with Don
Salvatore. Salvatore congratulates him, then assigns him to Vincezno Chili.
Now, Toni ranked much higher than Vinzenco when he left, so he feels cheated
to be working for him now after the sacrifices he's made. He reluctantly
signs on and Vincenzo sets him up with a safehouse in Atlantic Quays.
Vincenzo has a few jobs he needs Toni to do. He's got the best at his
disposal, after all, so he might as well use him. Toni's first task is to
motivate a Chinatown dealer who hasn't been bringing home the bacon. This
encounter yields some troubling news: The Sindaccos are moving in on
Chinatown. We can't have that! Toni methodically moves through Chinatown
icing every Sindacco dealer he can find. Next Toni reacquaints himself with
JD O'Toole, an old friend who runs a gentleman's club and is in the
mainstream of Liberty City activity. After taking care of O'Toole's Sindacco
babysitter, he becomes the Leone's streetear.
Remembering the very large debt that O'Toole owes him, Toni heads over to
collect. O'Toole needs a few things done first, so Toni helps him out. At one
point O'Toole gets quite anxious as the police prepare to storm the club,
where Salvatore is paying a special visit. Toni whisks him away and receives
an invitation to do some special jobs directly for Salvatore. O'Toole proves
his worth, tipping Toni off about a Sindacco plan to blow a Leone gambling
house sky-high. Using further information from him, Toni reciprocates by
bombing a Sindacco establishment.
Toni performs other menial tasks for Vincenzo, such as firing (at) inept
associates, and picking up a car loaded with drugs. Unfortunately, the cops
were watching the car and took off after him as soon as Toni pulled away.
Toni fully believes that Vincenzo set him up, and leaves angry. Vincenzo
surely won't stand for that. He lures Toni down to the Portland docks,
promising not to treat him like dirt anymore. When he gets there, a number of
angry men with chainsaws ambush him. Toni barely fights them off, and
Vincenzo proceeds to attack him himself. Toni kills Vincenzo, straining their
relationship even further.
Salvatore makes use of O'Toole's services, both informational and commercial.
After leaving the club one session, some Sindaccos kidnap Salvatore with the
intent of executing him, overlooking the fact that it would be easier to just
shoot him on the spot rather than driving across town. Toni gives chase and
saves Salvatore's life. He does the same thing when Salvatore goes on the
rampage in the area around O'Toole's club, killing every Sindacco he can
find. Toni covers him with sniper fire. O'Toole has done so well, Salvatore
decides to make him a made man! Or so he thinks. Salvatore is an extremely
paranoid little man. He asserts that O'Toole screwed over his old boss and
would therefore do the same to him, and has the Irishman killed.
Toni hasn't spoken to his mother in four years, it would have been too
dangerous, so he pays her a visit. Ma Cipriani sternly admonishes Toni for
never calling, comparing him to her new Sicilian boyfriend, Giovanni Casa.
Though nobody else knows it yet, the Sicilians are poised to wreak havoc on
Liberty City's hierarchy. Toni stymies this one in particular, getting some
deprecating snapshots of Casa indulging his fetishes. Ma doesn't care. She
further scolds him for being afraid of the Triads, but Toni quickly proves
himself and kills a number of them. She further complains that if Toni were a
real man, like his father, he'd win the street race happening that day. Toni
obliges her. But after Toni took those photos of Casa, he stopped paying his
protection money, so Toni puts him through his own meat grinder, selling the
product. Even after all this, Ma still isn't satisfied. She explains to Toni
that he is a worthless shell of a human being, and she's called in a hit on
him. Dozens of mafia gangsters descend on his position and Toni frantically
fights them off. He stops trying to please her after this.
Meanwhile, Toni has taken up Salvatore's offer and has been doing jobs for
him. Salvatore's having some serious difficulties in Portland. For one thing,
although he was instrumental in orchestrating (ha ha, get it?) the rash of
union strikes going on in Liberty, they're not repaying the favour. Toni pays
off union foreman Jane Hopper so that Salvatore can get 24 hour access to the
docks to offload drugs, but she isn't having any of it. He goes after her
boys instead. Most of them are persuaded, and Toni intimidates the remainder.
Now all that's left is Hopper, so Toni takes her for a little ride and she
folds like deuce/five off-suit.
Toni once met Salvatore's wife Maria in his office. She goes through his
address book and calls up Toni. She has Toni drive her around so she can
steal things from various places. Another time, he chauffeurs her to a drug
spot as she's throwing a party. She's really taken quite a liking to him and
tires very hard to get him to sleep with her. She even puts herself up as
first prize in a street race, daring Toni to attend and win it. She's
Salvatore's girl, though. She hooks up with a guy called Wayne instead, but
he beats her, so Toni kills him. The next time he stumbles upon her, she's
dying of a drug overdose. Fortunately she has just the cure, which is another
drug that balances the first one out, though it takes her quite some time to
remember where she left it. When she comes to her senses she ends the
perceived relationship.
Toni has continued working for Salvatore, and picks up a drug shipment from
cartel leader Miguel (you might think it's spank, but it almost certainly
isn't.) And then, fresh off the curve from a war with the Sindaccos, they're
right smack in the middle of another one, this time with the Diablos. They're
trying to take over Hepburn Heights. Toni fends them off, but remarks the
Diablos will eventually be successful (he's correct.) Toni also picks up a
bunch of cash from a drop at Callahan Point and delivers it to Salvatore,
much to the Triads' chagrin. Salvatore is also in trouble with the current
mayor, who's trying to take him down for all the crime in Liberty. Toni
drives Salvatore down to the docks to take care of it, but it's crawling with
police and they've got the fuzz on them like a knitted sweater. They have
only one chance - to jump the unfinished Callahan Bridge! They soar
majestically over the open water and land with a thud. Portland had been cut
off up to this point, but with the strikes toned down for the time being
Salvatore decides he should move more into Portland.
But by this point, Salvatore is fed up with the mayor. Toni ambushes him on
his run and shoots him. This effectively forces a bi-election, and Salvatore
is ready to capitalize on the opportunity. Then Salvatore drops a real
bombshell: He's making Toni! He experiences a ritual eerily similar to
O'Toole's execution, but he is indeed a made man after the experience. Toni's
really starting to get some respect in this town! He even gets a
congratulatory phone call from Ma Cipriani. He's finally won her approval.
Salvatore wastes no time. He knows exactly who he wants in office: Media and
entertainment millionaire Donald Love. First, he and Toni talk to a man who
knows about Don Franco Forelli, who had the mayor in his pocket. He did at
the behest of the Sicilians, who are trying to foster a feud between the
Liberty Families so they can take over. Apparently they've been somewhat
successful as war breaks out between the Forellis and Sindaccos, with a hit
called on Salvatore! Once again, Toni drives him out of there. Paulie
Sindacco tries to diffuse the situation but Toni run him down in a van. When
Franco Forelli starts to figure things out, Toni kills him.
Around the same time, Toni is approached my crooked LCPD cop Leon McAffrey.
He makes a proposition to Toni, offering protection from the law in exchange
for some services. He and Toni personally take down some Sindaccos. King
Courtney's Yardies are eyeing up Forelli turf, so Toni lures them into a trap
and the Yardies slaughter them. And when they have trouble keeping Newport,
Toni chases the Forellis out once more. Lastly, Toni demilitarizes a Forelli
munitions dump.
At the church, Toni meets 'Father' Ned Burner, a journalist posing as a
preacher so he can keep the stories coming. Toni covers up a doping story
that would have eclipsed Ned, and ends up stealing diamonds for him as well.
Toni also bangs up cars as they defile the holy atmosphere, and destroys a
false idol who did a radio interview instead of giving Ned a break. He feels
much better after this.
He gets a call from Donald and now they need to focus on the election. Toni
helps out Donald with some personal matters, namely a morgue party. Toni
helps him campaign as well, running against a man named O'Donovan. Toni beats
up the people covering O'Donovan's Forelli ties. It also turns out the
Forellis own a silent share in the company that manufactures the voting
machines, so Toni makes sure they're unusable. Toni also ensures that no
physical harm comes to Love on election day, which is no easy task and
involves a shotgun. Love sees he's down and has Toni rig the polls, putting
Love's name on uncounted votes. But it looks like there's some evidence
linking Love to the Leones, which Toni destroys. This effectively links Love
to Toni, and he loses the election by a landslide, along with his entire
fortune. He's out twenty million dollars. Makes Tommy Vercetti look downright
wealthy, doesn't he?
What's worse, the police have caught up to Salvatore and thrown him in
prison! Toni talks to Salvatore, posing as his lawyer in order to avoid
getting arrested. He instructs Toni to take the Hoods gang and go on rampage,
beating up every Forelli and Sindacco in town. That'll teach 'em. The Liberty
Sindaccos are pretty much dead anyway, but Toni has their leader Paulie
follow suit. But just because the Forellis and Sindaccos are now 100% out of
the picture doesn't mean that all is well. Not only have the Triads destroyed
their Chinatown monopoly and the Diablos are set to take over Hepburn
Heights, the yakuza are stockpiling weapons in Aspatria. Toni is stunned at
the sheer volume, but he takes care of it nonetheless. Despite his best
efforts, though, the yakuza will eventually control all of Torrington.
This has dealt a severe blow to local yakuza boss Kasen Kazuki. Shortly after
this little escapade, Toni receives a call from his wife, Toshiko. Toshiko
has been ignored for as long as they've been married, and is none too happy
about it. She wants to see him humiliated, defeated, and finally dead, and
she enlists Toni to that end. Although his inventory was decimated he is
picking up another order that day, which Toni scoops up first. Kazuki also
runs the biggest casino in Liberty. Toni intercepts the armoured van doing
the cash drop and burns Kazuki's money in the streets. She takes him on a
sort of date to the opera where she discusses the nature of life; this angers
Kazuki's men and they attack. Kazuki has worked out what's going on and is
gathering his men to kill Toshiko and Toni. Before he can attack, Toni meets
him in Belleville. After taking out the assembled yakuza, Toni kills Kazuki
in a duel on the rooftop. Toshiko is glad at this news, but she's lost
everything now and commits suicide.
Donald Love, meanwhile, is living pretty much in the streets. He has a plan,
though, and he needs Toni to help him. His old mentor, Avery Carrington, is
in town with some plans for some prime real estate development. Toni kills
him and hands them over to Love. Ned Burner witnesses the act and gets some
pictures of Carrington's death, but Toni quickly heads down to the church and
stops them going to press by killing Ned. With the help of Carrington and
Burner's corpses, Love throws another morgue party. Using the plans for the
Panlantic Corporation, Love is putting a deal together, but he needs some
land - he puts in an order for an 8-Ball exclusive, which Toni eventually
picks up and sets to work with. He destroys the Forellis' Fort Staunton,
opening up some space. The cartel are angry with him, though, and swarming
around his living quarters. Toni ships him out and gets him to Carrington's
private jet, which he no longer has any sue for. After some thanks and
promises, Donald leaves Liberty...for the time being.
And with that, Salvatore is released from prison. The Sicilians try to
interfere but Toni puts a stop to that. Salvatore is now royally pissed at
them, since they're responsible for every inch of his lost power. They want
peace now but Salvatore wants to ensure it's on his terms. He has a hunch
they're going after O'Donovan. They get there first, but Toni and Salvatore
chase them down and recover Liberty's beloved administrator. He now has the
mayor in his pocket and kills the treacherous Sicilian Massimo as an added
bonus. They head back to Leone HQ to celebrate. More than half their turf may
be at risk, but with the other two families gone the Leones are in some ways
even more powerful than they were to begin with. In reality, though, they are
only a shadow of their former selves, and in a few short years will
experience a violent fall from grace...
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| 2000 [ADVMAI] |
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Mike and his friend Vinnie have been working for the Liberty City mafia for
years now. Since they've started, Vinnie's been trying to get them out.
Finally, after a long, long term of servitude, they've almost built up enough
brownie points to leave Liberty for good.
Before they can leave, they have to run a few more jobs for the mafia. After
that, Vinnie promises, they'll be outta there and on the road to a better
life (which, as you may know, has a lot of traffic). Mike's first job is to
take out a pusher named Frederico Fido: The mob provides him with the stuff
to sell, but he's been using more of it than he's selling, which is not a
very good profit margin at all. This service along with some valuable
information Vinnie offered up have has made the mafia only too happy to help
them out. Mike steals a Banshee from the lot in Atlantic Quays and they're
almost ready to roll. Mike's next job is to collect monthly protection money
from unwilling tenants. Vinnie and Mike will also need some fake ID's, so
Mike gets some from esteemed explosives expert and black market dealer 8-
Ball. Shortly after, Vinnie tells Mike to meet him at Calhallan Point. Mike
arrives just in time to watch his best friend die as Vinnie's car explodes.
After his recent hits, the cops are now onto Mike and think this one is his
as well. 8-Ball offers him refuge. As an old friend of Vinnie's, he promises
to try and find out who killed him in order to exact their revenge. In the
meantime, he's got some work to throw Mike. He disposes of Vinnie's body and
escorts some of 8-Ball's girls to their offices, and delivers a shipment of
raw nitro-glycerine to some of 8-Ball's clients. 8-Ball also hates a mob guy
named Scorelli. He has Mike take out his thugs and steal his favourite car.
Score one 8-Ball!
Mike returns to learn that Vinnie was involved with a barkeep named Johnnie.
He meets with him to find out what the deal is. Johnnie is another guy who
wants to find out who offed Vinnie, and while he's doing that Mike can pay
off Vinnie's massive debts to Johnnie (of the monetary variety.) His first
job is to escort his girlfriend home; her father is a big politician and he'd
rather not get caught. Unfortunately, she's quite drunk and more than a
little footloose, so the first thing she wants to do is go to another club.
This spirals into a huge romp around half of Liberty City. Mike's next task
is to collect Johnnie's shipment of fake liquor. A disco opens right across
the street, and that's not exactly the kind of people Johnnie wants hanging
around, so he gets Mike to sabotage the business with a car bomb. He also
gets Mike to steal a rocket launcher from the docks. His research, by the
way, has revealed that Vinnie's death was unrelated to the mafia. Mike also
intimidates a local senator into tabling his proposal to ban smoking in bars
and restaurants - again, this would be bad for Johnnie's business.
Johnnie would probably admit that he is himself an unscrupulous individual,
but that hardly means he'll tolerate other such people in his establishment.
Some guy beats the house using marked cards, so Johnnie sends Mike to teach
him a lesson and extort ten thousand dollars from his winnings. Mike returns
to the bar to find Johnnie dead and somebody high-tailing it out of there. He
catches up with the guy on the docks. He's King Courtney, Yardie leader, and
he claims Johnnie was already dead when he got there. Looks like Mike's going
to need a new boss. King Courtney recruits Mike as a driver in the most
important race of the season, Yardies versus yakuza. After Mike's admirable
performance in this race, Courtney gets him to test-drive a Formula One racer
that his Yardie friend intends to use in the Staunton Grand Prix. Mike
proceeds to help King Courtney deliver coffee. O_o
Courtney has a lead. He suspects Colombian Cartel leader Cisco of murdering
both Vinnie and Johnnie, and maybe some of his Yardies as well. Mike crashes
a Cartel meeting and strikes a blow to their operations, killing a handful of
Cisco's lieutenants. One of King Courtney's boys spots Cisco relaxing at a
local caf‚. Mike storms in and beats him to a pulp. Cisco did not, in fact,
kill any of King Courtney's friends or associates, but he is impressed with
Mike's brutality and rewards him by meeting him at his place. He's done with
King Courtney for now. Cisco has a few more ideas about who offed
Vinnie...the road goes ever onward.
Cisco starts out by having Mike runs a special drug-smuggling shoe for him.
One of the suppliers refuses to get to work until Cisco pays what he owes
her, so Cisco kidnaps her favourite doggie, then has Mike stuff the shoe's
secret compartment with bad, day-old organic meat, tell her it's her doggie,
and warn her she'll meet the same fate if she doesn't get to work straight
away. There would have been a million easier ways to persuade her, of course,
but no. He then has Mike blow up a facility than manufactures surveillance
equipment.
Liberty City yakuza boss Kassen Asuka currently has her niece Yuka in her
charge, and she isn't letting Cisco sell on her turf. Cisco orders Mike to
jack Yuka's limousine, pick her up from school and bring her back to Cisco's
hideout. Yuka's now an excellent blackmailing chip for Cisco, but it seems
Mike has outstayed his usefulness and he gets cut loose.
Coincidentally, he almost immediately gets a call from Asuka. She's heard a
lot about him and would be thrilled to meet him. Actually, she has some work
for him. Her niece Yuka has been tragically kidnapped! Do you suppose Mike
knows anything about this? He might. He's in deep, after all. Anyway, Asuka
wants her back, and Mike is just the guy to get her out of Cisco's clutches.
Mike agrees to it as long as Asuka helps him find Vinnie's killer. (The man's
obsessed!) Asuka promises to start working on it right away. Mike rescues
Yuka from the very men he turned her over to. She reveres him. (Mikesama!)
This success leads to Mike doing other jobs for Asuka, such as beating up a
casino owner who's been refusing to pay his protection racquet. Mike also
beats up a Vice City quarterback in town for a game against the Liberty City
team so that Asuka can profit greatly from the early betting rounds. Asuka
doesn't take rejection well and is starting to want Mike badly. Mike learns
what happens if you actually refuse Asuka, though: She tells somebody to kill
you. She wants Biff Rock's alligator shoes as a memento. When Mike gets
jumped at the studio, he kills the security guards. Biff wants the footage,
so Mike gives it to him in exchange for his alligator shoes. How sneaky.
Somebody is trying to sabotage Asuka's chain of sushi restaurants with rotten
blowfish. Mike tracks them down, steals the fishermen's delivery trucks and
brings back the evidence to charge the fishermen's union with sabotage. It
seems King Courtney is behind it all. Asuka kills the Yardies' delivery man
by feeding him in pieces to the very blowfish he would have rot in her
restaurants. The mafia want to screw with her business, too. She has some
operations going on back in Asia so she decides to kill two birds with one
stone and get some mafia 'volunteers.' Mike beats up a bunch of them, throws
them in the back of his trucks and drives them to the docks where Asuka will
have them deported to her labour camps.
And Asuka has finally got a solid lead! To get it, all he has to do is take
out one bad pimp who's been harassing Asuka's girls. Her resources are too
strained because of the yakuza-mafia turf war, but with that task completed
she divulges the location of the bomber who rigged Vinnie's car. When Mike
arrives, though, the bomber is already dead. The bomber's pager has a message
telling him to meet somebody at Wichita Gardens; he needs another bombing
like the one at Callahan Point. Mike doesn't know it yet, but the customer is
Vinnie, alive and well! Asuka informs Mike the police are after him for the
bomber's murder, so he gets out of there. He then receives a page from
someone called Xox (it's Vinnie) to meet him in Wichita Gardens. Cisco warns
him not to go - it's a trap. He summons him to his airport headquarters.
As it turns out, the bomber was one of Cisco's men. Mike guardedly goes to
Wichita Gardens. Two thugs are waiting to jump him. Mike takes them out, then
rejoins Cisco at the airport. Cisco wants to kill the assassin who killed the
bomber who (supposedly) killed Vinnie. Unfortunately, Mike's really no closer
to resolution.
All at once, Liberty City is declared a bubonic plague-infested area. Who
knew? Cisco needs to attend the meeting discussing this turn of events, but
if he steps outside he'll get killed, so he needs Mike to be his decoy
driver. As he hits the main drag, the Yardies start to chase after Cisco -
that is, Mike. The hoods and mafia come after him as well, but Mike's slick
driving skills keep him out of danger. Meanwhile, Cisco coasts on over to the
conference. Cisco finds out at that moment the assassin of the bomber is
hiding out in Pike Creek. Mike goes to check things out, but the assassin is
now after Cisco!
Mike arrives too late to save Cisco's worthless life. A car is speeding away
from Cisco's airport. Mike tails it, stopping it dead. Inside is - Vinnie!
All this time, Vinnie's been hiding in the shadows, pulling strings from the
background. Vinnie betrayed him. Vinnie now sics his boys on Mike, but Mike
takes care of them and attacks Vinnie. Everything bad that's happened to Mike
has been Vinnie's fault. He kills him.
He has Vinnie's money now, too. He gets a page from 8-Ball calling him back
to Pike Creek. 8-Ball's been hiding out for some time. Vinnie sent some guys
to take him out but he's fine now. 8-Ball warns Mike that the entire town
wants Mike's head because they think he has Vinnie's money - this is true,
but Vinnie wasted almost all of it, and all Mike got off him was $1000.
Cisco's men interrupt their conversation, thinking Mike killed him. He
decimates almost the cartel. The cops show up and arrest 8-Ball. Mike roughs
up Paul, the cartel's second-in-command and therefore new leader, for
information. The Yardies, Paul says, were holding back because they didn't
want to have to compete for Mike's money with the cartel, but now they'll be
after Mike in force. Mike kills Paul, and now it's time to face King
Courtney.
Mike parades through town killing every Yardie in sight. The police notice
and try to apprehend him. Just then, Asuka pages him again and asks him to
meet her in Wichita Gardens. She's not too keen on King Courtney either; he's
trying to push into her turf. She knows Courtney's situation, where he's
hiding, who's with him, etc. He's holed up in a veritable fortress but there
may be another way in. Asuka lends him a few men but she doesn't love him
anymore. How sad. To make matters worse, the mafia attack just as she leaves.
Looks like she knew about it and didn't say anything. She's an enemy now. At
the fortress, the men she sent turn and run just as he begins his assault!
Still, Mike breaks in and lays a bead on King Courtney. Yardie thugs attack
but Mike takes on all comers, then beats Courtney to a pulp. The Yardie
leader concedes defeat. There's that taken care of.
It's time to go. There's no chance of getting out of the city by car; the
police want him too, and they've set up roadblocks among other things. His
only shot is to head to the Shoreside airport and take Cisco's private plane.
He blows outta there and there's nothing anybody can do to stop him. As he
leaves Liberty City in the sunset, Mike reflects on the people he's met, and
expresses regret for not being able to save Cisco's life or do something more
for 8-Ball. Perhaps, he muses, he could settle down in Cisco's beloved
Colombia. In any event, he's free from the filth and corruption of his former
life forever.
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Feeling rejected, Catalina leaves Carl Johnson and takes Claude Fido as her
new lover. The happy couple leaves San Andreas behind to start out in Liberty
City. We catch up to them now, nine years later.
Catalina, as I've explained, actually sees Claude as just a tool. She's
secretly become involved in the Colombian Cartel since her arrival in
Liberty. When Mike went on rampage, she and Claude decided to lie low, then
take advantage of the chaos to pull a bank heist. Traitorous witch! She
shoots Claude and leaves him for dead, then takes off. Claude is loaded into
a police-escorted prison van along with 8-Ball and someone else. The cartel
halt the convoy as it's going across Callahan bridge and throw open the
doors. They're looking for the other guy, but Claude and 8-Ball take the
chance and make a run for it.
They spy a nearby car. 8-Ball can't drive because of his hands, so Claude
does, but he does know where they can take cover. He directs the mute Claude
to Portland's Red Light District, where he has an acquaintance in Luigi
Goterelli. The bomb the cartel used to assault the police convoy took out
Callahan Bridge, so for the time being they're stuck there too. Luigi always
needs a good driver, so he hires Claude to take his girls from place to
place. There's also a new drug on the street called spank; Luigi asks Claude
to kill the pusher, steal his car and get it re-sprayed.
Incidentally, Claude ends up getting to meet Joey Leone, the son of Don
Salvatore, the man who currently has most of Liberty in his grip. Claude also
ensures that Luigi's business isn't threatened by competition. When the
annual policeman's ball rolls around, Claude makes sure Luigi's hos get there
for a handy profit. Meeting Joey Leone later proves to be a stroke of luck
for Claude, as it turns out Leone Jr has some work for him too. He gives
Claude a car, 8-Ball installs a car bomb, and Claude parks it in front of
Lips Forelli at St Marco's Bistro - always pay up when you owe a Leone. Joey
isn't any more pleased with the advent of spank than Luigi, and Claude ends
up killing another pusher, this one in Chinatown. He follows up by stealing
the Chinatown payroll van and handing it over to Joey, who filches it for
every penny in it.
The next time Claude sees Joey, he's with Salvatore Leone's capo, Toni
Cipriani. Cipriani has him on chauffeur service, first to Chinatown to
collect some protection money, then to St Marks. Joey has him on a few more
driving missions, to dispose of a corpse at a junkyard crusher, as the driver
in a bank heist, that sort of thing. This gets the attention of El Burro,
leader of the Diablos gang. The Diablos love racing, and Claude proves his
worth in a street race near Callahan Bridge. El Burro is impressed. Claude
performs yet another car bombing; he's becoming quite proficient at them by
now. When some Triads wreck his car, Claude teaches them a lesson. When a van
filled with Diablo-made pornography is stolen, Claude jacks it and directs it
to its intended destination.
Claude finds himself under the employ of Marty Chonks, owner of the Bitch'n
Dog Food Factory in Chinatown. His crooked bank manager has been scalping
him, so Claude escorts him to Marty's hood so he can execute him. He does the
same thing to some thieves who want a cut of his house insurance scam (though
this is really only fair since he hired them for it.) It just gets colder
from here. It seems he's got some serious money issues. He cashes in on his
wife's life insurance as well. The man she's having an affair with doesn't
look on that too kindly, and kills Chonks. Claude is short one boss. He turns
to Toni Cipriani.
The Triads have really been bugging Toni lately, so the first thing Claude
needs to do is wreak some Chinatown havoc to show them who's boss. Next thing
you know, Don Salvatore's called a meeting. The Triads have become a real
problem. Claude drives Joey Leone, Luigi Goterelli and Toni Cipriani to the
meeting. Halfway through the Triads chase after them with their fish vans,
but Claude evades them. The four enter Salvatore's conference room to discuss
the issue. In the meantime, Salvatore has Claude drive his girl Maria around
town. She has him drive her to her drug-dealing friend Chico, who tells her
about a party that night in Atlantic Quays that she decides to check out. The
police show up and they jet out of there. Before she retires for the night,
she thanks him for the first genuinely fun evening she's had in a long time.
The meeting doesn't go so well. There's only one solution, and that's all-out
war between Leones and Triads. Toni has a few ideas for Claude to take on,
and they all involve killing Triads. Claude uses another Triad fish van for a
car bomb, but this time he lets it off next to the gas canisters in the Triad
fish factory. BOOM! Up it goes! And that's a good temporary fix for the Triad
problem.
With that out of the way, Salvatore turns his attention towards the spank-
selling Colombian cartel. All his efforts to uncover the cartel schemes have
been thwarted. There's a rat someplace! Salvatore suspects a guy named Curly
Bob, so Claude tails him. The don's instincts were right. Curly Bob meets
with Catalina and cartel co-leader assistant Miguel at the docks next to a
big boat. He's a rat, all right. Claude kills him.
Salvatore realises the cartel must be using the boat as their spank factory,
and he wants Claude to blow it sky-high. He gets 8-Ball to handle the 'boom'
department. It's a pricey venture, but worth it. Claude and 8-Ball drive over
to the docks; 8-Ball sets the bomb while Claude provides covering fire with a
rifle. Salvatore is most pleased.
Despite his promise that Claude would be a made man, though, he sets Claude
up. He says all he wants Claude to do is take an incriminating vehicle to the
trash compactor, but Maria phones for Claude to meet her at Callahan Point
instead. The job's a trap; Salvatore thinks Claude and Maria are going behind
his back. He offered up Claude to the cartel. Maria isn't about to let that
happen. She's with Kasen Asuka, fresh off a curve from trying to double-cross
Mike. They take a boat to Staunton Island. It looks like Claude will be
staying there for a while. Asuka leaves with the invitation to set up in her
Belleville warehouse and visit her at her condo once he has. A short time
after, a news report tells of Callahan Bridge's repair.
Asuka is willing to let Claude work for the yakuza, but she wants to make
sure she has Claude's unswerving loyalty; after all, the mafia and the yakuza
are in the middle of a very bloody gang war. Claude duly takes out Salvatore
Leone and returns to Asuka's condo. Her brother Kenji is there waiting with
her and Maria. He now owns the casino and he'll have some work for Claude
later on. For now, Asuka tasks Claude with taking out all the meddlesome
mafia spying on her assets. That's the final push. The mafia are done. Claude
goes to the condo again, but it seems a reporter has been hiding out in the
bay and spying on Asuka and Maria. Claude takes care of him. He also delivers
a man named Ray his paycheque from Asuka. She's his man inside the LCPD. He's
having some troubles right now, which Claude agrees to help him with later,
but he does provide useful information: For example, one of Asuka's drivers
is an undercover cop whom Claude needs to fire.
Other Staunton residents are starting to become aware of Claude, and his
services are in high demand. Without Mike to drive for him anymore, King
Courtney needs a new skilled driver. He invites Claude to a competition among
Yardies and other hopefuls from the outside. The winner becomes Courtney's
new official driver. Claude wins, if you can believe it. Courtney tests
Claude's ability by challenging him to drive up to Hepburn Heights and kill a
bunch of Diablos. Claude passes. (Turning his back on his old boss, El
Burro...harsh stuff.) His first big mission is to steal some cars for a few
of King Courtney's hits - specifically, a mafia Sentinel, a yakuza Stinger
and a Diablo Stallion.
Courtney needs a stash from a car he has at Bedford Point. When Claude
searches the car, he finds a note from Catalina. She knows he's been up to no
good. Also, she's sent a small army of suicide bombers to take him out.
Everybody's a critic. Claude barely manages to escape with his life. That's
the last of Claude's dealings with King Courtney, then, isn't it. He takes up
Kenji on his offer.
Claude soon returns to Bedford Point, but this time he's with a kanbu Kenji's
had him bust out of jail. Kenji also has a debt to repay; a man once did him
a favour and he's only now found out how to reciprocate. The man loves
motorcars, so Kenji makes a long list of hot wheels to offer him as a gift.
Claude jacks one model of each and drives them to a garage in Newport. Even
though the yakuza's mafia troubles are effectively over, they're still facing
war from the cartel, and the Colombians are negotiating an alliance with the
Yardies. Claude breaks up the meeting as well as its attendees. Apparently,
he doesn't do so well. Yardie spank-dealers are everywhere! Kenji gives
Claude one chance to redeem himself. Claude accepts, killing every Yardie
dealer on the streets of Liberty! Kenji still isn't very happy, though, so
Claude leaves well enough alone. Where to now?
Ray has some work for him, so it'd be a pity to pass it up. Ray wants him to
protect his friend Phil Cassidy from the cartel, whom he's maddened. In
return, from that point on Phil gives him great rates on any hardware he buys
from him. Claude also collects some embarrassing evidence against Donald
Love, stopping it from becoming public knowledge. When Ray suspects his
partner is a rat, he hires Claude to take him out. Unfortunately he does it
all wrong. The guy survives! Claude ambushes his van between Carson General
Hospital and the courthouse. Whew! Crisis averted.
Mr Donald Love, grateful for Claude's previous service, has some further uses
for him. Love's first task for Claude is to rescue one of his contacts from
some South Americans - the same guy the cartel were looking for when they
jumped the convoy on Callahan Bridge and unwittingly set Claude and 8-Ball
loose. Love then wants him to turn his back on Kenji. In order to buy more
real estate, he wants a gang war. The yakuza and cartel are already mad at
each other anyway, so Claude steals a cartel car, hops out and fires a rocket
launcher at a window. Kenji and everyone else inside dies instantly. It's on.
Love has an interesting way to transport goods from outside the country to
Liberty: A private plane does a flyby and drops them into the water. He asks
Claude to retrieve them. As it turns out, though, they were actually just
decoys. Now it's time to retrieve the real merchandise. Claude finally finds
its location after traipsing around all of Shoreside. While there, he happens
to spot Catalina, Miguel and Asuka having a little chat. Catalina has it.
Asuka was effectively fooled by Claude's using a Colombian car: She thinks
Miguel killed Kenji. Miguel denies it but Asuka isn't buying. Catalina takes
off, but not before Asuka requests her services at a later date. She proceeds
to torture Miguel.
Claude next acts as escort for Love's friend. Love delivers the package to
his friend, but others want it. SWAT teams surround him. Claude has to see
him safely through the situation. The next time he goes to see Love, though,
he's gone. What? Oh well. Ray needs to get out of town, fast. Claude drives
him to Francis International Airport. Now there's a nice, easy way to make
some cash. D-Ice, leader of the Red Jacks, has some more interesting stuff
for him to do.
Recently a new gang has surfaced, the Purple Nines. D-Ice sees himself as
oldschool gangster, while the Nines are worthless young punks. It's bad for
his rep to have them marching around, so Claude roars around D-Ice's turf
blowing them away. They respond by getting armoured vehicles, but it requires
a great deal of armour to withstand an explosion. Then D-Ice takes a break to
deal with some other issues, namely the rigging of his car and a whole bunch
of platinum suddenly up for grabs at the airstrip (a Federal Reserve flight
crashed.) Okay, back to the Nines. One street brawl pushes them out of the
picture - for the time being. Asuka needs Claude again.
Actually, to start with she does him a nice service. Catalina has three
squads roaming Liberty whose sole purpose is to hunt down Claude. Claude
lures the squads to Pike Creek where some of Asuka's men are waiting to cut
them down. Catalina also has plans for making spank way big. She's using The
Kappa Coffeehouse as a front for selling it. Sell drugs on Asuka's turf? I
don't think so. Claude blows it away. Asuka continues to press Miguel for
information. She's able to warn Claude of a spank shipment coming in by
plane; Claude goes out on the water and shoots it down as it's coming in.
Claude returns to the condo.
Asuka is dead. Maria has been kidnapped. Catalina has left a ransom note in
the amount of $500,000. Claude gets the money and shows up; he's got no other
choice. He hands it over, but Catalina isn't about to just let him walk away.
She orders her Colombian lackeys to kill him, then takes off in a helicopter.
Claude wrestles his way free and chases after her by car. Catalina thought
she was safe, but when she spies Claude she immediately tries to get airborne
again. Claude rescues Maria and shoots down the helicopter using a rocket
launcher.
The two escape and prepare to lie low for a while. Maria admits that she
loves him. Her incessant chatter seems to irritate him somewhat, however. A
shot is heard.
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So now you know the entire GTA story, back-to-front. (That is, assuming
you're reading this guide in the order it is presented.) If you did in fact
read the entire thing - I'll be impressed if you are, it's a wall of text
more than seventeen pages long - you'll have been intrigued by the many and
varied characters who inhabit the Grand Theft Auto universe. Unfortunately,
we were blazing through the story so we didn't have time to look at each and
every one in-depth. But wait! This section is filled with general
information, scant biographies and interesting thoughts as they occur to me.
Enjoy it; this one was a lot of typing.
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| 8-Ball [CHAR001] |
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Full name: Unknown
Nicknames: 8-Ball
Affiliation: Free agent
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Black
Family: None
Base: Liberty City
Hair colour: Bald
Eye colour: Brown
8-Ball is Liberty City's local explosives expert and black marketer. He's not
so much a gangster as he is a shopkeeper; if you need a bomb, you go to him
and buy one, and he doesn't discriminate as long as you have the cash. He's
also willing to actually set a bomb if you need him to, or even to rig a car
bomb.
Toni obtains his services on behalf of Donald Love, 'clearing' some land so
that Love can work his deal with Panlantic Corporation.
8-Ball befriends Mike early in the game (both figuratively and literally) and
offers to help him find Vinnie's killer. He also throws him some work now
that he's got nobody to lean on. Soon, however, Vinnie catches on and sends
some punks to ruin his day. 8-Ball has to go into hiding and disappears
without a trace. By the time he and Mike meet again, they've both got it all
figured out. The Colombians attack as they're talking, however, and 8-Ball is
injured too badly to run. Mike gets out of there but 8-Ball is arrested. Mike
escapes Liberty City shortly after but can't help feeling he could have done
more to help 8-Ball.
As the police are escorting him across Callahan Bridge, the Colombians
inadvertently bust both he and Claude Fido loose. They take refuge in the
employ of Luigi Goterelli. 8-Ball soon returns to his fine establishment and
eventually runs a few missions alongside Claude. He disappears near the end
of the game, and nobody knows where he went.
RANDOM FACTS
8-Ball references the damage to his hands several times during GTAIII. This
is because a policeman accidentally dropped a pot of boiling fat over his
hands during his arrest. Ouch. No wonder he can't drive.
But if that's true, how come if you raise a weapon at him in GTAIII, he pulls
out a shotgun and blows you away? Apparently he has enough dexterity in his
hands to fire a shotgun but not a pistol yet he can still manufacture
volatile explosives. Isn't that backwards?
Oh yeah, he also had a shop in Vice City.
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| 'Big' Mitch Baker [CHAR002] |
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Full name: Mitch Baker
Nicknames: Big Mitch
Affiliation: Bikers
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: White
Family: None
Base: Vice City
Hair colour: Bald
Eye colour: Brown
Big Mitch led Vice City's biker gang in the 80s. Kent Paul is interested in
procuring his services as security for a gig he has planned, so Tommy
Vercetti politely requests them. Baker tests Tommy's worth by seeing how well
he rides a motorbike, as that is the measure of a man to him. Baker's
lieutenants were impressed, so Tommy is then charged with delivering Vice
City a sharp kick in the slats while riding a bike. That'll show America. His
final rite of initiation is to steal back Baker's personal bike. After this,
Big Mitch is only too happy to lend Paul his services.
RANDOM FACTS
Baker is a Vietnam War veteran.
Baker and Kent Paul are not exactly friends (which is why Paul sent Tommy
instead of just going himself.
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| B Dup [CHAR003] |
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Full name: Mark Wayne
Nicknames: B Dup
Affiliation: None; formerly Grove Street Families
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Black
Family: None
Base: Los Santos
Hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Brown
B Dup was once a proud member of the Grove Street Families. Unfortunately, he
soon fell victim to crack. He even helped the Ballas with their shipments.
Big Bear became his slave just for a few sniffs of it once in a while. CJ,
Sweet and Big Smoke approached him to try and get him back into the fold, but
he refused. They visit him again after they return to Los Santos. Big Bear
wants back in, but B Dup still obstinately stays out of it. His loss.
RANDOM
B Dup sounds kind of like Beat Up. Mark Wayne sounds kind of like Mark Twain.
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| Big Bear [CHAR004] |
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Full name: Barry Thorne
Nicknames: Big Bear
Affiliation: Grove Street Families
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Black
Family: None
Base: Los Santos
Hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Brown
Like B Dup, Big Bear was originally a proud member of the Grove Street
Families. Unfortunately, he found crack and became B Dup's slave for just a
few sniffs of it once in a while. CJ, Sweet and Big Smoke approached him to
try and get him back into the fold, but he refused. They visit again after
they return to Los Santos. B Dup still wants nothing to do with them, but Big
Bear is tired of it all by now; he turns on B Dup and rejoins his old homies.
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| Big Smoke [CHAR005] |
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Full name: Melvin Harris
Nicknames: Big Smoke
Affiliation: Rollin' Heights Ballas
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Black
Family: None
Base: Los Santos
Hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Brown
Big Smoke was once a true-blue Grove Street Families homie, but the Ballas
introduced him to crack and that was it. He sold out the GSF to the Ballas
and led them to a near-slaughter, but CJ and the police showed up before it
turned into a GSF bloodbath. He continued to work for the Ballas and helped
them with their shipments. Big Smoke actually did a lot to help the community
- donating to children's hospitals and orphanages, opening new recreation
centres, and other forms of charity work. Of course, he did it with the money
and status he gained by destroying the hood and selling out his closest
friends, so there's two sides to every coin. CJ infiltrates the Ballas crack
fortress and makes his way to the top floor where Big Smoke is. He's a wreck.
They scuffle and CJ is forced to kill him.
RANDOM FACTS
I was surprised to learn that Big Smoke was a turncoat. He seemed like such a
nice guy!
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| Ned Burner [CHAR006] |
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Full name: Ned Burner
Nicknames: Father Ned
Affiliation: Civilian
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: White
Family: Unknown
Base: Liberty City
Hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Brown
Ned Burner was a newspaper reporter who posed as a preacher in St Mark's
church. From this position he was able to manipulate a number of people,
including Toni Cipriani, whom he had do some work for him. Ned is willing to
do anything for a good story to further his career, even if it means he has
to create one himself. Toni causes all manner of havoc that Ned is able to
write about. He eventually photographs Toni and Donald Love killing Avery
Carrington, but Toni kills Ned before they can go to press. Ned later attends
Love's morgue party.
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| Michelle Cannes [CHAR007] |
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Full name: Michelle Cannes
Nicknames: None
Affiliation: Civilian
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: White
Family: Unknown
Base: San Fierro
Hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Brown
A San Fierro mechanic, one of CJ's lovers. She prefers men with high fat and
high sex appeal. On dates, she prefers bars, nightclubs and dangerously fast
driving.
RANDOM FACTS
Her first car was a Perennial.
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| Avery Carrington [CHAR008] |
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Full name: Avery Carrington
Nicknames: None
Affiliation: Civilian
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: White
Family: Unknown
Base: Vice City
Hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Brown
Carrington is a big-time Vice City real estate developer. He gets Tommy to
help him out on quite a few jobs and helps the Vercettis acquire quite a few
properties of their own, including Vercetti Estates, where Tommy sets up his
gang's right and proper base of operations. He also introduces him to his
prot‚g‚, Donald Love, and he soon becomes Tommy's financial advisor.
Eventually he begins plans for the Panlantic Corporation in Liberty City, but
Love needs the money and has Toni Cipriani kill Carrington so Love can broker
the deal instead. Carrington later attends Love's morgue party.
RANDOM FACTS
Avery Carrington is responsible for one of the most famous quotes in GTA
history: 'Donald, you just shut up and listen, and you might learn something.
Now, nothing brings down real estate prices quicker than a good old-fashioned
gang war, except maybe a disaster, like a biblical plague or something, but
that may be going too far in this case. You getting this down, you four-eyed
prick?' He is. In GTAIII, Donald says, 'Nothing drives down real estate
prices like a good old-fashioned gang war, except maybe an outbreak of
plague...but that may be going too far in this case.'
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| Catalina [CHAR009] |
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Full name: Catalina, surname unknown
Nicknames: None
Affiliation: Colombian Cartel
Nationality: Mexican
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Family: Cousin - Cesar Vialpando
Base: Originally Los Santos and San Fierro, later Liberty City
Hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Brown
Catalina is traitorous and quite insane. CJ first met Catalina as she was
robbing a store in Los Santos. Somewhat in fear for his life, CJ went along
with her and helped her commit all manner of crimes. The two pursued a
romantic relationship, but fell out. Catalina took a new lover, Claude Fido,
even though she was just exploiting him. Claude challenged CJ to a car race,
but CJ won handily. Catalina left in anger for Liberty City.
After a bank heist in the chaos that was late-2000 Liberty City, Catalina
turned on Claude and shot him. How long she had been involved with the
Colombian cartel before this time is unknown, but from that point she openly
declared herself as its leader. Her spank-selling operations drove the masses
wild. To take her revenge on Claude, at the end of the game she kidnaps his
new flame Maria, killing Kasen Asuka in the process (heartless--!). Claude
hunts her down and kills her, rescuing Maria.
RANDOM FACTS
I have a metaphor for you to ponder. 'Catalina is a pet viper.' As your
friend, she's docile and loyal. But at any moment she could turn and sink her
fangs into your neck. Okay, so it's a pretty lame metaphor.
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| Vincenzo 'Lucky' Chili [CHAR010] |
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Full name: Vincenzo Chili
Nicknames: Lucky
Affiliation: Mafia
Nationality: Italian
Ethnicity: White
Family: Unknown
Base: Liberty City
Hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Brown
Vincenzo was a lower-ranking mobster than Toni when he left, but he's risen
above him during his absence. During those four years, Vincenzo worked very
hard to get in good with Salvatore. When Toni returned, Vincenzo set him up
and gave him work to do. Toni saw this reversal as a betrayal and their
relationship was less than cordial. Vincenzo eventually set up Toni, but Toni
turned the tables and killed Vincenzo instead.
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| Marty Chonks [CHAR011] |
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Full name: Marty Chonks
Nicknames: None
Affiliation: Civilian
Nationality: Chinese
Ethnicity: Asian
Family: Wife - name unknown
Base: Liberty City
Hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Brown
Marty has some serious financial problems. He hires Claude to take care of a
few of them. He's as low a lowlife as it gets, even killing his own wife to
cash in on her insurance policy. Unfortunately, his wife was having an
affair, and the guy she was seeing gets mad and kills Marty. Well, he had it
coming, didn't he?
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| Ma Cipriani [CHAR012] |
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Full name: Cipriani, first name unknown
Nicknames: Ma Cipriani
Affiliation: Mafia
Nationality: Italian
Ethnicity: White
Family: Husband - name unknown, deceased
Son - Toni
Base: Liberty City
Hair colour: Grey
Eye colour: Brown
Mother of Toni Cipriani. Her husband was in the mafia, too. She sees her
husband as the ideal human being and tries to hold up Toni to that standard,
and as such he's constantly disappointing her - not that she isn't proud of
him. She passes off her constant admonishments as encouragement, even the hit
she calls on him (and later ends once he gets made.) She may be old, but she
still packs a wallop.
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| Toni Cipriani [CHAR013] |
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Full name: Antonio Cipriani
Nicknames: None
Affiliation: Mafia
Nationality: Italian
Ethnicity: White
Family: Father - name unknown, deceased
Mother - Ma Cipriani
Base: Liberty City
Hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Brown
Toni followed in the footsteps of his father, who was once a big-time mafia
player in Liberty City. He joined his father's crime family, the Leones, one
of the three Liberty Families. He was eventually tasked with whacking a made
man. After this he was forced to skip town and wait for the whole thing to
blow over. He returned once it did, but things back home were less than
peaceful.
This begins Liberty City Stories. Read its section for more information.
Here's the abbreviated version: Toni starts working for the mob again,
getting tighter and tighter with Don Salvatore Leone until essentially
becoming his right-hand gangster, as he performs many invaluable services for
him. He reacquaints himself with old friends and makes new ones, such as JD
O'Toole, his mom, and Maria. He runs jobs for big names like Love and Kasen,
among others. Salvatore sets in motion a plan to remove the other two
families, Forellis and Sindaccos, from Liberty, permanently, and gain total
control of the city. Toni helps him and they half-succeed, but at terrible
costs. Victory is fleeting.
Toni became Salvatore's capo and maintained some measure of influence. He had
some jobs for Claude to do after Catalina betrayed him, but ironically it was
Claude who ended up killing his boss.
RANDOM FACTS
With Don Salvatore out of the picture, what's left of the Leone crime family
would need a new head. It's kind of hard to say whether Toni or Joey
succeeded Salvatore. The laws of inheritance make Joey the natural choice,
but because he's young and immature, Toni might have stepped up to the plate
instead. We will see.
Toni Cipriani is the first character to be a non-player character BEFORE he
was a playable one. That's a pretty benign distinction, though.
It's implied that Toni has anger issues.
He also has some really great tidbits of dialogue, a few of which made me
laugh out loud. Plus his missions are the wittiest of any GTA game - The
Portland Chainsaw Masquerade, Don in 60 Seconds, The Guns of Leone, The
Trouble with Triads, Love on the Rocks, The Whole 9 Yardies, Passion of the
Heist...to name a few! That stuff is gold.
There are repeated references in LCS to Toni being too thin. In III, he's a
big huge fat guy.
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| Cisco [CHAR014] |
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Full name: Unknown
Nicknames: Cisco
Affiliation: Colombian Cartel
Nationality: Colombian
Ethnicity: South American
Family: None
Base: Liberty City
Hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Brown
Cisco was the Colombian cartel leader in GTAA. He had an extremely prissy,
uptight, high-falootin' nature and style of living. He greatly prized his
home country, high fashion and the virtues of illegal importation. He took
Mike under his wing and treated him like a son. Cisco was eventually forced
to hide out at the Shoreside airport, but Vinnie found him out anyway and
sent some men to kill him. Mike was blamed for the murder, one more problem
for him in a city full of them.
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| Juan Garcia Cortez [CHAR015] |
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Full name: General Juan Garcia Cortez
Nicknames: None
Affiliation: Former military
Nationality: Cuban
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Family: Daughter - Mercedes
Base: Vice City
Hair colour: White
Eye colour: Brown
Cortez served with Ricardo Diaz in at least one war. They're old friends;
Cortez doesn't yet know that Diaz is evil. The game begins with Cortez
holding a yacht party, which is referred to several times throughout the game
because all the Vice City playas are in attendance. Cortez is keeping his
military ties strong and abuses them to gain restricted weapons and a great
deal of influence. He also steals some of his weapons from France. He gives
Tommy a great deal of work when he's first starting out, partly because when
the thugs ran off with Sonny Forelli's money Cortez got burned to; he was the
one who set up the exchange. Halfway through the game he gets spooked and
must hastily return to his home country. Presumably he comes back a year or
two later, he said he would.
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| Mercedes Cortez [CHAR016] |
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Full name: Caramia Mercedes Cortez
Nicknames: Mercedes
Affiliation: Civilian
Nationality: American; second-generation Cuban
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Family: Father - Juan
Base: Vice City
Hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Brown
Daughter of one of the most influential men in Vice City. General Cortez is
quite protective of her but she's quite capable. After Cortez leaves he asks
Tommy Vercetti to keep an eye out for her while he's away. Inviting her into
the mob was probably not what he had in mind. Mercedes assists Tommy in
acquiring several high-value real estate packages, such as The Malibu club.
She also 'acts' in one or two of Steve Scott's 'films.'
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| Ricardo Diaz [CHAR017] |
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Full name: Colonel Ricardo Diaz
Nicknames: None
Affiliation: Former military
Nationality: Cuban
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Family: Unknown
Base: Vice City
Hair colour: White
Eye colour: Brown
Served with General Cortez in at least one war. An old friend of Cortez's,
who doesn't yet know he's evil. In reality, Diaz killed Lance Vance's
brother. Lance has been plotting his revenge ever since. Diaz was also
responsible for Tommy's chunk of cash going missing. Tommy gets in tight with
Diaz to pump him for information, then they kill him after so long. Good
riddance.
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| D-Ice [CHAR018] |
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Full name: Unknown
Nicknames: D-Ice
Affiliation: Red Jacks
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Black
Family: Brother - name unknown
Base: Liberty City
Hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Brown
Ice, ice, baby... D-Ice leads the Red Jacks. He's also one of Claude's
bosses. All of his missions revolve around getting spank off his streets. The
cartel are dealing it so he wants them gone. More to the point, a new gang
called the Purple Nines is pushing into his turf, and every day they stay
there the Red Jacks look weak. Claude effectively wipes out the Purple Nines.
D-Ice's brother is only seen during one mission, 'Rumble,' in which he and
Claude beat the living tar out of a bunch of Purple Nines in a street brawl.
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| Dwaine [CHAR019] |
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Full name: Unknown
Nicknames: Dwaine
Affiliation: Grove Street Families
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Black
Family: Unknown
Base: San Fierro
Hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Brown
Hew and Jethro used to work at the Vice City seaport until Tommy bought the
business and shipped them out, so to speak. Dwaine is one of three guys who
becomes a mechanic at CJ's San Fierro garage. He continues working there the
entire game. Dwaine is a close friend of The Truth's, and is wise to all his
inside info on the government and snake-headed aliens.
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| El Burro [CHAR020] |
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Full name: Unknown
Nicknames: El Burro
Affiliation: Diablos
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Family: None
Base: Liberty City
Hair colour: Brown
Eye colour: Brown
The Diablos leader loves fast cars and he loves racing them. This puts him in
stiff competition with King Courtney and his Yardies, who also love street
racing. It doesn't help that they just plain dislike each other. Claude
becomes his driver for a while, but later kills a bunch of Diablos to prove
his guts and his new loyalty for King Courtney. It's a harsh world.
RANDOM FACTS
He has a Spanish motif. Diablo means devil. El means the. I'm told Burro
means donkey.
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| Emmet [CHAR021] |
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Full name: Unknown
Nicknames: Emmet
Affiliation: Grove Street Families
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Black
Family: None
Base: Los Santos
Hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Brown
Before CJ left Los Santos, the turf wars between GSF and Ballas weren't quite
so fierce. Emmet sold them their firearms, but they were all pretty lame and
outdated. By the time San Andreas starts, they need much more powerful
weaponry. They only visit Emmet to tide them over until they can find a
better arms dealer (it's kind of like building a better mousetrap.)
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| Claude Fido [CHAR022] |
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Full name: Claude Fido
Nicknames: None
Affiliation: Various
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: White
Family: None
Base: Originally San Fierro, later Liberty City
Hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Brown
Claude Fido started out in San Fierro, where he owned a garage. It was from
here that he learned his madd driving skillz. In 1992 he met Catalina who
took him as her new lover. He challenged the guy she was mad at, Carl
Johnson, to a race. CJ won. Claude lost the garage but it didn't matter
because he was leaving San Fierro anyway: He and Catalina were off to start a
new life together in Liberty City.
Catalina only chose to love him for revenge and business matters, however.
After the chaos Mike caused in late 2000 she and Claude pulled a bank heist,
where she then shot him. He was being escorted in a police convoy when the
cartel blew his prison van open, inadvertently freeing both he and 8-Ball. 8-
Ball suggested they go to Luigi Goterelli for cover, and here begins GTAIII.
Read its section if you want to know more.
Summarized version: Claude begins to work for Luigi Goterelli and eventually
works his way up in the mafia, running jobs for the likes of Toni Cipriani
and Salvatore Leone. He befriends Maria and they become a de facto item.
Around the time Callahan Bridge is repaired, Claude starts to work for yakuza
leader and Maria's friend Kasen Asuka as well as her brother Kenji, among
others. Eventually he kills Kenji to start a cartel-yakuza gang war, and it
all snowballs from here. He has several confrontations with Catalina as she
tries to off him once and for all. He returns to Asuka's condo one day to
find her dead and Maria gone. He pursues Catalina, kills her and rescues
Maria. In short, he gets a lot more accomplished in Liberty City than he ever
did in San Fierro. It would have still been better for him to stay, though.
Curse you, Cat.
RANDOM FACTS
Remember, he doesn't officially have a name. Claude Fido is the name I gave
him. You can read my rationale in the Introduction.
The fact that Claude never speaks is sort of an interesting issue. Well, back
in 2001, main characters in video games didn't necessarily have to speak
because the supporting characters could supposedly hold the show all by
themselves, and giving him a voice would expend development resources that
could be put to other things. In other words, his dialogue was assumed.
Players noticed his abnormal silence; he didn't so much as grunt in pain when
shot. Rockstar finally put this point to rest in San Andreas: He's mute.
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| Frederico Fido [CHAR023] |
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Full name: Frederico Fido
Nicknames: None
Affiliation: Mafia
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: White
Family: None
Base: Liberty City
Hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Brown
Frederico is a pusher who's using more of his merchandise than he's selling,
so the mafia have Mike make an example out of him.
RANDOM FACTS
Frederico's presence totally violates my code of inclusion because he only
appears in one mission. But I want to make sure my theory on Claude Fido's
name remains solid, so here he is. Voila.
Actually, if you're wondering Mike can't say his name. 'Here I come
Federa...Fido...ahh...Freddy, to take you down.' You heard the man, he called
him Fido. Okay, so it's weak, shoot me.
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| Sonny Forelli [CHAR024] |
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Full name: Sonny Forelli
Nicknames: None
Affiliation: Forellis
Nationality: American; ethnic Italian
Ethnicity: White
Family: None
Base: Liberty City
Hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Brown
Sonny Forelli was leader of the Forelli crime family in the 80s and held
Liberty City in his iron grip. When Tommy Vercetti was released him down
Sonny decided to ship him down to Vice City in order to keep him out of the
way. Tommy promptly lost $3 million of Sonny's and he continued to harass him
throughout the game. Tommy eventually renounced the Forellis as his bosses.
When Sonny personally came down to collect his money, Tommy killed him.
Somehow the Forelli family continued anyway, but without Sonny it lost much
of its influence in Liberty City.
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| Luigi Goterelli [CHAR025] |
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Full name: Luigi Goterelli
Nicknames: None
Affiliation: Leones
Nationality: Italian
Ethnicity: White
Family: None
Base: Liberty City
Hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Brown
Mafia man who has an establishment in Portland's Red Light District. An old
friend of 8-Ball's, he offers refuge to he and Claude at the beginning of
GTAIII. His boys start trying to kill Claude after he takes out Salvatore
Leone.
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| Guppy [CHAR026] |
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Full name: Unknown
Nicknames: Guppy
Affiliation: Mountain Cloud Triads
Nationality: Chinese
Ethnicity: Asian
Family: None
Base: San Fierro
Hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Brown
Woozie's left-hand man. He does some important jobs for Woozie, particularly
in fighting the Da Nang Boys, and delivers CJ some of his assignments. Guppy
leads the final assault on the container ship. He, CJ and some Triads
approach in a helicopter, but it gets shot down. CJ is the only survivor.
Poor Guppy.
RANDOM FACTS
A guppy is a small fish, but it probably doesn't mean anything - although the
Triads in Liberty City are fishmongers.
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| Officer Jimmy Hernandez [CHAR027] |
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Full name: Officer Jimmy Hernandez
Nicknames: None
Affiliation: Los Santos Police Department
Nationality: Mexican
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Family: None
Base: Los Santos
Hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Brown
One of crooked cop Frank Tenpenny's two partners. He joined their cell
shortly before San Andreas begins. Tenpenny trusts him less than he does
Pulaski. He is actually a good kid at heart like Tenpenny probably was at
some point. Tenpenny and Pulaski were forced to accept him, and they
attempted to initiate him by making him handle all the dirty work. While
Tenpenny was responsible for Pendelbury's death, it was Hernandez who
actually pulled the trigger. Late in the game Tenpenny gets scared that
Hernandez is going to turn on him, so he tries to kill both Hernandez and CJ.
Pulaski knocks out Hernandez with a shovel then makes CJ dig their grave. In
the meantime Hernandez wakes up and gets the jump on Pulaski, but Pulaski
shoots him and he falls into the grave. CJ escapes.
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| Jethro [CHAR028] |
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