Grand Theft Auto IV/Achievement Guide

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[edit] Story Achievements - 180 points

These will be got by simply playing through the story:

• Off The Boat – 5G - Complete the first mission.

• Lowest Point – 5G - Complete mission "Roman's Sorrow".

• Fed The Fish – 5G - Complete the mission "Uncle Vlad".

• Half Million – 55G - Reach a balance of $500,000.

Spoiler (Highlight): You will rob a bank for $250,000 and at the very end if you select to make the deal (rather than kill him) you get $250,000 for that. So it is doable just from doing the story.

• Impossible Trinity – 10G - Complete mission "Museum Piece".

• Full Exploration – 20G - Unlock all the islands.

Simply play through the story and you will eventually get this.

• Gracefully Taken – 10G - Complete mission "I'll Take Her".

• That Special Someone – 10G - Complete mission "That Special Someone".

• You Won! – 60G - Complete the final mission.

[edit] Single Player – 680 points

• One Hundred And Eighty – 10G - In a darts game score 180 with 3 darts.

Simple enough, hit treble 20 3 times in 1 go.

• Pool Shark – 10G - Beat a friend at pool.

Simple enough, pot all your balls before your friend pots theirs.

• King of QUB3D – 15G - Beat the High Score in QUB3D.

You will find Qub3d machines in pubs, bars and strip clubs. The high score at the start is 10,950. It is quite easy to do once you know how to play the game, you need to get 4 blocks of the same colour next to each other, if you make a square you get a special attack which can remove a lot of blocks, you fail if the blocks get to the top of the screen, similar to Tetris.

• Finish Him – 15G - Complete 10 melee counters in 4 minutes.

Just as someone goes to swing a punch press A and you will duck, follow it up with Y and this is a counter. Basically you will duck, and then do 3 or 4 punches/kicks if it is done right, as it say you have to do 10 in 4 minutes. I have not found a good place to do this yet, the majority of the time I either run out of people or have the police come up to me.

• Genetically Superior – 25G - Come first in 20 singleplayer street races.

When you become good friends with Bruice you can call him up and do a race, you need to win 20 of these, there is 3 races on each island to compete in, they take roughly 4-6 minutes to complete each race so this will take a while to get!

• Wheelie Rider – 30G - Do a wheelie lasting at least 500 feet on a motorbike.

This is easiest on a fast bike (not the chopper style). Find a long highway, or use the airport runway and then pull back on the stick, do not keep the throttle pressed down but tap it every so often. With practice you will know when to tap the throttle without any explanation!

• Gobble Gobble – 10G - Score 3 strikes in a row, a turkey, in 10-pin bowling.

In the first lane take 2 steps to the left then throw the ball without altering it. It is best to do this steadily, pull back on the stick, then steadily push forward, you do not want to stop when the stick is in the center, but you should notice it is in the center (if you get me?!) It is easy once you master this.

• Driving Mr. Bellic – 10G - Unlock the special ability of taxi.

Early in the game when Roman likes you a lot you will be able to call him up for a taxi ride from anywhere. Just go out with him when he calls and you should get it quite soon. People are not getting this phone call, you need to make sure you have been someone like played darts with him, then you need to be driving about long enough for him to call you. (If you kill him or have a bad “Date” then you need to get his “Like %” up.

• Rolled Over – 30G - Do 5 car rolls in a row from one crash.

This one seems to be quite tough; I have been trying it at the airport but keep landing perfect barrel rolls!!!

• Walk Free – 50G - Lose a 4 star wanted rating by outrunning the cops.

Ok the easiest way for me to get this was to go to the airport in a fast car or bike, then when you go onto the runway you instantly get 4 stars. Now drive alongside the runway on the sandy path next to the sea, you need to out run the police and then drive over a bump into the sea, this got me just outside of the circle and I got the achievement.

• Courier Service – 10G - Complete all 10 package delivery jobs.

When you have done a few missions and met Jacob you can call him and select Job in the phone, there will be a car you need to pick up and drive to somewhere, there is 3 variants; timed, police bust and rival gang. Do all 10 of these missions.

• Retail Therapy – 10G - Unlock the special ability of buying guns from a friend.

When Jacob likes you a lot (80%+) you can call him up and meet him, he will then sell you guns cheaper than weapon shops. Do all the courier missions and then take him out, did not take me long to get it to 80% after this.

• Chain Reaction – 20G - You must blow up 10 vehicles in 10 seconds.

Cheats may disable this! I was on a bridge on the 3rd island and there were road works making it change to one lane (with a barrier in the middle so the other side is not connected) and I crashed into the car in front, this made a pile up of 3 cars, I then waited for more cars to come behind me and counted them to make sure there was 10. Now just run down dropping a grenade as often as possible!

• One Man Army – 40G - Survive 5 minutes on 6 star wanted level.

As soon as you get the 2nd island steal a helicopter from the “Helicopter Tour”, or go into the airport and get a helicopter, fly over to the other island you have not unlocked and you get 6 stars, now just fly around for 5 minutes without landing and you will get it easily.

• Order Fulfilled – 10G - Complete all 10 Exotic Export orders.

Bruice will send you emails asking for certain cars, you must get a specific car from a specific location, not just any car of the same type. Reply positively to the email then drive to the car and take it to Bruice’s garage, there is 10 to do.

• Manhunt – 15G - Complete the most wanted side missions from the police computer.

Get in a police car and press “LB” while stationary, then select the “Most Wanted” option, select a person and click locate, you now need to drive to them and eliminate all the people marked on the radar. There are 10 of these to do on each of the 3 main islands. So 30 in total.

• Cleaned The Mean Streets – 20G - Capture 20 criminals through the police computer.

On the police computer again (“LB” when inside a police car) you can select “Criminal Activity”, select a crime and go kill all the people at the scene on the radar, do this 20 times on any island. This and “Manhunt” are not related.

• It'll Cost Ya – 5G - Complete a taxi ride without skipping from one island to another.

Set a waypoint to another island (you will need to have unlocked one first) and then watch the whole journey, do not skip it! But you can tell the driver to hurry it up (Press “X”).

• Sightseer – 5G - Fly on all helicopter tours of Liberty City.

On the second island there is a “Helicopter Tour” located on the south east corner (It should be on your map), there is 6 landing pads, you need to take each tour once. (I only took 5 tours and got it).

• Warm Coffee – 5G - Successfully date a girl to be invited into her house.

After a date you get the option to end the date or ask to be invited inside, you need to ask to come in and then go in, if successfully you will get a cut scene where you can hear them going at it. Check the stats to see how much they like you before trying this, I was like 90% and got accepted first time.

• That's How We Roll! – 10G - Unlock the special ability of helicopter.

When Bruice likes you a lot (80%+) you can call him up and he will come and pick you up in the helicopter and take you anywhere, just like a taxi. As usual just do activities with him, as well as delivering the 10 cars he wants.

• You Got The Message – 20G - Deliver all 30 cars ordered through text message.

Later in the game Bruice will give you Steve’s number (If I remember correctly it is after you do a race with him), who will send you a text message with a picture of a car; you must find the car and deliver it, you are not told where the car is!

• Dare Devil – 30G - Complete 100% of the unique stunt jumps.

Find and land all 50 stunt jumps.

• Assassin's Greed – 20G - Complete all 9 assassin missions.

When you meet Phil in the story, he will tell you to call his friend, but he will only use a hard line. You will be able to go to a phone box and ring an unknown person, he will give you someone to kill, simply do all 9 missions. This is located on the radar but does not count towards the main story.

• Endangered Species – 50G - Collect every hidden package in the game.

Around the city you will see and hear pigeons which have a red glow (like weapons), simply kill them all. This is rumored to give the Annihilator helicopter rockets!

• Under The Radar – 40G - Fly underneath the main bridges in the game that cross water with a helicopter.

Bridge Locations Get in a helicopter and fly underneath all 14 of the bridges, some of them are very low to the water. The most South Western bridge is a bit buggy, if you fly under the curved bit which is directly above the water it may not register, you need to fly under the left section (If flying from the east to west) which is only slightly over the water to make it register if you have this problem! Note that during the playthrough, one of the missions will force you to fly your helicopter under one of the bridges (Broker?) which means that there are 13 additional bridges to fly under.

• Dial B For Bomb – 10G - Unlock the special ability of phoning for a bomb to be placed.

When Packie likes you a lot (80%+) you can ring him and he will leave a bomb for you to pick up, you can then place it underneath a car and ring it to detonate it. As usual do activities with him.

• Liberty City (5) – 20G - After meeting all possible friends, the ones left alive all like you above 90%.

Big Spoiler: Jacob, Bruice, Packie, and Dwayne (If he is still alive), yes that is only 3 or 4, and not 5 as the title says. Get these characters to like you above 90% by doing activities with them.

• No More Strangers – 5G - Meet all random characters.

There are 14 random people around the city, when you go near them they temporarily appear on your radar, walking near them activates a cut scene and sometimes they ask you to help them on a mission.

• Liberty City Minute – 30G - Complete the story missions in less than 30 hours.

This one is easily doable if you just stick to the main story when playing, I watched all cut scenes, used taxis to go everywhere (skipping the journey), and reloaded if I died, failed or got arrested). I had a lot of hours to spare after it. The main story missions are the ones which flow on from each other, e.g. you meet Vlad while working for Roman. All of the story missions will be located on the radar, while secondary missions usually require you to ring the person up to activate them.

• Key To The City – 100G - Achieve 100% in "Game progress" statistic.

This involves completing everything on top of the main story:

• • Kill 200 Pigeons
  • Land 50 stunt jumps
  • Find all 14 friends and do their missions and unlock the special abilities (around 80% like)
  • Get all you friends to like you a lot (I got them to 100% to be safe)
  • Beat you friends at all the games; Bowling, Darts and Pool
  • When you go into the phone and select the friend you will have a list of activities you can do with that friend, you need to do each activity with them at least once!
  • Kill the 30 Most Wanted
  • Catch 20 random criminals
  • Deliver 10 of Jacobs deliveries
  • Win all the races with Bruice
  • Deliver 10 cars from emails
  • Deliver 30 cars from text message

[edit] Multiplayer – 140 points

• Teamplayer – 10G - Kill 5 players who are not in your team, in any ranked multiplayer team game.

This needs to be done in 1 round, and as it says on any “Team” game, e.g. “Team Deathmatch".

• Cut Your Teeth – 5G - Earn a personal rank promotion in multiplayer.

You will get this from just playing a few rounds of multiplayer.

• Join The Midnight Club – 10G - Win a ranked multiplayer race without damaging your vehicle too much and with damage enabled.

Simple as the title says.

• Fly The Co-op – 15G - Beat our time in ranked versions of "Deal Breaker", "Hangman's NOOSE" and "Bomb da Base II".
  • Deal Breaker: 07 minutes & 04 seconds
  • Hangman’s NOOSE: 02 minutes & 32 seconds
  • Bomb da Base II: 05 minutes & 56 seconds

• Taking It For The Team – 10G - Be on the winning team in all ranked multiplayer team games.

I am guessing that this needs to be done on these modes:

• • Team Deathmatch
  • Team Mafia Work
  • Team Car Jack City
  • Cop’s `n` Crooks
  • Turf Wars

• Top Of The Food Chain – 10G - Kill 20 players with a pistol in a ranked multiplayer deathmatch.

Simple enough, as the title says, I think this is accumulated and not in one round.

• Top The Midnight Club – 20G - Come first in 20 different ranked standard multiplayer races.

I am not sure about this one, but assume it is simple as the title says.

• Wanted – 20G - Achieve the highest personal rank in multiplayer.

There is 10 ranks, you earn ranks by collecting money off people you kill, or by completing set objectives in co-op for example. Hangman’s NOOSE imo is the quickest way to do this; in hard you can finish it in 3 minutes with 3 people getting you a minimum of $4500.

• Auf Wiedersehen Petrovic – 30G - Win all ranked multiplayer variations, all races and "Cops 'n Crooks", as both sides.

This needs you to win on every mode and on both sides (if there is different sides).

• Let Sleeping Rockstars Lie – 10G - Kill a Rockstar developer in a ranked multiplayer match.

I assume (this has still not been confirmed) this is viral, so once someone has it, if you kill them, you will get it.