Full health: R1, R2, L1, O, left, down, right, up, left, down, right, up
Full Armor: R1, R2, L1, X, left, down, right, up, left, down, right, up
Full Weapons: R1, R2, L1, R2, left, down, right, up, left, down, right, up

So far the 2 most difficult missions have been "DeathRow" and "Cop Land" Deathrow is easiest if you try to kill as many guards as possible by running them all over, instead of fighting with weapons. Cop Land is straight up driving skill, and there's not too many tips for that one.

 

Go to one of the pizza parlors and hop on the delivery scooter and go deliver a bunch of pizzas. Deliver all of them, 55 in all, and you will get $5000 and your maximum health will go up to 150. Definitely worth 30 minutes to do.

 

I found that the easiest way to make money in the very beginning of the game (if you're hungry for more property to store cars in), do the ambulance missions for the hospital near the north end of the island. Go up to that area, discreetly maim a bunch of people, wait for an unsuspecting ambulance, and then take it and enjoy. Once you're up to level ~10, you're making ~5 grand each round. Good way to get to know the area too.

The first Big Mama mission (whatever her name is), where you go collecting drugs for her... is pretty darn hard cause the warning levels shoot way up to 4+ as soon as you collect the 2nd pouch of powders. No idea how to make it out of that one since I only know of one warning-level-remover-token in the area.

 

You have to guard 2 key guys when a deal is going down.

How can you guys be so far into the game already??!

I found to get $ you use the chick magnet cheat. Get a whole crowd following you, get in front of a spray shop with a car and beat them all down with a bat and take their money, when the cops show up you spray the car -after a lengthy shoot out!

 

You don't have to get rid of the warning level. Just drive like hell get all of the drugs and then get back to her shack. It only took me about five times and I think I could have gotten it done earlier, but I had trouble finding the last bag of drugs.

 

heh...the missions get ALOT harder than that. I just finished the game up tonight, and you wouldn't even believe how good the storyline is! The key to the game is owning the malibu. Impossible to beat without having the malibu, the taxi cab, and the print shop. The ice cream factory is fun, but I don't think it's necessary. If you go to the stadium at 20:00 you get to race indoor nascars.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by xpander4
[B]heh...the missions get ALOT harder than that.

 

do you *really* wanna know???? If I post the answer to that question here, the whole game will be spoiled for everyone who reads through this thread PM me if you want to know that badly.

Yes, those are all businesses you need to buy. For every business there's like 3 - 5 missions you need to complete, and oncethat's done the business just makes revenue for you on its own.

 

This game is awesome!

 

Ok, so how do you participate in races? I showed up at the arena and did the moto obstacle course, which was a hoot, but how does it determine if I do that, blood ring, or nascar? Also, does the same apply at the dirt bike track? Do I just show up at 8:00 for a race?