Phone Missions GTA: 3

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There is a phone in trenton outside the Bitchin Hot Dog Factory. Its not hard to find as you've probably already passed it when you did the missions for Joey Leone.

The Phone only rings between 9.00 and 19.00 hours and you cannot access the missions unless the phone is ringing so come back later if you are at the wrong time.

These are the missions:

The guy on the pone is Marty Chonks. The man who owns the bitchin dog food factory you are standing next to. Marty believes his bank manager is cheating him out of money and so he wants you to collect the leech up from outside the bank and bring him back to the factory.

First you need to get the car inside the factory grounds, indicated by the purple dot on your radar. To get to it you must enter the factory through the gate which is just down the road from the telephone. You dont need a car to open the gate so you can walk if you like.

Once in you should easily find the car parked round the back highlighted by a blue arrow. Climb in.

Now you have to pick up the bank manager in china town. Drive carefully to the destination using your radar as guidance and try not to destroy car. A few knocks are ok but death of the car means death of the mission.

Pull up beside the bank manager (do not run him over) and wait until he gets in. Then drive him back to the dog food factory, indicated on your radar as usual, and park the car on the blue marker. Now watch the bank manager walk into the factory to meet his doom.

Once the cutscene has finished you will be instructed to take the car to the car crusher in harwood to be destroyed. DO EXACTLY THAT! If you destroy the car any other way, then you will you will fail the mission.

Once you find the car crusher, pull up on the blue marker as usual and exit the vehicle. Now you can sit back and watch the car being craned into the car crusher. Mission Complete!

Like the last mission this is equally as easy. You have to pick up some thieves from china town and deliver them to the factory.

So get the car inside the factory grounds (its a sentinel this time). Then use your radar to find the thieves who will be waiting for you on the pavement. As long as you havent run them over they will get in the car. Take them back to the factory and stop on the blue marker..

Once they walk into the factory and die, you then have to respray the car and bring it back to the factory. Use the spraycan logo on your radar to find the respray shop and once resprayed return to the factory again and park it on the blue marker. Exit the vehicle to complete the mission.

Now Marty needs some money so he plans to bump his wife so that he can claim on the insurance. As the previous two missions take the car from the factory and use your radar to find his wife. Pick her up and drive her back to the factory stopping, as usual on the blue marker.

Once the wife is dead you have to take the car and dump it in the sea. Portland Harbour is near by so take it here. Drive up to the edge of the docks and then get out. Dont try and drive up to the edge and jump out at the last minute, its not possible. You will have to use another car to nudge it into the sea.

There are plenty of cars around the harbour to do this. A gentle nudge is all that is needed to send the car to watery grave. Mission complete.

Marty's wife was seeing someone whow marty owes money to. This particular person wants to see Marty right away so you have to go and pick them up. Repeat the process of the previous missions to pick up the lover and bring him back to the factory.

Once you bring him back to the factory you will see the blue marker to stop on and a figure standing behind it. This is Marty Chonks himself. Sorry looking fellow isnt he... well... not for long! :)

This is the end of the missions at this phone so it wont ring from now on.

You will always be able to find this phone easily as its indicated on your radar as a blue phone icon. Its in hepburn heights area behind your hideout.

Like to drive fast? Good, because this mission is a race. Once El burro has finished talking to you, you need to decide what car to get. Faster is better as this is a race through check points around the city. Most people will choose the banshee (dodge viper look-alike) which you can find in Easy credit autos, next to 8-ball's.

The banshee is the fastest car you can hope for at this moment but its not the only one that can complete this misson. I have done it with the sentinel and I dare say there are a number of other vehicles that can do it. Just dont try to do it in a bus!

The aim of the mission is to drive through all the checkpoints, IN SEQUENCE, before any of the other drivers. You will be up against some cars you may not have seen before. These are the fastest cars in the game but if you have the banshee you will be pleased to know you have the fastest acceleration which is an advantage.

The checkpoints are shown on your radar. The pink dot is your next checkpoint and the purple dot is the checkpoint following. This gives you an idea on how to plan your route.

If you dont do this the first time, dont worry, you now have an advantage as you now have an idea to where the checkpoints are. You may not remember them all at first but the more you do this mission, the more checkpoints you will remember. Soon enough you wont even need the radar. That's when you get really fast times!

A good trick to do on this mission is to follow the leader for the whole race. This way you know where to go and when you hit the final straight (the race finishes where it starts) blast past the leader.

Be wary of the other drivers as they will take you out sometimes even if it means they lose out. Very frustrating!

El burro tells you that a gang has threatened to remove his 'best friend' should he not pay them a cut. El burro knows this gang has a soft spot for ice cream so he wants you to pick up some explosives, find the ice cream van and give them an ice cream they will remember.

So get in your car and find the suitcase of explosives using your radar. Once you have picked up the explosives a purple dot will appear on your radar to show you where the ice cream van is. Go catch it up!

The ice cream van is driving through the city so you will need to stop it in order to car jack it. In some cases you may find an ice cream van on your way to the one marked by the radar. If this is the case then you can use this also.

Once in control of the ice cream van you must take it to the place indicated on your radar by the pink dot being careful not to trash it. There is no timer so you can drive carefully. Funnily enough the ice cream van does not appear to visually take any damage but nevertheless it will damage just like any vehicle.

Once at the right place, park the van on the blue marker and sound the horn to turn on the comical music. Get out of the van and move away from it. Standing at the entrance to the yard is a good place so that you can see the van. After a moment a group of fellas will straddle out to the van. Resevoir dogs theme music would be quite appropriate here!

When the gang members are all crowded around the ice cream van, press your fire button to activate the bomb. BOOM!

If by any chance it didnt kill them all then finish them off yourself with your guns or a car. Usually the gang drop their uzis and lots of money when they are dead so help yourself!

Trial By Fire

Some triads have stolen El burro's car containing some of his prized posessions! He wants payback and he wants you to give it.

This mission is like a rampage. Make sure you have full health and armour for this mission as it is required for you to complete this on foot. First you must pick up the flame thrower from an alleyway in china town. Use the radar once again to find the location of the flamethrower.

As soon as you pick up the flamethrower you will activate the timer. You must kill 25 triads within the time limit to complete this. The best thing to do is to make your way to the nearby basket ball court which is just east of where you picked up the flamethrower. Use the car to get there if you wish.

There should be a whole bunch of triads standing in the basket ball court and as long as you keep moving around it, triads will appear all about you. The reason why its a good place to do this mission is because it keeps you out of the roads where you are safe from vengeful triads who may run you over in their vans having seen you toasting their mates.

Taking out triads with guns first and not setting yourself on fire are important things to keep in mind. If you find that there are no triads around, move out of the basket ball court and into th park area that surrounds. Dont worry about taking out the odd pedestrian, although you will attract the police if you kill too many of the public.

Killing the triads by running them over does not count, only the flame thrower can do the business. Boo!

Warning:- if the triads dont hate you already, then they sure will after this mission. Watch your back in triad territory as they will do anything to kill you!

This could be a tough mission depending on how fast you can drive. El burro informs you that someone has stolen a van full of porn mags and the driver has left the back door open spilling a trail of them all over town. You must pick them up one by one before the counter reaches zero. Everytime you pick up a magazine, it adds a second to your counter.

For this mission you will have to be quick and skillful. Unfortunately you will have to use the van allocated which is tricky to drive fast as its always trying to tip over.

As you may well know picking up the magazines is not as simple as it seems. Traffic is running as usual and on most occasions will get in your way. Timing is important here as you may well reach a magazine just as another vehicle is on top of it.

The best thing to do if this happens is to come alongside the vehicle and barge it to the side. You only have to touch the magazine to pick it up so you dont have to drive totally over it. Shunting a car from the rear usually ends in tears as you will probably lose control.

Seeing as only a few wasted seconds can mean the end of the mission you should try and avoid all major collisions even if it means waiting a moment to wait for a blockage to clear. The key to this mission is to drive cleanly and not panic if you here the counter ticking down the last 10 seconds. This is usually the point where you will lose the mission as your driving becomes more erratic as you struggle to collect the magazines, causing you to make an error. There are points where you will be able to catch up so if you hear the countdown, keep calm!

Dont fret if you dont do the first time around. Like turismo, this mission becomes easier the more you do it as you will learn where the trail of magazines leads.

Following the trail will bring you to portland harbour. When entering the final area to pick up the last of the mags, you will see a van with a man standing in front of it directly after the final mag. Simply run the man over to finish this part of the mission.

You then have to drive the van to XXX magazines in the red light district. Use your radar to find the dropoff point. The blue marker, where you must park the van, is in an alleyway behind xxx magazines. Now you can sit back and watch all those dirty old men buy their copy.

What's quite funny is that when you comlete this mission there will be a stack of porno mags delivered to your hideout. oh but you cant read them. Doh... i mean good!

This is the last of the phone missions for El burro but should you return to this phone later, you will be able to compete in turismo again and again. The radar will not tell you were this phone is from now on though.

Similar to 'Turismo' on Portland Island, this mission requires you to pass through 15 checkpoints. However it is different. Once the mission starts a checkpoint is highlighted on the radar. When the checkpoint has been passed through by someone another one will appear regardless of whether you passed through it first or not.

Get yourself a fast car. Preferrably a Banshee, Cheetah, Stinger or Infernus. Once you have the car of your choice, find the blue marker pointed out on your radar and stop on it.

When you see your opponents pull up, you may laugh at them. But dont. Well... you can laugh at the pickup truck. I dont know why it thinks it has a hope of winning this. You should take the Patriot and the Cheetah seriously though as they could give you a run for your money depending on how good you are.

The counter will count down and you will be off. Quickly glance at your radar to see where the first checkpoint and go for it. After you pass through the checkpoint you need to check your radar for the next one. It may be right next to you or unfortunately it may appear right next to one of your oppoonents giving you no chance.

Dont fret when you dont get one. Even the best drivers dont get them all. To increase your chances, pass through the checkpoint just before your opponent. That way you will have dragged them away from the next one giving you more chance to get it yourself.

You have to pass through at least 5 checkpoints to have a chance but collect 8 to be sure. Dont stop at 8 though, because every checkpoint you pass through gives you $1,000.

Drive quickly and carefully. Try not to hit anything. Driving like a maniac might get you to the checkpoint quicker but it will also trash your car quicker and while you are looking for a new car, your opponents are getting checkpoints. Your opponents will also try and ram you if they get the chance so keep you distance.

Oh and doing this mission in rain is alot harder. Driving on a wet road is a bit like trying to chew marshmallow with no teeth.

An easy mission here. You are still being tested by the Yardie's and they want you to drive to Diablo turf and kill some Diablo's to prove yourself. Once you gain contol you will be in a crappy Perenniel. Dont get out to find another car you have to use this car.

Now drive to Hepburn Heights on Portland Island using the radar as guidance. Use the tunnel. It brings you right out into Diablo territory and you wont have to traverse Triads or the Mafia. Once there, you will be instructed to kill some Diablo's. You need to kill 10 but do not leave the car.

Running them over is easiest. You can also use the Uzi to do a drive by if you want. Try not to kill any Diablo's when there is a Diablo Stallion around. This will cause the it to come after you and its hard to shake it off when your in a crappy Perenniel.

Once you have killed 10 Diablo's its time to head back to Staunton Island going back the same way you came. Through the tunnel. Stop on the blue marker in Newport opposite the white multi-storey carpark to finish the mission.

Congratualations. You've now succeded in turning every gang on Portland against you. I hope you havent left your favourite car over there! :)

This one is abit long and boring. King Coutney wants you to steal a Mafia Sentinel, Diablo Stallion and a Yakuza Stinger. The first two of these are, annoyingly, on Portland Island so you are going to have to make at least two trips over.

When the mission starts you will have one pink dot on the radar. This is the garage you must deliver the cars to. You will also realise there are not dots telling you where the cars are. You have to find them yourself.

Get yourself over to portland then for the first car. I recommend using the tunnel because you will come out directly onto Diablo turf and will not have to drive through Triad or Mafia territory.

Remember that you are a wanted man on Portland. You should be fine in Diablo and Triad territory but the Mafia are very dangerous with those shotguns.

To get a Mafia Sentinel you will have to find the Mafia Gentlemen's club at the top of the hill (east) in St Mark's. There are two Mafia Sentinels parked out the front of it which are easier to get than trying to car jack one on the streets.

Dont use the roads to get to the Gentlemen's club. Drive up the hillside behind Easy credit autos to get to the top to avoid risk of being shot by the Mafia. Once you have the Sentinel, take it back to staunton using the tunnel. Drive carefully as any damage caused will have to be repaired at the respray shop before it is delivered.

Now head back to Portland using the tunnel again. Unfortunately none of the Diablo Stallion's are parked anywhere in the city so you will have to cruise around the Hepburn Heights area looking for one. Be careful. The Diablo are after you and will pull you out your car if they get the chance.

Once you find a Diablo Stallion, car jack it and get it back to Staunton in one piece. Once deposited in the garage you only have the Yakuza Stinger to get. Head over to Kenji's Casino in Torrington to find one parked in the car park.

Return it to the garage untouched to complete the mission.

Be sure to have a good long range weapon here, like the M-16 or AK. Make sure your health and armour is full too and that you have a fairly quick car.

Your told that there is something King Courtney wants from a car in Bedford Point and he wants you to collect it. You only have a minute and a half to find it, so head over to Bedford Point using the west Highway. When you get close, use the radar to find the car in the carpark.

If you have time, destroy the van parked to the right (south) of the car. There is a group of spanked up madmen in it waiting for you. Get in the car and you will read the letter from Catalina. Your ex-girlfriend / backstabber. She has found out about your dealings with the Yardies and has set you up!

You will then see a demonstration of the spanked up madmen. Once you have control you have to get out the car park as quickly as possible. Run or drive out of the north exit to the car park as fast as you can, keeping your distance from the mad man who gets out the van . They will only blow up if they are right next to you meaning you have a little room to get around him.

Once out the car park, find the steps to the east of the entrance you just came out of and go up them to get a clear view of the carpark. Your first task is to destroy the vans because the madmen will keep getting out unless you do. Have a look on your radar to make sure none of them have managed to follow you up the steps.

The madmen should be grouped below you or stuck in some garages to your right (west). Make sure all 4 vans have been destroyed and then go after the remaing madmen. A good tactic is to enter the car park again from the south-east entrance to the carpark and kill the madmen from a distance with a rifle.

Once the madmen are killed its mission complete. The Yardies now hate you so be careful in the Newport area.

D-Ice is part of the South Side Hood which consists of the Red Jacks (red) and the Nines (purple). They patrol the streets all around Witchita on foot and in dodgy looking Rumpo vans.

The pay does not do this mission any justice as you find yourself in the thick of it Withita Gardens. D-Ice doesnt like the new Nines who have started operating around Witchita gardens. The Red Jacks and the Nines look similar but the Nines are wearing purple, where as the Red Jacks are wearing red unsurprisingly.

Your job is to teach the Nines what a real driveby is by killing 20 of them using your uzi from your car. After trying this mission several times. I found it was easier to complete using a fast car like the cheetah or banshee. Go get one if you havent got one already.

As soon as you get into a car after speaking on the phone, the timer starts. You now have 2 minutes to kill 20 Nines using the driveby method. Any Nine that is killed any other way will not be counted towards the tally. Any Red Jacks killed do not count either.

There is a special techinique to this mission. First of all you must drive around and around the housing blocks by using the roads that go around them. Some things you shouldnt do are:

1. Killing Nines when there are dozens of Hood members about. They will all shoot at you at the same time, wasting your car in seconds. Try to take out Nines that are walk on there own.

2. Killing Nines when there are Rumpo vans about. The vans will begin to give chase and you will have to lose them before you can continue the mission.

3. Stop. You can be pulled out your car in a second if your not looking in the right direction. This wont happen if you keep moving.

Having said all that, sometimes its hard to not do these things. Do you your best to get out of a risky situation as fast as possible should you get into it.

The main way of getting the kills safely is to drive around and look for a Nine walking on his own. Slow the car right down, shoot him from the window and then speed off to a safe distance. Keep repeating this and you will eventually bring the tally up. Dont worry if you cant find any, just keep circling the housing blocks and they will appear.

If you are hesitant about a situation, then dont do it. Drive on and find another one. One wrong decision can lead to you failing the mission, so be sure that it is safe to kill them. Do it and then move on to the next one.

The key to this mission is to try and recieve as little damage to you car as possible. This is why the fast cars a better because they can speed off should you get into touble. The Barracks OL can take more damage but its too slow and doesnt last very long. Keeping perfecting your technique of driving round, finding and Nine on his own, slowing down, shooting him and then driving off at speed. That's how real driveby's are done anyway.

D-Ice is still on a mission to hurt the Nines in an attempt to stop them transporting their spank around the city. They are using armoured cars to do this and D-Ice points you to a location where you can collect some gear to do the job.

Drive back up to your hideout to find the toy van parked behind it in a carpark with a blue arrow pointing to it.

This is as easy as it is boring. You have to drive an exploding buggy to three Securicar's that are driving around Shoreside Vale. There is not many tactics to talk about because its os easy to do. As long as you are patient and do go and drive the buggy into cars or off a cliff you will do this no problem.

Driving on the footpaths reduces the risk of you hitting any other cars and it is impossible to hit any people with the buggy. Use your radar to find them and navigate carefully to them. Once you find a Securicar, pointed to by a big blue arrow, drive right up to, or under, them and detonate the buggy using your fire button.

You only have room to make one mistake as there are a total of 4 buggies in your stash. Be patient and dont take risks when driving the buggies. They do have breaks you know.

Some Joker has rigged D-Ice's car with a bomb and the timer is ticking. To spare his reputation, you are to drive his car all the way to St Mark's on Portland Island to get it defused. The car is parked up behind your hideout in the same place as the van was in the last mission 'Toyminator'. Go get to it as fast as you can.

The tricky part of this mission is not the time limit. 6 minutes is long enough to drive to Portland. The tricky part is avoiding damage. You have to drive fairly quickly but avoiding all collisions with other cars.

The best route to take is through the tunnel. There is an entrance to the tunnel right below where you are parked. Take a short cut down the hill south of you hideout onto the double laned road below. Enter the tunnel and drive all the way to Portland.

Be very careful in the tunnel. As you probably all ready know, the other drivers continually change lane at a moments notice. Sometimes they change lane for no apparent reason other than to frustrate you. When passing other vehicles, use the accelerator sparringly and assume that they are going to pull out in front of you. This way you will be ready to slam on your brakes if they do.

When doing this mission, make sure you are extra vigilant of other cars. Try and predict which way they are going and assume that cars are going to swing in front of you at junctions. Most of them wont but there are ocassions when a car will suddenly cut in front of you. Bare in mind that you do not need to drive at full speed the whole way there. You can drive at full speed to the garage in about 2 minutes. That's 4 minutes you can spend being careful. Use them and you will get their with no problem.

Should you be blocked by two cars in both lanes, carefully barge down the middle of them. You can recieve a few bumps and knocks but anything too high will cause the bomb to go off.

Strangely, when you arrive on Portland, none of the gangs who are out for your blood give you a slight bit of notice. This means you can drive safely to the garage in St Mark's at the top of the hill. Because of this, you dont need to take any strange routes into St Mark's to avoid gang members.

Once you find the garage, using your radar as help, drive in to diffuse the bomb. Once this is done you will recieve a message to repair the car should you have recieved any damage on the way. Get it repaired at a respray shop if this is the case and return it safely to where you found it to complete the mission.

A plane carrying a cargo of platimum has spilled its contents onto the streets in Pike Creek. You have to pickup 30 pieces and return them to a lockup in Pike Creek itself. The twist is that for every piece you pick up, your vehicle will increase in weight. You wanted level will also increase after picking up several pieces.

You will need a suitable car for this mission and I recommend the Patriot because it doesnt seem to be affected by the weight as much. Fast cars, such as the cheetah, become slow very quickly.

Drive over to Pike Creek as quickly as possible using the radar to show you where the bullion is scattered. The lockup you have to take the bullion to is indicated by the pink dot on your radar. When you arrive you will see hundreds of pieces scattered all over the streets. At this point you can make two different tactics.

You can actually pickup 30 in one go by driving down from the west of the scattered bullion and driving down the hill to pick up as many as you can on the way down. Going down hill keeps your speed up. Doing it this way will increase your wanted level to about 2 stars.

Alternatively a safer, but longer, way is to collect about 5 pieces at a time. You will have to make 6 trips but your wanted level will not rise above 1. Your car will also be lighter so there will be less risk of being captured by the police should you get into trouble.

Whatever way you do it, your biggest enemy in this mission is the police, not the time limit. Keep your cool and your speed up. Picking up many pieces of bullion can reduce your car to a walking speed. Slow enough for a policeman to easily run up and pull you out. You have been warned :)

The Nines are still bugging D-Ice and he has arranged for you to go one on one with the help of another Red Jack against a group of them. Make sure you have full health and armour. Hopefully you wont need it but there is alway a possiblity.

Drive up to your hideout to find a Red Jack waiting to be picked up. Here he will explain to you that it will be a war of bats meaning no guns or cars can be used. If a Nine member gets killed any other way than the bat in your hand, then you will fail the mission.

Once you pick up the Red Jack, drive back down the road ramp and find the picnic area where the Nines are waiting for you. Dont drive right into the picnic area. Get out your car and walk into the picnic area. If you drive in and get pulled out then you will quickly surrounded by all of them.

Switching to the standard controls makes it easier to aim in this mission. You can use the mouse to aim making it easy to turn and hit any Nine that is close to you.

Seeing how many of them there are can frighten you at first. Dont be worried. When you get close to one of them they will all come after you. Let them come to you and rapidly hit the fire button so that you start swinging that bat about. They will come at you and line up as each one is knocked to the ground. Dont worry they wont surround you as long as you move away from them every time you move.

You cant rely on the other Red Jack to do the work. No matter how much he hits them they never get hurt by him. It's up to you! If you should get knocked to the ground run away as soon as you get up again. Keep a check on your health to see if its getting low. If it is go and find some more. Dont worry about leaving them behind. You can drive all over Shoreside and they will still come after you.

Once you have beaten the last one to a pulp, you will complete the mission.