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 Grand Theft Auto Hints and Secrets
If you have a cool hint or tip please email me with "GTA Hint" in the subject line at

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Grand Theft Auto Hints and Tips

 

Stolen Car Price Guide, note if you take a car twice in succesion the value will half, and will keep dropping by $1000 each succesive time.

Liberty City
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Beast GTS = $12000
Contach = $12000
Cossie = $12000
Superbike = $12000
Stinger = $8000
Interceptor = $8000
Classic = $8000
Bulldog = $8000
Italia = $8000
TV Van = $8000
Thunderhead = $8000
Jugular = $8000
Porka Turbo = $8000
Penetrator = $8000
Mundano = $6000
Stallion = $6000
Transit Van = $6000
Repair Van = $6000
4x4 = $4000
Regal = $4000
Challenger = $4000
Pickup = $4000
Portsmouth = $4000
Taxi = $2000
Bug = $2000
Bike = $2000
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San Andreas
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Penetrator = $12000
Beast GTS = $12000
Porka Turbo = $10000
Superbike = $10000
Stinger = $10000
Speeder = $10000
Stinger Z29 = $8000
Roadster = $8000
TV Van = $8000
Mamba = $8000
Bulldog = $8000
Italia GTO = $8000
Pickup = $6000
Mundano = $6000
Flamer = $6000
Repair Van = $6000
Transit Van = $6000
Regal = $4000
Vulture = $4000
4x4 = $4000
Bike = $4000
Portsmouth = $4000
Taxi = $2000
Bug = $1000
Love Wagon = $?????
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Thanks to D-Low

having trouble with noisy car alarms and sirens in that freshly stolen car? Exit and enter again and the alarm/siren will have shutup!
Thanks to Paul Mew

Here is a list of some of the missions that I have foundin GTA level 1-1. Northeast park, there is a TAxi parked on the side of the road. Northeast Island look for the Cossie in the courtyard. South Tellberg has another car in a courtyard. Southwest Island Heights has the Beast GTS. Northwest Fort Law, look for a car under the train tracks. Northwest Law Island has a big tanker. Northeast Fort Law you can take a trip with Sandra Bullock in the "Speed" bus.
Thanks to Mike

Tequilla Slammer level, tank kill frenzy. At the bottom left of the map is an island, jump onto it using a bike. Get the info "The doors of destruction are open" then go to the park (lower) in South East Richman.
Thanks P.R.Cannon

I read your hack, but I don't think your Frenzy killing
spree is completely correct. All I did was increase the
number of ammunition to 9999. This will give me unlimited
ammo and have a killing spree for over 350 seconds (enough
to cover the length of the demo).See ****

For *, I tried 1,2,3 and all it did was put the box high
in the air. I guess this is for bridges, motorcycle jumps,
and helicopters. Putting in 5 makes the box disapprear.

* ****
393 (127,136,4) POWERUP 3 9999
from Tonis

if you are being chased by the cops, jump over cars as you are running away
(the police will run around vehicles) it will buy you time until you find a
car.
from dave walsh

On the third mission, head towards Woodside docks, and on arrival, head
north till you come to a long ramp. Go flat out on the ramp, and you
should land on an island with a tank. Get in the tank, and you have a
new secret. The tank can fire, unlike in mission 2, and it can go on
water. Just don't stop in the middle of water, or you sink.
Snoopy_Q

• Ok, this secret is brutal!! This is on the San Andreas map and located in Northeast
Sunview. Go to the bombshop (no, not in it) and continue north until you see a tight doorway. Enter and keep going north, even over the water, and you find a tank!
• Steer your car to the parkinglot in East Woodhill. Enter the Lovewagon and you get a R/C
car to blow other cars to pieces!!
From GTA Frenzy

I'm sure u know about gouranga!--that happens when u run over all
the girl scouts or monks or whatever they are;) every1 knows about
that--theres another cool thing to do though--take a bike(perferably a
superbike) and take it to a train station--the one where the speed bus is the
best one(the one that has the bus where the extra mission is keep it above
50--just like in the movie speed) well anyways--the super bike can go up the
steps so u can use then as a ramp and go flyin over the tracks and land in the
street--u blow up--but its fun to land on cars and pedestrians =) u can put it
on u're web page--that woudl be cool :) later
From AaRoN

The superbike is wort 10000 dollars if not scratched. You can sell it at several cargo pickups and one is in north ardler (the name of the district)

From [email protected]

when playing Grand Theft Auto I got bored of driving cars and decided to try trains.In doing-so I accidently pressed Ctrl +Alt while I was on the train and this ment that I could controll the train with the arrow keys.

From James Lewis and Ben Sturley

The superbike (and the regular motorcycle as well) has a very interesting property. If you're going down a nice long stretch of road, a bridge for example, there is a way you can speed down the road at maximum speed without having to dodge cars. Basically, tweak your direction so that you're headed right on the lines that separate the lanes. If you can get perfectly lined up, you'll never have to worry about dodging the other motorists. This can also work if you hug the curb just right.
This solves the little problem with the superbike that it's generally too fast to handle.

From [email protected]

The AutoDec shops are essential to quickly completing missions. They can be seen as a corrugated iron roof with AUTO spray painted on it. One of these is close by in the angels/drug mission, and is useful after u have run the gang members over.

From [email protected]

1. selling cars: in the first city (liberty city) the docks are far away from the streets......especially one. This is extremely useful since police cars won't chase you there, even though cops on foot will. Reason why this is useful? well it means you are less "exposed" to the police when they eventually come after you (after stealing a reasonable amount of cars that is). You can stay in the dock area and take quick trips to the street getting the cars. even when you got all the cops chasing you you can continue for some while before they get you.
2.Multiplayer: a high multiplier is great.....but everytime you get busted it gets cut in half......solution? don't get cought (hard) or die (simple). especially in the first city you can find a ample supply of extra lives-find them before doing any missions.note down where you find the bribes.......when you get chased race to their location and you're home free-don't waste them!.
3.scoring: when you are reasonable adept at escaping the cops get your multiplierer up and know where to find a bribe. get hold of a truck or die-hard car and run over some ped's.....anyhow get noticed by the cops. Now comes the fun part: when you get chased turn your car and smash into the police car. Now when you have a truck or other big vehicle it will enable you to push the police car around quite easy when the cop gets out of his car to arrest you. Now just after he gets out push the car around so he gets squished. Get moving again and repeat ad infinitum for really big points. The catch is that you need to switch cars when they get..erm....used up. The best way is to use the dead cops car to escape quickly and find another big truck...like the ones in the second city. Those ones can withstand and enormous amount of damage before they blow up and have the added advantage of blowing up police cars when they smash into you from the rear-really great entertainment. when you have enough use the bribe.
3.the hare chrishna people in the second city make for a great points booster-just run into them splatting them all at once-hey i don't like people who follow me around :-)

From [email protected]

Well heh...it's cheap as all hell but it works. I know a lot of people have trouble getting past levels in GTA because it's too hard to just drive slow and normal. It's much more fun to haul ass around, shoot cops and generally break the law at every opportunity. Unfortunatly you usually end up getting shot or busted. Here is a way I have devised to get past a scenario if you can't make enough money from the missions. Drive around until you can find a crate with a submachine gun. Then find a good closed in area like an alley that is close to a street. Keep stealing cars one after another and drive them into the alley and pile them close together. After about 20 or 30 cars uzi the closest one to hell so it explodes. This will cause a chain reaction that will blow up all the cars, and you recieve an exponential amount $ for each successive car. For about 20 cars you get around $4million.

From [email protected]

When you start the game jump over the car in front of you and wait in the road and a souped up beast GTI Will drive past. Then head up along the road and the first crate is a machine gun. Now your totally kitted out!

From [email protected]

Unfortunately, all the cops can run as fast as you, so it is impossible to escape on foot. However, if you find yourself in this situation, run around obstacles such as cars, trees, crates, and always run around corners. On a straight line, cops are fast, but when turning whilst running they slow down significantly. Indeed, once I let a cop chase me, ran around a bus, and got in his car whilst he was still fumbling around the front of the bus.

From [email protected]

The AutoDec shops are very useful for all the missions where you have to "accquire" a police car. Once you have been assigned to such a mission, find one of those shops. Park your car right next to it, then start shooting pedestrians until the cops are after you (a cop's face will appear at the top of the screen). When a squad car shows up, wait until the cop steps out of it. Enter your car and run him over. Now drive your car into the shop. After the car is "clean", the cops will harrass (spelling?) you no longer. You can now enter the police car and do whatever you have been told to do without having to worry about the pigs chasing you around.

From [email protected]

In the mission with the Tank Tal Atar was incorrect. You can move the barrel by holding down the "Tab" key and using your arrow keys "left" and "right". I still have not found a way to shoot.

From [email protected]

If your in a runaway chase with the police, try to get yourself in a tanker, when your driving down the road with the cops right behind you, they will usually bump the tanker, but since the tanker is much stronger, the cop car blows up while u safely manage to keep driving away.... it happened to me many times... but this usually means more cops will be on your ass especially if only one cop has been initially called.

From [email protected]

I'm not 100% sure about this, but the cops slow down if you park the stolen car off the road. Instead of leaving it on the road and jumping into another car, park it on the hard shoulder. I remeber waiting for the train for like 3 mins and no cop showed up even though I had stolen 2 cars parked beside me.

From [email protected]

This is a response to the previous comment. In the San Andreas missions you can shoot with the tank! (You always could rotate the barrel..hold TAB and arrow keys to move). Down hidden in the marina, there is a tank...when entered you enter a kill frenzy bonus game. During the time limit you are able to shoot unlimited rockets out of the tank. If you get the damage needed by the kill frenzy...you earn a free man.

From [email protected]

The best way to steal a cop's car without killing him and getting in even more trouble is to lure him out of his car to chase you, then quickly getting back to his car and grabbing it. The best part is that he wont even rip you out of the cop car and arrest you if he catches you, he just acts like a stranded moterist.

From [email protected]

 
Here is a tip to net millions of dollars in a short amount of time.

1. Locate a garage. 
2. Find a spot close by that has an open area at least 2 car lengths from the nearest road. 
3. Steal a bus and block off the nearby road to make line of cars to steal. 
4. Steal the cars and park them in parallel formation as close as possible to each other. 
5. Every fourth car or so go to the garage and change the plates so as the cops don't get wise to your exploits. 
6. When you have 10 to 20 cars blow one up (standing well back) with your machine gun or pistol. 
7. Each successive car that explodes increases your dollars exponentially. 
8. Welcome to the millionaires club and the next level ! 
9. Oh yeah, have a fast car set aside so as you can get to the garage quickly as the cops will be all over you 
Submitted by Hamish

When a cop is chasing you on foot , shoot his car and it will explode 
lighting the cop on fire. 
Submitted by Timothy

Get a machine-gun or a flame-thrower, stand in front of the Gouranga group leader and shoot. You'll get around 100000 points and the cops after you. But don't worry you've always got the AUTO shop! 
Submitted by Terminator

If you steal a cops car and drive over that cop with the car you make 7000 points. 
Submitted by Morten

With the rocket launcher, when your near that  Monk group or people in Orange wait until they are walking beside a building and  fire! I got about 400,000 points! 
Submitted by Paul

If you want to listen to music while you are playing the GTA demo, just put your favorite cd in your CD-ROM and the music will start when you start the demo.  Hit F5 to change tracks.  
Submitted by schu

The rocket launcher and the flame thrower are very dangerous weapons, but most of the time it is you who are in danger.  Make sure that you are a good distance from your target, otherwise you'll be the one incinerated on the pavement.  Another rocket launcher tip is to try and shoot the building near your target.  A portion building will blow up and anything near it will be blown up as well.   
Submitted by schu 

I found out that if you punch the leader of the Gouranga group about 11 or 12 times.. maybe more.. I know it took a lot, he'll start to chase you, sometimes he'll chase you to beat you up, or he'll just follow you around like a sidekick, I had two punching a pedestrian at the same time:) any ways you could do that with any of the members, but if you tick off the leader, they'll all follow.. kinda like follow the leader :)    
Submitted by MyStiC

If the cop's get to hot on your tail and you  don't want to loose those precious bonus points you just got after having  finished a couple of missions, you can in the city of Liberty, seek shelter in  the park, it's just above the phones where you pick up your first mission. If  the cops are following you in a car, simply enter this park, and you can outrun  them by driving through the park. The cops will not follow you unless they are  on foot. Also when you are being chased, use the alleys  for quick get aways.    
Submitted by Steen 

The only way I've found to use the motorcycles over long distances is to try and drive either on the yellow center line, or to drive right on the curb.  It doesn't work all the time but it sure helps    
Submitted by schu

To take over the train just wait at a platform and when it stops use the <ENTER> key (just like a car).  Once inside hit the <CTRL> key.  You can then stop and start the train with the arrow keys and open the doors with the <ENTER> key, but only at a platform.    
You can blow up the train and derail the cars if you can find the other train on the tracks and ram it, blowing you up as well.  Another train trick is to wait on the train platform until it empties, as soon as the doors close start shooting your gun.  This will cause the people to run toward the train and they will get fried on the electric track.  Besides being quite entertaining it will also give you points.    
Submitted by schu

Try running over a train platform when a cop is chasing you on foot. You can make it if you run straight over. If you then run up or down the platform, the cop will take it diagonally and get fried. 10000 points!   
Submitted by Mr B

Buses move quite slow at first but once they get moving they can be quite good for a police chase.  As the cops chase you they tend to slam repeatedly into the back of your bus which causes them to blow up shortly afterward, but causes your bus very little damage.  Buses can take a lot of hits in the front and back, but less on the sides so keep this in mind during the chase.  Fire engines, limos, and ambulances are similar to buses but they accelerate quicker and handle better.    
Submitted by schu

Warning: The following may contain spoilers that might give away missions

Follow the lawyer:   
In the mission following the tanker truck mission, you are instructed to follow a lawyer and if he meets with his associates, you're suppose to kill them all.  The lawyer moves just about as fast as you do so make sure you keep up, otherwise you will fail the mission.  When he gets to his destination he will meet with a few thugs with automatic weapons hanging around in an alleyway.  You cannot drive a car in entrance to the alley that the lawyer took however, you can go in the back way and run most of them down.  Soon after you will have a large number of cops chasing you, so make sure you have a car at all times and after you complete the mission and run them all down.  Then, find a respray shop or a police bribe before the cops get to you.  Additionally I found that the last guy I ran down was far to the south of the original lot.  I don't know if his location is constant, but if it is, there is a respray shop due east of his location.   
Submitted by schu   
   
Warning: The following may contain spoilers that might give away missions   
   
If you get the mission where you should make sure a dope dealer makes his delivery, you'll immediately get a mission to  follow a competitor, do so by foot, finding a car can mean failing your mission.  Now when you have tracked him down, to where he's going to. Find a car and drive around back, and you can with ease drive down the bastards shooting at you.  Don't try to outgun them, that tactic will only work 1 out of 4 times if you are  lucky.  
Submitted by Steen   
   
Ok, I found out how to get the tank - you steal a cop car in Liberty City and then that allows you to drive into the army base, and then you get into the tank. 
Submitted By Ivan

(In regards to the above tip) 
You can also use an Ambulance to do it. 
Submitted by Whitless

Grand Theft Auto Secrets

Level 1-1
Secret 
What to Do 
Contributer 
Island Jump to Lot's of Item's Go to where West, South, and Central Law Island meet. Get the SuperBike near there. Go in the Alley way to the right of the bridge on the right, make a quick right, and you will see a jump. Jump it trying not to go too fast for you can blow up if you do.
Sëkond 
 
 Level 1-2
Secret 
What to Do 
Contributer 
Pair of Tanks North East Estoria
Sëkond 
Tank On Mission to get Secret Documents you will see the Tank in the Parking Lot.
Sëkond 
Island Jump to Lot's of Item's  
(Only place the Rocket Launcher can be found on the First City)
Go to where West, South, and Central Law Island meet. Get the SuperBike near there. Go in the Alley way to the right of the bridge on the right, make a quick right, and you will see a jump. Jump it trying not to go too fast for you can blow up if you do.
Sëkond 
 
 Level 2-1
Secret 
What to Do 
Contributer 
Tank Go in the Open Doorway in North East Sunview, you hould come out in South East Woodside. Travel Across the Invisible Bridge to the Tank.
Sëkond 
Rocket Launcher Kill Frenzy North Sunrise
Sëkond 
Monster Truck* On Mission to Kill the DA, the Monster Truck can be found in the Driveway of a house nearby where the DA can be found.
Sëkond 
 *1 of only 2 Monster Trucks found in the game.
 
 Level 2-2
Secret 
What to Do 
Contributer 
Remote Control Car Kill Frenzy West Woodside inside Love Wagon
clume 
Bus Kill Frenzy East Wooside under Bridge
Sëkond 
Rocket Launcher Kill Frenzy North East Wooside, walk up stairs.
clume 
Rocket Launcher Kill Frenzy North West Eagleside, under Palm Tree.
clume 
Flame Thrower KillFrenzy South East Chinatown
Sëkond 
Flame Thrower Kill Frenzy North Soviet Hill, under Palm Tree.
clume 
Rocket Launcher Kill Frenzy South East Woodside, go through hole on Bridge.
Sëkond 
Monster Truck Kill Frenzy* First get 3,000,000 Dollars. Then go through the hole in the building in North Atlantic Heights.
Sëkond 
Tank Kill Frenzy** First, goto South West Sunview, hop the the Superbike waiting there for you, Jump over the Jump, get the Info Sign waiting there for you. The Message should say 'The door to Destruction are Open'. Goto South East Richman, drive through the Fence, and go into the door. On the other side will be the Tank.
Sëkond 
Tank Kill Frenzy** South West Sailor's Warf, go through the gates and get the Tank.
Sëkond 
 *1 of only 2 Monster Trucks found in the game.
   **This Tank can fire it's weapon.
 
 Level 3-1
Secret 
What to Do 
Contributer 
Tank Kill Frenzy** Go on Island by traveling on the Walking Bridge in South East Vice Beach until you reach the Boot Camp. Kill all people and get in Tank.
clume 
Tank Get a Superbike and Jump the Jump at North Miramire.
Sëkond 
2 Multiplier's on Hospital Take Stair's somewhere near a Hospital in the Northern Part of the City.
Sëkond 
   **This Tank can fire it's weapon.
 
 Level 3-2
Secret 
What to Do 
Contributer 
Tank Kill Frenzy** Go on Island by traveling on the Walking Bridge in South East Vice Beach until you reach the Boot Camp. Kill all people and get in Tank.
clume 
   **This Tank can fire it's weapon.
 
 

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