Locations

Liberty City's side content is a checklist of 163 things: 100 hidden packages, 20 rampages, 20 unique stunt jumps and 23 vehicles the Import/Export cranes want delivered. Our five location pages cover all of them, and read together they sort themselves by a single question that the maps never ask: what do you have to be driving when you get there? Some icons want you on foot. Some want any car with speed in it. Some want one particular car as a key, and for the last group the car is not the way to the collectible, it is the collectible. That is the order this guide takes.

On Foot: The 100 Hidden Packages

The hidden packages guide walks all 100 in numerical order across the three islands: 33 on Portland, 36 on Staunton Island and 31 in Shoreside Vale. Nearly every entry is a walk, a climb or a jump from a roof, which is why this set comes first. The exceptions are the interesting part, because a handful of packages sit behind a door that only a particular vehicle opens, and two more are timed to the story.

Counting the gates across the page, three vehicles act as keys: a police car once, a Triad Fish Van once and a Cartel Cruiser for six packages between Staunton and the hills of Shoreside Vale. The story only holds back three of the hundred, all on Portland. The page also describes a fourth kind of gate that is not a vehicle at all, the subway at #18 and #33, which needs the Chinatown missions cleared before it will admit you.

Mostly On Foot: 20 Rampages With 40 Icons

Our rampage locations guide lists six rampages on Portland, seven on Staunton Island and seven in Shoreside Vale, and gives two positions for every one of them, because a rampage you miss or fail turns up at its second spot. That makes 40 blue-circle skull icons for 20 entries. Every rampage runs on a two-minute clock. Fourteen name a gang and a body count, six name a number of vehicles to wreck, and the page's own tactic for most of the vehicle six is to bring a car after all: park it in the road, blow it up to take the traffic with it, and let a wanted level deliver police cars to the scene.

Three weapons carry nearly half the list: the rocket launcher, the shotgun and the M-16 are each named three times, grenades, the flamethrower and the sniper rifle twice each, and the AK-47, Uzi, Molotovs, a car and a drive-by once each. Of the fourteen gang rampages, the Yardies and the Cartel are the target three times apiece, the Triads, Yakuza and Southside Hoods twice, and the Mafia and Diablos once. Only two rampages put you behind a wheel by design, the Shoreside Vale run-over and the Shoreside Vale drive-by, which is why the set sits second on the ladder rather than first.

Any Car: 20 Unique Jumps

The unique jump locations guide is the first set that will not let you walk. Eight ramps are on Portland, four on Staunton Island and eight in Shoreside Vale, and the page pairs every one with a landing spot, which is the detail that separates a jump that counts from one that does not. Portland's run goes from the Red Light District ramp that lands you on the El tracks to a dirt pile behind the Atlantic Quays warehouses that drops you in the water. Staunton's four include a ramp between two billboards on the central median that lands on the Callahan Bridge and one taken through the glass of a building's stairway. Shoreside Vale's eight end at the airport, where an air train, two yellow-and-white slopes and a yellow-and-black one form a chain of hangar-roof landings, jumps five through eight.

The reward is the one figure in this set that grows with you. The page states each completed stunt pays $5,000 times however many jumps you have landed, so read literally the twentieth is worth $100,000 on its own, and clearing the set unlocks the Wheels Up trophy. No jump on the page asks for a particular car, only for enough speed and the right approach, which puts them a rung above the rampages and a rung below what follows.

One Particular Car: The Import/Export Lists

For the last 23 icons the vehicle is the whole task. Our civilian Import/Export guide covers the sixteen cars the Portland Docks garage wants, and its entries divide into cars you will see driven around and cars you have to go and find parked. The Bobcat sits behind Salvatore's mansion, the Coach at the Trenton bus depot, the Dodo in a hangar at Francis International Airport, the Patriot at the Supa Save in Portland View, the Rumpo outside a Saint Mark's garage and at the Liberty Tree car park, and the Yankee in Portland Harbor by the emergency crane. Three are tied to missions: the Mr. Whoopee appears in I Scream, You Scream, the Patriot is the prerequisite for Patriot Playground, and the Securicar only becomes available after Donald Love's Decoy. Each delivery pays $1,000 and the finished list $200,000.

The emergency vehicles guide closes the ladder, because four of its seven vehicles come only with a wanted level or from Phil Cassidy's yard. The Ambulance, Fire Truck and Police Car are the easy three, waiting at the hospitals, fire stations and police stations. The Enforcer is inside the Staunton Island police station and comes with a four-star wanted level. The FBI Car arrives at six stars and has to be stolen from the agents driving it. The Barracks OL is at Phil Cassidy's Army Surplus once Staunton opens, or at six stars. The Rhino is at Phil's too, during Arms Shortage, or at six stars from the army. Emergency exports are handed to the crane rather than a garage: park on the yellow stripes and the magnet lifts the vehicle onto the ship. The page notes there is no list shown while you export them, so keep your own.

Which Rung To Start On

Take the ladder from the bottom on a fresh save. The packages and eighteen of the rampages need nothing you do not already have, the jumps need any quick car, and most of the sixteen civilian exports can be picked off as you notice the cars in traffic. Leave the emergency list until you are ready to hold a six-star wanted level, or until Phil's yard is open, because three of its vehicles cannot be had any other way. The GTA 3 hub takes the same pages from the other end and orders everything by how many stars each job needs, including the vigilante missions and the codes that set the wanted level directly.