Part 3

Part 3 of the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories guide. Learn about the guide's organization, mission solutions, and how to acquire powerful weapons early.

Welcome to my "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories" guide! If this is the first time you have visited then you will find a lot of useful information in a highly organized format that you can use to beat all of the missions of the game.

Quotes taken from readers' e-mail are presented "as is" and may include spelling and grammatical errors.

The main emphasis of this guide is to provide creative and simple solutions to many of the missions of "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories". Many hours were spent going over the missions and finding unique ways to solve them. I think you will be surprised by some of the solutions found here.

I have worked hard to make sure that this guide is as complete as possible but at the same time leave room for exploration. I hope that you enjoy this guide as much as learn from it.

I will also make many references to "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" within this guide as there are many places within Vice City Stories that are familiar to those who played Vice City.

Another emphasis of this guide is *ORDER*. If you do the missions and tasks in a certain order then the game will be easier and more fun for you.

Although the guide follows more or less the traditional story order, there are ways to acquire more powerful weapons early in the game. The chapter "The Yankee Method" is the best way to get these weapons early plus allow you to do all of the side-missions prior to doing the Main Story Missions.

Each Red Balloon, Unique Stunt Jump, Rampage, and Empire Site have a letter designation to make them easier to identify in this guide. In addition, there is a three letter Neighborhood Prefix (listings below) indicating a particular neighborhood or area where the item can be found (in these examples I use "XXX"):

• >>Red Balloons will be identified with an "BN".--Examples: Red Balloon [XXX-BN21].
• >>Rampages will be identified with an "R".--Examples: Rampage [XXX-R34].
• >>Unique Stunt Jumps will be identified with a "J".--Examples: Unique Stunt Jump [XXX-J24]. Jump [XXX-J8].
• >>Empire Sites will be identified with an "ES".--Examples: Empire Site [XXX-ES10]. Site [XXX-ES11].

Neighborhood Prefixes

• PRI - Prawn Island
• SFI - Starfish Island
• NPM - North Point Mall
• DTN - Downtown
• VCP - Vice Point
• LHI - Little Haiti
• LGC - Leaf Links Golf Club
• LTV - Little Havana
• WSB - Washington Beach
• EIA - Escobar International Airport
• OCB - Ocean Beach
• VPR - Viceport
• FBA - Fort Baxter Air Base