Grand Theft Auto IV/Jimmy

Pegorino's Pride
You will need full health and armor and automatic weapon ammo. If you drive to Mr. P's, you won't get your car back, so don't drive over in your favorite car.

This mission has four phases: (1) Sniper duty. (2) Armed combat with a time limit. (3) Following in a car. (4) Armed combat with no time limit.

But first you have to drive Mr. P and his crew to the mission site. When you and the crew get in the car, don't take off. You have to wait for Mr. P.

After getting to the initial mission site, you will be let out with a sniper rifle by a door opening. Go through it and go towards the light until you find some stairs, then go all the way up them and find the yellow marker for your sniping position.

After taking out the other side's boss with the sniper rifle, start shooting the guys with the red markers over them who are shooting at Pegorino. After you get them, zoom scope out and down a little and watch for a car to pull up with four bad guys in it. They aren't carrying weapons, but shoot them anyway for good measure. Although you will have a limited time to rescue Pegorino, that clock doesn't seem to start until you get downstairs, so you may as well take your time and get all four guys.

Then change to an automatic weapon and run downstairs. The next phase of the mission is to charge the structure where Pegorino is (blue dot on GPS), shooting your way through until you get to him.

In similar past situations, the smart thing was to use the sniper rifle to pick off distant enemies who can't hit you from the same distance, but two differences here are (1) they seem to be able to hit you and (2) you have a limited time to get to Mr. P.

So you are going to have to just charge the structure, run up some stairs, go inside the building and run through several connected rooms which are on the right. After you reach the last door of the last room, the second phase is over.

As you make this charge, pause only to take out the few guys outside who are firing at you and that you can get a good, open lock on. When you run up the stairs, watch for someone on the first landing.

You want to run as fast as possible through the series of rooms. If you pause to try to get cute with grenades, you won't reach Mr. P in time. If you stop to shoot at guys ahead of you, you are going to get shot by guys behind you, so you have to just keep charging and count on your armor to protect you. (It might be fun to make this run with a full rack of RPGs, however.)

After you get to the last door, a cut scene will show Niko helping Mr. P into a car and the bad guys taking off in a car which you must follow. They wind through all the junk and never get onto a road. So just keep following them. They will crash soon.

At this point, time does not seem to matter, so if you missed following them, just use their red dot on the GPS to get to them. The baddies will start firing at you. so hop out of the car fire back, then go up the stairs where their car is.

If you used up most of your health in the previous battle, you will really have to be cautious, but if you have 2/3rds or more of your health, you can just do whatever you must to take out the bad guys, then look for the leader. When you find him, he is easy pickings. Pick up Mr. P's stuff and drive him back home.

You will lose a lot of ammo, health, and ammo in this mission, so now is the time to restock them all, especially if you save after big missions.

Payback
You will need full armor and max sniper rounds.

When you come to the first mission marker, circle around at the end of the block to get your car facing the other way so that you can follow the baddies quickly.

When they take off, they create a lot of wreckage on the street. Just stay back and avoid it. Then they will go down an alley. You can just take the street to the left and try to follow them on streets.

They won't go too long before they pull into a car dealership where a lot of their friends immediately start firing on you. If you try to even the odds by using grenades, you'll have the police shooting at you from all sides. You stand little chance of surviving.

The right approach is to stay well back once they abandon the alleys and get back on the streets and watch for their red circles on the GPS to stop. Then instead of charging in after them, stop WELL back where you can just see where they are.

Even at that distance, you will start taking fire. Get behind your car.

Get out the sniper rifle and start picking off the enemy, but keep watch for enemy approaching you from the sides. They should still be far enough back to pick off with the sniper rifle, but you may take a few hits.

When you have gotten all the bad guys, all the red markers should disappear, but you should still see on red circle on the HUD. If it looks like it is still on a road, but just hanging around, you can get back in your car and slowly head for it. If you see a cab slowly approaching you and it shows that it is the red circle, trust the circle. Get out of your car and shoot him.