Grand Theft Auto IV/Phil

Truck Hustle
You should be going into this mission with full armor and health and plenty of ammo, including sniper rounds.

After you drive to the specified location, you will see that you have to walk up some stairs to get to the yellow marker that starts the mission. Park the car off to the right of the stairs to get it out of the way.

After you walk to the marker, the target truck and cars full of thugs will pull up. When the cut scene is over, you will get control back in the Cover mode behind the brick wall.

This is one of those situations where the enemy will not do anything until you start firing, and then you can take as much time as you want to make sure you have killed as many of the thugs as you can get without coming out of cover.

You may as well start with a well-cooked grenade near the cars up front. Then immediately change to an automatic weapon. These thugs are very aggressive and many of them stand out in the open. If you lock onto one and come up to shoot him, the others will hits you with bullets, so you should use blind aims (pull LT half way and aim with R) in the Cover mode to target thugs who are in the open.

Some will try to charge your position and you have to target them and take them down quickly, so at the start, you should keep the aiming circle on the closest thugs or even just keep it pointed at the bottom of the stairs until you have gotten those 4 or 5 who are going to charge you.

After you get the thugs who were in the open, you will have to deal with those behind cover. You can get most of them with blind aims. One or two may be using blind aims on you, in which case the easiest way to get them is to lob grenades at them. Be sure to aim the target circle high enough to get the grenade over cars.

Once you have finished off all the nearby thugs, pull out your sniper rifle and zoom in on the area to the right of the truck. You should see 3 or 4 thugs and be able to pick them off. Once you get them, you probably won't be able to see any of the remaining thugs near the truck, but the truck is going to pull out soom and you must run after it.

Thugs will be shooting at you as you run after the truck, which is why you need to have preserved your armor/health. The truck is slow and at a sprint, you should catch up to it. The rest is pretty easy, following the instructions on the screen.

The key to capturing the truck once you are on top is to press L back (towards you) to grab hold during turns, then press L forward to get to the cab of the truck while going down straight streets.

Once you get the truck, you will be told to drive it to an old mansion. After you do so and are reaady to leave, you'll see a motocycle nearby, but don't take it. Turn around and go to the rear of the garage and you will find a coveted Sultan sports car in the weeds; take it instead.

If you are low on ammo or armor, top off at a gun shop and go back to a safehouse to park the Sultan and to save the mission.

Catch The Wave
You'll want full armor and automatic weapon ammo.

When you get the truck and arrive at the next destination, you will have to get out of the truck with guns blazing, so make sure you have selected an automatic weapon before you get into the truck.

After the cut scene, a BG will approach the passenger side of the truck. Phil keeps talking, but don't wait for him to finish. As soon as you can move the camera angle around to your side, do so and get out of the truck, target the guy approaching you, and fire.

Phil is a pain in the ass and runs right into the middle of the fray and it is your job to keep him alive. You can hold back and shoot at guys in the rafters and others who are out in the open. If you don't mind using $5000 RPGs, they are good for taking out several BGs at once.

Eventually, Phil will say to go for the boats and tell you to take the left one. You will run into more armed thugs, so eliminate them, pick up the armor that is past the ramp to the boat, then go back down the ramp and get in the boat.

Once you get going in the boats, two red dots, which are enemy boats, will show up behind you on the HUD. Although you supposedly have to "protect" Phil, your main challenge is in not running over his slow ass.

Despite the BGs being right on your tail and firing at you constantly, they give up after awhile and the mission ends.

Trespass
Take a cab or a jacked car to Phil's since you won't get your car back. You will need full armor/health.

The basement entry is a little difficult to find. Facing the front door, on your left and running parallel to the front of the building is a brick wall protecting a sloping tunnel entrance. Run over to the end of the brick wall and turn to go down the slope. As you go down the slope, keep watch for a hole in the wall on the left which will lead through another tunnel to the basement of the target building.

When you get to the entrance to the basement, look up and you will see a couple of guards. Go against the left wall and crouch and use your sniper rifle to take out one of the guards, then immediately switch to an automatic rifle and take cover as you will have to fight 4 or 5 thugs. Most will be above you, but one will be on the basement level.

After you have killed them all, enter cautiously to the right side of the basement and scale the debris and goo to get to the first floor. From there, you will be fighting your way up stairs.

You can take all the time you want for this mission, and you will be fighting a lot of enemy, so take it slow.

When you finally make it to the end of the top floor, you will see an open window. Before jumping out of it, bring out the sniper rifle and look for enemy. Some of them will already be firing at you from afar.

After you jump onto the roof below, you will still have a lot of enemy after you. Fortunately, there is a health pack on the other side of one of the a/c units (or whatever they are).

Go to the end of the roof and an old covered walkway will take you across to the next building. Since there is no hurry, you may as well climb a long ladder to the top of a tower there and shoot an enemy who is on top of the target building. He is probably the only one you can see.

After you come back down, cross back over to the target building through another covered walkway and you will be facing a ladder on the wall. Climb it up to the next level. Guys will still be shooting at you, so stay slow and careful.

There are no real tricks after this. Watch the bad guy's circle to see if he is on the same level as you are higher/lower and keep after him while fighting off his troops. Eventually you should get him.

To Live And Die In Alderney
You won't get your car back and you will need full armor and having the max number of your rounds for your RPG will be handy, even if they are expensive.

The main action starts with the feds and police chasing Phil in one car while you and his friend ride in another car. Your only goal is to try to keep up with Phil until he stops in an alley, which isn't that hard.

While Phil and his friend ("PAHF") are fighting cops with rifles, whip out your RPG and blow the cop cars at one end. You may have to fire 3 or 4 as more cop cars come up. PAHF can take care of the stragglers. Then more cop cars will come to the other end of the alley. RPG 'em and wait for Phil to say let's go. Follow him to a van where a police helicopter will start firing at you. Use the RPG to take it out.

Hop in the van and hit Pause. Set a waypoint on the top bridge to Algonquin. Return to action and follow the GPS path unless you see indicators that cop cars are between you and the bridge, in which case pick a different bridge.

If you set a route that has no cop cars around it, you should not have any trouble losing the ones behind you, even though you are driving a slow old van.