Grand Theft Auto 2/Area 1

Tutorial!

Answer the phone at the start by running over to it.

Guide Hey there, stranger! Welcome to the Downtown District. Stick around if you wanna learn what's going down... Apart from neutral areas like this one, the city is carved up between three feuding gangs - the Zaibatsu in grey, the Loonies in green, and the Yakuza in blue. You wanna work for a gang, you follow their colored markers to their phones and pick up a job. But make sure you have enough respect... Respect is everything, so be careful who you kill. Spilling one gang's blood will reduce their respect for you but increase your standing with a rival gang. Be warned - you start killing innocent people and the Cops will bust your balls. By the way, a Church like this is the place to save your progress - but only after you finish a job, and only if you have $50,000. You need transportation and a weapon to get started in this city - and I'm giving you both. There's the car... and there's a pistol inside.

Enter the parked Schmidt and you get a Pistol (10 ammo).

Zaibatsu

Guide You wanna see where the gangs operate? Follow the big pink marker to the Zaibatsu zone and look out for the men in grey suits. Some of them drive distinct Z-Type cars.

Drive to the Zaibatsu phone to speak to the boss, Trey Welsh.

Trey Welsh The grey markers will always point to the nearest Zaibatsu phones where jobs may be found for those with sufficient respect. Tell your friends! The Zaibatsu Corporation is interested in offering contract work to anyone prepared to keep the Loony population to a minimum.

Sign	Vehicle	Weapons	Respect -3	Respect -5	Rival
	Z-Type	Pistol	Pistol	Pistol	Loonies

Loonies

Guide The next stop is Loony Land, home to the guys in bright green nightdresses. Their cars are obvious from the smiling faces on top.

Drive to the Loony phone to speak to the boss, Elmo.

Elmo Whoop-whoop! The green markers always point to the nearest Loony phones where jobs may be found - just so long as you have the respect. Hoo-hoo! We Loonies respect people who like killing Yakuza poops.

Sign	Vehicle	Weapons	Respect -3	Respect -5	Rival
	Dementia	Pistol	Pistol	Pistol	Yakuza

Yakuza

Guide Now let's visit the Yakuza territory. These fellas dress sharp in the latest blue collection from Milan - and they don't mess around. So be cool.

Drive to the Yakuza phone to speak to the boss, Johnny Zoo.

Johny Zoo The blue markers always point to the nearest Yakuza phone where jobs are made available for anyone with enough respect. You want Yakuza respect you better start killing Zaibatsu. Simple. The reasons - you will learn!

Sign	Vehicle	Weapons	Respect -3	Respect -5	Rival
	Miara	Pistol	Pistol	Pistol	Zaibatsu

Guide Now you can see how the city's sliced follow the big pink marker back to me. I got a little somethin' for ya...

Return to the Church.

Guide I don't know much but I taught you all I know. Here's my S-Uzi Machine Gun - plus a Special Token for your trouble.

You can now collect Token 13, and you've earned $20,000 by completing the Tutorial! Once you have $1,000,000:

Guide You did it! Follow the big pink marker to leave the Downtown District!

Weapons

Ammo expires when used but it always respawns and you can get more there. Maximum at one time is 99.

• S-Uzi Machine Gun: Go to any phone with missions. The Uzis respawn.
• Silenced S-Uzi Machine Gun: In a building in Loony territory. Outside the Loony HQ to the west. It's next to token 33 and respawns after a few seconds.
• Rocket Launcher: Funabashi. Enter the big building (the J-lab) southwest of the yellow Yakuza phones (further south of the green ones). Climb onto the roof and follow a long path to get to some boxes. The rocket launcher is on top of one. It respawns after some time so you can leave the PC alone for a few minutes while standing on the respawn spot.

Final Job!

The final job starts automatically after completing all 21 jobs for the three gangs. You only have one chance to pass this job: if you fail then you can quit and resume saved status to repeat the final gang job(s). For this reason, saving one of the quicker and easier jobs for last is recommended.

Guide Well done, kid, you managed to piss off the Yakuza, Zaibatsu AND Loony Bosses and now they all want you dead. The Gang Bosses have taken this personally and are out to screw you - unless you screw them first!

If the Bosses aren't in their own territory then they may drive Bensons instead of a gang vehicle. If you don't destroy their vehicles then once they exit two Pistol shots or equivalent damage will kill them, but the bonus for killing each individually is the same as any normal pedestrian. If you use a Flamethrower then they keep attacking as they burn, so take evasive action. Better yet, just use a vehicle to run over them.

The Yakuza Boss drives a black Miara and he's armed with a S-Uzi Machine Gun:

Guide That's the Yakuza Boss, Johnny Zoo! SCREW HIM!

Guide HA! The Yakuza Brotherhood are orphans!

The Zaibatsu Boss drives a Z-Type and he's also armed with a S-Uzi Machine Gun:

Guide That's the Zaibatsu Boss, Trey Welsh! WASTE HIM!

Guide NICE! That takes care of the Zaibatsu Corporation!

The Loony Boss drives a black Dementia and he's armed with a Flamethrower, so if you don't have Invisibility or Invulnerability* active then it's best to keep him at a distance while using longer-range weapons, or just run over him with a vehicle. If you're burning, you can still pass this job if you're the last to be wasted.

Guide That's the Loony Boss, Elmo! GET HIM!

Guide OOH! That's lights out for the bonkers mad Loonies!

You earn a $60,000 (x Multiplier) bonus, and your bonus multiplier increases by 1.

Guide Shit, kid, you beat them all! Here's some advice - move on to the Residential District before the shit really hits the fan.

If you haven't already done so, then collect all Tokens and save before leaving the Area to unlock Bonus Stages A-C (you can also pass all Kill Frenzies).

You can now play next area, resume saved status, replay previous area, continue to play one of the Bonus Stages, or go back to main menu.

If you start play in next area and then save, this overwrites your Area 1 save. You can still start play in Area 1 again, but if you want to keep playing from where you left then you'll need to backup your players folder beforehand: this can be found in GTA2's installation directory, but in later versions of Windows it may be hidden in Drive:/Users/User name/AppData/Local/VirtualStore (open the players folder in the GTA2 directory and check date modified to see whether those files have actually been used).