Shoreside Vale (Liberty City, island 3)

Taking Revenge

Giver
Mike
Location
begins automatically in Pike Creek after Love of Money
Reward
$20,000

Unlocks Smackdown

The Cartel boss got away from the ambush, and you need to know who else is after you. Hunt him down, wreck his car, and decide what to do with him.

Before you start

Take a fast car or have one ready, since the boss flees by road.

Bring armor. His men shoot at you during the chase.

Objectives

  1. Track down the Cartel boss that got away from the ambush site.
  2. Find the Cartel boss and beat him.
  3. Kill or spare him.

Taking Revenge walkthrough

Pick up the trail

You start near the hideout in Pike Creek with the police still looking for you. Mike decides to take out the new Cartel boss and squeeze him for information, and the game tells you to track the boss down. A marker on the radar leads you to him; grab a car and follow it.

The message telling Mike to track down the Cartel boss
Driving through Pike Creek toward the Cartel boss

Wreck his car

The boss runs in a red car with his men around him. Stay close and shoot or ram the car until a damage meter on screen fills up. His gunmen fire at you along the road, so keep moving and watch your health. When the car is badly damaged, it stops and the boss climbs out.

Chasing the Cartel boss's red car along a Pike Creek road
Closing in on the boss's car while gunmen shoot back
An explosion beside the road as the fight continues

Question the boss

Beat the boss on foot until he gives in. Mike asks who else is after him, and the boss says King Courtney and his men are going to be hard to deal with. He offers to call off the Cartel if you let him live, and Mike says he does not trust the word of a back-stabbing liar.

The Cartel boss saying Mike's troubles are far from over
The boss naming King Courtney as another enemy
Mike refusing to trust the boss's offer

Decide his fate

You get to choose between killing him and sparing him. Mike decides that he cannot fight the Yardies and the Cartel at the same time, so he lets the boss go and chooses to take his chances with the deal. Either choice completes the mission.

Mike deciding to let the Cartel boss go
Mike thinking about facing King Courtney next

What fails this mission

Besides dying or being arrested, the mission ends if any of these happen:

  • time runs out

After the mission

You earn $20,000. Kill or spare, the next job is Smackdown, aimed at King Courtney’s Yardies.

The mission passed notice with the $20,000 reward

Part of Shoreside Vale (Liberty City, island 3) in the story walkthrough.