GTA San Andreas Black Project Walkthrough

The Truth wants CJ to break into Area 69 and steal a secret project from its underground lab. You sneak past searchlights and patrols, fight through the base, and fly the jetpack you steal to The Truth’s van.

Before you start

The mission only runs between 20:00 and 06:00, so come back at night.

Lose weight first. If CJ is too fat, The Truth sends him away and the mission will not begin.

Bring body armor and a full set of weapons, ideally an assault rifle, a shotgun and a sniper rifle.

Objectives

Get in the Mothership.
Get into the Area 69 research lab before dawn.
Steal the Black Project.
Take it to The Truth.

Black Project walkthrough

The Truth is back

Go to the airstrip, where The Truth is doing yoga on a wreck. He berates CJ for working for a government agent, then explains that the military is hiding something in a secret base in the desert. He takes CJ there in his van and drops him at the edge of the base, then leaves. A timer starts, and you must be inside before it runs out.

The Truth greeting CJ beside a wrecked plane at night

The Truth confronting CJ face to face in the dark

The Truth's van arriving at the edge of the Area 69 base

Outside the fence

Sweeping searchlights guard the base, and soldiers patrol inside the fence. Use the thermal goggles The Truth gave you to see in the dark. A watch tower has a sniper rifle, so climb it and pick off the patrols, or creep past them. The control tower switch opens the blast doors, but a searchlight spotting you locks the doors down.

CJ at the fence, with a help message about the control tower switch

A searchlight sweeping over a guard tower above CJ

CJ crouching near the tower as the patrols pass

Another way in

If a searchlight holds you for too long, or you shoot out more than two of them, the blast doors are cut off from the control tower. You can still get inside through a vent, but the base will be on alert. Take out the soldiers you can with an assault rifle or the sniper rifle and move quickly. Reach the lab before 5:30.

CJ with an assault rifle after the lockdown begins

CJ entering the cyan-lit underground passage

Inside Area 69

Inside, the alarm blares and soldiers rush to defend. Use the crates for cover and shoot them as they appear. Armed guards and scientists fill the corridors, and the way on leads down a long ramp to the research lab. A scientist gives you a keycard, which opens the door to the launch bay deep underground.

CJ advancing down an underground corridor with red lights flashing

CJ firing at an enemy soldier in the underground base

CJ going toward the door to the launch bay

Steal the jetpack

The Black Project is a jetpack at the bottom of the launch bay. Pick it up and CJ straps it on, and a help box explains the controls. Fly out through the open top of the base and head to Arco del Oeste, where The Truth is waiting in his van. The jetpack cannot be removed during the mission.