Playable
A veteran of the Balkan wars who arrives in Liberty City on his cousin's promise of a mansion and finds a cab office and a debt. He stays because the man who sold out his unit is somewhere in the city.
All 90 missions · 2 as giver
GTA IV
Portrait of a Killer
49of 90
Mission 49 of 90Story mission
Briefing
The second name comes as a photograph and nothing else, and finding the man behind it means going back to the police database — this time searching by picture rather than by name.
Adam Dimayev does not travel alone, so the mission ends as an assault on a defended position, and it offers a choice at the end of it.
Objectives
- Receive and read the picture of the target from your contact
- Get a police vehicle
- Access the police computer
- Use the computer to identify Dimayev's location
- Go to his hangout
- Eliminate Dimayev and all his guards
Walkthrough
A cruiser without a wanted level
There is a police car parked behind a station with nobody standing near it. Taking that one costs no stars, which taking one out from under an officer would.
Search by photo
The terminal takes the picture rather than a name and returns Dimayev's hangout. A player who already knows where it is can drive straight there instead.
Thin them out first
The bodyguards can be worked on from across the street with a sniper rifle before Niko is anywhere near them, and a grenade thrown up the slope toward their vehicle takes several at once. Clearing the lower ground first, then going up the ladder to the upper level, keeps the fight in one direction.
Dimayev
With the guards gone he can be killed or left. Either closes the mission.
Where this mission leads
Who this mission brings together, and the ground it covers.
