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
The Cousins Bellic
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Mission 1 of 90Story mission
Briefing
Niko Bellic comes off the Platypus at East Hook after a fortnight at sea, and Roman is waiting on the dock with the enthusiasm of a man who has been lying in letters for years. There is no mansion, no fleet of sports cars and no women: there is a battered cab, a one-room apartment above a Hove Beach shopfront, and a debt to a Russian loan shark that Roman has not mentioned yet.
As an opening it asks almost nothing of the player — drive the cousin home — and the whole of it is one drive across Broker with Roman talking. What it leaves behind is the safehouse the first act works out of.
Objectives
- Drive to Roman's place
Walkthrough
Off the boat
Nothing is asked during the arrival itself. Roman does the talking, and the only thing to take from it is the shape of the debt the next ten missions are about — he owes money, he has told Niko none of it, and the cab depot is the whole empire.
The drive to Hove Beach
Follow the radar to Roman's place. Nothing pursues the taxi and nothing is timed; the mission ends on arrival.
Unlocks
- The Broker safehouse above Roman's apartment
- The "Off The Boat" achievement
Where this mission leads
Who this mission brings together, and the ground it covers.
Gives the job
Roman Bellic
Niko's cousin
Niko's cousin, whose letters home described a life he does not have. Runs a failing cab firm, gambles what it earns, and is the only person in the city Niko will not walk away from.
19 of 90 missions · 12 as giver
