GTA: San AndreasThe Desert
70of 105
Mission 70 of 105Story mission
Mike Toreno is alive, which Carl finds out by being summoned to a ranch in Tierra Robada by a man he watched go down in a fireball over San Fierro. Toreno's opening move is not an explanation but a test: a monster truck and a course through the desert against the clock.
It pays on time rather than on completion — between $1,000 and $5,000 depending how fast the checkpoints are cleared — which makes it the only mission in San Andreas whose fee is a sliding scale.
The truck is enormously tall and rolls if it is cornered like a car. Taking the desert in as straight a line as the checkpoints allow, and letting the suspension deal with the terrain rather than steering around it, is what keeps it upright.
The fee scales with the time, so a clean fast run is worth up to five times a slow one. It is also the reason the mission is worth repeating for practice — nothing about it is failed permanently by a bad attempt.
Who this mission brings together, and the ground it covers.
Playable
Home in Los Santos after five years in Liberty City for his mother's funeral, and stopped by the same two police officers who drove him out. Rebuilding the family's standing turns into rebuilding most of the state's.
All 105 missions · 7 as giver
Gives the job
A government operative who conscripts Carl into work nobody will ever admit happened, and is the only person in the state able to get Sweet out of prison.
14 of 105 missions · 9 as giver
