GTA: San AndreasLos Santos
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Mission 8 of 105Story mission
Emmet keeps a yard full of bottles and a table of pistols, and Sweet sends Carl and Big Smoke over to get the first of the second. The mission is the game's shooting tutorial and it is honest about it: crouch, hit the bottles, then put a round through a car's fuel tank with manual aim to see what that does.
The second half is clothes. Grove Street is green, Carl is not wearing any, and the mission does not end until he has been into Binco and fixed it — the same lesson the barber shop taught two missions earlier, applied to gang colours.
Crouching tightens the aim considerably and the mission asks for it explicitly, which is worth remembering well beyond this yard. The bottles are the accuracy drill and there is no penalty for missing them.
The second drill is the one that matters: manual aim, held on the tank rather than swept across the car. It is how any vehicle in this game is destroyed cheaply, and the mission teaches it here so that it is available for the next ninety-seven missions.
Binco is the cheapest shop in San Andreas and anything green in it satisfies the objective. Gang colours are a real statistic here — wearing them raises how Grove Street reads Carl — so this is the mission that starts the count.
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
Carl's older brother and the leader of Grove Street, who has held the set together through the crack years and will not forgive the brother who left.
20 of 105 missions · 16 as giver
