Grand Theft Auto IV saw a change to the Vigilante system of previous titles. There are no tanks in IV (with the exception of The Ballad of Gay Tony, of course) so you won’t simply be driving around with every vehicle that touches you exploding instantly. The Most Wanted side missions can also be seen as an extension to this new system.

However, these new Vigilante Missions are much easier than the previous system.

They become available after “Crime and Punishment” in Faustin’s mission line, simply get hold of a Police vehicle, once inside access the Police computer and select “View Current Crimes”. If there are no Police vehicles at your location, either head to a Police station or simply dial “911″ on your phone (the emergency number for the United States, like “999″ for the United Kingdom or “000″ for Australia) and select Police, a Police Cruiser will turn up soon after.

There are three types of crimes you can pursue:

• Criminal on foot
• Stolen vehicle
• Gang activity

Criminal on foot is the easiest and quickest, mostly all you’re going to have to do is simply run over them, if you miss for whatever reason, pump a few rounds into them and off you go to the next guy. If you are looking to hit these as quickly as possible you should choose this option. If the option isn’t available, simply back-out and access “View Current Crimes” again, this will refresh the list of available crimes.

Stolen vehicle will pit you up against a car full of dudes that will shoot at you, not too difficult but the chase may drag out a bit, it’s entirely possible your vehicle will suffer too much damage before you’re able to take them all out.

Gang activity will lead you to a group of “gangsters”, again it isn’t that difficult however they can take you down pretty quickly if you just run in there guns blazing (unless you get lucky).

Once you have selected a crime, your GPS will update to a location nearby and a timer will appear at the top-right corner indicating how long you have left to get to the scene of the crime before the criminal escapes. Once there, it will disappear.

Upon completion of a Vigilante Mission, you will be free to pursue whatever activity you wish, if your car is damaged and you want to continue, it is advisable to locate another Police vehicle before continuing, otherwise you may find youself with a car on fire, an empty road and so no way to get to your target but attempting to run there.

Once you have completed 20 Vigilante Missions you will receive 2.5% towards your game completion, and Clean The Mean Streets ( ).

Welcome to what Grand Theft Auto is all about, boosting cars!

This side mission leads on from Brucie’s Exotic Exports, after which Brucie will pass your details onto Stevie, who will in turn open up the garage in Dukes and begin sending you text messages (actually, MMS, but who cares) detailing a specific vehicle he wants you to steal.

There are 30 vehicles you will need to deliver. If you are hitting these in a row (the most efficient way to do this, but you don’t have to), find and steal the vehicle and take it to the Dukes garage (marked in green on our map below).

Oonce you deliver the vehicle run back to your Dukes safehouse (not too far away, seems quicker running than stealing another car) and save your game to advance the time six hours, go back outside and by the time you get to a Taxi you should have received your next job.

Upon completion of Stevie’s contract, you will be awarded with You Got The Message ( ) and 2% game completion.

You could of course attempt to work it out for yourself, but if you can’t be bothered with that, or are finding it too difficult to locate one of the vehicles, we have a handy map here for you to use.

We suggest saving this map so you can mark off vehicles as you go along. (Click to enlarge)

We also have a guide of prices, note that the more damage your vehicle takes, the less you’ll be paid upon delivery. The vehicles Stevie will ask you for are highlighted.