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[[File:YayKa-Boom-Boom-GTASA2.jpg|thumb|right|252px|A car bomb being activated in GTA San Andreas.]] | |||
[[File:YayKa-Boom-Boom-GTASA2.jpg|thumb|right|252px|A car bomb being activated in GTA San Andreas]] | |||
A '''car bomb''' is an explosive device placed in or on a car, with the primary intention of destroying both the car through an explosion and inflicting splash damage on its immediate surrounding. | A '''car bomb''' is an explosive device placed in or on a car, with the primary intention of destroying both the car through an explosion and inflicting splash damage on its immediate surrounding. | ||
== Description == | == Description == | ||
Car bombs are a long-running facet of [[Grand Theft Auto]], functioning nearly similarly throughout the series. With the exception of [[Grand Theft Auto IV]], installation of car bombs is a matter of driving a road vehicle into a bomb shop (usually fashioned as a drive-in garage) at a cost. The bomb allow any vehicle with the bomb to explode, as any vehicle would if destroyed, at any moment of time. Due to the nature of the act, detonation of a car bomb often imposes a minimum of a one-star wanted level. | Car bombs are a long-running facet of [[Grand Theft Auto]], functioning nearly similarly throughout the series. With the exception of [[Grand Theft Auto IV]], installation of car bombs is a matter of driving a road vehicle into a bomb shop (usually fashioned as a drive-in garage) at a cost. The bomb allow any vehicle with the bomb to explode, as any vehicle would if destroyed, at any moment of time. Due to the nature of the act, detonation of a car bomb often imposes a minimum of a [[Wanted Level|one-star wanted level]]. | ||
=== GTA 1 — GTA 2 === | === GTA 1 — GTA 2 === | ||
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Car bombs in these games are distinctive in which their explosions tend to be more powerful than if a vehicles simply explodes if sufficiently damaged, making them more devastating than later incarnations of the bomb in the series. | Car bombs in these games are distinctive in which their explosions tend to be more powerful than if a vehicles simply explodes if sufficiently damaged, making them more devastating than later incarnations of the bomb in the series. | ||
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=== GTA III — GTA Vice City Stories === | === GTA III — GTA Vice City Stories === | ||
Between [[Grand Theft Auto III]] and [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories]], car bombs are significantly weaker, with explosive damage and damage radius | Between [[Grand Theft Auto III]] and [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories]], car bombs are significantly weaker, with explosive damage and damage radius the same as when a vehicle explodes after sufficient damage, but are now available with different flavors of detonators. Car bombs are available through a series of [[8-Ball Autos|8-Ball garages]] (and in [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas|GTA San Andreas]], [[Welding & Weddings]]), with the exception of [[Grand Theft Auto Advance]], where the player needs to place the car bomb in the car himself. | ||
There are three varieties of detonators for car bombs between GTA III and GTA Vice City Stories: | There are three varieties of detonators for car bombs between GTA III and GTA Vice City Stories: | ||
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Each installation of a car bomb initially costs $5,000 in GTA III, but was reduced to only $500 between [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City|GTA Vice City]] and GTA Vice City Stories. | Each installation of a car bomb initially costs $5,000 in GTA III, but was reduced to only $500 between [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City|GTA Vice City]] and GTA Vice City Stories. | ||
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=== GTA IV === | === GTA IV === | ||
For [[Grand Theft Auto IV]], car bomb are not available via any bomb shop. Instead, they are only obtainable at the player's leisure via [[Patrick McReary]], a [[Friendships in GTA IV|friend]] available later in the game, once his "like" rating towards the player is sufficiently high. Car bombs in GTA IV are limited to remote-detonated explosives triggered via the player's [[Mobile Phone|mobile phone]], but are free of cost. | For [[Grand Theft Auto IV]], car bomb are not available via any bomb shop. Instead, they are only obtainable at the player's leisure via [[Patrick McReary]], a [[Friendships in GTA IV|friend]] available later in the game, once his "like" rating towards the player is sufficiently high. Car bombs in GTA IV are limited to remote-detonated explosives triggered via the player's [[Mobile Phone|mobile phone]], but are free of cost. | ||
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Once placed in the car, the detonator icon will appear in the [[PDA]] interface. This can be activated at any time, both in-vehicle and out, and will instantly destroy the car and any others or pedestrians surrounding it. | Once placed in the car, the detonator icon will appear in the [[PDA]] interface. This can be activated at any time, both in-vehicle and out, and will instantly destroy the car and any others or pedestrians surrounding it. | ||
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==Trivia== | == Trivia == | ||
*Car bombs are one of the few weapons that can destroy a damage-proof vehicle. | * Car bombs are one of the few weapons that can destroy a [[Special Vehicles|damage-proof vehicle]]. | ||
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