Chainsaw

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Tommy Vercetti holding a chainsaw. The bathroom where this chainsaw is found is an homage to a scene in the film Scarface.

The Chainsaw is a portable mechanized saw commonly used as a tool for cutting down trees. Due to its intimidating noise and potential for mutilation, it is frequently employed as a weapon in pop culture, including in horror movies such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, violent crime films such as Scarface, and videogames such as Doom and the Resident Evil game series.

In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars the player can acquire a chainsaw to use as a weapon. Standing still while pressing the attack button will allow the player to swipe with the chainsaw; pressing the button while moving does not allow swiping, but allows the player full mobility. The chainsaw is the only melee weapon which slows the player to a walking pace; in GTA San Andreas, the player also cannot jump with the chainsaw equipped. As such, it is unsuitable for attacking fleeing targets. In GTA Vice City, drops of blood can be seen spattered at the screen when the player successfully attacks a target.

Use of a chainsaw in public will cause pedestrians to panic, and, if a police officer is nearby, the player will gain a one-star Wanted level, regardless of whether the player harms anyone in the process.

The chainsaw can easily remove parts such as hoods, bumpers and even doors from vehicles, however its blows glance off vehicles' main chassis, thus doing only superficial damage.

Locations

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

• Ocean Beach, Vice Beach - In the bathroom of Apartment 3C.
• Little Havana, Vice City Mainland - Available to buy from Screw This after completion of Phnom Penh '86 for $500.
• Spawns at the Ocean View Hotel, the Vercetti Estate and the Hyman Condo after collecting 10 hidden packages.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

• Ocean Docks, Los Santos
• The Panopticon, Red County
• Red County - In a farm between Blueberry and Montgomery.
• Flint County - At Helena Wankstein's storage shack, available after meeting her.
• Avispa Country Club, San Fierro - It the tennis courts.
• Doherty, San Fierro - In the construction site next to CJ's garage, on top of a collapsed building.
• Hunter Quarry, Bone County
• Redsands West, Las Venturas - Near the safe house.

Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories

• Can be found behind the sawmill near The Atlantic Quays.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories

• Ocean Beach, Vice Beach - Behind a Hardcore Pawn store not far from the empire site by the gas station.

Trivia

• In Vice City Stories, pressing "X" while holding the chainsaw will make Vic swing it; the animation resembles that of the Katana, and the chainsaw makes the same sound upon striking an opponent.
• In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, by pressing "X" while aiming to someone, will make CJ to raise it up like a maniac, causing people to flee.
• In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas it is possible to open locked car doors using the chainsaw, although it is difficult.
• In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, tapping the attack button will make Tommy rev the chainsaw, and frighten nearby pedestrians. This can be done both while moving and standing. It can only be done while moving in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.