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'''Health''' is the measurement of your character's physical condition. It's default maximum is 100%, but in some of the games in the series this can be extended, usually as a reward for completing some side mission.
'''Health''' is the measurement of your character's physical condition. It's default maximum is 100%, but in some of the games in the series this can be extended, usually as a reward for completing some side mission.


Many things can damage the player; being shot, stabbed or beaten, fire, explosives, being struck by a vehicle, drowning, being thrown from a motorcycle or bicycle, and falling from heights are all dangers. When your health is depleted, you are [[wasted]], you fail any mission that you may have been undertaking at the time and are taken to the nearest hospital. Health can be replenished by visiting a safe house (Though in GTA III, saving the game does not replenish your health, this is only the case from GTA VC onwards), picking up a health power-up, employing the services of a prostitute, or - in [[GTA VC]], [[GTA SA]] and [[GTA IV]] - by eating food.
Many things can damage the player; being shot, stabbed or beaten, fire, explosives, being struck by a vehicle, drowning, being thrown from a motorcycle or bicycle, and falling from heights are all dangers. When your health is depleted, you are [[wasted]], you fail any mission that you may have been undertaking at the time and are taken to the nearest hospital. Health can be replenished by picking up a health power-up, employing the services of a prostitute, or - in [[GTA VC]], [[GTA SA]] and [[GTA IV]] - by eating food or visiting a [[Safehouse]] to save your game.


Health power-ups restores the player's health to the maximum level.  The health power-up is a heart within a circle, and can always be found at the [[Hospitals|hospitals]].
Health power-ups restores the player's health to the maximum level.  The health power-up is a heart within a circle, and can always be found at the [[Hospitals|hospitals]].
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