Vehicle Theft: Difference between revisions
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=== Stealing an unoccupied vehicle === | === Stealing an unoccupied vehicle === | ||
If a vehicle is unoccupied, the player may simply break in, start the engine and drive/ride/fly away. For [[Grand Theft Auto IV]], the player must often times take the time to shatter a window of a road vehicle if it is locked (larger vehicles, however, | If a vehicle is unoccupied, the player may simply break in, start the engine and drive/ride/fly away. For [[Grand Theft Auto IV]], the player must often times take the time to shatter a window of a road vehicle or helicopter if it is locked (larger vehicles and boats, however, do not have locked doors to begin with) and hotwire the vehicle before they can start the engine. If the player interrupts the carjacking by pressing any other key in [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]] or GTA IV, the player character will simply open the vehicle's door but will not enter the vehicle. | ||
For [[Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars]], the act of stealing an unoccupied car is significantly more complicated, with each car featuring any one of three different lock-cracking minigames that the player must successfully pass in order to finally assume control of the vehicle; these include forced ignition by twisting a screwdriver on the ignition lock (for low grade vehicles), hot wiring by screwing open a wire panel and twisting two wires together (for middle grade vehicles), and matching the code of an [[wp:Immobiliser|immobilizer]] using the [[PDA]]'s hacking software (for high grade vehicles). | For [[Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars]], the act of stealing an unoccupied car is significantly more complicated, with each car featuring any one of three different lock-cracking minigames that the player must successfully pass in order to finally assume control of the vehicle; these include forced ignition by twisting a screwdriver on the ignition lock (for low grade vehicles), hot wiring by screwing open a wire panel and twisting two wires together (for middle grade vehicles), and matching the code of an [[wp:Immobiliser|immobilizer]] using the [[PDA]]'s hacking software (for high grade vehicles). | ||