Ivan the Not So Terrible
| Ivan The Not So Terrible | |
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Niko making his choice. | |
| Game | GTA IV |
| For | Vladimir Glebov |
| Target | Ivan Bytchkov |
| Location | Comrades Bar, Hove Beach, Broker |
| Fail | Lose Ivan in the car chase |
| Reward | $200 |
| Unlocks | Nothing |
| Unlocked by | Clean Getaway |
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Ivan the Not So Terrible is the fourth and final mission from Vladimir Glebov in GTA IV. This is the first mission in the game to offer the choice of killing or sparing a person, and is the first to use ladders and jumping. The mission starts with Vlad telling Niko that Ivan has upset Mikhail Faustin, his boss, and wants you to kill him. Vlad explains to Niko that he persuaded Ivan to rob Roman's cab depot and wants you to kill him in an act of "self-defense".
Walkthrough
Grab Vlad's Blista Compact and drive to Roman's cab depot. Don't stop once you get there - it seems Ivan's already robbed Roman. He is escaping from the cab depot.
Chase Ivan to a construction site nearby. He will crash near a ladder and run up it. Get out of your car and run up the same ladder with the in-game instructions. Once you get to the top, Ivan continues up another ladder. Follow him. He continues to run away. Follow him until a cutscene appears. In the cutscene, Ivan will jump over to a nearby building. Get onto the crane and do the same.
He will jump a few more buildings - follow him. Soon he will get to the end of the building chain. Niko chases him to a ledge where Ivan hangs from. You now have the choice of helping him onto the building and letting him run away, or kicking/shooting him off of the ledge, brutally killing him on the sidewalk below.
If you let him live, he'll come back as a random character. If you kill him, you have closely followed Vlad's instructions.
Ivan's Car
It is possible to obtain Ivan's nicely colored Ruiner (gold trimmed with a random dark, metallic color) by entering it as Ivan begins climbing up the construction site. Simply drive it down the block to the south and park it. Ivan will not continue climbing until Niko has begun climbing and you will not fail the mission for moving away from him. After pursuing Ivan and making your choice on his fate, you may descend the stairs to the west of the building and down the ladder to find Ivan's Ruiner where you moved it and you make take it to your parking space if you like.
Deaths
- Ivan Bytchkov (by Niko Bellic) - Niko witnessed Ivan robbing his cousin Roman, and kicked him off a building ledge as revenge. Ivan's death is optional, and it is the player's choice.
Trivia
- The whole traffic during the chase is scripted (as numerous other missions in the game). So the vehicles seen in the traffic are not random : a speeding Futo, a Chavos and a Marbelle in Mohawk Avenue, a Marbelle (and a parked Perennial) in Onion Street, a Stratum in Asparagus Avenue, a Perennial and a Voodoo driving (and one Perennial and three Marbelles parked) in Munsee Avenue, a Marbelle and a Mule in Montauk Avenue, a Chavos (and two Perennials and a Futo parked) in Hickcock Street, a Marbelle and a Perennial (and another parked Perennial) in northern Onondaga Avenue, a parked Stratum in Ringo Street, and a driving Bobcat, a parked Perennial, and a stopped Benson and Flatbed in southern Onondaga Avenue. There's also a stopped Biff in Kid Street.
- The name of this mission is a reference to Ivan the Terrible, the Russian Tsar between December 3, 1533 to March 28, 1584.
- During the end credits for The Lost and Damned, one of the scenes shown is the rooftop chase in this mission. Also during the scene, the mission Bleed Out is somehow happening at the same time (Roman's Taxi and Dardan's Car parked on the sidewalk, Bledar and Kalem beating up Roman in the basketball courts under the El Train) despite already being completed.