"Dimitri Rascalov, the leader of one of the Russian gangs in Liberty City, is frightened by the situation in the city. His former ally, Niko Bellic, whom he betrayed as well as his spiritual brother Mikhail Faustin, the former leader of the gang, threatened to kill him. His loyal adviser Gennady Peskov offered him a plan, but Bellic ruined it and killed Dmitri, at Dmitri's behest, was supposed to become the leader of the gang, but Vyacheslav Gvozd, not the last person in the gang, together with other comrades put forward his candidacy for the position of leader. Gennady refused to give in to Vyacheslav, for which he almost paid — his former friends and "colleagues" wanted to kill him, but he quickly returned home, took him passport and went to the airport, where he bought a ticket home to Russia. Gennady will have to gather his gang and defeat Gvozd and his allies in America." - game synopsis from the main Rockstar Games website.
Grand Theft Auto: Heat & Cold (GTA: H&C) is a video game in the Grand Theft Auto series, released on September 29, 2009 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and on November 1 on PC.
Plot[]
Introduction[]
The main character of the game is Dmitri Raskalov's advisor and relatively recent friend, Gennady Marlenovich Peskov. Dmitri was introduced to Gennady by Vyacheslav Gvozd, Gennady's former classmate and loyal friend, who brought him to America and dragged him into the criminal world. In 2008, Dmitri betrays his loyal friend and mentor Mikhail Faustin, which makes him the leader of one of the cells of the Russian mafia in Liberty City. Niko Bellic, a man who previously worked for Dmitri, also becomes a victim of his betrayal, which makes him swear revenge on him. Sooner or later he does, but Dmitri manages to transfer all his power to Gennady later. When Gennady was sitting at home and learned of Dmitri's death, Vyacheslav immediately called him and invited him to the Perestroika club to discuss the situation. He arrives, and Vyacheslav makes a statement, that he intends to become the new leader of the gang instead of Gennady, and that most of the gang members will even support him in this. Gennady is shocked by Gvozd's statement, and immediately refuses him. But then Vyacheslav declares that if Gennady refuses, he will die. Gennady is all stands his ground, after which his former friends and colleagues point their guns at him. Gennady has no choice but to run as fast as he can home, where he takes his documents and fights off the bandits who are chasing him. After that, he hurries to the airport, where he buys a ticket to his hometown in Russia - Romanov-on-Vette.
Returning Home[]
Immediately after arriving home, Gennady goes to the cemetery, to his mother's grave. There he meets his ex-girlfriend Ekaterina Sokolova. He tells her the circumstances of his life, and she in return tells him what is happening and has happened in the 7 years that Gennady has been gone in the city. Arriving at Ekaterina's apartment, Gennady decides to settle down with her for now. The next day after arriving, Gennady decides to gather all his old friends to discuss the formation of a new gang with them. Before that, he decided to visit his father, with whom he haven't talked for a long time. To Gennady's surprise, his father welcomed him warmly and treated him to tea. Gennady tells his father Marlen that he had to leave America because they wanted to kill him, and that he wants to gather all his friends and a new gang, to take revenge on the traitor Gvozd. The father does not approve of this at first, but resigns himself to his son's desire. The father also says that Gennady's loyal friend Vasya works as a garbage man, and right now he has to pick up the garbage. Gennady says goodbye to his father and hurries to Vasily, after which he tells the latter what is happening. Vasily agrees and says who among Gennady's friends is who. Evgeny Famusov became an artist, Artur Tyorkin became a regional deputy, and Danil Myshkin never became anyone. For the meeting, he invited everyone to the "Pugovka" cafe, where they liked to hang out as children. There they discuss what is happening, and Gennady says who will be what to do. At the end of the meeting, having learned that the cafe is closing and being sold, Gennady decides to save up money (30,000 rubles) with his friends to buy out the cafe, to make it a future gang base and earn at least some legal money. As a result, Gennady starts working for his friends - Zheka introduces him to painting pictures and selling them, Danil to illegal racing, Vasya to working as a garbage man, and Artur to working as a deputy - bribery. As a result, the team buys a cafe and founds the gang ShishCaBryuHo (from Shishkin, Caroselli, Bryullov, Hopper - the names of artists accidentally mentioned by Zheka at Gennady's request). The guys start racketeering, theft and later money laundering.
The beginning of ShishKaBryuHo's path[]
The activities of the classmates' gang are noticed by a gang of Uzbek immigrants. A small confrontation begins, as a result of which quite a few people from the street join ShishKaBryuHo. The Russians win the confrontation, and the Uzbek gang "Sons of Tashkent" disintegrates. Later, the gypsies become interested in the young group, and Baron Gozho Ibragimov himself invites the guys to a business meeting. He offers cooperation. Gennady and his team agree. As a result, the partnership leads to a meeting of the gypsies, ShishKaBryuHo and the Chinese Trides, they pass the drugs to the gypsies. However, the deal is disrupted by the Czechs and Slovaks, who after a fierce war with each other made peace and became friends. Gennady, together with his gang, tries to appease the Slavic brothers, but they do not agree so easily. How opportunely Kenny Petrovic, born Kirill Dobrovsky, arrives in Romanov-na-Vette. He has known Gennady for a long time and is aware that his place has been wrongfully taken by his friend Vyacheslav. He helps Gennady achieve friendship with the Czechs and Slovaks and suggests that he and his friends, the Gypsies, the Czechs, the Slovaks and Kenny's people go to America to start looking for Gvozd.
The Road to Texas[]
First, the gang of bandits heads to Liberty City. However, there are no other Russians left there - neither Bulgarin nor Gvozd. Kenny concludes that the rumors are most likely true - Gvozd went south, to the state of Texas, to the city of Alberto. To clarify, Kenny uses his connections in Interpol, where the rumors are confirmed. Everyone heads to Texas. At first, Kenny and Gennady, who takes the name Henry Sandman, decide to settle in the city of Tirana, located in the neighboring district from Alberto. Slavs and gypsies take control of the Mexican gang Los Cadaver, and an offensive against Gvozd's Bratva begins. As a result of one of the battles, Danil is wounded and sent to Petrovic's doctor, Leonid Zhestkovich. The wars continue, but Petrovic and Peskov decide to take a rest. However, Kenny receives a call from one of his men, who says that Dr. Zhestkovich and Danil have disappeared. Kenny takes on the case, and sends Gennady to continue fighting his former colleagues. He defeats Maxim Barkhudarov, Grigory Dudka, and Fyodor Sergeyenkov. He even manages to get to Gvozd's personal adviser, Alexander Pavlov. Suddenly, Petrovic calls and says that two more of Peskov's friends, Zheka and Artur, have disappeared. Gennady does not like all this, but he suggests Petrovic to stop searching for now and finally get to Gvozd. Kenny agrees, and the final offensive begins. Gennady and Vasily get to Vyacheslav, but the latter's cards are revealed. Evgeny, Danil and Konstantin were with him from the very beginning. Gennady is very surprised and angry, after which Vasily says that he was also with Gvozd from the very beginning. At the same moment, Vyacheslav tells Gennady that Kenny Petrovic is already dead, and tells Gennady to prepare for his death. However, he breaks out of the traitors' hands and a long shootout begins. Gennady has to kill all his friends, after which he gets out of the building where Gvozd's headquarters was located, and begins to pursue him. Gvozd drives into the airport and boards a plane, getting ready to leave for Liberty City. Gennady hijacks another similar plane and begins to pursue him. The chase is delayed, but Gennady decides to intercept Gvozd's plane. To his surprise, he succeeds, and a fight begins, as a result of which the plane crashes. Gennady and Gvozd manage to jump out, and by parachute they arrive at the Algonquin shopping center, where Gennady finally kills Gvozd. The police arrive at the shopping center and arrest Gennady for his connections with Dmitri Raskolov. The next day, however, Franz Reno, the same man of Kenny Petrovic from Interpol, personally comes to Gennady in the pre-trial detention center. He says that Gennady is free and can live his criminal life. But Peskov claims that he no longer wants to live such a life, because it turns the most devoted friend into the dirtiest rat. Franz understands him and asks who will be the leader of his ShishKaBryuHo gang now. He says that it is not up to him to decide, and leaves again for Russia, where he begins to live a quiet life with Ekaterina, apologizing for all the previous refusals in love.
Setting[]
The setting, or rather the game's settings, are the city of Romanov-on-Vette in Russia, based on the city of Saint. Petersburg in the same country, the counties of San Deserto and Still Green, the prototypes of which are the real counties of Deaf Smith and Harris in Texas, USA. The city of Alberto is an amalgamation of several large cities in Texas - Houston, Austin and Dallas. Tirana is based on the small town of Odessa in Ector County. It will also be possible to visit Liberty City in the game, but for a short period of time.
After the end of the story, the player will be able to travel between Texas and Russia through airports.
100% completion[]
To complete the game 100%, you need to:
- Complete all story missions, there are 60 of them.
- Complete all races in Romanov-on-Vette and Texas, there are 14 of them.
- Complete all rallies in Texas, there are 6 of them.
- Complete the additional mission "Scavenger" in Romanov-on-Vette and Texas.
- Complete the additional mission "Artist" in Romanov-on-Vette and Texas.
- Complete all Time Trials in Romanov-on-Vette and Texas, there are 15 of them.
- Complete all Parkour Time Trials in Romanov-on-Vette and Texas, there are 12 of them.
- Complete all "Guide" side missions in Romanov-on-Vette and Texas, there are 5 of them.
- Hand over to police or kill criminals in Romanov-on-Vette and Texas, there are 20 of them.
- Complete all "Transporter" side missions in Romanov-on-Vette and Texas, there are 6 of them.
- Collect 56 drug shtash in Romanov-on-Vette and 55 in Texas.
- Complete all stunt jumps in Romanov-on-Vette and Texas, there are 50 of them.
- Complete all assassination contacts from Kenny Petrovic in Romanov-on-Vette and Texas, there are 16 of them.
- Buy all properties for sale (property bought by the player according to the story is also taken into account), there are 22 of them.
- Complete 25 taxi rides.
- Complete all missions from random passers-by.
- Obtain all unique costumes.