Leone Family Mafia

Featured in: GTA 3, GTA San Andreas, GTA: Advance, Liberty City Stories.

Known Members:
Salvatore Leone, Toni Cipriani, Luigi Goterelli, Joey Leone, Vincenzo "Lucky" Cilli, Micky Hamfists, Mike,  Massimo Torini.

Hangouts:
Salvatore's Gentlemen's Club, Cipriani's Restaurant, Sex Club 7, Joey's Garage.

Vehicles:
Leone Sentinel, Mafia Sentinel, Stretch.

Dress:
Suits.

Known Associates:
Maria La Torre, 8-Ball, Curly Bob, Misty, Ken Rosenberg.

Enemies:
Triads, Yakuza, Columbian Cartel.

Sindacco Family Mafia

Featured in: San Andreas, Liberty City Stories.

Known Members:
Paulie Sindacco, Johnny Sindacco.

Hangouts:
Paulie's Revue Bar, The Dolls House, Caligula's Casino

Vehicles:
Sindacco Argento

Dress:
Suits.

Known Associates:
JD O'Toole, Ken Rosenberg.

Enemies:
Leones, Forellis

Forelli Family Mafia

Featured in: GTA3, Vice City, San Andreas, Liberty City Stories.

Known Members:
Sonny Forelli, Georgio Forelli, Mike "Lips" Forelli, Franco Forelli, Harry, Lee.

Hangouts:
Marco's Bistro, Caligula's Casino

Vehicles:
Sentinel

Dress:
Suits.

Known Associates:
Ken Rosenberg.

Enemies:
Leones, Sindaccos.

Information:
Sonny Forelli - came to power at a young age and remained as head of the Forelli Crime Family until 1986 when he was killed by Tommy Vercetti.

Georgio Forelli - cross dressing cousin of Sonny. Was thought to be heading for a definite conviction in the 80's but the jury amazingly found him innocent of all charges.

Liberty City Triads

Featured in: GTA 3, Liberty City Stories.

Known Members:
"Chunky" Lee Chong

Hangouts:
Chinatown, Liberty City - Belly Up Fish Factory, Mr Wong's Laundrette.

Vehicles:
Mules advertising "Belly-Up" or "Mr Wong's Laundrette".

Dress:
Blue "Belly-Up" coveralls
Blue leisurewear with Triad logo in back.

Enemies:
Mafia

Information:
The Liberty City Triads were known to be involved in the distribution of SPANK.

The Mountain Cloud Boys

Featured in: GTA: San Andreas

Known Members:
Wu Zi Mu, Ran Fa Li (Red Gecko Tong), Little Lion, Guppy

Hangouts:
Betting shop in Chinatown, San Fierro.

Vehicles:
Elergy, Solair.

Dress:
All Black Suits.

Known Associates:
Carl Johnson

Enemies:
Da Nang Boys, Mafia.

Information:
The nearby "Blood Feather Clan" were completely wiped out by the Da Nang Boys.

Known Members:
Big Poppa, Freddy

Hangouts:
Normally North East Los Santos, around Las Colinas and Los Flores.

Vehicles:
Oceanic, Hermes, Glendale, Tornado.

Dress:
Mostly cheap casual clothing. Gangs show their allegiances by wearing their gangs' colour. The 'Vagos' colour is yellow which they usually wear as a bandana.

Known Associates:
Big Smoke

Enemies:
Grove Street Families, Ballas, Varrios, C.R.A.S.H.

Information:
Extremely dangerous mexican gang heavily. Involved in drugs and weapons trade.

Hangouts:
South Eastern districts of San Fierro, mainly Garcia.

Vehicles:
Sabre, Blade, Stallion

Dress:
Mostly cheap casual clothing. Gangs show their allegiances by wearing their gangs' colour. The Varrios' colour is Cyan.

Enemies:
Vagos, Varrios Los Aztecas.

GTA: San Andreas - The Introduction Background

In Los Santos, in the western state of San Andreas, two cops discuss what they are going to do about a new recruit soon to join them. The larger one named Tenpenny is more concerned about an existing officer who's threatening to squeal about their rather excessive ways of keeping the streets clean.

A similar conversation is happening in San Fierro. Mike Toreno is explaining his methods of getting a job done to someone over the phone. He says "History will understand" as his associate, T-Bone Mendez, beats the living crap out of some guy.

Back in Los Santos again and everyone's talking about the future. Three members of a purple clad gang named Ballas smoke some 'Hydro' and discuss the state of rival gang - The Grove Street Families. The Grove are falling apart and won't get involved in the drugs trade that's helping the Ballas take over the streets. They mention that they are "capping off one of their OG's", but don't see his involvement as a threat.

Two of Grove Street's Original Gangsters are thinking about their destiny. They see that drugs lead to money, influence and power and see no problem in going against their gang's ideals to make that their future. Sweet Johnson disagrees. He believes the gang should stand by their principles and things will just blow over. He's not so relaxed about his brother. Sweet hasn't forgiven CJ since he skipped town after their brother Brian died 5 years earlier.

Over on the east coast CJ is 'working'. He tries the doors to a few parked cars with no luck. Then a car pulls up in traffic next to him. He takes his chance, opens the door and drags the driver out. Within seconds he's heading off through the streets of Liberty in his newly 'jacked car and decides to call Joey to arrange to drop this vehicle at his garage. Joey Leone seems to be having some family problems and CJ compares how Joey's Dad treats him to the way Sweet talks to CJ. Meanwhile the father in question has more than just family business going on. Salvatore Leone has been approached by Jonny Sindacco with an interesting offer. The Sindacco's want to unite the mob organisations of the Leones, Forellis and themselves and each take a third stake in a Las Venturas casino. Salvatore is interested, but wants an independent third-party to run things. He suggests Ken Rosenberg who has just got out of re-hab after a coke addiction. The one time lawyer has been disbarred and Tommy Vercetti no longer takes his calls. He jumps at the job, little realizing that he will be bullied by all the mobsters to get things done their way.

Kent Paul becomes manager to the Gurning Chimps. A band from Salford, England fronted by a guy known simply as Maccer.

Officer Hernandez is initiated into the force when Tennypenny and Pulaski force him to kill another cop. A mysterious green car glides through the street of Los Santos before it swings past the Johnson house with guns blazing. CJ's mom is dead. It's time to go back.

Welcome to San Andreas.

GTA: San Andreas - Background

CJ grew up in San Andreas but left 5 years ago after his brother, Brian, tragically died. He has been living in Liberty ever since, but now has to return after the drive-by killing of Beverley Johnson - his mother.

GTA: San Andreas - Plot

CJ arrives back in Los Santos and is immediately framed for the murder of Police Officer Ralph Pendlebury. Pendlebury was working for C.R.A.S.H. (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums) and was killed when he didn't agree with their "by any means necessary" approach. In fact Pendlebury was shot by new recruit Jimmy Henandez. This was under the duress of the main men of C.R.A.S.H. - Frank Tenpenny and his sidekick Eddie Pulaski. Tenpenny uses the threat of CJ going down for the cop's murder in order to force him to do his dirty work.

CJ meets up with brother and sister, Sweet & Kendl, and some of his old gang buddies Big Smoke and Ryder. Big Smoke has since moved out of Grove Street and the 'Families' are are falling apart. Sweet's insistence on keeping out of drugs has lost the gang a lot of money and members. What used to be one of the largest and powerful gangs in Los Santos has now split into a number of smaller groups and even they are fighting among themselves. The only one who truly declares his gangster ideals is childhood friend Jeffrey. But even he is more interested in moving away to become a successful gangster rapper. If only he had some talent like the highly acclaimed Madd Dogg. CJ helps Jeffrey [-- sorry, "OG Loc" --] by stealing Madd Dogg's rhyme book and sending his manager off the end of a pier.

Carl gets involved in various gang battles. These are mostly with the Ballas and Vagos, but also includes a new russian gang.

On a small scale - the Johnson Family themselves seem to be splitting when Kendl falls for rival gang member of the Aztecas, Cesar Vialpando. With CJ back on the team 'Grove Street Families' seem to be pulling themselves together. They are taking over long lost turf and even arrange for a meeting between all the 'families' in order to forge them back into one strong force.
Unfortunately the party is over when a SWAT team arrive. Ryder and Big Smoke dissapear and CJ is left to rescue Sweet alone until they return with a getaway car. Later CJ gets a shock when he sees Big Smoke & Ryder meeting up with some Ballas and Officer Tenpenny. What's worse is that they are gathered around a 'Green Sabre', the very same vehicle that was used in his mother's killing.

CJ sees that they are about to trap his gang, who are meeting under the freeway, and rushes to warn them. He is too late. After being knocked unconscious, he awakes in a small country town with Tenpenny informing him that his brother is in jail.

CJ is told to stay out of Los Santos. Cesar calls saying Kendl is worried and he's sent some backup to help. CJ should meet them in a bar in the town of Dillimore. It turns out that the "back up" is Cesar's fiery cousin Catalina. As CJ enters the bar she is threatening two large men with a knife. It appears that Catalina has a passion for armed robbery and has already cased some likely targets. The new 'Bonnie & Clyde' rip through the countryside turning over banks and liquor stores, but it soon becomes clear that Catalina has a quick temper and jealous nature. This demanding vixen may be too much woman for CJ to handle.

She eventually hooks up with a non-talkative guy name Claude Speed. At first she probably does this to make CJ jealous, but who knows what goes through her insane mind. She challenges her two men to race each other and of course CJ wins. Furious Catalina accuses him of cheating and says he can't win the car as she and Claude need it to drive to Liberty City. Instead she hands over the deeds to Claude's garage in San Fierro and the pair drive away.

The Garage In San Fierro

Accompanied by a marijuana growing, aging hippy known as The Truth, CJ makes his way to his new property.

It's a dump.

CJ feels he's been screwed over but Kendl can see its potential. She sees it as a chance to make something of their lives. She wants to build up the business and get into property. Once CJ and Cesar are convinced, The Truth says he knows some guys that could help. Dwaine and Jethro used to work as mechanics in a Vice City boat yard before Vercetti bought their business. They switched coasts and are trying their luck in San Fierro. An electronics whizz called Zero becomes the final member of the team. His major interest is RC vehicles and he sees himself as being "at war" with fellow RC genius and his nemesis - Berkley.

The group begin to turn the old wreck around.

Something is still bothering CJ though. He knows it was drugs that caused the problems back home and now he knows that the suppliers are based right here in San Fierro. He tracks them to a meeting with one of their Los Santos contacts - Ryder - and finds out that the major players are T-Bone Mendez, Mike Toreno and owner of the biggest club in town - Jizzy B.

CJ infiltrates the gang and eliminates them all, including Ryder who grew up in the house next door. He then ensures that the crack trade will cease by blowing up the factory.

CJ is summoned to meet a mysterious figure at a large cabin in the desert. It's Toreno! CJ had killed a decoy instead. It appears that the leader of the Crack syndicate is in fact a government agent. He's impressed with CJ and wants him to do the jobs he can't get caught doing. He also claims to have the power to get Sweet released from prison if CJ will do "just one more job."

At the same time The Truth, ever suspicious about government agencies and alien conspiracies, has CJ break into the unmapped government base, Area 69, and steal a proto-type jetpack which CJ then uses to acquire a flask of 'Green Goo'. The purpose or meaning of this is unknown.

While in San Fierro CJ became well respected by the local triad gang. In particular a blind man named Wu Zi Mu. Woozie is now opening a casino in Las Venturas but is suffering as the mob puts the squeeze on him. He offers CJ a share in The Four Dragons Casino if he will help out. Luckily it seems that CJ has a connection to the mob.

• The Truth knows a British band managed by Kent Paul.
• Kent Paul has long been associated with a certain lawyer from Vice City named Ken Rosenberg.
• Rosenberg was now hating his new job of 'running' Caligula's Casino.
• Caligula's is jointly owned by three different Mafia families and they are actually 'running' him.

So CJ gets in with Salvatore Leone before double crossing him and pulling a heist at his casino. The Four Dragons is a success.

Tenpenny calls a meeting. It's time to end their association and depart - permanently.

He whacks Hernandez over the head with a shovel, then hands it to CJ telling him to dig two graves. One for the cop, and one for himself. Tenpenny then leaves Pulaski to finish the job. But Hernandez isn't dead yet. He puts his last ounce of life into attacking Pulaski which hands CJ a gun and a way to finish the podgy cop once and for all.

Ever since Madd Dogg lost his manager and rhyme book his life had taken a downward spiral. He was addicted to drugs and alcohol and even attempted suicide. CJ saved him and now he is his new manager. Madd Dogg may be clean, but he has a lot of ground to make up. He doesn't even have his home anymore. The drug lord, Big Poppa, has taken over his Los Santos mansion. CJ plans to get it back for him.

It's time to go back home.

Back In Los Santos

Once back and settled in LS, Toreno keeps his promise and CJ's brother is released. But Sweet isn't happy with how CJ is acting. He's worried that while CJ is living it up in some mansion, he's forgotten about the hood - about the Grove.

One trip back to Grove Street confirms his worries. The place is overrun by Ballas, crackheads, dealers and junkies. Time to clean up. They take back their turf, clean up the streets and put the gang back together just in time to see Tenpenny brought to trial.

The TV announces that all charges against Tenpenny have been dropped. The corrupt murdering, racketeering bastard was free. Los Santos erupts into chaos as riots break out all over the city. The Johnson boys know this means trouble and head home to secure Grove Street. After calming things down a little and helping Cesar's gang regain control of their area, CJ has a vendetta of his own to deal with.

Big Smoke has achieved his goal and is now successful and wealthy. He even has his own crack factory right here in Los Santos. It's time for CJ to pay him a visit. He takes a SWAT tank and smashes right through the factory walls. Then works his way up through the factory until he reaches Smoke's top floor apartment. Smoke sits high on base playing a videogame. He has no regrets and really believes he made something of himself. He knows what CJ is here for and pulls out a weapon. The lights go down, and shortly after, so does Big Smoke.

Then Tenpenny arrives and tells CJ to fill up his bag with the money from Smoke's safe. He shoots a generator which completely shuts off the lighting and causes a fire which starts to fill the building. CJ races through the dark burning factory and gets out just in time to see his brother leap onto the back of the fire truck Tennypenny is using to escape. CJ knows Sweet can't hang on forever so grabs a car and follows the huge red vehicle all around Los Santos. Sure enough Sweet drops, but CJ is there to catch him. His brother takes the wheel as Carl starts shooting at Tenpenny's truck and the cop cars that have joined the chase. Finally in the brothers' home town of Ganton, Tenpenny loses control and crashes through the side wall of the bridge over Grove Street. The fire truck smashes into the hard road below and all is quiet.

The unrepentant lawgiver slowly crawls out. As various onlookers arrive he lies in Grove Street - weak, frail, beaten and dead.

GTA: San Andreas Notes

The waitress in Caligula's Casino, Maria La Torra, will stay with Salvatore Leone and follow him back to Liberty City. She will become a very important character in GTA 3.

Now that the search for San Andreas Hidden Interiors is coming to an end, I have started looking for interiors in the older 3D GTAs.

I'm sure a lot of people already know about these as the games are quite old and there have been quite a few topics about them on game forums. Unfortunately most of these topics seem to concern modding the PC version of the games which I don't have as I only own the PS2 versions.

I enjoyed exploring the San Andreas universe as if it was a real environment and hunting for interiors without twisting the gamefiles to do so.

If possible I would like to do the same with GTA3 and Vice City.

Assuming that nothing really changed between the PS2 and PC versions, then I know where most of these interiors are located from the old topics. I just have to work out how to get there.

As far as I understand it the development of interiors used in the game has been like this:

GTA Interiors Overview

GTA 3 Interiors

Everything here seems to exist at one time and is exactly where you would expect it to be if this were the real world. This means that interiors are inside their own exteriors and many of these are available just by walking in.

Vice City Interiors

There are now many more 'walk-in' interiors (AmmuNation, Pizza Stack, etc) most of which can be robbed. When entering some interiors that appear to have open doorways, a loading screen appears for a few seconds and then you are inside. This is because some interiors exists in a different 'universe' to its exterior. By this I don't mean that they are in different places, but that only certain parts load visually at any one time. This is to save on game memory by only showing what is essential. I am assuming that some of these interiors are grouped to load together (because they later did in San Andreas) and so I would refer to these groupings as seperate universes or worlds. This has been referred to as 'Ghostworld', But I believe there to be multiple ghostworlds.

San Andreas Interiors

There are now very few of the original 'walk-in' interiors left. Most aren't even located inside their exteriors and entering door markers outside different places can take you to the same interior. Most of these interiors are actually high in the sky above the maximum height for flying vehicles. Without certain glitches or cheat devices these would be impossible to see.

GTA Interiors In Detail

GTA 3 Interiors

Most shop interiors can be reached by simply walking through the open door. Of the cutscene locations only Joey's Garage and Mr Wong's Laundrette are inside buildings. Joey's can be seen by using the rocket-launcher trick to look through the wall. I've been inside using the 'faster gameplay' button cheat. I parked a car up against the blue front garage door and (with the cheat activated) ran between the car and the door. It seems that this forces our hero inside.

The laundrette can be seen through the large front windows at any time. All the rest seem to take place in the outside world. Some of these are impossible to reach without mastering the Dodo plane controls which many just don't have the patience for. These include Donald Love and Kenji's rooftops and the ultimate prize as far as I'm concerned - The setting of the opening Bank Robbery and Betrayal scene. [I really wish Rockstar had recreated that as a solid set in a Los Santos film studio]

Vice City Interiors

I think I know all the interiors and I know some tricks for escaping some of them and into their unloaded exterior 'ghostworlds'. If some interiors load together in the same world then you could leave one and travel across the invisible landscape to see the other. Because the radar and map stay active when in interior world and because vehicles are still accesible it is easy to move around the ghostworlds as as long as you avoid the water.

The interiors are:

• Marco's Bistro (backroom) - Used in opening cutscene - located in the Oceanview Hotel.
• Oceanview Hotel - Used as safehouse and cutscenes - located in its exterior in a different world to Marco's Bistro.
• Printworks - seen in cutscenes - located inside printworks.
• Auntie Poulet's - used in mission cutscenes - located in its exterior.
• Ken Rosenberg's Office - used in mission cutscenes
• The Greasy Chopper (Biker Bar) - used in mission cutscenes - located in its exterior.
• Apartment 3c (Scarface Apartment) - Easter Egg location / always accessible - located in its exterior. I've heard this loads in the same world as The Greasy Choppper.
• The Malibu Club - used in mission cutscenes / always accessible - located in its exterior.
• Pole Position (strip club) - always accesible once open - located in its exterior.
• Washington Beach Police Department - accessible interior - located in its exterior.
• VRock Recording Studio - used in mission cutscenes - located in its exterior
• Love Fist Arena - used in mission cutscenes - I've heard this includes an unseen backstage area.
• Vercetti Mansion - always accessible after Diaz's death - located in its exterior
• North Point Mall - always accessible - located in its exterior
• Bank (can't remember name at the moment) - main lobby always accessible, basement vault only available in mission (I think) - located in its exterior
• Stadium - Apparently exists as 3 seperate interiors - located in the sky

I've heard many methods of escaping these interiors by using glitched wall/ceiling areas or certain vehicles, but the only ones I can say I've done successfully are:

[Note: only attempted on PS2]

The Malibu Club

Drive Caddy (golf cart) inside. The interior will not have loaded. Walk to the exit and you will re-spawn as if you've just entered a fully loaded interior. Get back in the Caddy and reverse out. This is hard to do and usually requires steering left and right to wiggle your way through the doors. Does not require high speeds so just take your time. When outside the exterior world will not be loaded.

Pole Position

Drive any motorcycle or scooter fast towards the entrance and jump of at the last moment. The vehicle should continue through the door. If you can get it past the point where you go to exit when inside, then you can enter a loaded interior as normal, get on the bike and drive back out into ghostworld.

Now for the ones I have problems with:

Apartment 3c

My biggest problem is with Apartment 3c. Everything I read says all I have to do is 'drive in on a scooter and then drive out again'. My problem is that driving in causes my scooter to vanish. There isn't enough run-up to try the Pole-Position trick. What am I doing wrong? Or does the PC behave differently to the PS2 on this occasion?

Oceanview Hotel and West Point Mall

None of the tricks seem to work here.

Washington Beach Police Department

I've not heard any tricks for this one, but it is so badly glitchy that you'd think the person who designed it would have made some mistake with the collision data allowing me to walk through a wall. I can see the ghostworld outside just by going close to many of the walls.

So there you go. Just another pointless activity to keep me amused when I'm bored.

If I had the walk-thru-walls code for my AR Max (PAL UK) Vice City (revised2) codes then this would all be much easier. These don't seem to be available at the moment. Maybe I should try converting them myself.

I had heard the following:
Greasy Chopper loads in the same world as Apartment 3c.
Malibu Club loads in the same world as the VRock Recording Studio.
I've checked and the VRock Studio is not grouped with Malibu. This may be a difference between PC and PS2 or just a difference in the way we're making them visible.

I decided to put the disc in my computer and see if the files in there told me anything. I don't usually do this and don't pretend to know what I'm looking at. Looking at certain lines of code (I think it was in the maps folders) I noticed that most of the lines seemed to be broken into X and Y coordinate (no Z). Most importantly I saw that lines that had to do with places that (in my opinion) loaded together all began with the same first number. I made a list of what was mentioned by each number.

Maybe I'm jumping to conclusions about these being different 'worlds'. I hope so because it means that almost everything loads in a separate world to everything else. If that's the case then I can say goodbye to exploring with just a walk through walls code.

When we meet them in 1992, Ballas are becoming the dominant street gang in Los Santos.

There are 3 main Ballas sets - "Front Yard Ballas", "Kilo Tray Ballas" and "Rollin' Heights Ballas".

Featured in: GTA: San Andreas

Known Members:
Kane, Little Weasel.

Hangouts:
Wherever they control the turf. Mainly around Idlewood, Los Santos.

Vehicles:
Majestic, Tahoma.

Dress:
Mostly cheap casual clothing. Gangs show their allegiances by wearing their gangs' colour. The 'Ballas' colour is purple.

Enemies:
Grove Street Families, Vagos, C.R.A.S.H, Aztecaz.

Ballas History

Collective History

The Ballas are one of the major criminal organizations in Los Santos. A street gang that have been around since the 1970's.

Involved in drug dealing, gang banging, arms dealing, vandalism, degeneracy. Sworn enemy of all 'Families' Sets, especiallly Grove Street.
Origins shrouded in mystery. Heavily involved in cocaine trade. Thought to be developing ties with Mexican (drugs) and Russian (weapons) mobs.

More information about the Ballas.

Known Members:
Cesar Vialpando, Gal, Hazer, Sunny.

Hangouts:
The southern areas of Los Santos, mainly El Corona.

Vehicles:
Broadway, Hermes, Tornado, Glendale, Savanna.

Dress:
Mostly cheap casual clothing. Gangs show their allegiances by wearing their gangs' colour. The Varrios' colour is turquoise.

Known Associates:
Catalina (Cesar's cousin),
While not a perfect relationship, they have occasionally allied with the Grove Street Families.

Enemies:
Vagos, Rifa, Ballas, C.R.A.S.H.

Grand Theft Auto: History Of Varrios Los Aztecaz

The Aztecaz are an extremely dangerous Hispanic street gang. Violent. Proud. Psychotic. Heavily involved in gun running and street violence. Have traditionally been anti-narcotics. Long term gang feud with Los Santo Vagos, as well as rivalries with all other street gangs in Los Santos. Dislike of San Fierro Rifa.