14F - THE GHOST TOWN
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My thanks again goes out to the guys at the GTA3 messageboard at
www.gamefaqs.com. Remember that bank in the opening cinema? And how you've
driven all over the city and could never find it? Below is how to discover
this very well-hidden area. To see the Ghost Town, you have to be good at
flying the Dodo. Read the Flying the Dodo Mini-FAQ to learn to fly it if
you don't already know how.
Now that you do know how to fly the Dodo, you have to fly to those big
mountains that you can see from the northern side of Portland or Staunton
Island. The ones over the ocean, you know? After you fly there, you have
to actually fly INTO them. The mountains have no collision detection, so
you can fly right through them. Any place is good as long as you aren't too
close to Shoreside Vale.
After you are through on the other side, you need to turn to the west. Fly
under the mountains to underneath Shoreside Vale. You'll need to go through
another wall on the way, but it also isn't solid. Everything is upside down
here, literally. It's a pretty incredible sight.
After you pass through the mountain underneath the mountains, you will see a
small city under here, only the buildings are half finished and sitting on
nothingness. You have finally arrived at the Ghost Town. You can see the
bank that the Colombians robbed in the opening, and the Securicars are even
there too.
Don't try to land on anything, because nothing is solid here, like those
mountains you passed through. I am guessing the opening was shot in real
time so that the collision detection wouldn't have to be fussed with.
There's nothing to pick up here or anything. It's little more than a cool
place to briefly visit. There's a way to get out of here without dying if
you need to. See that large space near the Ghost Town where there is no
water and only black? If you fly down into it, you should pop up in the
Shoreside Vale tunnel, assuming you are near the Ghost Town when you do
this. The tunnel is the one that is opened up, NOT the one that is always
blocked by barricades in Shoreside Vale.
However, it IS possible to see where the blocked-up tunnels go and even get
inside them. Down here, you may see the tunnels jutting out from the
underside of the mountain. You'll see that the tunnels stop going when they
go out of sight from the barricades, cementing the fact that you can't
unlock them. If you're an excellent Dodo pilot, it's possible to fly inside
the back end of the tunnel and land on the other side of the barricades.
The floor that's away from the barricade isn't solid and you'll fall right
through it.