Ideas for GTA IV

[Bob Saccamano]

My idea:

 

GTA IV: MICKEY HAMFISTS (working title)

Player character: Mickey Hamfists

Location: Liberty City

Plot:

Taking place directly after the events of GTA III, the opening cut scene is in Salvatore's mansion, occupied by Joey Leone, Toni Cipriani, Luigi Goterelli, and Mickey Hamfists. Joey announces that Salvatore would have wished for Joey to be Boss, and Luigi voices his support, but Toni flatly turns down his power bid, and declares war. (For all intents and purposes, Luigi is a Capo of his own crew in which Mickey is a member, even though Toni was named as the only Capo of the Leone Family.) The first few missions are picked up at Sex Club 7, and revolve mainly around skirmishes for the lucrative Chinatown territory. And although the Joey and Luigi faction outfights Toni, a Cipriani-led assault on Sex Club 7 swiftly undoes their success. Luigi is killed in the gunfight, but Toni spares Mickey, sensing a loyal underling who simply did what he was told. Toni backs Mickey to be Capo of Luig's crew, and Toni promotes a mobster named Fabio Donato as Capo of Toni's old Crew, and Toni declares himself Boss. But Mickey must first prove his loyalty to Toni by whacking Joey Leone, who's on his way to the airport. (With his new position, now Mickey can round up mobsters to his cause in future missions, similar to the gang member recruitment in GTA: SA.

Toni confides to Mickey and Fabio that Massimo Torini, Underboss to the Sicilian Family who gave them a bit of trouble back in 1998, had a son who was a Capo of his own crew, Primo Torini. Primo begged Uncle Leone to avenge his father, but he forbade any vengeance, since he and Salvatore were able to broker a peace, though he promoted Primo to Underboss, knowing that Primo would succeed him and succeed where he failed: to take over Liberty City. And since Uncle Leone had just died, and Primo is now Boss of the Sicilians, they are in a serious pickle. Toni tasks Mickey to defend a barge holding stolen automobiles that are part of a highly lucrative auto-theft ring that they had shared with the Sicilians for 30 years. Other missions in this string mostly include defending Leone strongholds from the Siclians. Eventually the Sicilians are warded off by Toni and Mickey, but on his way to Salvatore's mansion, now Toni's, Mickey gets another surprise.

While attending a conference, to which Fabio Donato is suspiciously absent, the FEDs break in: Fabio was a Rat! Despite Mickey's best efforts to defend Toni from the assault, Toni is detained by the FEDs and held in a prison cell. Toni makes Mickey acting Boss until Toni posts bail. But Mickey is afraid that their next nemesis may be more of a match for him,. or even Toni.

Tommy Vercetti, sensing opportunity, arrives in Liberty City in the guise of an ally. Tommy will offer Mickey assisstance in expanding into Staunton Island in return for a lion's share of the new profits. Not the brightest crayon in the box, Mickey enthusiastically accepts Vercetti's offer. The next few missions are spent acquiring territory and businesses from a leaderless Yakuza and Columbian Cartel. The apex of their conquest is the purchase of Kenji's Casino, renamed The Big Shot Casino like it was before. But Vercetti had betrayed Mickey and has claimed all of Staunton Island for himself. An angry but impotent Toni demands that Mickey re-acquire territory in Staunton Island, but it's a newly-released Toni who gets the honor of fighting Tommy Vercetti in a final assault in front of The Big Shot Casino, with Mickey at his side. With Tommy Vercetti dead, the Leone Family, now the Cipriani Family, officially owns Liberty City.