Grand Theft Auto IV Road Map

[Dagger]

Overview:
-Estimated trophy difficulty: 9/10
-Overall number of trophies: 51
-Offline: 40
-Online: 10
-Approx time to Platinum: 75+ hours
-Minimum number of playthroughs: 1
Number of missable trophies: Driving Mr Bellic
-Glitched trophies: None
-Do cheat codes disable trophies?: Yes (Walked Free, One Man Army, Cleaned the Mean Streets and Finish Him)

How to go about doing this

Step 1 - The Story
The story is the main part of collecting all the trophies and will give you most on the way. Completing the first mission which is to just drive Roman back to his place will net you your first trophy, Off The Boat. Focus on just completing the missions because if you start going for side missions and Unique Stunt Jumps, Flying Rats etc then you will lose lose valuable time trying to get the Liberty City Minute trophy. By completing the main missions and just that then average gamer would probably net Liberty City Minute with about 23-25 hours on the clock. But in the final section of the game when you get the choice choose revenge as doing otherwise will make you miss the trophy, Driving Mr. Bellic *Read more on this trophy below.
Tip
You can also get the trophy, Half Million as long as you don't die randomly going to missions and don't buy guns that you don't need you should finish the story with enough money to earn this trophy. Be aware that if you choose Deal near the end of the story, then that mission will give you a lot of money but doing so could make you miss out on another trophy.

Step 2 - Offline Extra Trophies
Now that you have completed the story you can focus on getting all the other trophies. Many of them are easily done so use the trophy guide here
http://www.ps3trophies.org/forum/gta...phy-guide.html
To see how much you're alive friends like you, press start and then go onto stats. Make sure that all remaining friends that are alive, this can include Dwayne if he is still alive, and take them out to social places like Darts and Bowling to get all those trophies as well as Liberty City (5). After you have completed the missions you can focus on completing the game to 100%. The only thing that I have struggled with is the flying rats and USJ. I would consider using a guide for them. Use a guide to also find where the random characters are and even when you get the trophy to meet all of them remember that some have more than one mission so try to find them again as these missions do count towards 100%, many people have struggled to figure out what they have missed because of the random characters. Before you go to the wedding mission make sure that Roman likes you enough to let you use his taxi's for free.
-Brucie has many 'Side Quests' for you after or during the Story and they basically involved you stealing cars for him and Stevie. These don't involve much effort as you get an image of what the car looks like and there are maps of the areas in the Trophy Guide.
-Head over to the Airport and do 5 Car Rolls for another trophy. You can find videos on youtube and the guide. Use the yellow/black ramps on the grass and ride on them with one will. It has been said to unlock at 4, but usually 5.
- Get onto a highway or long road and pull a wheelie keep it going and be gentle if their is a small turning during the straight. Wheelie Rider should be yours.
-Now take a Taxi over to the Helitours place and perform counter attacks on all the people. It's best advised to do it here as the police dont care until a while in and for me they did nothing.
Hopefully after getting the above trophy there will be a tour bus close by. Take that and make a blockage in a highway or big road (Preferably a bridge), let the cars pile up and then move pack and cook a grenade I would say wait until about 14-16 cars are their for a bigger chance of getting the trophy. Throw the grenade and then do it again atleast 2 times more. This should easily get you Chain Reaction.
-For One Man Army it is easy to just get a 6 star wanted level and then hide in your safe house for the duration killing any cops that come in. Note that they can come after time so if you think you killed them don't bother running down the stairs, just stay put.
-Walk Free is also easy as if you have Romans ability unlocked get one of his taxis and choose the furthest destination possible giving you enough time to get the 4 star wanted level, then straight away choose to skip the ride. This somehow makes it go away.

Step 3 - Multiplayer
-In your first or second match unless you suck bad, you will have gotten the Viral Trophy, Let The Sleeping Rockstar Lie.
-I would strongly advise posting for a partner in the trophy boosting thread because they can help on getting all the car races finished for Auf Wiedersehen Petrovic. Whilst Doing AWP you will earn many other trophies as well. If your boosting all the way 4 people are needed on some of the team based games.
-Ranking up will take a while to do and the Fly The Co-op trophy will take co-operation from both or more members of the team or you can just say goodbye to completing it within the time limits. For Wanted, the quickest way is to play Hangman's Noose but it helps if you have people with headsets or partners for that, its not required though.

Many people have said that Auf Weidersehen Petrovic is glitched and that it has to be done in one sitting. THIS IS NOT TRUE. People have got the trophy in more than one sitting so it is possible. If stats havent recorded dont go online wait till it adds what you've done to you're stats. The GTAIV servers are crap so they are the start of peoples problems.

Tips from Mr Boo-Hoo
For Liberty City(5) and Liberty City Minute
1. ALWAYS answer the phone when your friends call. Not answering the phone will automatically decrease that friend's "like" rating.
2. NEVER reject a friend's request to hang out. Rejecting a friend's request to hang out will automatically decrease that friend's "like" rating. ALWAYS accept a friend's request to hang out.
3. If you are trying to play through the game quickly to obtain the "Liberty City Minute" trophy then you just don't have time to hang out with friends. After accepting a friend's request to hang out, select "Cancel Plans" under that friend's name in the phonebook (i.e. Phonebook>Roman>Cancel Plans). You will receive NO PENALTY for calling a friend back and explaining that you just don't have time for pointless meanderings. You are Niko Bellic!!!
4. Don't forget to cancel plans with your friend after accepting their request to hang out. Failing to appear at an arranged meeting without selecting the "Cancel Plans" option will automatically decrease that friend's "like" rating.
5. This is done the easiest at the end of the game. Many of the missions that you do will increase "like" ratings from a friend who is involved with that mission. Don't worry about your decisions in the game. Rockstar made sure that none of your choices void you from being able to obtain a trophy and they are
all retroactive*.

*

Spoiler! (click here to reveal)

There actually is one trophy that you could miss if you choose "Deal" over "Revenge" at the end of the game. Most players will easily obtain the "Driving MR. Bellic" trophy through normal play and will not have to worry about this but some of you have been telling me that you missed this rushing through the game. If you choose "Deal" then Roman won't be around at the end of the game to unlock this trophy. However, if Roman is around at the end of the game then you will have no problems. It's retroactive...but technically miss-able (very technically). I HIGHLY recommend unlocking this trophy during the course of the first few missions and if you follow my steps, you will do this easily. You gain like rating for completing certain missions that involve friends and Roman has plenty of these. Just prevent your like rating from decreasing and you will get this easily.

[ZERO_]

Originally Posted by Dagger471

Overview:
-Estimated trophy difficulty: 9/10
-Overall number of trophies: 51
-Offline: 40
-Online: 10
-Approx time to Platinum: 75+ hours
-Minimum number of playthroughs: 1
Number of missable trophies: None
-Glitched trophies: None
-Do cheat codes disable trophies?: Yes (Walked Free, One Man Army, Cleaned the Mean Streets and Finish Him)

How to go about doing this
Finish the story mode first. Focus on just completing the missions because if you start going for side missions and USJ, Flying Rats etc then you will lose lose valuable time trying to get the Liberty City Minute trophy. To see how much you're alive friends like you, press start and then go onto stats. After you have completed the missions you can focus on completing the game to 100%. The only thing that I have struggled with is the flying rats and USJ. I would consider using a guide for them. Use a guide to also find where the random characters are and even when you get the trophy to meet all of them remember that some have more than one mission so try to find them again as these missions do count towards 100%, many people have struggled to figure out what they have missed because of the random characters.

Multiplayer
I would strongly advise posting for a partner in the trophy boosting thread because they can help on getting all the car races finished for Auf Wiedersehen Petrovic. Ranking up will take a while to do and the Fly The Co-op trophy will take co-operation from both or more members of the team or you can just say goodbye to completing it within the time limits.

Many people have said that Auf Weidersehen Petrovic is glitched and that it has to be done in one sitting. THIS IS NOT TRUE. People have got the trophy in more than one sitting so it is possible. If stats havent recorded dont go online wait till it adds what you've done to you're stats. The GTAIV servers are crap so they are the start of peoples problems.

you forgot to put the AWP in the Glitched trophies section.

[C-Box]

He wrote the paragraph at the bottom eplaining the AWP trophy.

[Rockets88]

Yh he said it may be glitched not it IS glitched!

[the_beaver_40]

it is glitched. very very glitched. painfully glitched.

[Harold_Cakington]

Originally Posted by Dagger471

Overview:

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Number of missable trophies: None
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Im still a little unsure of this.

Spoiler! (click here to reveal)

One of the trophies is "Driving Mr Bellic" which is unlocking Roman's Taxi Service. But if you chose Greed for the final mission (or is it revenge? Can't remember sorry), Roman dies. I'm in this situation, where I've done the story, Roman is dead, but I haven't unlocked his special ability. Doesn't this mean I've missed it, and need to start a new save for this trophy?

[Ether999]

^You've missed it. You'll have to start a new game and build up your friendship level with him.

[Harold_Cakington]

Originally Posted by Ether999

^You've missed it. You'll have to start a new game and build up your friendship level with him.

Bummer...

Oh well, shouldn't be too much effort I guess.

Dagger, you may want to change your original post to reflect this?

[Rockets88]

Originally Posted by the_beaver_40

it is glitched. very very glitched. painfully glitched.

Just found out it isnt glitched at all...u just have to be sensible and check off races only recorded on the social club website...i had to check every night & found out that some hadnt recorded, so i just did them again and voila trophy!!!

[the_beaver_40]

Originally Posted by Rockets88

Just found out it isnt glitched at all...u just have to be sensible and check off races only recorded on the social club website...i had to check every night & found out that some hadnt recorded, so i just did them again and voila trophy!!!

look through my online stats mate. I have at least 2 wins in every category. I am in your friends list so check. I have gone through the list numerous times to make sure!!! IT IS GLITCHED!!!!