Ways of Staying Alive in GTA SA

1. The best way to stay alive longer is to increase your max health, which can be achieved by doing exercises and activities like exercise bike, treadmill, cycling, swimming and running. Out of all these, exercise bike and treadmill are best. The other way of achieving max health is to complete the level 12 of paramedic missions.



CJ with Max Health

2. Once you have completed Sweet’s Doberman mission you will have access to ammunation. Go and get body armor.



Place to buy Body Armor

Complete level 12th of vilginate mission to get extra armor.

3. Always try to follow green areas in map. These are groove street hood areas. You can occupy areas of enemy gangs (colored in purple and orange). Just go to any areas which are not green and shoot three or four opponent gang members to start a gang war. Use powerful guns like AK-47, M4 and SMG. There will be three waves of gang members to survive. Crouching while shooting improves accuracy and decreases the chance of you getting hit. Pick up health and armor after every wave.



The gang war: When on the war the area flashes red.

4. Try to keep maximum muscle and stamina, so that you can escape quickly and can inflict more damage in hand to hand combat

   

   Ganton Gym: A place to workout

5. Always try to keep guns like SMG or Micro SMG or Tec-9 in hand

Getting out of Wanted Levels

To prevent getting wanted levels follow these steps.

1. Don’t hijack any vehicles in front of cops

   

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   CJ jacking a car

2. Use stealth killing to kill anybody you want. Press and hold target button and then press attack button to perform stealth kill with knife.
3. Avoid shooting anybody in front of cops. If you have to, then use silenced pistol 9mm to kill. This reduces the chance of a cop seeing you.
4. Never press the hijack button at cop vehicles

Removing Wanted Levels

Any number of wanted stars would disappear if you complete a mission. Other way is to save your game. If neither of these are possible, then follow these steps that can help you remove your wanted level.

For 1 Star: Just get out of cops’ sight

For 2 Stars: Get to the nearest Pay “n” Spray.

For 3 Stars: Pick up bribe icons (The stars found on the road and many other places) or get to the nearest Pay “n” Spray.

For 4 Stars: Go underwater. Go to the nearest Pay “n” Spray.

For 5 Stars: It won’t be that easy to escape from cops at this stage. You will be dead before you enter a car. Crouch under a car press the hijack button. As soon as you enter the car, run over the cops or they will blow your car up. Go to the nearest Pay “n” Spray.

For 6 Stars: A Better option would be to reload your game… never mind it. Jump in to the water and reach any Pay “n” Spray near the shore. Get out of the water and quickly get into any car but rhino. Then simply go into garage and get it painted. Quietly get out of there. If you’re nowhere near the water, pickup any rhino that comes to kill you and reach a Pay “n” Spray. Get out of Rhino and get into any other car. Enter Pay “n” Spray and get it painted.