I’ve been playing GTA4 when time permits, and it’s a great game. My (and lots of other peoples’) only real complaint, aside from blurry graphics or lack of DLC for the PS3, has been the woefully low number of cheats available in the game. I’ve been a GTA fan for years. CJ and I used to play the original top-down version years ago and giggle our asses off, especially while playing GTA London: 1969. I’ve always been a big cheater in these games. That’s the biggest draw, in my opinion: the ability to manipulate a somewhat realistic sandbox world and wreak havoc.

So imagine my dismay when the newest version, GTA4, has only 17 cheats available, and almost half of those are vehicle spawn cheats! No pedestrian riots! No spawning tanks or flame throwers or jetpacks or gatling guns! NO MONEY CHEAT! And there are no cheating devices for the PS3, like Action Replay or Codebreaker, so there’s no god mode either.

Because of this, and because of the compelling storyline to the game, I’ve actually been playing through the missions. I’ve noticed that there isn’t really much need for a money cheat, since I had well over $500k (after buying all the clothes in the game, of course) by the 40% mark or so.

Still, I came upon something that might be construed as a money cheat. No, I’m not talking about killing people outside of ATMs and then creating a barricade of exploded vehicles to keep the ambulance from reaching their body, then collecting the respawning money (which I’ve never been able to make work). No, I’m not talking about robbing armored cars, which I do do whenever I see them. They’re just too rare to be a real option.

I’m talking about the Stevie Vehicle Theft missions.

I started doing them because I stumbled on the first car by mistake, and made over $30,000 from stealing it. I decided to do the rest to make some quick money. I made maybe $300,000 from all the cars, which isn’t bad.

The “exploit” comes after you’ve completed all the missions. It took me maybe a few hours over the course of a couple of days to finish collecting all the cars, with the aid of a map. You can find the map at the above link. When finished, you get a text from Stevie saying you can bring ANY car by his garage for some quick cash. Now that I think about it, you may be able to do that at the beginning of this missions. I’m not sure.

Anyway, you can use the car spawn cheats right outside of the garage and turn in the car as many times as you want. I’ve been doing it with the Turismo and I get $11,000 a pop.

I’m now a Liberty City millionaire.

I haven’t seen this posted on any of the forums or cheat websites, so I thought I’d write it up.