Drive to the waypoints. After the next cutscene, you'll have to follow Jericho. Just stay on him and don't try to go too fast. Not only can you not catch him, but you'll probably overshoot when he turns. After a bit, you reach an alley, and Jericho comes out behind you. Drive straight for several seconds to initiate the next cutscene. Head to the waypoint. You need to make it to the hospital before the patient's heart rate drops below 20. This is fairly simple as long as you don't mess up too much. Once this is done, head to the next waypoint and you'll shift into another car. You are now tasked with shifting on your own. After jumping into a couple of different cars, jump into a taxi. They are the yellow dots on your mini-map. Stunt: Go For a Spin Jump into the Ford GT. You will have to overtake 10 vehicles to start with. To count as an overtake, you must be going at a decent speed and you must be near the vehicle when you pass it. After this, head for the waypoint and enter the blue zone. Inside, you'll need to do a 10 meter jump, which is very easy to do. After this, you'll enter a checkpoint race. Once you complete that, this mission is complete. After you're done, move towards the big T on your mini-map. This is Tanner's Challenger. Trying to shift into it triggers a cutscene. You will have to complete another city mission if you want to progress in the story. Chase: Takedown Hop into the police Charger. You will need to chase down the getaway car and ram it until it goes down. On your mini-map you can see a red circle around the car. If you leave this circle for 10 seconds, you will lose the car, so stay on him. This is easy, just don't get too greedy. If he starts to slow, he's probably going to try and turn, and you could easily overshoot him and the corner. Once he's down, head back to the Challenger and jump in. Drive to the police station to finish the Prologue. Use the Right Thumbstick to zoom in and out while in shift mode. Zoom out and enlarge your mini-map, then find the Dare. Dares are small challenges that give you a little bit of Willpower, which is the currency in the game. All you have to do here is go right down the road without hitting anything for a bit. After doing this, head to the nearby garage and buy your first car. Only a few are unlocked, and some of them are too expensive right now, so your choices are limited. However, once you leave the garage, you will start accumulating Willpower. Every 20 minutes you get a chunk of Willpower. The size of the chunk depends on how many cars and garages you own. You'll also start getting Willpower for doing stuff while driving around, like overtaking, drifting, nearly missing other cars, and hitting jumps, among other things. Now head for the newly unlocked Activity. You'll have to navigate a checkpoint route here. There's no timer, but the faster you move through each checkpoint, the more Willpower you get. Once you've completed that, a bunch of Missions, Activities, and Dares open up for you to examine. You can also explore the garage and buy another car or look at your newly unlocked upgrades which you probably won't be able to afford right now. There's even another garage to buy! Stunt: Learn to Scream This is a simple mission. All you have to do is get the driving instructor's heart rate above 180bpm. Just drift a lot around the corners and hit Car Transporters Ramp Trucks when you see them. Also, aim for overtakes and near misses. Stunt: Breaking News Head to the waypoint and park the van there. Shift into a car well outside of the blue zone. You have to go 100mph while inside of the blue zone, so get some distance between you and the zone and start driving towards it. After that, you need to do a 20m drift while inside the zone, which is incredibly easy with the proper amount of speed. After that, run head-on into another car. You can now shift back into the news van. You need to film more stunts, however, so head to the next waypoint. Shift into a car and look for a cop. They appear on your mini-map as red dots. Hit a cop car to initiate the chase, then head into the marked alley and jump off the end of it to complete this mission. Race: College Fund Simple 20 checkpoint race against three other drivers. Once you complete this mission you unlock the Boost ability. Chase: Meet the Heat You'll need to outrun the cops, then head for the waypoint. This is definitely made easier if you've acquired the Boost ability. Try to trip the cops up going around a corner, then blast off on a straight. Also, you only have three and a half minutes to do this. When you complete this mission, you unlock the Ram ability. Story: Prove It Hop into the Jackass' Solstice and jump off a Car Transporter. These ramp trucks show up as yellow dots on your mini-map. After doing this, shift back into the Solstice and tag a cop. You'll now have to lose the cops. After doing that, shift into the Solstice one last time and ram into the back of a Tow Truck. You'll automatically hook yourself up to it. You can do this with any Tow Truck at any time, by the way. Doing that ends the mission. Story: Kidnapped The first part of this mission has you going from waypoint to waypoint. Eventually, you shift into the kidnapped woman. Mash on A to open the trunk. Now you'll have 24 seconds to get to the each of the next three waypoints. After the cutscene, shift into the vehicle that's been marked. You must now drive head-on into the escaping car. Keep shifting into other cars and running into the front of the bad guy's car until he goes down. This completes the mission and the first chapter. You'll immediately acquire the ability to Rapid Shift. Hop into the police car and then shift out of it. Now use rapid shift to get back in. You and another police car will be tasked with taking down a fleeing suspect. You can use rapid shift to immediately bounce from one police car to the other. Stunt: The Big Break This is an interesting type of stunt. You have 50 seconds to drive the woman to the waypoint. Unfortunately, you will not make it in 50 seconds. You have to smash obviously-marked signs along the way to add a few seconds to your timer. Keep doing this until you reach the destination. This is a pretty simple task. Race: Double or Quits You control the same guy you did in the last race. You'll be up against three other drivers while going through 28 checkpoints. Chase: Street Race Takedown You're in a cop car, and you're tasked with taking down four street racers. However, you have to do it before they finish their 24 checkpoint race. The best strategy here is to constantly shift into oncoming traffic and just ram them head-on. Chase: Mission From God You'll have to take down another fleeing criminal, but he's in a truck, and it can take more damage than a car. Luckily, you have two Escalades at your disposal, which do a lot more damage than a car. Story: Real Police Work Head for the waypoint. Once there, you'll have to tail the white car. If you get too far away, outside of the blue circle on your mini-map, you'll lose it. If you get too close, however, the suspicion bar will start to fill up, so find the right distance and stick to it. It's better to stay near the edge of the circle. If you start to lose her, just boost back into the circle again. Follow her onto the Golden Gate Bridge to end this mission. Story: Eyes on the City You'll be in a helicopter for the first part of this mission you don't get to fly it. After the pilot flies around for a while, you'll see a red SUV that's marked. Scan it and you'll shift into it. You now have 55 seconds to drive it into a parked semi. Once you hop into the semi, you'll have to drive from waypoint to waypoint until you get to the police. Each waypoint adds more time to clock. On your way, enemy cars will try to slam into you to damage you. They usually blow up in the process, but this can take a chunk of health off. Stunt: Paranoia You'll need to get to the waypoint, but you must try to avoid main roads. Driving on a main road increases your client's paranoia. Driving in alleys decrease his paranoia, so look around for the thin gray lines on your mini-map and use them. After the cutscene, you'll need to get to the next waypoint, and the paranoia meter is still active. However, this time you only have two minutes to get there. Once you're close to the waypoint, there's no harm in using the main roads, as long as you actually get there on time. Race: Team Colors This is a 2v2 race. You need to get both of your cars into 1st and 2nd, so there'll be a lot of rapid shifting and trying to disable the enemy cars. If you just enjoy the challenge you can simply shift between your two cars, but the easier way is to let the two cars handle themselves and constantly bombard your rivals with oncoming traffic. Chase: Nick of Time For the first part of this mission you control an SUV. All you have to do is follow your police escort to the bomb site. Once there, you take control of two police cars. Wreck the suspect's vehicle to end this mission. Chase: Wrecked Evidence Hook the prison van up to the Tow Truck at the gas station, then drive away. Some enemy vehicles will ram into you and the van to try to disable you. They shouldn't pose too much of a problem, since the waypoint isn't very far. Once you get to the waypoint, however, you'll have to defend the prison van while it sits stationary in front of the building. Enemies will be marked as soon as they spawn, so start shifting and hitting the enemies head-on. They'll start coming from all over, but they spawn far enough away that it shouldn't be a problem. Story: Shakedown Head to the waypoint. You'll commandeer Haines' Shelby when you get there. Drive it around, doing stunts to get his heartrate up to 180bpm. After you do this, you'll have to outrun a few enemies on your tail. Story: Freeway Inferno Head to the waypoint and you'll come across a tanker. Shift into oncoming traffic and ram it until it's down. The next waypoint leads you onto the freeway, where you'll have to deal with two tankers. Still, this is incredibly simple, and completing it ends Chapter 3.
