Your criminal rating in the game is a statistic reflective of the amount of chaos and destruction you cause throughout the game. The more people you kill, cars you blow up etc the higher your criminal rating will reach. Your criminal rating is also affected by the amount of money you have, times you get busted and the number of cheats you use, some of which have a negative effect on your criminal rating. The Godfather criminal rating is the highest rank you can achieve and requires a rating of 1,000,000+. Below is a list of activities and actions that influence your criminal rating:
- Destroying a plane or helicopter: 30 points
- Weapon accuracy: 5 points for every 1% accuracy
- Amount of money: 1 point for every $5,000 held, with a maximum of 200,000 points
- People wasted: 1 point per person killed
- Criminals killed during Vigilante missions: 1 point each
- Getting wasted or busted: -3 pointer each time
- Using certain cheat codes: -9999 points. This applies to all vehicle spawn cheats.
Based on the above point system, you are free to use any strategy you wish to reach the Godfather criminal rating. There are numerous methods, some quicker than others, that you can use to increase your criminal rating within the shortest possible time. I have only outlined what I believe to be the two quickest and most painless methods, albeit two tedious ones.
Method #1:
Firsty, you will want to start a new game, as specified in the roadmap above and start by collecting 80 hidden packages in order to unlock the Sea Sparrow helicopter. You will also want to be sure not to fire any bullets or get shot at and earn $10,000,000 quickly by replaying the "Cone Crazy" mission. You can get to the second island without having to unlock it via story progression. Once you have unlocked the Sea Sparrow, you can set it up in a certain location to continuously fire the mounted machine guns at a car until the trophy unlocks. Even after the car has blown up in which you are firing at, the game still registers each shot that hits the blown up car as hitting the target, thus increasing your overall accuracy percentage. This method is by far the quickest and if done correctly, you can rubberband the controller thus allowing you to leave the game running. This method works by drastically increasing your accuracy percentage, which based on the above point system will award you with 5 points each time your accuracy percentage goes up by one. For a complete walkthrough of this method, please refer to the guide here:
LINK created by
BuYcKi
If you don't want to collect the hidden packages twice, then you can start your first playthrough by collecting 80 then saving your game in a separate save file. When you want to obtain this trophy, reload that save file and continue the above method. Thanks to
AlexanderWTF221 for the tip.
Method #2:
This method can be completed on the same game save file that you used to complete the game to 100%. However, it requires the input of the 'Blow up all vehicles' cheat code numerous times to blow up helicopters. You will first want to purchase the Hyman Condo and then proceed to park four Sea Sparrows in the garage. You can acquire the Sea Sparrow from the Vercetti Estate after obtaining 80 hidden packages. On the roof of the Hyman Condo is a Maverick helicopter. You can spawn another two by flying away and then returning to the roof. You will now have seven helicopter in close proximity. Now you want to position yourself near the air vents on the roof and continually enter the blow up vehicles cheat. It will take approximately 3-4 hours to reach the Godfather criminal rating. This method may be more desirable than Method #1 as you don't need to collect the hidden packages a second time round. For more details on this method, please refer to the thread here:
LINK created by
Hvalpen.
