The Godfather II walkthrough
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
LEGAL THINGS
VERSION HISTORY
GAME WALKTHROUGH
Prologue:  NATIONALIST CUBA
Part 1 - TAKING BACK NEW YORK
Part 2 - A QUICK TRIP
Part 3 - FUN IN THE SUN
Part 4 - POLITICS MAKES FOR STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
Part 5 - CUBA LIBRE
Part 6 - O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU?
Part 7 - CHAOS IN CUBA
Part 8 - THE ENDGAME
WEAPON LOCATIONS
EXECUTION ADVICE
FAQ
WHO WROTE THIS?
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LEGAL THINGS
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VERSION HISTORY
May 1 2009 - Version 1.00 posted on Gamefaqs site
May 10 2009 - Version 1.01 posted.  Same walkthrough, just added a few websites
to the "Legal Things" section and corrected some typos.
May 13 2009 - Version 1.02 posted.  Again, same walkthrough, just added a few
more websites to the "Legal Things" section and corrected a lot
more typos.
May 15 2009 - Added www.supercheats.com to the Legal Things section.  This
walkthrough sure is getting popular!
May 31 2009 - Added www.cheats.de to the Legal Things section and corrected a
few more typos.  I really should have proofread this more
carefully.
June 4 2009 - Version 1.1 posted.  At a reader's request, I added a new section
after the main walkthrough listing the location of all the
weapons in this game.  Also corrected a mistake I made about the
owner's weakness at the Juan Sizzllio's racket in Cuba.
August 18 2009 - Version 1.1.1 posted.  A few more typos fixed, a couple more
sites added to the "Legal Things" section.
January 1 2010 - Version 1.2 posted.  Added a tip J.B. Krause sent me about
getting a jeep in Cuba.  Thanks J.B.!
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GAME WALKTHROUGH
Prologue:  NATIONALIST CUBA
A quick recap of the first Godfather game's events is narrated by your
character, Dominic.  After it's done, the first thing you do is create your
mobster using the mobface system you might already be familiar with if you've
played the first Godfather game.  You can change your character's hair, skin
tone, eye color, give him an overbite, etc…  There's not much to say about this
portion of the game except that you shouldn't hit the start button until you're
satisfied with your mobster's look.  It's an easy mistake to make to simply
change his hair, press Start and start the game without making any other
changes to Dominic.  In case you're curious, none of these changes affect the
game in the least.  And you can change your appearance after you've started the
game anyway.
Our story proper begins in Cuba on the eve of Castro's takeover.  Hyman Roth
has called a meeting of the heads of four crime families.  In attendance are
Rico Granado, Samuele Mangano and two other mobsters wearing yellow sweaters
who are part of Roth's mob.  Representing the Corleone family are yourself,
Fredo Corleone, Michael Corleone and the protagonist from the first game, Aldo
Trapani.  Roth speaks of how the families can profit from Cuba and parcels out
his operations for when he retires.
After his speech, you get control of your character and get your first
objective:  Talking to Michael.  This is rather easily attained, as he's
standing right there.  He tells you to go talk to Aldo.  Before you leave the
balcony, you can also talk to Fredo and Roth, if you wish.  After you leave the
balcony, feel free to introduce yourself to Rico Granados and Samuele Mangano
too.  Make your way to the ground floor where you'll find Aldo near the dance
floor.  He'll share his apprehension about the communist rebels.  As he speaks,
Fredo and Michael will saunter up.  No sooner is the conversation over than
Cuban president Batista announces he is fleeing the country.  Bedlam ensues.
You have to escort Michael, Fredo and Aldo to the airport where a plane will
fly you all out of the country.  The crowd flees to the front of the palace,
but you go out the back way.  As you enter the kitchen, you encounter a
communist guerrilla who is easily dispatched with a few punches, then another
who you can grapple and then beat to death.  Outside, a crowd of enraged Cubans
runs up and begins attacking a car chassis with no wheels.  Since you now have
a pistol, you can shoot them if you want, but you're better off ignoring them
and making your way out the gate and onto the street.  Ahead of you, two more
communists are running up and will shoot at you.  Once you dispatch them, make
your way to the intersection where you'll find some cover to dispatch the three
or four soldiers there.  When they're history, head over to the bridge and
lower it by shooting the bridge operator.  You'll find him to your right in a
control room with a big window you can shoot him through.
Move forward to the next intersection.  The game will inform you that you can
sprint, but that's not a good idea at this point because the firefight you're
approaching will cause vehicles parked nearby to explode in a sec.  If you get
there too soon, you'll be hurt by these explosions, so wait until the cars go
up before rushing in.  The soldiers here drop shotguns and maybe even a
tommy-gun that you can pick up.  Make your way to the airport gate, which is
closed.  Aldo will cut it open with an acetylene torch.  As he moves towards
the airplane, a sniper shoots him dead, and then you, Michael and Fredo shoot
the sniper.
On the plane, Michael talks about how Roth's plans for Cuba are finished and
how the families will now be at each others throats.  Fredo says he's ready to
step up in the business, but Michael ignores his ambition and makes you Don of
New York instead.
Part 1 - TAKING BACK NEW YORK
We jump ahead six weeks as another CS informs you that you have a new problem
in New York, Tony and Carmine Rosatos.  Once capos under Pete Clemenza, these
two have left the Corleones and started their own families.  Frank Pentangeli
thinks Roth is behind them, but Michael disagrees.  He tells you to recruit a
made man to help you take care of business.  Talk to Frank and he'll tell you
more about made men.  In the office are two candidates for your mob, medic Joe
Primanti and arsonist Roy Giordano.  You might be tempted to recruit the medic,
who is more valuable in the long run, but recruit Giordano.  Then wander around
the house for a sec.  The dining room should have extra ammo for your pistols
and magnums.  Michael is by the front door, and if you talk to him he'll
discuss Frank's suspicions about Roth.
Head out the door and you'll find a black Cadillac waiting for you, but don't
get in just yet.  There's a reason you recruited that arsonist and here's where
it pays off.  Turn to your left and face the compound gate.  As you approach
it, you'll see a row of bushes to the right of the gate.  When you approach
this foliage, a fire icon will appear.  Order your made man to burn it down.
Oddly enough, this blatant and dangerous vandalism won't draw any ire from the
Corleone soldiers around the compound (I guess being boss of your own family
lets you get away with a lot).  Once the bushes are gone, you'll find an
upgraded shotgun on a bench.
Go back to the car and get inside.  That Caddy, by the way, respawns after a
while so if you ever need a car you can come back here and get one.  There's
also an armoured version in another part of the compound, but you can't
actually get in it until much further on in the game, so forget about it for
now.  If you want a car and don't feel like hoofing it all the way back to the
compound, you can always just grab a parked one or stand on the street and wait
until one comes along to carjack it.  Once you do so, however, you'll want to
drive off without delay as cops will arrive after a while and chase you around
if you're still in the area.
Take off and drive the two blocks to the Sweet Life bakery.  Go into the back
room where you'll find a bouncer.  Grab him and beat him around a bit to
intimidate him into letting you into the brothel.  After he's done so, he'll
cower away from you so you can just ignore him.  Go inside and you'll find
scantily-clad women, horny patrons and Rosatos guards.  How you dispatch the
guards is up to you.  If you pull a gun, they'll do likewise, so I found it
easier to simply run up and beat them to death.  As you go through the game
you'll find that some rackets have guards who'll start shooting no matter what,
but for now you have the choice of gunplay or no gunplay.
Once you've dispatched the four or five guards, go into the office where you'll
find the owner and a safe.  You can't do anything with the safe right now, so
focus on the owner.  You have to intimidate him into letting you take over the
racket.  Do so by grabbing him and holding on until he cracks.  If you want to
speed up the process a little, feel free to throw a punch or two at him.  But
don't overdo it or you'll either kill him or rile him up to the point where he
won't knuckle under.  If either happens, you'll have to take off and come back
later to take over the racket, and in the meantime the family that controls it
will have sent along more guards.  Also, they'll sometimes send reinforcement
guards to a racket you're in the process of attacking, and these guards tend to
come in guns-a-blazin'.
Anyway, now that you've taken over the racket, you should assign some guards to
it in case Carmine Rosatos decides he wants it back.  Then leave.  If you like,
you can talk to some of the ladies there.  Many will be cowering away from you
but any that aren't you can flirt with and see if they respond.  It makes no
difference in the game if they like you or not, but you might find it amusing.
Upstairs, Frank's waiting for you to tell you about Fronts.  There are three
businesses that act as fronts for the Carmine Rosatos mob and your job is to
take over two of them.
Your choices are the Appliance King shop, the Empire Room bar and Richie's
Tavern.  For now, leave the Empire Room and take over the other two instead.
The owner of the Appliance King is vulnerable to property damage, so smash up
some TVs when he's in the room, then grab him until he cracks.  The Rosatos
guards at Richie's Tavern aren't in the tavern itself but rather on the roof.
So is the owner, and he's vulnerable to grabs and leans, so grab him, drag him
over to the ledge and lean him over.  He'll crack in no time, but make sure you
don't throw him off.
Now that you've got three businesses under your control, you might notice that
they probably don't produce enough income to justify hiring the maximum amount
of guards they can accommodate.  My rule of thumb is to hire as many guards as
you can up to the limit of your daily income.  So if you're income is, say,
$2343, your guard expenses should be $2300.  Make sure all your rackets and
fronts have guards, and if you have to trim a few from a front to keep a racket
at maximum strength, than that's the way to go.  Don't worry about money for
now, as there are plenty of other ways to make money in this game.  So far,
you've only made money by extorting shopkeepers and picking up loose cash
dropped by people you've killed, but other revenue streams will open up soon.
One of them is the bank you might have noticed is in town.  Don't go there yet.
You can't get at the money there and all you'll do is bring down police heat on
you.
Now that you've taken over the two businesses, pay phones all over town,
including the one on the ground floor of Richie's Tavern, will be ringing.
Pick up the call and you'll find it's Michael telling you to come back to the
compound.  Meet with Michael and he'll advise you to hire guards for your
rackets and fronts (which you've already done).  He'll also tell you it's time
to recruit another made man.  On the way out, you can talk to Fredo if you
want, and he'll tell you that you can sometimes bribe cops to look the other
way while you're up to your wacky shenanigans.
Head out and drive over to the Tribeca Park basketball court where you'll find
your next recruit, Bill Bardi, a demolitions expert.  Recruit him.  Now your
next objective will be to take over La Maison Rouge and complete your
Prostitution crime ring, but let's hold on a sec.  There's no rush for you to
do that just yet.  Instead, head back to Richie's Tavern.  The bar is on a
street corner and the street heads off to the east before it turns southwards.
Go to that corner and look to the northeast.  Between the two big buildings
you'll find a trio of tables, like a restaurant.  Wandering around that area is
Alvin Uzzano, another mobster you can recruit as a made man.  Trouble is,
you've only got room for two thus far.  Open up the Don's View, take a look at
your family and set your arsonist as Marked for Death.  Trust me, you're not
gonna need an arsonist any more.  Uzzano is an upgrade across the board as he
has two specialities (safecracker/medic) and has an advanced gun licence, which
means he can use better weapons like the upgraded shotgun you picked up.  So
grab your arsonist, beat him to death and recruit Uzzano.  Don't feel too bad
about the arsonist you just killed, as he's not as dead as the game says he is.
Now that you've got a safecracker at your disposal, you should go back to the
businesses you've already taken over and open the safes inside them.  The one
at Richie's is on the ground floor next to the staircase, the one at Appliance
King is in the back room and the one at Sweet Life is in the office with the
owner.  Each safe has $1000 in it, so now you've picked up $3000 and you didn't
have to kill anybody for it.  Sweet!  From here on in, make sure you crack the
safe whenever you take over a racket or front, as they all have safes.
You might be wondering if having a safecracker means you can hit the bank yet.
You can if you want to, but it's still a bad idea, so keep away from it for
now.
Since you've got some money burning in your pocket, upgrading yourself and your
made men is a good idea if you haven't done so yet.  A good upgrade is Ready
Weapon, which will make you and/or your made men reload their guns faster.
Another good one for you to acquire is the Extortion Expert upgrade as this
will make it easier for you to rack up more cash when you take over a business
without pushing the owner too far.  And another thing I like to do is change my
made men's clothes so that I don't get them confused with the guards I'm
attacking.  You might have noticed that the guards in other mobs all wear the
same colors (like Carmine Rosatos` guys wear mostly orange and brown) so make
sure your made men don't have those colors on or you might find yourself
pumping bullets into one by mistake.
That done, it's time to get back to your business.  Head over to La Maison
Rouge.  You won't be able to get in through the front door, so head on over to
the back.  You'll probably encounter a guard as you do so, so just run up and
beat him up.  The only way to get in is by blowing up an entrance in the back,
which is why you needed to recruit Bardi the demolitions expert.  Once he's
done his job, enter the building and go into the kitchen.  Remember how I said
some rackets you can take over without drawing a weapon?  Well, this isn't one
of them, so draw your shotgun and get ready to shoot.  If your made man can't
use the advanced shotgun, the magnum isn't a bad choice either, but its range
isn't great.  Anyway, they'll be about ten guards or so in the joint, half of
them on the top floor popping out of two doors at the east end of the hall.
Here's where the shotgun really shines.  Once they're dispatched, you'll find
the owner in the eastern room.  Punch her around until she's low on health and
then grab her if you like.  She'll hand over the business and you'll get your
first crime ring reward:  Brass knuckles.  You'll do more damage when punching,
so be careful when roughing up shopkeepers from now on.
The game then instructs you to take over the rest of the rackets.  But on the
way out of your new brothel, you'll probably get a message that the Sweet Life
bakery is under attack.  So drive on over and get rid of the attackers.  It's
just a couple of them on the outside of the building, and you can usually get
at least one of them simply by running him over with a car.  Attacks like these
are why you need guards to protect your businesses.  Disposing of the attackers
in front of witnesses will bring police heat down on you.  So go inside the
bakery and answer the ringing phone.  It's Michael and he wants to see you, but
not at the compound.  Drive over to the marker and you'll find Frank meeting
you outside an apartment house which becomes your safehouse.  It's got spare
ammo lying around, which is always nice.  Also, if you ever need to lose cop
heat, just duck in and they'll leave you alone.  Most important, when you do a
bank job, you have to return to your safehouse before the money you boosted can
be spent.  So now you can do bank jobs if you wish, though I'd still hold off
for a while.
Once you're inside the safehouse, Michael will tell you it's time to hit
Carmine's men.  To get rid of an opponent's made man, you have to know what
their kill condition is and dispatch them in that specific way.  Talk to Frank
and he'll explain how you can find out these kill conditions from people on the
street.  Look for people on the street with a key icon over their heads and
talk to them.  They'll tell you what they need from you and once you do it,
you'll find out the location and kill condition of a mobster.  You can look up
the mobster in the Don's View and mark him for death, at which point his
location will appear on the mini-map.  Marking your target for death is also a
good idea as these mobsters are usually accompanied by other goons you have to
fight through, so it's good to know who's the guy you need to kill a certain
way and who are the other mooks you can just blast away at.
Getting rid of an enemy mob's made men early is a good idea as if you wait,
these made men will often be involved in attacks on your businesses.  Your
guards will fall like bowling pins before a made man when one attacks your
rackets.  The only thing that you can do to counter a made man attacking your
business is to dispatch made men of your own to help defend it or go there
yourself, which can be inconvenient if you're in the middle of a job.
However, there is one advantage to having enemy made men attack your business.
Normally, you have to go to a made man's hangout to kill him.  This isn't such
a big deal when you're targeting soldiers, but capos and underbosses are
usually surrounded by a dozen guards or so.  On the other hand, when they're
attacking your business, they only have two or three extra bodies to protect
them.  So if you get a message that your business is being attacked, check your
enemy's family tree in the Don's View and see where everybody is.  If you see
that one of the made men is attacking your business, mark him for death and
take note of what his kill condition is.  Then go over to your business and
take the guy out that way if you can.  Sometimes, the kill condition will be
something impossible at that business, like throwing somebody off a building or
running them over with a car.  In that case, you probably shouldn't bother
going over there.  Just send some made men and go about your business.
Once you're done talking to Frank, you'll find a guy across the street from
your safehouse who needs a favour.  Agree to do it and then take the Caddy
provided to do the job.  Like the car at the Corleone compound, this black
Cadillac will respawn.  There's also often an armoured version of the car
parked next to the safehouse, but it's just as unusable as the one at the
compound.
There are five types of favours you can do for people on the street:
Assassinations, where you kill somebody, Intimidations, where you have to beat
somebody up without killing them, Sabotages, where you have to do property
damage to a store, Burglaries, where you have to open a safe to get something
inside and Demolitions, where you have to blow up a building.  There's not much
to say about the first two, aside from the fact that you might get police
attention.  Also, if you ever have to kill somebody near a hospital, you'll
have to prevent nurses and doctors from running up and reviving your target
before the job is considered finished.
As to the last three, Demolition jobs are pretty rare.  To complete them , you
need to have a demolitions expert plant a bomb next to the gas pipes on the
outside of the target building.  Sabotages and Burglaries always take place
inside a racket/front, so it's not a good idea to accept jobs from people in an
area where you don't control most of the businesses.  On the plus side, if the
burglary is at a store who's safe you've already cracked, you'll find the safe
closed and cracking it will not only complete the job, but net you some extra
money too!  For now though, you need to do the favour for this dude, so let's
get back to that.
Once you've done the favour, whatever it is, open up the Don's view, find the
made man of the Carmine Rosatos family with the key on his picture and mark him
for death.  It's Franklin Credi, and you'll find him next to the Federal
Building.  Unlike most of the targets you'll have to liquidate as the game goes
on, he's all alone.  So just run up to him and strangle him.  Once you've done
so, the pay phones will start ringing again.  Ignore them for now.  Go into the
federal building and crack the safe in the room on the right.  Then wander
around looking for other people with keys over their heads.  Do three more
favours for them and you'll have the locations and kill conditions of the rest
of the Carmine Rosatos mob.  You can also do favours for the people with money
icons above their heads, which, as you might have guessed, will net you some
money.
The three mobsters you've got info on are Clyde Lando, Jimmy Guidalatto and
Norman Rossi.  The first two are fairly easy to get rid of.  Clyde is hanging
around a freight yard right next to the Corleone compound.  Easiest way to get
him is to start at the Sweet Life bakery and drive south through the
construction.  A guard will be loitering outside the yard so run him over, then
drive in and run over Clyde who's in the back.  Another Rosatos guard will
shoot at you, so you can either have your crew shoot him from the car or simply
leave.  Jimmy is in a park next to the East river with only one guard.  You can
just run up to Jimmy, throw him in the river and then beat his bodyguard to
death.
Now Norman Rossi, on the other hand, might be a tough nut to crack.  For one
thing, he's got more than a dozen guards watching out for him and they'll start
shooting at you as soon as they see you.  For another, he's on the top level of
a building under construction, so you have to fight your way through the guards
from the ground floor up to the top.  And finally, his kill condition is that
you have to do a pistol execution, which requires you to be standing right next
to him at the time (Check out EXECUTION ADVICE later on in this guide for more
on executions).  This can be hard to pull off when his guards are shooting at
you.  Best way to do this is to shoot Rossi a few times with the pistol from a
distance to stun him, and then run up and finish the job.
Mark Rossi for death in the Don's View but otherwise leave him alone for now.
If you're lucky, the Rosatos will attack one of your fronts while you're doing
something else.  Since you've killed all their other made men, they'll send
Rossi and it'll be easier to kill him when he's attacking your business.
You'll still have to use a pistol execution, but he'll have less guards by his
side.  If he's not sent to attack you, just leave him for later.
Answer the phone after you've killed Clyde and Jimmy.  It's Carmine Rosatos and
he wants a truce.  Meet him and Frank at Richie's Tavern.  The meeting turns
out to be a set-up and Frank ends up on the wrong end of a garrotte. The chance
arrival of a cop saves your life but he calls in his trigger-happy buddies.
Run up the stairs to the roof where your crew is waiting, then make your way
across the rooftops.  You'll have to whack some cops as you go, and you'll pick
up the sniper rifle too.  You'll eventually make it to a staircase near the
overpass.  Cops on the overpass will take potshots at you, but you can ignore
them.  Make your way down the fire escape and then jump into your safehouse to
make the cop heat disappear.
Your phone will be ringing, so pick it up and then go see Michael at the
compound.  He denies being behind the attack on you and Frank.  He tells you to
recruit another made man.  You'll find three in the kitchen, including the
arsonist you beat up to make room for Alvin Uzzano.  Told you he wasn't dead.
Don't recruit him though.  Get the engineer instead.  Just as every racket has
a safe, it also has an electrical board.  Having an engineer sabotage the
electrical board prevents that racket from calling reinforcements when you take
it over.  Also, engineers can cut through fences with acetylene torches like
Aldo did in the Cuba prologue (though unlike Aldo, they don't become sniper
meat immediately thereafter).  Going through fences will often let you enter
rackets from the back and make it easier to fight the guards inside.  And
finally, having an engineer cut the power to a bank will cut the alarm and
avoid the massive cop heat I keep warning you about.
So now you're finally ready to hit that bank.  Park a car outside the north
side of the bank and cut the power.  There's also a crack in the wall you can
order your demolitions guy to bomb.  Once it goes up, you can run in and order
your safecracker to open the safe.  While he's hard at work, grab the $10000
lying around.  The safe contains another $2500.  Before you can spend it, you
need to go to your safehouse, so hop in your getaway vehicle and drive to your
place.  If you do this quickly enough, the cops will ignore you when you leave
(as opposed to doing all this with the electricity still on, which would bring
in more cops and they'd be shooting you up something fierce).  Spend the money
on upgrades.  The bank will be out of commission for a while, but will
eventually regenerate it's wall.  And while the safe won't give you anything
more, the $10000 in the vault will likewise respawn.  So check out the bank's
status on the Don's View from time to time and when it's up and running, rob it
again.
If you haven't taken out Norman Rossi yet, now's a good time to do so.  Exit
your safehouse and find the construction site.  Before you go in, you might
notice there's an apartment building beside it.  Around the back of that
building is a fire escape you can climb to the top of.  It's a good vantage
point to shoot some guards with the sniper rifle.  Make sure you have Rossi
marked for death so that you don't accidentally snipe him.  Once you're out of
targets or rifle bullets, run back down the fire escape, around the building
into the construction site to work your way up the levels.  Like I said before,
plenty of guards here.  Execute Rossi and that should leave only Carmine
Rosatos himself in the family tree.
At this point, you might notice that the Don's View has three new icons on the
map.  These represent individuals you can do favours for in exchange for a
special service.  The first, Ken Jameson, is located in the alley behind the
police station towards the Appliance King.  Go speak to him and he'll ask you
to vandalize the Appliance King.  Once you do so, you'll be able to get him to
call off the cops when they're chasing you and you're not near your safehouse.
The next one is located at the Tribeca Park basketball court where you picked
up Bill Bardi.  His name is Victor Grosser and he wants you to bomb the bank.
You'll find the gas pipes on the south side of the bank's exterior.  Make sure
you've robbed it before you do the job, as it will be out of commission for a
while after you bomb it.  Once you've done as he asks, you can call him to have
him rebuild bombed buildings instantly.  It's not such a hassle right now, but
later on mobsters will bomb your buildings and this might cost you a
bullet-proof vest or an ammo belt at the wrong time.
Before you go talk to the final guy, go over the bridge and park your car near
SaniCo Incineration.  Go around back and climb up to the roof.  There's another
ladder that leads down to an office and you can use it to launch an assault on
the Rosatos guards.  Most of them you can kill from here, and the final two are
in the adjoining room.  Also in the room is the owner, who's weakness is being
shot.  You don't wanna kill him though, so aim for his leg, shoot him with the
pistol and take the racket.
Now go and see Leon Brinker, a Washington lobbyist, whom you'll find to the
east of SaniCo Dump and Disposal.  He wants you to steal some documents out of
a safe at SaniCo Incineration, the place you just took over.  Do it and the
next time one of your made men is shot up so bad he's sent to the hospital, you
can get him up and back in your crew immediately.
Incidentally, you can go back to any of the three corrupt officials at any time
and do other missions for them if you want to stock up on whatever favour they
offer.  Their missions won't be the same as the first time you dealt with them,
but they're about the same as any mission you get from people on the street.
If you're in a hurry, you can simply bribe them to get the Favour without doing
any dirty work.
At this point you have only one front and one racket left to take, the Empire
Room and SaniCo Dump and Disposal.  Take them in whatever order you feel like.
The weakness of the Empire Room owner is physical threats, so grab her and pull
back your joystick, but try not to actually hit her.  As for the owner of
SaniCo Dump and Disposal, his weakness is that he doesn't like people pointing
a gun at him.  Be careful of him though because the guards you're fighting
often retreat to his office, so he has a tendency to be caught in a crossfire.
If he's not shot, you still might end up pointing a gun at him as you try and
shoot a guard taking cover behind him, so tread carefully.
When you're done, pick up a pay phone and talk to Michael.  He tells you to
meet him at your safehouse.  Do so and he informs you that Carmine Rosatos has
gone to ground and is hiding out at his compound.  There's nothing left to do
but get rid of him by blowing him up.  Make sure you have all your weapons
loaded up with ammo.  As you leave, Michael will give you 3 more rapid
recoveries for your made men.  Drive over to Carmine's compound and get ready
for a fight.  The place is lousy with soldiers.  While you're outside, snipe at
them with the rifle and then the tommy-gun.  The building has a front door you
can go through, but you might have better luck going around the left side and
blowing open the side door.  Before you do that though, make sure you pump a
few bullets in the huge gas containers in the yard.  If you don't, a guard
might hit them when you're standing too close to them and that'll hurt.
When you're inside the building, make your way through the ground floor.  I
found the shotgun to be a better weapon choice at this point, but use whatever
you feel like.  Take the main staircase and fight your way across the second
floor.  There's really only one way to go, so don't worry about getting lost in
here. In a corridor after the first room, you'll find an upgraded magnum on a
bench.  Grab it and then open the door to Carmine Rosatos' office.  Carmine is
inside with his hands up.  Talk to him and he'll warn you that his brother Tony
will seek revenge if you touch Carmine.  When he's done, kill him however you
want.  The office has a safe for you to crack and the gas pipes you need to
bomb.  Order your demolition expert to do his thing and once the bomb is set,
you'll have 30 seconds to get out of the building.  The text on the screen will
say you have to escape the compound, but just exiting the building will be
fine.  Once you're outside, make sure your crew is by your side or they'll be
sent to the hospital for a while (unless you wanna use one of your rapid
recoveries).  Once the timer reaches zero, the building goes up and you get
$10000.  For now the compound is a wreck but after a while it will be repaired
and you can use it as safehouse if you wish.
Drive off and circle Edgemont Park until you see the phone located therein and
pick it up.  Hyman Roth is on the other end, inviting you to come to Florida.
Hit the bank one last time (if it's available), go back to your safehouse to
stock up on ammo (and drop off any bank loot) and then go to the airport.  Talk
to the ticket agent and you're off to sunny Florida.
Part 2 - A QUICK TRIP
A CS begins with Fredo meeting you at the airport and filling you in on some of
what's going on.  The Tony Rosatos mob is operating out here, but it's the
Granados mob that has Roth worried.  Fredo throws you the keys to a green
muscle car and you regain control of your character.  You can either leave or
talk to Fredo again.  If you choose the latter, you'll get a little more info
on the mob out here.  Don't worry about the car only being a two-seater.  Take
it and drive over to Roth's house.  When you arrive, all three of your made men
will be there, so feel free to drive two-seaters to your heart's content.
At the house, Roth informs you that Rico Granados and his goons have kidnapped
one of Roth's men.  Roth asks you to get him back.  After he's done his speech,
you can speak to him again and get more background on what's going on and why
Roth asked you to come down.  Get in the car and drive off.
Unlike New York, where you could get around fairly quickly, you'll find Florida
to be somewhat larger.  The officials you can do jobs for are already on the
map, but ignore them for now, and likewise ignore any passers-by with keys or
money floating over their heads.  Since you don't own any rackets or fronts out
here, most of these jobs will involve you going to businesses you don't own yet
and getting shot at.  Also, you might find that a job you just agreed to do
requires you to drive across town which will take some time.  So you don't want
to start messing around in Florida too much yet.
For now, just go rescue Roth's man.  He's being held on the roof of a building
by five guards.  A chair next to the outside stairwell has the final type of
weapon you can use, a garrotte.  Pick it up and then follow the onscreen
instructions to sneak up and strangle the first guard from behind.  The second
guard will go down just as easily but the next two will run up and you'll have
to shoot them.  Next to the stairs to the second level rooftop will be an
upgraded pistol with a silencer attached.  Go up the stairs and you'll find the
last guard hiding behind his hostage.  You have 10 seconds to shoot him before
he starts pumping rounds into Roth's man.  If you try to move to the side to
get a better shot, he'll open fire regardless of the countdown.  So just aim
for his head with your new pistol and that should do the trick.
Afterwards, Roth's man will thank you for your trouble and your crew will
suggest you call Roth to let him know what happened.  Go back the way you came
and you'll find a phone in front of the building.  Answer it and Roth will
invite you to a house near his.  Go there and Roth will give you the place as
your Florida safehouse.  Just like your last one, it's full of ammo and you can
use it to flee cop heat.
Roth will also tell you it's time to promote one of your soldiers to capo.
Promote Alvin Uzzano and make him a bruiser.  He'll have three specialities
now, making him a pretty handy gent to have around.  His promotion leaves an
opening for a new soldier, and we'll be taking care of that in a second.
Go outside and talk to Fredo outside the house, and he'll tell about some of
the new favours you can get from corrupt officials out here.  Your new
objective will be to take over a crime ring from the Rosatos or the Granados.
The easiest thing to do would be to take over the two drug rackets in town
controlled by the Rosatos.  This would complete the drug crime ring, but we've
got some other business to take care of first.
Hop in the caddy that you'll find on the side of the house and drive over to
the entrance of Corman's Drive-In in Flamingo.  When you get there, face away
from the entrance and look to the east.  You'll see four buildings, two on
either side of the road.  The closest one on the left has the letters A and L
on the side, and there's a corrupt official, Joey Katz, loitering near it.
Ignore him for now.  The further one on the left has the letters G and O on its
side.  Go to the far side of that one and climb the fire escape.  On the top,
you'll find your new soldier, Ray Fogliano, an arsonist/demolitions expert.
Recruit him.  Since there's only room for three men in your crew, remove Bill
Bardi (but don't kill him) and replace him with Ray.  Between him, Alvin and
your engineer, you now have every specialty in the game at your disposal.
Sweet!  You can still find some use for Bardi.  Whenever an enemy attacks a
business under your control, you'll be notified and you should send any made
men not in your crew to defend it.
Now your family tree is as big as it can get at this point, so it's time to
make some money.  Drive over to the bank in Deco Beach and park on the south
side near the crack in the bank's wall.  On its north side is a fence you need
to cut through to gain access to the fire escape.  Alternatively, you can just
ram the fence on the south side with a car and get access to the fire escape
that way.  Use it to get to the roof and cut the electricity from there.  Climb
back down and you'll find the crack in the south wall you can bomb.  Same drill
as the bank in New York.  Once you've grabbed the $9000 lying around and opened
the safe to get the $2500 inside, make your escape and once you're free and
clear, drive over to the bank in Biscayne and repeat the process.   The
electric board is on the bank's west side and the wall crack on the east.  The
vault contains $10000 and the safe another $2500.  So once you hit both banks
and get back to your safehouse, you'll be $24000 richer.  Not bad for a day's
work.
Next on the agenda is some jobs for favours.  Drive over to Biscayne and talk
to Wayne Reisdorf.  Like his counterpart in New York, he can call off the cops
when things get too hot for you.  But before he does, you gotta help him out.
He wants you to murder a rapist who got off on a legal technicality.  Who says
mobsters only do bad things?  Anyway, drive over to Palmetto and you'll find
him on top of a building right off the expressway.  He's not armed, so do away
with him as you please.  A couple of his nearby friends might try and get in
your face as you leave, but they're lightweights.
Since you're in the neighbourhood, drive back to where you picked up Ray
Fogliano and this time go talk to Joey Katz.  He's an ATF agent whose
investigation has run into a snag.  He wants you to bomb a gas station to
frame a mobster, which will allow Katz to get a federal search warrant.  Drive
over to the place and you'll find the gas main on the left wall outside the
building.  No guards patrol the outside grounds, so you can just stroll up,
order Ray to do his thing and watch the fireworks.  In gratitude, Joey will
carry out a sting operation on any mobster of your choice from the Tony Rosatos
family.  So if you wanna get one of them out of the way for a while, you need
only open up the Don's View and call in the favour.
Drive over to Deco Beach and you'll find your next corrupt official, Lt. Gov.
Robert Rizzo, on the edge of the boardwalk.  Talk to him and, after a cute joke
about election-day shenanigans in Florida, he'll ask you to rough up his
campaign opponent.  Your target is just up the road a ways, not too far from
the bank, with two cops standing guard next to him.  You might have to rough
them up too, but sometimes they have dollar sign icons over their heads, so
feel free to bribe them in that case.  Then rough up your target.
There's two other officials you can go see, but it's better not to do so yet.
The first, Pedro Illvarra, gives you a burglary job at the airport, so it's
better to wait until you got that safe opened yourself before the job “resets”
it.  The other guy, Matthew Tilden, wants to bust up a store you don't own yet,
so you should leave that one for later.
Instead, just go at the airport, 'cause now's as good a time as any to make a
big detour and return to New York.  Before you go see the ticket agent, go
into the central area and take the stairs up to the second floor.  There's an
enclosed lounge and on its north end are stairs leading down to a safe you can
crack.  When you've got the money, go back to the ticket agent and hop a flight
to your home town.  The reason you're going back is two-fold.  First of all,
you don't wanna lose the rackets you took over in New York, and that could very
well happen while you're running around Florida.  Since the only businesses you
own are in New York, that's where you'll be attacked for now and that's where
you should be to be able to step in and defend your turf (and maybe smoke a few
made men while you're at it).
The other reason is that you now have two new family trees in the Don's View,
the Tony Rosatos and the Granados.  That's 16 new mobsters you need to get info
on.  It's a lot easier to do the jobs in New York, so that's where you're gonna
do 'em.  I dunno why random passers-by in the Big Apple know so much about
Florida mobsters, but they do.  So find somebody in New York with a key over
their head and do a job for them.  Repeat 14 more times.  If it seems a little
tedious, just thank the Lord you're not doing this in Florida, where it would
take even longer because of all the driving involved.
Incidentally, you may have noticed my math's a little off.  I said do one
favour, and then repeat the process 14 times.  That means you'd get 15
locations/kill conditions, but I also said there were 16 mobsters you had to
kill.  Well, there are, but for some odd reason the info for the Granados
soldier Bruce Rivera won't come up no matter how many times you do a job for a
“keyed“ person.  It's probably because his hangout is somewhere in Cuba, which
you won't be getting to for quite a while.  His kill condition is that you have
to beat him to death with your fists without using a triggered execution.  So
if he shows up while the Granados are attacking a business of yours, you know
who it is and what you have to do to get rid of him.  If you don't get him that
way, don't sweat it for now.
Once you've done all these jobs, you'll know the kill conditions for everyone
in the Tony Rosatos mob and most of the Granados mob.  Anthony Espanoza, one of
the Granados capos, is in New York, so go get rid of him first.  Before you do
though, there's a little inconvenience you have take care of.  See, the
Granados own all the diamond smuggling rackets in Florida, and that gives them
access to bullet-proof vests.  This makes them tougher to kill, so go into the
Don's View and check out those rackets.  You can bomb one of them, so send Bill
Bardi to do the job.  As soon as you exit the Don's View, the bombing will take
place and the Granados will lose their protection for a while.
Now, mark Espanoza for death, drive over to Richie's Tavern and face north.
You'll see a gate to your left and two apartment buildings to the right and in
front of you.  Head over to your right and you'll see a fence between the
apartment building and the big hotel.  Cut the fence and move to the back of
the apartment building.  You should see some Granados mooks ahead of you, but
leave them be for now.  You wanna make your way to the fire escape behind the
apartment building.  There might be a lone guard standing close by it, but you
can run up to him and strangle him without raising an alarm.  Most of the time
he's not there anyway.  So climb the fire escape to the rooftops and make your
way over to the adjacent building.  You'll see a lone Granados guard facing
away from you, so sneak up and garrotte him.  He'll drop a sniper rifle, in
case you forgot to bring one or needed the ammo for yours.  Equip your rifle
and find Espinoza.  He's on the far left corner of the yard.  I had to shoot
him three times before he dropped, at which point his numerous guards started
to return fire.  You can continue sniping if you want or maybe throw some
dynamite down at them and pick off the survivors.  Either way, your job is
done.
Now move on to Tony Rosatos' mob, which has quite a few members kicking around
New York.  Go back to your safehouse and face north.  There's an apartment
building north of your safehouse and on it's far side is a fire escape and some
scaffolding. Bill Ciompi is standing on top of the next building so climb up
the fire escape, sneak up to him and garrotte him.  If you have the neck snap
ability, try not to use it as I think it screws up the kill condition, though
I could be wrong about that.
You next target is another easy one, Gary Lamberteschi.  You'll find him in
Edgemont Park under the stone bridge.  He only has two guards, and they won't
draw weapons unless you do.  Just run up to Gary and punch him until the
“execution” command appears on screen and give him a punching execution.  If
your made men haven't taken care of Gary's guards, do the same to them.
Your next kill in New York is Jimmy Vecchio.  Easiest way to get to him is to
drive towards the Tony Rosatos compound (which you can't assault yet,
of course).  Before you get there, you should see a graveyard with crypts to
your right.  Park in the graveyard and make your way to a gap in the fence and
you should find Jimmy there by himself.  A headshot is what you need to take
him down permanent-like, so use a pistol or magnum.  He's lightly armed, so it
shouldn't be too hard.
Richard Crechi is on top of a building next to SaniCo Incineration.  He has two
guards wandering around the grounds, and they won't pull out weapons unless you
do.  Once you've dispatched them, climb up to the roof and execute him with a
melee weapon.  If you forgot to bring one, there's a baseball bat on the wall
near the top of the fire escape.
And the final New York target is south of SaniCo Dump and Disposal.  Unlike the
rest of these Rosatos mobsters, he's got quite a crew backing him up, so get
ready to shoot a lot of mooks from cover.  Once you've dispatched most or all
of his guards, run up to him and execute him with a melee weapon again.
Okay, so that takes care of the New York mobs.  You might have taken out a few
more mobsters as they attacked your businesses, but for the sake of this
walkthrough, we'll assume you didn't.  So now it's time to leave New York
again and head back to Florida to get serious there.
Part 3 - FUN IN THE SUN
Now your Florida campaign begins in earnest.  The first thing to do is
eliminate the made men out here.
Drive over to the Corman Drive-In but don't go in.  You next target, Phillip
Giotti, is hiding behind the movie screen on the south-west side.  Drive behind
it and cut through the fence.  He'll have some guards on the platform with him,
and a few others sniping at you from other platforms nearby.  Battle through
them and then toss Phillip off the ledge.
Next, you'll find Jimmy Gallo in an open air terrace in Deco Beach.  You have
to strike the killing blow by throwing a bottle at him.  Luckily, the tables
there have plenty of them to go around.  He only has three goons with him and
they won't draw weapons unless you do.
That'll reduce the Tony Rosatos mob to Rosatos himself, who you can't go after
for now, and Clarence Pucci.  So mark him for death and drive over the overpass
that connects Deco Beach with Flamingo.  There's a trailer park underneath it
and Pucci's in it.  If you approach from the south side you'll have to fight
your way through four or five guards before reaching Pucci.  If you approach
from the north side, you can cut through a fence and get to Pucci first.
Either way, you gotta strangle the guy.
Now turn your attention to the Granados mob.  If their bullet-proof vests have
come back, just send Bardi on another bombing run.
Paul Morales is your easiest target.  Drive over to the Flamingo side of the