GTA V is one of the best games in the world for just fooling about in. With its ton of Easter eggs and elaborate environments, there’s no need for prefabricated fun via prescribed mini-games. There is a plethora of whacky things to do not listed in-game or marked on the map. IGN can only do so much with whatever isn’t part of the official literature for GTA V. It takes us crazed fans to track it all down.
Here is a list of fun things to do in certain special locations.
Click here for Fun things to do anywhere, any time, here for Fun things to do in cars, or here for Fun things to do on bikes. Alternatively, go sightseeing.
This blog is frequently updated. New entries appear on the top, unless they relate to previously listed locations.
Burst Garbage Bags / Beach Balls. With a few good bullets, a garbage bag and a beach ball with both explode into a coloured array of shredded confetti. You want this because it is awesome. Beach balls can be found just in front of the pier on the intersect between Del Perro Beach / Red Desert Avenue. Look for the large brown building with the blue trim, filled with decorated starts and containing non-operable shops stocked with beach goods. The beach balls are outside the “doors” to these shops, on the west-facing side of the building.
Melon Smash. On the side of several of the roads, you may spot fresh fruit stalls. These aren’t hard, static pieces of game decoration like trees and (oddly) tents, my no. These splay gorgeously all over the place in a pink slurry.
Terrorise the Off-Licence. You can also find these in 24-7 shops. Smash that fruit before holding the place up. You can smash up all the merchandise until the shopkeeper calls the police. Tip: Use the wanted-down cheat to get the police to suddenly have an attack of amnesia and sheepishly drive off without arresting you, you can proceed to commit all sorts of acts of vandalism while the shopkeeper looks on.
Propane Natural Disaster. Some trailer parks have exposed propane cans out back, which are so flammable, a single shot from a pistol will blow it and its surroundings sky high. What you do with this information is your business.
Jumping the Shark. On a part of the southeastern beach where the mask shop is a section called San Andreas (yes, really). There is a giant sand sculpture of a shark. That would be good enough, but if you drive up this shark on a motorbike, you shoot far up into the air because it is so steep. The beach, with its flat ground with few solid obstacles makes for a good run up.
Danger Grand Prix. Also in the above location, there are narrow cycling lanes all around this point, perfect for a breakneck motorbike ride / race.
Flood Drain BMXing. In the Northeast of the map, there is a dry flood drain running from Banham Canyon down from the mountains, towards Banham Canyon Drive on the sea front. These are great for BMXing. And Rockstar knows it, because they put a bike on the beach at the point where the flood drain comes out. It’s guarded by a cyclist. They’re fun to pop, in their gimpy tight lycra. To the left of the floodgate (facing away from the sea) is the Wormhole House, see below.
Falling through The Wormhole. Near the above location, there is a glitch area whereby if you walk through a certain barrier which is supposed to be solid, your character will fall through it and drop many metres (long enough to enter skydiving mode). The wall in question is a house, and in theory you’re falling through the floor of the house, but for some reason the drop through the nether is much longer than the distance between the house and the ground.
It’s found on Chumash / Barbaerno Road, left of the yellow house with the round window. There’s a Robinson Estate For Sale sign. Just walk through the closed mesh door. Angling the dive will lead you to come out however-many-feet north, south, east or west you angled. So, if you tip forward, you end up further east, on the beach.
Warning: too far, and you may end up in the water. This is trippy and hard to escape. One time I also randomly died when I hit the water. If you don’t angle the dive, you end up back in front of the house. Take a bike for extra fun.
Flying Without Wings. Where Los Santos International Airport intersects with Autiopia Parkway, there is a huge jump ramp which takes you over the highway. You’ll know you’re passing it if you’re on the high raod and you see that big model TV. Go left and down the slope from there.
I recommend a taxi or other common vehicle with a decent accelleration and top speed. The run-up to the jump is windy and cluttered with objects, so you don’t want a car which takes a while to get to its top speed. Neither do you want one that can’t get fast enough in a short distance. A taxi is a good in-between. You’ll want to drive back around the slope and down the straight road running up to the jump to get a good lift.
Cruisin’.
By the way, it’s hard to land this jump – the impact will often make the car explode. If you want to live though it I recommend invincibility, or if you don’t fancy that, bailing several feet from the ground. The forward momentum of the car should take it far enough away from you that you don’t get caught in the blast.
Cruisn’. One of the parachuting games has you land on a moving boat. You can just cotch on it for a while, enjoying the scene, or shoot at people on the pavement. Like road vehicles, your driver will speed up rather than pitch out if you start doing that, as if he hopes to get away from you.
Dive Board. If you sprint towards the edge of any swimming pool, your character will automatically do a graceful dive into it. All the more satisfying is to do this at the location pictured underneath, where there is a diving board up a flight of stairs.
Golf Gangsta. Start a game of golf, then leave before the end – that is to say, jump over the bushes. Do not select “exit”. Your game will unofficially end, but your character will keep the golf club. Use it to mash up as much as possible before the police get you. It’s particularly fun to break cars with. This weapon is permanent; you will keep it even if you go back to play golf properly, and if you die.
Wet Caddy. Before you bust out of the golf course, be sure to take your team mate for a dip by driving your golf cart into a water hazard.
BMXing. There’s a halfpipe in the game you can take a bike up, here, at the BJ Smith Recreation Centre and Park:
Failing that, the flood reservoirs are great for getting some Extreme Biking done. That’s the long, concrete groove with the sloping banks and the shallow water that runs through Los Santos.
White Water Rafting. This is an official facility in the location marked be
Burn a seashark down the perilous river until you drop. Or, leave the shark and swim it. It’s fun to watch your character gurgle his way down a waterfall.
Mudskipping. Once you reach the end of the rafting area, you’ll be in a sort of safari area with long grass. There is a tin boat docking shack, and next to it a rough wooden pier. On this pier is a quadbike. This is perfect terrain for quadbiking. Let’s make some mud.
Terrorise the Altruists. The Altruist cult are a bizarre group of naked old cannibals, found here:
If you play as Trevor, this cult will be marked on the map and makes up a side quest of sorts. Whether you’re playing him or not, if you don’t have any business there, you have to break in. You can do that by climbing up the side and over the gate, or driving up the mountain and down. If you do that, the old geezers will instantly attack you, and if you stick around they will respawn. There is some booty here (including a baseball bat), not to mention some nasty old man butt and balls, and the experience of fighting them is Rockstar bizarre.
Terrorise Michael. Any character can visit any of the other characters if he can find them. Michael is the most annoying and the most habitual. He is here:
You can’t get into their houses, and often they aren’t there; but, if you switch between characters, you can get them in the same place at the same time. Navigate Franklin to Michael’s place and put him somewhere the NPC will have trouble getting out of – the pool, for example. Then switch to Michael, who is almost always at his house. Find Franklin at the pool and the two will have a conversation. However, if you don’t get lost sharpish, the NPC Franklin will give you three warnings and then fell you with one punch. Also, Easter egg: a totally inert Ron can be found twitching outside Trevor’s trailer after the end of the game holding a gun, if Trevor is not around.
Terrorise Cougars. They deserve it, always eating you. There are plenty around this area of Sandy Shores, where the alien hippy shrine camp is:
Stowaway. In this area, a train comes through a tunnel about every five minutes. Get a quad or motorbike, then drive up on top of the hill the tunnel goes through and wait for the train to come through the tunnel. Drive off the edge and try to land on the moving train. Extra points for landing neatly in a trailer and staying on the bike.
Student Shopping Trolley Antics. Nearby is a store with trolleys outside. Seems to be a good place to practise bailing into inopportune places.
Pedestrian Divebomb. Use the pratfall (jump button, then mid-jump, stealth-attack / clothesline punch button) to dive on pedestrians. You can do this from atop any old trash can or parked car, or you can lurk around a corner and leap out at unsuspecting passersby. Better yet, locate one of bodies of water with docks and peers where people stand or sit tantalisingly on the edge, then divebomb into their back and watch them splash. Or, a well-aimed kick will do just as well.
Here are two places where this is easiest / funniest / most picturesque: Vespucci Canals and Mirror Park.
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