Hint: Ditch the cops, fast!

Get inside of a trolley, a rail station, or an elevated rail station and wait until your wanted level subsides.

Hint: Easy Money

• Kill the gangsters to earn $500 a pop. They wear all black suits with black hats.
• You can also drive taxis to earn cash, and blow up vehicles for an extra $100 each.
• Hit 130MPH to earn quick cash. (Sorry for the pun.)

Hint: Free repairs in Free Ride

When you’re in the city and your car has crashed a number of times, you can return to where you started next to Salieri's Bar and choose any car. Then, just move forward onto the street and reverse back towards the gate and choose your first car. It will be back to normal with all its doors, windows, etc.

Hint: Killing gangsters

The best way to kill the men in black is to walk behind them and shoot them with a shotgun.

Hint: Make Traffic Vanish

To clear up the roads ahead of you, you can make traffic vanish by simply looking in your rear-view mirror--hold DOWN on the right analog stick. This works best with cars at a distance and on the connecting bridges and tunnels.

Hint: Shoot off tires

Best with a Tommy gun--aim at the center of wheels, at the lugnuts, and fire away.

Unlockable: Bigfoot Truck

To unlock the Bigfoot vehicle in Free Ride, get first place in all of the races in Racing Championship mode with any difficulty setting, and with damage either on or off.

Unlockable: Free Ride Options

• Car Selections: Learn to break into cars during missions to use it in a new Free Ride game.
• Locale Selections: Run through the game's story mode to unlock more cities that can be used in a new Free Ride game.
• Time of Day: Run through the story mode to open night and daylight options for Free Ride game areas.

Unlockable: More Cars for Free Ride

After completing a mission, the game sometimes instructs you to return to the bar or go to Lucas' Body Shop. Complete a mission for him and he will show where to get a car--once you get the car, it will be unlocked in freeride.