This function is implemented in City-Day mode ONLY.
Tommy can hail a ‘gangster car’ (a Black Buick) from the city traffic and hire them to follow him as his bodyguards. The cost of hailing a gangster car is $55,000 and you do it by whistling (default key “K”) when you see one drive past you.

After you have hired a gangster car to follow and protect you, Tommy can also hire two more gangsters (who are on foot) to occupy the two spare seats in the rear of the gangster car (Black Buick). This costs $25,000 and you will find the two gangsters in Hoboken near the entrance to Salieri’s warehouse.

Note: The two gangsters will not be by the warehouse if you haven’t hired a gangster car.

Tommy can order the driver of the gangster car to “follow me” him or “wait here” some where just like ordinary body guards.

So now it is possible to have up to 7 body guards working for you at the same time. 3 in the car you are driving and 4 in the gangster car following behind you.

The behaviour of these body guards is new. They will behave differently from the earlier versions of body guards e.g. they can walk in Oakhill (as you may or may not know... the other bodyguards and enemies cannot walk there). Also, their AI has been re-developed so they are quite possibly the most intelligent individuals in the game.