A winner is you!

After many many attempts I finally finished the last mission.

To start off I had almost no money left after buying so many weapons the last few missions, and to make things worse, each time i retry the mission I have whatever weapons i had left when I failed, so I kept running out of weapons and ammo and couldn't get more. eventually I had to re load from the last save and re do all the checkpoints again just to get some gear back.

First section is a driving mission where I have to follow the bad guy's car back to their base. only failed this once and after it is the first and only checkpoint

Next I had to clear out a small army of goons with my rapidity diminishing ammo supply, only died here 3 or 4 times due to having only a pistol and shotgun left.

Then it's a short race killing more goons and then trying to catch up with a boat while riding a motorcycle, and then doing a jump to a helicopter. This is the part I failed the most on, having to do the previosu section again and waste more bullets. There is a very limited time to ride the motorcycle before the boat gets away and you fail, so you can't wipe out or take a wrong turn. This gets trickier when there is no indication of where to go, just a brief message on screen to follow the coast, but that diapers shortly after getting on the bike. And then there is the jump you have to make which you need full seed to do.

Then you ride a helicopter while shooting at the boat. this part is scripted mostly and regardless of what you do the boat will catch on fire and the helicopter will take damage from a RPG. I had to do this part over becaseu of a glitch when the copter landed caused everyone to stay inside and just sit there burning, sending me back to the first shootout.

Eventual Niko gets through all that and chases down the minor mob boss, gunning him down at the base of the statue of happiness, then walks off feeling that all the pointless killing is over but not feeling victorious. To drive home the point the last story achievement pops up titled "You win" when you have won another (except 50,000$).

After the long credits Niko gets a call from his cousin that his wife is pregnant and also from the brother of the girlfriend that died. Last thing I did was steal a helicopter and parked it outside of a save house and saved, so it will be there when I lay tomorrow to round up some easy achievements.