9 Impossible Video Game Side Missions NOBODY Beat

4. Flying Rat - Grand Theft Auto 4

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GTA gets its first look in on this list with another side mission you’ll want to avoid like the plague but this one is not only painful like its pal on this list, it’s also a freaking collectathon.

Flying Rat requires you to hunt and kill 200 pigeons hiding around Liberty City. They’re small as, well, as pigeons, they’re in dumb places, that’s an absolute horde of fine-feathered foes, and they’re pretty damn hard to spot as a lot of things in GTA fall into the brown/grey colour spectrum.

I don’t know how much you know about GTA but the cops aren’t exactly stoked with you just letting loose on the firearm front so your reward for finally finding and taking out your eight-dozenth pigeon may well be a bullet to Niko’s squishy bits. For your trouble you’ll get an Annihilator helicopter, which is cool assuming you can get it to spawn and reach its highly inaccessible helipad. Worth it.

Some players also report a fun glitch that stalls you at 199 Pigeons and I can only assume there was at least one piece of gaming hardware broken in those households.

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Jess has been a journalist and content creator in the games industry for over 15 years and has been WhatCulture's resident Australian import and sorry cop since 2020, upping the quotient of swearing and apologising in WhatCulture Gaming's annual blooper videos considerably. She previously worked at GameSpot for 10 years, most notably hosting GameSpot News in addition to E3 live shows, and PAX panels. She regularly livestreams a variety of games on her 'jessmcdonell' YouTube and Twitch channels and hosts the 'Do It On The Day' podcast. She has won awards for her news and feature work in gaming as well as an accolade for her comedic writing (likely an admin error). She can be found on X at @jessmcdonell and Instagram at @jessicamcdonell sharing her current videogame fixations, industry insights, and videos of her cat, Karma.