The trick is that the more damage you do, the higher the priority the pursuit gets, the more cars that get assigned to the chase, which means more cars to smash up. As you can see in the upper … I played the early GTA games… “how many cops can I get after me but survive”, though in this game I usually end up on top of the cops if the chase goes beyond 2 minutes (odd how the slightest hit on a federal cop ends up with my car on two wheels or up on top of theirs). … …

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