E-Man

"That's right! Eff him in the A!!"

―Eric "E-Man"

E-Man
Name:	Eric
Aliases:	E-Man E
Appearance(s):	Gangstar Vegas Gangstar New Orleans
Gender:	Male
Business:	Drug dealer Pimp "Chemist" Soldier(formerly, though it is unclear)
Allies:	Jason Malone Karen Olsen Vera Montello Benny Racer Girl Gangstar New Orleans Protagonist Alain Boudreaux Bradford Miles Diggs Smith Marie Nouveau Karen Olsen Vera Montello Racer Girl
Enemies:	Frank Veliano Winston Goodman Benny (formerly) Rival vendor Jackson Duke Yuri the Red Little Joe

E-Man is a major character in Gangstar Vegas and Gangstar: New Orleans. In Vegas, he often acts as a "sidekick" to protagonist Jason Malone during missions.

Background

E-Man's real name is Eric. Except for that, nothing is known about his origins. In Vegas, he is seen to have a somewhat cowardly, but sarcastic and friendly attitude. He additionally works for the Montello Mafia family as a friend of Vera Montello and Karen Olsen. It is unknown when and how their friendship started, but it certainly was before the events of the game.

E-Man has a habit of using historical and fantasy terms to describe people and things, such as addressing Vera as "The Empress", a skater who stole his drugs as a "Dragon", Johnny Montello's era as "The Roman Empire", etc.

Other than that, E-Man's main business is producing and selling drugs (presumably, he might also consume or test them himself, as he is seen hallucinating in his first appearance and also because he is usually in a perpetually inebriated and "high" state and isn't the most stable person to be around) and doing pimp services (as a prostitute caretaker for the Montello family). He is the finest supplier in Las Vegas and also one of the most connected criminals. However, he has got the resources, connections and enough chemical drugs to put half of Vegas asleep if needed.

E-Man hints to Jason during the second mission of the third chapter that he was possibly in the United States Army at one point as he remarks "If the berets see my face, we might get caught up reminiscing, and so...". He also states that " We all have our starts somewhere".

He later moves to New Orleans in the intention of some self-recovery and rehabilitation. However, he quickly falls back into his old ways. After aligning himself with some 'not-so-friendly' people, his debts start piling up. To top things off, he is on a mission of his own. His ultimate goal is to create the most incredible and insane synthetic drug in the world.

Appearances

Gangstar Vegas

E-Man makes his first appearance close to the beginning of the game, in the mission "Runner on the Run", where he asks Jason to beat up a young street hustler who has apparently stolen the drugs which he had prepared. He also persuades Jason to participate in a street race organized by Racer Girl. From that mission is completed, races are available as side-missions.

At the beginning of the game, E-Man doesn't play a big role. After Frank Veliano has captured Karen to blackmail Vera, E-Man becomes significant. He tells Jason about communication tools that can be used to detect a mobile phone's position. Jason steals these radio-designed tools from the military base outside Vegas and later plants them around town in a triangular formation in order to be able to detect Karen's location. After they find out that she is being held at Frank's casino, Jason, E-Man and Vera attack the building, and after Karen has been freed, they escape in a mob car driven by Vera, who is wounded by a gunshot and later scarifices her life at her own choice. E-Man is completely anxious during the whole ride. After Vera's suicide, E-Man desperately escapes on a boat along with Jason and Karen.

E-Man also helps Karen and Jason capture Winston Goodman and force him to turn against Frank. After this, he doesn't appear anymore in the game, which means that he also doesn't participate in the final mission ("Sic Semper Tyrannis", where Jason kills Veliano.

In the UFO Sighting storyline, E-Man and Jason investigate the latter's delivery boys' sudden disappearance.

Gangstar: New Orleans

Sometime after the events of Gangstar Vegas, E-Man moved to New Orleans. Although he intended to leave his life of crime in the City of Sin, Eric relapsed after a short time and returned to his illegal activities. At some point in the months leading up to Mardi Gras of 2017, he incurred a massive amount of debt and was forced to work it off, essentially serving as an indentured servant to Yuri the Red, a street-gang underboss. Early on in the game, the player frees Eric by killing Yuri and his thugs. As a show of gratitude, Eric agrees to work for Alain Boudreaux and the player from there on out. He serves as the gang‘s primary narcotics manufacturer for the remainder of the main storyline and tasks the player with going on several missions to recruit a new "cook", buy supplies, and thin out the competition.