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Line 1: {{work}} [[File:318462b5ab887119d213f92f8bba5903-Grand_Theft_Auto_III_.jpg\|frame]] In Liberty City, a [[Fictional Counterpart]] to New York, you play a [[Silent Protagonist\|silent]], [[No Name Given\|nameless]] <ref> ~~later~~Later games reveal his name to be Claude.</ref> protagonist who escapes from a prison transport and climbs the city's criminal ladder. You are hoping to get revenge your ex-girlfriend/partner in crime Catalina, who left you for dead after a bank robbery gone bad. It won't be an easy journey. Some will backstab you, and others will think you are in the way. But if you fight the good fight, this will be one hell of a ride. This game burst onto the scene in 2001, completely overhauling the series by bringing it into a 3D environment, [[Genre Popularizer\|popularizing]] the [[Wide Open Sandbox]] genre and turning Rockstar into its namesake. Although further games would add polish, few sequels deviate too much from this winning formula. Released on [[~~Play Station~~PlayStation 2]], then on the [[~~X Box~~Xbox]] and PC, and eventually got released on iOS and Android. An enhanced remaster of the game using the [[Unreal (series)\|Unreal Engine]] was released for the [[PlayStation 4]], [[PlayStation 5]], the [[Xbox One]] and [[Xbox Series]] consoles as well as on [[Nintendo Switch]] and PC as part of the ''Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition'' in 2021. ~~----~~ {{tropelist}} ~~=== Distinct tropes of this game: ===~~ * [[Action Bomb]]: In the mission "Kingdom Come", the player is ambushed by drug-crazed madmen spawning from [[Mook Maker\|mook-making vans]], complete with weird random chatter such as "Come to daddy!" and "I got a present for you!". * [[Armed Blag]]: An early mission, and a Portland docks side quest. * [[Batter Up]]: The baseball bat is the only melee weapon available in this game. * [[Big Applesauce]]: Liberty City is based off of New York City, albeit quite loosely as it resembles more of a generic American city than a clear replica of New York. It wouldn't be until ''GTA IV'' when Liberty City would be more closely modelled after its real-world counterpart. * [[Bound and Gagged]]: Offscreen, but from what's said, it's really obvious. * [[Broken Bridge]]: Played literally. The bridge to Staunton Island was blown up in the opening cutscene (thus justifying it in that case), the drawbridge mechanism on the bridge to Shoreside Vale was broken, and the tunnel connecting all three islands was still under construction. * [[Brooklyn Rage]] : A large portion of the cast, including the protagonist. * [[The Cartel]]: Arguably the main antagonists of the game. * [[Central Theme]]: Betrayal and revenge drive not only the plot, but also the missions. Claude is apparently motivated by his desire for revenge against Catalina. Salvatore Leone is paranoid about his underlings betraying him (and rightly so). Donald Love gets the player to betray Kenji. Line 20: * [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Donald Love. * [[Crapsack World]]: "The worst city in America" indeed. Gangs turning hostile towards Claude, one of which is already hostile ({{spoiler\|and only two gangs won't attack him on sight}}). Liberty City also houses a corrupt mayor, backstabbing mobsters and a dreary environment. * [[Deadly Game]]: Liberty City Survivor, which is advertised on the radio in ''Grand Theft Auto III''. The ad, complemented with fan footage from ''Grand Theft Auto IV'', can be listened to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwRera2ig9k here.]. This would later be turned into a full-fledged multiplayer mode in the PSP version of ''Liberty City Stories.'' * [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: [http://www.g-unleashed.com/index.php?cat=14&pid=118 "You ~~werent~~weren't supposed to be able to get here you know."] ▼ * [[Dirty Cop]]: Ray Machowski. He has plenty of contacts in the Liberty City underworld, and even introduces [[Ascended Extra\|series staple, Phil Cassidy]]. ▲* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: [http://www.g-unleashed.com/index.php?cat=14&pid=118 You werent supposed to be able to get here you know] * [[Expy]]: Liberty City itself standing in for New York, though quite loosely. Donald Love is basically a brunette [[Donald Trump]] with a fetish for corpses. ** As is tradition with the series, the cars featured in the game are [[Bland-Name Product\|off-brand renditions]] of real-world vehicles. * [[Face Heel Turn]]: About a third of the way through the game, {{spoiler\|Salvatore Leone sends Claude to pick up a car that he's had rigged with a bomb}} in an effort to kill him. * [[False -Flag Operation]]: In a bid to drop real estate prices, [[Corrupt Corporate Executive\|Donald Love]] has Claude start a gang war by assassinating [[The Yakuza]] crime lord {{spoiler\|Kenji Kasen}}, [[Bodyguard Betrayal\|for whom Claude had previously worked as an enforcer]] and then framing [[The Cartel]]. See [[Lost Forever]] below. * [[Fan Nickname]]: Due to being ordered around for the entire game, before his real name was revealed, Claude was referred to as "Fido". Also, Maria refers to Claude as "Fido" when he is ordered by Salvatore Leone to be her driver. * [[Guide Dang It]]: A few of the missions are tough as hell unless done a certain way, and the game gives no hints to those methods. * [[Heroic ~~Mime\|"Heroic"~~ Mime]]: Even if Claude isn't quite a hero. And apparently, he's a literal mute, too. * [[Hufflepuff House]]: * [[Hey It's That Voice]]: The first GTA game with a name-actor voice cast, each one known from cult crime movies and TV shows, including Frank Vincent (Goodfellas), Michael Madsen (Reservoir Dogs), Joe Pantoliano (The Sopranos), Robert Loggia (Scarface), Debi Mazar (Goodfellas), Michael Rapaport (True Romance) and Kyle Maclachlan (Twin Peaks). * ~~[[Hufflepuff House]]:~~* The Yakuza has frosty relations with the Cartel, particularly once you frame Miguel for killing Kenji. Claude, being Claude, ends up drawing the ire of the Yakuza anyway. ** The smaller gangs like the Forelli family and the Southside Hoods do play a role in the game to some degree, but were otherwise there for the lore than for anything significant to the story. * [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: "Give Head radio a listen this weekend, it'll blow you away." * [[Lost Forever]]: Some Portland missions need to be done before you leave. Also, {{spoiler\|Kenji will get killed at a certain point}}, so you need to complete his missions before then. * [[Mafia Princess]]: Maria, although this is her at the tail end of that life. * [[Mythology Gag]]: A few. A New York City [[No Communities Were Harmed\|stand-in]] by the name of Liberty City first appeared as the setting of [[Grand Theft Auto Classic\|the first ~~GTA.~~''Grand Theft Auto'']]. El Burro was a potential employer of the player in the first game's San Andreas. A "Claude Speed" resembling the Claude of ''Grand Theft Auto III'' appeared in ''[[Grand Theft Auto II]]'' 's live action intro. The Zaibatsu Corporation, here reduced to a pharmaceutical group with a few buildings and radio ads, was an employer in all zones of ''[[Grand Theft Auto II]]''. ** Both of the previous games included a radio station named "Head Radio.". * [[New York Subway]]: The Portland Island El, and the Liberty City Subway itself is based off of the New York City Subway. * [[No -Gear Level]]: The final mission. * [[Psycho Ex -Girlfriend]]: Catalina. * [[Retired Badass]]: You'd never know it just from this game, but just three years before Claude met up with him, [[Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories\|Toni Cipriani was every bit as crazy and murderous as him.]]. * [[Rewarding Vandalism]]: This was the last ''~~GTA~~Grand Theft Auto'' game where [[The Artifact\|smashing into/blowing up cars earned money on its own]]. * [[Small Role, Big Impact]]: Nothing in the game would have happened were it not for the "Old Oriental Gentleman" and the Cartel freeing him from the police transport, which also allowed you to get free too. * [[Shrug of God]]: {{spoiler\|Did Claude shoot Maria?}} "No one knows for sure what happened there" is the official line. * [[Super Drowning Skills]] * [[Title Drop]]: A notoriously difficult mission, where you must steal 3three cars and deliver them to the Yakuza within 6six minutes and without a single scratch, is called "Grand theft auto". * [[Twist Ending]]: Claude (apparently) {{spoiler\|shoots Maria after rescuing her, because she won't shut up.}}. It's never stated if {{spoiler\|he killed her}}, or if he just {{spoiler\|fired a warning shot into the air}}, so it's left up to the gamer's imagination. It was finally "stated". [[Shrug of God\|God]] said "Certainly gun shots were fired but nobody is exactly sure as to exactly what happened."▼ * [[Too Soon]]: After 9/11, Rockstar North changed the paint jobs on the police cars so that they didn't resemble those of the [[New York City Cops\|NYPD]]. Some pedestrian dialogue was also changed. There was insufficient time between the disaster and publication for extensive alterations. ▲* [[Twist Ending]]: Claude (apparently) {{spoiler\|shoots Maria after rescuing her, because she won't shut up.}} It's never stated if {{spoiler\|he killed her}}, or if he just {{spoiler\|fired a warning shot into the air}}, so it's left up to the gamer's imagination. It was finally "stated". [[Shrug of God\|God]] said "Certainly gun shots were fired but nobody is exactly sure as to exactly what happened." * [[Video Game 3D Leap]] * [[Villain Protagonist]] * [[The Voice]] : The leaders of three gangs each situated on one of the three islands in the city call you via pay phone and have you run errands for them. At no point in the game do you actually get to meet them. In Portland, you are contacted by El Burro of the [[Generic Ethnic Crime Gang\|Hispanic Diablo Gang]]. When you reach Staunton Island, you are contacted by King Courtney of the [[The Yardies\|Jamaican Yardies]]. ** After unlocking Shoreside Vale, D-Ice of the [[Gang -Bangers\|Red Jacks]] gives you a call. * [[What Happened to ~~The~~the Mouse?]]: Donald Love will simply disappear when the mission "Decoy" is finished. The only thing he leaves behind is an empty box. Although you unfailingly see a plane flying away during the cutscene where you wonder where he's gone. It can be assumed that he's on it.▼ * [[What Could Have Been]]: Originally there was going to be children, school buses, elderly people with walkers, the ability to blow off limbs, as well as a hobo anarchist-terrorist named Darkel, who was still in the plot long enough to get his voice actor credited in the manual. Some of his missions include distributing ice cream that was effectively a bomb, [[Crosses the Line Twice\|blowing up a school bus]] full of children and flying a plane [[Harsher in Hindsight\|into a building]] to kill one person. * [[Writers Cannot Do Math]]: An [[Ad Bumper]] for Head Radio calls the station "the rock of Liberty City for sixty years"." This would mean they started out in 1941, Rock & Roll wasn't invented by then.▼ ** Actually, according to a recent Q&A on the Rockstar website, they revealed that Darkel, and all his missions were removed long before 9/11, because "...they just weren’t as good as the rest of the game, and tonally they were a little odd." They also add "None of these missions involved blowing up buses of school children." And for good measure "All of the more extreme rumours are amusing but impossible to have been achieved in such a short period of time." ▲* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: Donald Love will simply disappear when the mission "Decoy" is finished. The only thing he leaves behind is an empty box. ** Although you unfailingly see a plane flying away during the cutscene where you wonder where he's gone. It can be assumed that he's on it. ▲* [[Writers Cannot Do Math]]: An [[Ad Bumper]] for Head Radio calls the station "the rock of Liberty City for sixty years". This would mean they started out in 1941, Rock & Roll wasn't invented by then. ** This becomes a [[Running Gag]] in ''Vice City'' (set in the 1980s), in which Lazlow, there the DJ of the rock station V-ROCK, claims the station has been around for seventy years. {{reflist}} {{World Video Game Hall of Fame}} [[Category:IOS Games]]▼ [[Category:Mobile Phone Game]]▼ [[Category:Play Station 2]]▼ [[Category:Android Games]]▼ [[Category:Wide Open Sandbox]]▼ [[Category:Grand Theft Auto III]] [[Category:Video Game]] [[Category:Action Adventure]] ▲[[Category:Wide Open Sandbox]] [[Category:Xbox]] ▲[[Category:~~Play Station~~PlayStation 2]] [[Category:Microsoft Windows]] [[Category:Mac OS]] ▲[[Category:IOS Games]] ▲[[Category:Android Games]] ▲[[Category:Mobile Phone Game]] [[Category:Video Games of the 2000s‎]] [[Category:Rockstar Games]]