Grand Theft Auto III: Difference between revisions

'''Grand Theft Auto III''', also known as '''GTA III''' and '''GTA 3''', is the third installment of and fifth game of the [[Grand Theft Auto]] series. The game was released in [[2001]] and is the first game in the [[GTA III Era]]. GTA III introduced many new features to the GTA series and saw the fan base of the series expand. The game was originally released for the [[PlayStation 2]] and the [[Personal Computer|PC]], with an [[Xbox]] version released later.

GTA III was the first GTA game to use three-dimensional gameplay, as opposed to the [[Top-Down Perspective|top-down perspective]] used in [[Grand Theft Auto 1|GTA 1]], [[Grand Theft Auto: London 1969|GTA London 1969]], [[Grand Theft Auto: London 1961|GTA London 1961]] and [[Grand Theft Auto 2|GTA 2]]. The player views [[Liberty City in GTA III Era|Liberty City]] from a third person perspective, with the camera located behind and above the [[Protagonist|player character]]. The three-dimensional gameplay has been praised as being a key reason for the success of the series, alongside the new control scheme, both of which have been used in subsequent games.

[[File:Claude-GTAIII.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The [[Protagonist|protagonist]] of GTA III, [[Claude]].]]

{{quote|''LIBERTY CITY, USA. The Worst Place in America.''<br>''You've been betrayed and left for dead. Now you're taking revenge, unless the city gets you first. Mob bosses need a favor, crooked cops need help and street gangs want you dead. You'll have to rob, steal and kill just to stay out of serious trouble. Anything can happen out here.''<br>From the [http://www.rockstargames.com/grandtheftauto3/ official GTA III website].}}

In GTA III the player follows an unnamed criminal (revealed to be named [[Claude]] in [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas|GTA San Andreas]]) as he arrives in [[Liberty City in GTA III Era|Liberty City]] with his girlfriend, [[Catalina]], and an unnamed accomplice who commit a [[Bank of Liberty|bank]] [[Introduction (GTA III)|robbery]]. When they exit the bank, however, Catalina shoots and kills the unnamed accomplice and shoots Claude, leaving him dying as she and her new accomplice, [[Miguel]] of the [[Colombian Cartel]]. Claude later recovers and is arrested by the [[LCPD in GTA III Era|police]] but escapes when the Colombian Cartel attack a police convoy. Claude then begins to climb through the ranks of the city underworld by working for, and eventually betraying or being betrayed by various gangs, in his quest for revenge. At the end of the storyline, Claude [[The Exchange (GTA III)|tracks down and kills]] Catalina in a long shoot out.