Police Helicopter (GTA III): Difference between revisions

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:''This article is about the uncontrollable police helicopter in Grand Theft Auto III. For the civilian variant of the helicopter in [[Grand Theft Auto III]], see [[Helicopter (GTA III)]]. For the controllable police helicopter from [[GTA Vice City]] onwards, see [[Police Maverick]] or [[Helicopter (disambiguation)]] for others.

In [[Grand Theft Auto III]], '''an unnamed, uncontrollable police helicopter''' is used in police pursuits on the player. The helicopter is the predecessor of the [[Police Maverick]], which has an official name and attributes inherited from GTA III's police helicopter.

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==Description==

===Design===

The helicopter is defined as a large aircraft, with a body design similar to a 1990s-2000s NYPD [[wp:Bell 412|Bell 412]]<ref name="FB Field">[http://www.geocities.com/floyd_bennett_field/nypd.html The NYPD Aviation Unit at Floyd Bennett Field].</ref> and bearing a blue-and-white [[~~Liberty City Police Department~~|LCPD]] livery similarly adopted for the game's police road vehicles [[Beta Releases#Grand Theft Auto III|early in game development]]. The helicopter comes equipped with a gunner or turret, which fires bullets from its underside, a search light that is commonly used at night, and a loudspeaker used by occupants on board to (hilariously) address the player. According to an [[Police Helicopters To Help Fight Crime|in-game news report]], the helicopters were only recently introduced in [[Liberty City in GTA III Era|Liberty City]] (circa 2001) to aid the police force in fighting crime.

The helicopter is defined as a large aircraft, with a body design similar to a 1990s-2000s NYPD [[wp:Bell 412|Bell 412]]<ref name="FB Field">[http://www.geocities.com/floyd_bennett_field/nypd.html The NYPD Aviation Unit at Floyd Bennett Field].</ref> and bearing a blue-and-white [[LCPD in GTA III Era|LCPD]] livery similarly adopted for the game's police road vehicles [[Beta Releases#Grand Theft Auto III|early in game development]]. The helicopter comes equipped with a gunner or turret, which fires bullets from its underside, a search light that is commonly used at night, and a loudspeaker used by occupants on board to (hilariously) address the player. According to an [[Police Helicopters To Help Fight Crime|in-game news report]], the helicopters were only recently introduced in [[Liberty City in GTA III Era|Liberty City]] (circa 2001) to aid the police force in fighting crime.

===Behavior===