Missions in GTA III
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Spoiler Warning: Plot and/or ending details are in the text which follows. |
This is a list of all missions in Grand Theft Auto III, sorted by type, island and mission-giver.
Story missions
Portland
Introduction
| Image/Name | Character Appearances | Completion Rewards | Overview |
|---|---|---|---|
 Introduction scenes |
Claude Catalina Miguel Unnamed associate 8-Ball Old Oriental Gentleman |
Give Me Liberty | Cutscenes depicting Catalina's betrayal of Claude and Claude's escape with 8-Ball. |
 Give Me Liberty |
Claude 8-Ball |
Luigi's Girls Portland Hideout |
Go to Luigi's club with 8-Ball. |
 Luigi's Girls |
Claude 8-Ball Mickey Hamfists Luigi Goterelli Misty |
Don't Spank Ma Bitch Up Free roam |
Pick up Misty and bring her back to Luigi's club. |
Luigi Goterelli
| Image/Name | Character Appearances | Completion Rewards | Overview |
|---|---|---|---|
 Don't Spank Ma Bitch Up |
Claude Mickey Hamfists Luigi Goterelli (voice only) |
Drive Misty For Me | Luigi tells Claude about a drugdealer residing at Portland Harbor who has been supplying his girls with drugs. Luigi wants Claude to kill him and take his car as compensation. |
 Drive Misty For Me |
Claude Luigi Goterelli Misty Joey Leone |
The Crook Pump-Action Pimp Mike Lips Last Lunch |
Luigi wants Claude to pick up Misty and drive her to Joey Leone at his garage in Trenton. |
 Pump-Action Pimp |
Claude Luigi Goterelli Diablo pimps |
The Fuzz Ball | Luigi wants Claude to kill two Diablos who have been pimping around the club's backyard. |
 The Fuzz Ball |
Claude Luigi Goterelli Mickey Hamfists |
Luigi informs Claude of a police ball that is taking place in Chinatown. He wants Claude to pick up as many prostitutes as possible and drive them to the ball before the police officers spend all of their money. |
Joey Leone
| Image/Name | Character Appearances | Completion Rewards | Overview |
|---|---|---|---|
 Mike Lips Last Lunch |
Claude Joey Leone Mike Forelli |
Farewell 'Chunky' Lee Chong | Joey Leone tells Claude that he is tired of waiting for the Forelli brothers to repay him the money they owe and that Claude should teach them some respect by planting a bomb in Mike Forelli's car. |
 Farewell 'Chunky' Lee Chong |
Claude Joey Leone Lee Chong |
Van Heist | Claude is informed by Joey Leone of "Chunky" Lee Chong who is pushing SPANK through his noodle stand and needs to be taken out. |
 Van Heist |
Claude Joey Leone |
Turismo Cipriani's Chauffeur Securicar Garage |
Joey Leone tells Claude that they are going to hit the payroll van in order to make some quick money. |
 Cipriani's Chauffeur |
Claude Joey Leone Toni Cipriani |
Dead Skunk in the Trunk Taking Out the Laundry |
Joey Leone introduces Claude to Toni Cipriani, the Leone Family caporegime. Toni wants Claude to drive him to a launderette in Chinatown in order to collect some protection money, and then to his home in St. Marks. |
 Dead Skunk in the Trunk |
Claude Joey Leone Forelli Brothers |
The Getaway | Joey Leone wants Claude to crush a car containing the dead body of a Forelli mobster. |
 The Getaway |
Claude Joey Leone |
Joey Leone wants Claude to pick up a few of his friends at their safehouse in St. Marks in order to assist them with a bank robbery. |
Toni Cipriani
| Image/Name | Character Appearances | Completion Rewards | Overview |
|---|---|---|---|
 Taking Out the Laundry |
Claude Toni Cipriani |
The Pick-Up | Toni Cipriani wants Claude to destroy three of the launderette's vans as revenge for the earlier Triad ambush. |
 The Pick-Up |
Claude Toni Cipriani (voice only) |
Salvatore's Called a Meeting | Toni Cipriani has left Claude a letter telling him he did a good job earlier. The laundry has agreed to pay their protection money and he wants Claude to pick it up. |
 Salvatore's Called a Meeting |
Claude Toni Cipriani Joey Leone Luigi Goterelli Salvatore Leone |
Chaperone | Claude arrives at the restaurant, looking for more work from Toni Cipriani, who is absent. Claude finds another letter, saying that the Mafia Don Salvatore Leone has called a meeting. Toni needs Claude to pick up the limousine and Joey Leone from his garage, and Luigi Goterelli from his club, before returning to the restaurant and picking up Toni, then driving them all to Salvatore's mansion. |
Salvatore Leone
| Image/Name | Character Appearances | Completion Rewards | Overview |
|---|---|---|---|
 Chaperone |
Claude Salvatore Leone Maria Latore |
Cutting the Grass Triads and Tribulations |
Claude meets Salvatore Leone who wants him to look after his wife for the evening while he and Toni, Joey and Luigi talks business. |
 Cutting the Grass |
Claude Salvatore Leone Curly Bob Catalina Miguel |
Bomb Da Base Act I (after completing Blow Fish) | Salvatore Leone tells Claude that the Columbians somehow knows about all of their plans and that there must be a rat in their organisation. He is suspicious of a man named Curly Bob currently working at Luigi's bar who has been spending more money than he makes at work. Salvatore wants Claude to follow him after work and kill him if he is the one leaking information. |
Toni Cipriani (2)
| Image/Name | Character Appearances | Completion Rewards | Overview |
|---|---|---|---|
 Triads and Tribulations |
Claude Toni Cipriani (voice only) |
Blow Fish | Arriving at the restaurant, Claude finds a letter from Toni who informs Claude that they are at war with the Triads. He wants Claude to take out three Triad warlords. |
 Blow Fish |
Claude Toni Cipriani |
Bomb Da Base Act I (after completing Cutting the Grass) | Claude meets Toni Cipriani who has had enough of the Triads and wants to finish them once and for all by blowing up their fish factory in Callahan Point with a Trashmaster packed with explosives. |
Salvatore Leone (2)
| Image/Name | Character Appearances | Completion Rewards | Overview |
|---|---|---|---|
 Bomb Da Base Act I |
Claude Salvatore Leone |
Bomb Da Base Act II | Salvatore Leone informs Claude that the Colombian Cartel have an almost infinite amount of funds from selling SPANK throughout the city. He asks Claude to blow up their SPANK factory, a freighter docked at Portland Harbor, as a personal favor. |
8-Ball
| Image/Name | Character Appearances | Completion Rewards | Overview |
|---|---|---|---|
 Bomb Da Base Act II |
Claude 8-Ball |
Last Requests | 8-Ball, knowing about the meeting after a phone call from Salvatore Leone, tells Claude that he needs $100,000 for the explosives and tells Claude to return when he has the money. After obtaining the necessary money, Claude returns to 8-Ball's and the two head to Portland Harbor. There, 8-Ball hands Claude a Sniper Rifle to be used to take out the Columbians while 8-Ball plants the explosives on the ship. |
Salvatore Leone (3)
| Image/Name | Character Appearances | Completion Rewards | Overview |
|---|---|---|---|
 Last Requests |
Claude Salvatore Leone Maria Latore Asuka Kasen |
Staunton Island Sayonara Salvatore Bling-bling Scramble Staunton Island Hideout |
Claude is told by Salvatore Leone that there is one more thing he needs Claude to do before they can celebrate the destrcution of the Columbian SPANK factory. He needs Claude to pick up a car covered in brains and have it crushed before the cops find it. However, Maria pages him before arriving at the car, telling Claude it's a trap and to meet her in Callahan Point where he is introduced to Yakuza co-leader Asuka Kasen. |
Staunton Island
Asuka Kasen
| Image/Name | Character Appearances | Completion Rewards | Overview |
|---|---|---|---|
 Sayonara Salvatore |
Claude Asuka Kasen Maria Latore Salvatore Leone |
Under Surveillance | Claude meets Asuka Kasen at her condo in Newport. She tells him that she might have work for him in her organisation but that he first needs to show his loyalty and prove to her that his bonds with the Leone Family are broken by killing Salvatore Leone. |
 Under Surveillance |
Claude Asuka Kasen Kenji Kasen |
Paparazzi Purge Kanbu Bust-out |
Claude drops by Asuka Kasen's condo where he meets her and is also introduced to her brother Kenji Kasen. Asuka informs Claude that the Leone Family are trying to hunt him down and kill him after the assassination of Salvatore Leone. |
 Paparazzi Purge |
Claude Asuka Kasen (voice only) Reporter |
Payday For Ray | Claude drops by Asuka Kasen's condo where he finds a letter left by her. She says that a reporting has been nosing around their business and that Maria and her have taken a little holiday together until the reporter is taken care of. |
 Payday For Ray |
Claude Asuka Kasen Maria Latore (voice only) Ray Machowski |
Two-Faced Tanner Silence the Sneak |
Asuka Kasen tells Claude about a cop that she is working with who she wants Claude to meet and at the same time deliver the cop payment for his last job. He has Claude answer ringing payphones across Staunton Island before the two meeting at the toilet block in Belleville Park. |
 Two-Faced Tanner |
Claude Asuka Kasen (voice only) Tanner |
Asuka Kasen has left a note at her condo for Claude. She has been informed that one of her drivers is an undercover police officer and she needs Claude to get rid of him. |
Kenji Kasen
| Image/Name | Character Appearances | Completion Rewards | Overview |
|---|---|---|---|
 Kanbu Bust-out |
Claude Kenji Kasen Kanbu |
Grand Theft Auto | Claude meets with Kenji Kasen who wants him to break out a valued member of his family out of jail. |
 Grand Theft Auto |
Claude Kenji Kasen |
Deal Steal | Kenji Kasen tells Claude about a man who once did him a favor he has never been able to repay. This shames him, and as the man's passion is cars he wants Claude to steal three cars for the man's collection. |
 Deal Steal |
Claude Kenji Kasen |
Shima | Claude is informed by Kenji Kasen that despite the Yakuza's repeated warnings, the Columbians are currently finalizing a deal with the Yardies across town. Kenji wants Claude to kill everybody involved. |
 Shima |
Claude Kenji Kasen Shop Owner |
Smack Down | Kenji Kasen informs Claude that their protection money will be paid today and he wants Claude to collect the money from the various businesses so it can be entered into the casino accounts. |
 Smack Down |
Claude Kenji Kasen |
Claude goes to the casino and meets with a furious Kenji Kasen. Despite their attempts to break the relationship between the Columbians and the Yardies, they finalized the deal and the Yardies are now out pushing SPANK on the streets. Kenji wants Claude to kill all the dealers he can find. |
Ray Machowski
| Image/Name | Character Appearances | Completion Rewards | Overview |
|---|---|---|---|
 Silence the Sneak |
Claude Ray Machowski Leon McAffrey |
Arms Shortage | Claude meets with Ray Machowski who is mad at his former partner who is going to rat Machowski out and has now been put under witness protection. Ray needs Claude to kill him before this can happen. |
 Arms Shortage |
Claude Ray Machowski Phil Cassidy |
Evidence Dash Phil's Army Surplus |
Ray Machowski informs Claude of an old friend who has got in trouble with the Cartel, and needs back up. |
 Evidence Dash |
Claude Ray Machowski |
Gone Fishing Liberator |
Ray informs Claude about a rich man in the city who is involved in a legal matter, with the prosecution is posession of some embarrassing evidence that is being driven across town. Claude has to steal all of it and then burn it to make sure no one ever sees it. |
 Gone Fishing |
Claude Ray Machowski Ray Machowski's partner |
Plaster Blaster | Ray Machowski is convinced that his partner is a rat and he needs Claude to eliminate him. |
 Plaster Blaster |
Claude Ray Machowski Leon McAffrey |
Marked Man (after completing A Drop in the Ocean) | Claude once again meets up with Ray Machowski at the toilet block in Belleville Park and is swiftly accused of being useless by Ray. Despite Claude's earlier efforts, Leon McAffrey survived and is going to make his federal deposition against Ray, who needs Claude to take him out for good. |
Donald Love
| Image/Name | Character Appearances | Completion Rewards | Overview |
|---|---|---|---|
 Liberator |
Claude Donald Love Old Oriental Gentleman |
Waka-Gashira Wipeout! | Claude goes to see Donald Love, who first thanks him for dealing with the "personal matter". He then tells Claude about an associate who being held hostage by the Columbians and has to be rescued. |
 Waka-Gashira Wipeout! |
Claude Donald Love Kenji Kasen |
A Drop in the Ocean | Claude meets Donald Love again. He has been noticing the decaying relationship between the Yakuza and the Colombian Cartel and wants to take advantage of this. He wants Claude to disguise himself as a Cartel member and kill Kenji Kasen, which will create a full scale gang war in order to drive down real estate prices. |
 A Drop in the Ocean |
Claude Donald Love Old Oriental Gentleman |
Shoreside Vale Grand Theft Aero Marked Man (after completing Plaster Blaster) Uzi Money |
Claude goes to Donald Love looking for more work. Love informs him of a light aircraft that will drop several packages into the bay on its approach to the airport that evening. He needs Claude to pick up these packages before anyone else does and then bring them back. |
 Grand Theft Aero |
Claude Donald Love Catalina Miguel Asuka Kasen |
Escort Service Bait |
Upon returning with the packages, Donald Love informs Claude that they were only decoys and that his real objective was on the plane the whole time. Unfortunately, the plane was seized by the authorities, which Love managed to bribe. Now, he needs Claude to go and pick up the real package. |
 Escort Service |
Claude Donald Love Old Oriental Gentleman |
Decoy | Donald Love needs Claude to protect the Old Oriental Gentleman as he drives to Pike Creek in a Securicar to get Love's latest acquisition to be authenticated and make sure they get to their destination unharmed. |
 Decoy |
Claude Donald Love |
Love's Disappearance | Donald Love tells Claude that the SWAT has put the area around the Old Oriental Gentleman and his package under surveillance. He needs Clause to act as a decoy in order to lead the police away from the area and let the Oriental Gentleman escape. |
 Love's Disappearance |
Claude | As Claude goes back to the Love Media Building for more work from Donald Love, he finds the rooftop garden empty, and leaves. |
Ray Machowski (2)
| Image/Name | Character Appearances | Completion Rewards | Overview |
|---|---|---|---|
 Marked Man |
Claude Ray Machowski |
M16 Rocket Launcher Sniper Rifle Bulletproof Patriot |
Ray tells Claude that he is a marked man by the CIA and needs to get out of town, fast. He has Claude drive him to the Francis International Airport. |
Asuka Kasen (2)
| Image/Name | Character Appearances | Completion Rewards | Overview |
|---|---|---|---|
 Bait |
Claude Asuka Kasen Miguel |
Espresso-2-Go! | Miguel, who has been tortured for information by Asuka Kasen has revealed Catalina's plans against Claude. Asuka needs Claude to act as bait and lead Catalina's death squads into a Yakuza ambush. |
 Espresso-2-Go! |
Claude Asuka Kasen Miguel |
S.A.M. | Asuka Kasen informs Claude that they have underestmated Catalina's plans for SPANK, which go to the point of selling it through espresso stalls in the streets around Liberty City. She orders Claude to destroy all of them. |
 S.A.M. |
Claude Asuka Kasen Maria Latore Miguel |
Ransom | Miguel has revealed that there is a plane coming to Francis International Airport which is full of SPANK. Asuka orders Claude to shoot it down, then collecting and stashing the debris. |
 Ransom |
Claude Catalina (voice only) Asuka Kasen Miguel |
The Exchange | Claude comes back to the construction site to find both Miguel and Asuka Kasen dead, with a letter from Catalina, who has kidnapped Maria and wants $500,000 in exchange for her alive. |
Shoreside Vale
Catalina
| Image/Name | Character Appearances | Completion Rewards | Overview |
|---|---|---|---|
 The Exchange |
Claude Catalina Maria Latore |
Rhino | Claude goes to the villa in Cedar Grove in order to pay Catalina, who betrays him once again. |
Phone missions
Portland
El Burro
| Image/Name | Character Appearances | Completion Rewards | Overview |
|---|---|---|---|
 Turismo |
Claude El Burro (voice only) |
I Scream, You Scream | Claude answers a payphone in Hepburn Heights. El Burro, the leader of the Diablos, introduces himself on the other end of the phone. He wants Claude to win a street race about to start in order to prove his worth. |
| I Scream, You Scream | Claude El Burro (voice only) |
Trial By Fire | Claude answers the payphone in Hepburn Heights and El Burro tells Claude that a gang are threatening to remove his "starring member" of his adult movie unless they get a cut. El Burro instructs Claude to pick up a bomb in Harwood and then hijack a Mr. Whoopee ice cream van and blow them up at their Atlantic Quays hideout. |
| Trial By Fire | Claude El Burro (voice only) |
Big'n'Veiny | El Burro tells Claude over the phone that the Triads had stolen a car of Burro's with some of his memorabilia. They then wrecked and burnt the car, so El Burro instructs Claude to avenge his Diablo Stallion by killing 25 Triads with a flamethrower. |
| Big'n'Veiny | Claude El Burro (voice only) |
Turismo | El Burro tells Claude about a SPANKED-up thief who stole a van full of the latest issue of his magazine, but left the rear doors open and proceded to drop the magazines all over Portland. He wants Claude to collect them, kill the man responsible and bring them back to XXX Mags in the Red Light District. |
Marty Chonks
| Image/Name | Character Appearances | Completion Rewards | Overview |
|---|---|---|---|
 The Crook |
Claude Marty Chonks (voice only) Bank Manager |
The Thieves | Claude answers the ringing payphone in Trenton. The man on the other end introduces himself as Marty Chonks, owner of the Bitch'n' Dog Food factory. He has money trouble, and his bank manager keeps lying to him and taking a slice of Marty's profits. He wants Claude to bring him back to the factory. |
 The Thieves |
Claude Marty Chonks (voice only) |
The Wife | Marty tells Claude that he hired some thieves to break into his home so he could claim on the insurance and make some money. However, they are now threatening to tell the insurance company if Marty doesn't pay them. He now wants Claude to bring them back to the factory. |
 The Wife |
Claude Marty Chonks (voice only) Mrs. Chonks |
Her Lover | Marty tells Claude he is in desperate need of cash, or the business will go under. He proceeds to tell Claude that his wife has an insurance policy, and to bring her back to the factory as well. |
 Her Lover |
Claude Marty Chonks Carlos |
Claude is told by Marty that Marty's wife was seeing someone that Marty owes money and is now looking for payback. Marty wants Claude to pick him up and bring him to the factory where he is planning to kill him. |
Staunton Island
King Courtney
| Image/Name | Character Appearances | Completion Rewards | Overview |
|---|---|---|---|
 Bling-bling Scramble |
Claude King Courtney (voice only) |
Uzi Rider | Claude answers the pay phone ringing in Liberty Campus. The caller introduces himself as King Courtney, leader of the Uptown Yardies. He wants a good driver for his gang and wants Claude to enter a race that will prove his worthiness. |
 Uzi Rider |
Claude King Courtney (voice only) |
Gangcar Round-up | Claude recieves a phone call by King Courtney, who wants to see if he can trusted or not. Shortly afterwards, two Yardies show up in a Perennial. They want Claude to drive to Hepburn Heights to whack some Diablos who have been insulting Queen Lizzy. |
 Gangcar Round-up |
Claude King Courtney (voice only) |
Kingdom Come | King Courtney wants Claude to steal some gang cars for him and his gang so they can do some hits on their enemies' turf. |
 Kingdom Come |
Claude King Courtney (voice only) Catalina (voice only) |
Bling-bling Scramble | King Courtney wants Claude to collect a stash in an Esperanto parked in a parking lot in Bedford Point. |
Shoreside Vale
D-Ice
| Image/Name | Character Appearances | Completion Rewards | Overview |
|---|---|---|---|
 Uzi Money |
Claude D-Ice (voice only) |
Toyminator | Claude answers the payphone ringing in Wichita Gardens. The caller indentifies himself as D-Ice of the Red Jacks. He wants Claude to eliminate twenty Purple Nines in a drive-by within two minutes and thirty seconds. |
 Toyminator |
Claude D-Ice (voice only) |
Rigged to Blow | D-Ice wants Claude to destroy three Securicars full of SPANK driven by the Purple Nines. He instructs Claude to enter a TOYZ van and use explosive RC Bandits to destroy the Securicars. |
 Rigged to Blow |
Claude D-Ice (voice only) |
Bullion Run | D-Ice tells Claude over the phone that his Infernus has been rigged with a timed explosive. He instructs Claude to drive the car to a garage in Saint Mark's, Portland to defuse the bomb. |
 Bullion Run |
Claude D-Ice (voice only) |
Rumble | D-Ice calls again and informs Claude of a plane that just crashed at the Francis International Airport and scattered platinum bullion around Pike Creek. He wants Claude to collect at least 30 pieces and bring them back to his garage. |
 Rumble |
Claude D-Ice (voice only) D-Ice's Brother |
Rigged to Blow | D-Ice informs Claude that the Purple Nines are nearly wiped out but the last members of the gang still want to fight against the Red Jacks. D-Ice instructs Claude to meet up with his brother who will show Claude the location of the fight. The rule is only bats are allowed. |
Off-Road missions
- Patriot Playground: Pass through fifteen checkpoints at the Portland Beach.
- A Ride in the Park: Pass through twelve checkpoints in the park.
- Multistorey Mayhem: Pass through fifteen checkpoints in the multistorey car park.
- Gripped!: Pass through twenty checkpoints in Cedar Grove.
Remote controlled vehicle missions
- Diablo Destruction: Destroy as many Diablo Stallions as possible with an RC car.
- Mafia Massacre: Destroy as many Mafia Sentinels as possible with an RC car.
- Casino Calamity: Destroy as many Yakuza Stingers as possible with an RC car.
- Rumpo Rampage: Destroy as many Hoods Rumpo XLs as possible with an RC car.