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“

Sorry babe. I'm an ambitious girl, and you're just small time.

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The introduction for Grand Theft Auto III is a series of introductory scenes played as a new game is started. Consisting of only non-interactive cutscenes, the player has only the option of skipping them and moving on to "Give Me Liberty", the first mission in the game.

Description

Bank heist

The introduction opens with a shot of the Liberty City Bank, as a Banshee driven by Miguel zips by and stops in front of an adjoining alleyway to pick up a team of three bank robbers who have just robbed the bank: Catalina, Claude and an unnamed associate with Colombian Cartel attire. Claude falls behind while escaping, and finds that Catalina has killed the unnamed associate and has aimed the gun towards him. She tells him that she is an ambitious girl and no longer needs him, since she now has connections with Miguel, who is a Colombian Cartel leader, and shoots him. She and Miguel escape in the Banshee, leaving Claude left for dead. Claude survives, however, and is arrested by the Liberty City Police Department.

Custody and escape

Now in police custody, Claude is being transferred from the police headquarters in Staunton to Liberty Penitentiary to serve his 10-year sentence. Joining him in the police convoy are 8-Ball, following an arrest which left both his hands fully bandaged, and an oriental man of unknown origin, arrested for possessing no legal documents.

While crossing the Callahan Bridge from Staunton to Portland, the convoy is ambushed by the Colombian Cartel, who are unaware or uncaring of Claude's presence and abduct the Oriental Gentleman and flee, leaving the door open for Claude and 8-Ball to escape police custody. However, the Cartel leaves a bomb that kills all the witnessing guards and destroys the bridge, isolating Portland from the rest of Liberty City leaving only 8-Ball and Claude alive.

Characters

Video walkthrough

PC Version
File:GTA3 Intro & Mission 1 - Give Me Liberty (HD)

iPad 2 Version
File:GTA3 - iPad 2 - Intro & Mission 1 - Give Me Liberty

Gallery

Trivia

The bank scene takes place in a non-functional location and is used only for the introduction of GTA III.
The civillian vehicles used during the bridge ambush scene have no drivers.
The Enforcer in the police convoy is different than the Enforcer encountered during gameplay. It most closely resembles the Enforcer from GTA LCS.
Catalina does not speak with an accent in the cutscene.
On the PC version, for a split second, you can see the edge of the world, near the end of the building, during the scene where they exit the bank, it will appear as a blue patch of sea/air.
The Banshee that appears in this mission, has a unique color of silver along with a white stripe down the middle, of the car.
The purpose of the abduction of the Old Oriental Gentleman is later revealed.

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+{{quote|Sorry babe. I'm an ambitious girl, and you're just small time.|[[Catalina]]}}
 The '''introduction for [[Grand Theft Auto III]]''' is a series of [[Introduction|introductory scenes]] played as a new game is started. Consisting of only non-interactive [[cutscene]]s, the player has only the option of skipping them and moving on to "[[Give Me Liberty]]", the first mission in the game.
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 == Description ==
 === Bank heist ===
-The introduction opens with a shot of the [[Liberty City in GTA III Era|Liberty City]] Bank, as a [[Banshee]] driven by [[Miguel]] zips by and stops in front of an adjoining alleyway to pick up a team of three bank robbers who have just robbed the bank: [[Catalina]], [[Claude]] and an unnamed associate with [[Colombian Cartel]] attire. After shooting a security camera, Claude attempts to rejoin the other two, but learns Catalina has double crossed Claude by gunning him and the third accomplice down.
+The introduction opens with a shot of the [[Liberty City Bank]], as a [[Banshee]] driven by [[Miguel]] zips by and stops in front of an adjoining alleyway to pick up a team of three bank robbers who have just robbed the bank: [[Catalina]], [[Claude]] and an unnamed associate with [[Colombian Cartel]] attire. Claude falls behind while escaping, and finds that Catalina has killed the unnamed associate and has aimed the gun towards him. She tells him that she is an ambitious girl and no longer needs him, since she now has connections with Miguel, who is a Colombian Cartel leader, and shoots him. She and Miguel escape in the Banshee, leaving Claude left for dead. Claude survives, however, and is arrested by the [[LCPD in GTA III Era|Liberty City Police Department]].
-This leaves Catalina and Miguel to feast on the spoils of the heist while Claude, slumped on the ground on the alleyway, survives but is arrested by the [[LCPD in GTA III Era|Liberty City Police Department]].
-Catalina reveals her ambitions to rise up the ranks of the criminal world, but felt Claude was not up to par for her, hence the betrayal and decision to join Miguel's powerful [[Colombian Cartel]] gang instead. The betrayal was planned in advance of the heist, since the getaway car (a Banshee) only seats two.
-Claude's thirst for revenge on Catalina will become a part of the game's plot.
 === Custody and escape ===
-Claude, now in police custody, is intended to transfer from police headquarters in [[Staunton Island|Staunton]] to Liberty Penitentiary to serve out his 10-year jail sentence. Claude is to be taken there via a police convoy that is also transporting two other inmates: [[8-Ball]], following [[Another Punch in the Gut for Organized Crime|an arrest which left both his hands fully bandaged]], and [[Oriental Gentleman|an oriental man of unknown origin]], [[Elderly Asian Man Held After Failing to Satisfy Immigration|arrested for possessing no legal documents]].
+Now in police custody, Claude is being transferred from the [[Liberty City Police Headquarters|police headquarters]] in [[Staunton Island|Staunton]] to Liberty Penitentiary to serve his [[2011|10-year sentence]]. Joining him in the police convoy are [[8-Ball]], following [[Another Punch in the Gut for Organized Crime|an arrest which left both his hands fully bandaged]], and [[Oriental Gentleman|an oriental man of unknown origin]], [[Elderly Asian Man Held After Failing to Satisfy Immigration|arrested for possessing no legal documents]].
-While crossing the [[Callahan Bridge]] from Staunton to [[Portland Island|Portland]], the convoy is ambushed by a well coordinated Colombian Cartel team, whose intention is to capture the oriental prisoner [[Liberator|as ransom]], seemingly caring little of the fate of the other prisoners. To ensure their escape, the team left a powerful bomb on the bridge, resulting in an explosion that damages the bridge and cuts Portland off from the rest of Liberty City.
+While crossing the [[Callahan Bridge]] from Staunton to [[Portland]], the convoy is ambushed by the [[Colombian Cartel]], who are unaware or uncaring of Claude's presence and abduct the Oriental Gentleman and flee, leaving the door open for Claude and 8-Ball to escape police custody. However, the Cartel leaves a bomb that kills all the witnessing guards and destroys the bridge, isolating Portland from the rest of Liberty City leaving only [[8-Ball]] and [[Claude]] alive.
+==Characters==
-During the ambush and explosion, Claude and 8-Ball manage to break free, but find they have nowhere else to go but Portland, leading up to the first mission of the game, "[[Give Me Liberty]]".
+*[[Claude]]
+*[[Catalina]]
+*[[Miguel]]
+*[[8-Ball]]
+*[[Old Oriental Gentleman]]
+*Unnamed Cartel member
 ==Video walkthrough==
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 == Gallery ==
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 </gallery>
 == Trivia ==
-* The bank scene takes place in [[Ghost Town|a non-functional location]] originally confused as being within Liberty City itself. The set is situated far west from [[Shoreside Vale]], and is only accessible by way of the [[Dodo]] under normal circumstances. The bank was supposedly located in Shoreside Vale, in the location of the airport (the airport was originally located in [[Staunton Island]]), as seen in beta pictures and drawings.
+* The bank scene takes place in [[Ghost Town|a non-functional location]] and is used only for the introduction of GTA III.
-* The vehicles used during the bridge ambush scene are driverless.
+* The civillian vehicles used during the bridge ambush scene have no drivers.
-* The [[Enforcer]] in the police convoy is different then that of the Enforcer during gameplay. It resembles the Enforcer from GTA LCS.
+* The [[Enforcer]] in the police convoy is different than the Enforcer encountered during gameplay. It most closely resembles the Enforcer from [[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories|GTA LCS]].
+* Catalina does not speak with an accent in the cutscene.
-* If the "Destroy all cars" [[Cheats in GTA III|cheat code is]] used during the bridge cutscene, all of the vehicles will explode and still continue driving. This can be done with other cutscenes that involve cars.
+* On the PC version, for a split second, you can see the edge of the world, near the end of the building, during the scene where they exit the bank, it will appear as a blue patch of sea/air.
+* The Banshee that appears in this mission, has a unique color of silver along with a white stripe down the middle, of the car.
+* The purpose of the abduction of the [[Old Oriental Gentleman]] is later [[Liberator|revealed]].
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