The Introduction is the zeroth mission for Grand Theft Auto III. It is a series of introductory scenes played when 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
- Claude
- Catalina
- Miguel
- 8-Ball
- Old Oriental Gentleman
- Unnamed Cartel member
Video walkthrough
PC Version |
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File:GTA3 Intro & Mission 1 - Give Me Liberty (HD) |
iPad 2 Version |
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File:GTA3 - iPad 2 - Intro & Mission 1 - Give Me Liberty |
Gallery
News Report
Liberty city is in shock today as the police and emergency services deal with the aftermath of a devastating attack on a police convoy this morning. As yet, no details have been released about the prisoners being transferred in the convoy, and no proof has claimed responsibility. A convoy left police headquarters early this morning, for a routine transfer of felons, to the Liberty City penitentiary. The attack took place on the Callahan Bridge, leaving few witnesses, and the bridge itself, severely damaged. Some of the convicts are thought to have perished in the explosion that followed the initial attack. Revelations as to the professionalism of the attack struck police hours afterward when identification of the missing felons were further hampered by an attack by computer hackers on police headquarter databases. With the Porter tunnel-project falling behind schedule, this disaster leaves Portland isolated from the rest of the city.
Trivia
- The bank scene takes place in a non-functional location and is used only for the introduction of GTA III.
- The civilian 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 Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories.
- 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 Catalina and Claude exit the bank, it will appear as a blue patch of sea and air. This is most likely due to the cutscene loading the graphics.
- The Banshee that appears in this mission is a unique silver color not found in ordinary gameplay.
- The purpose of the abduction of the Old Oriental Gentleman is later revealed.