Grand Theft Auto III Story

Claude, or Fido - GTA III's protagonist has just robbed a bank with his girlfriend Catalina. While chasing her out of the bank she turns to him and says "Sorry babe, I'm an ambitious girl and you... You're just small-time.", then shoots him to leave him to die in an alley.

A short time later a police convoy is seen leaving Staunton Island and makes it's way across the bridge to Portland when the convoy is attacked and as a result, Claude is set free with a black man whose hands are messed up known as 8-Ball.

Claude then must take on jobs from local thugs and crime lords, working his way up through the ranks until he can get his revenge on everyone who stands in his way, including his former love, Catalina.

Official Synopsis

LIBERTY CITY, USA. The Worst Place in America.

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.

Grand Theft Auto returns this Fall on the Playstation®2 computer entertainment system. It will appear on PC CD ROM in Spring 2002. Featuring a fully 3-D living city, a combination of narrative driven and non-linear gameplay and a completely open environment, the game represents a huge leap forward in interactive entertainment. For the first time, players are put at the heart of their very own gangster movie, and let loose in a fully-realised 3 dimensional city, in which anything can happen and probably will.

With a cast of hundreds, 50 plus vehicles, ranging from sports cars to ice cream trucks and from boats to buses, 3 hours of music, including opera, reggae, house, drum and bass, pop and disco, a huge array of street ready weapons and some of the seediest characters in video game history, Grand Theft Auto 3 is a sprawling epic which will show you that sometimes, crime can pay and sometimes it can pay you back.

Additional Official Synopsis

Crime does pay.

The hugely successful, highly controversial Grand Theft Auto franchise moves into three dimensions in the dark and seedy underworld of Liberty City.

With the freedom to go anywhere and jack anyone, Grand Theft Auto 3 puts the dark, intriguing and ruthless world of crime at your fingertips, if you have enough guts to take it.