- A young bank robber escapes from police custody and works his way up through the mafia ladder of crime-ridden Liberty City, USA.
- After a Young Criminal's Girlfriend betrays him in a Bank Robbery. He is arrested the Police but manages to escape from Custody, He must now get revenge on his Girlfriend but in order to do so he must work his way up in the Criminal Underworld by any means necessary in Liberty City.
- When Claude Speed, a young robber and street racer gets betrayed by his Girlfriend Catalina, leader of the columbian cartel during a Heist. He is arrested but escapes shortly after, He decides to exact his revenge on Catalina, in order to do so he must work his way up in the Liberty City Underworld and stop Catalina.
- Welcome to Liberty City. Where it all began. The critically acclaimed blockbuster Grand Theft Auto III brings to life the dark and seedy underworld of Liberty City. With a massive and diverse open world, a wild cast of characters from every walk of life, and the freedom to explore at will, Grand Theft Auto III puts the dark, intriguing, and ruthless world of crime at your fingertips. With stellar voice acting, a darkly comic storyline, a stunning soundtrack, and revolutionary open-world gameplay, Grand Theft Auto III is the game that defined the open-world genre for a generation.—Rockstar games
- 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 copes 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 there.—Anonymous
- The protagonist of the game is Claude Speed, a small-time criminal with grand ambitions. At the start of the game, Claude has been in a relationship with female criminal Catalina for nearly a decade, and the two of them take part in a bank robbery at Liberty City (a fictionalized version of New York City). Catalina suddenly betrays and shoots Claude, leaving him behind. She has been offered a leadership position in the Colombian drug cartel, and feels that she no longer needs Claude. He has outlived his usefulness.
The injured Claude is arrested and put on trial for his crimes. He is sentenced to a 10-year-long imprisonment. While Claude is transported to prison in a prison van, the van is attacked by members of the Colombian Cartel. The Cartel abducts a single, elderly prisoner, and does not bother to check on the rest of the prisoners. Claude and fellow prisoner "8-Ball" manage to escape unharmed.
"8-Ball" turns out to have connections to the Leone crime family, local representatives of the Sicilian Mafia. He introduces Claude to some of the leaders of the crime family, and Claude is hired as an enforcer for the Leones. His missions include sabotaging the ships transporting drugs from Colombia. One of these drugs is a new synthetic drug called "SPANK" which Catalina is trying to market to drug users.
Following a successful mission, Claude is targeted for assassination by his own boss, the elderly Don Salvatore Leone. ("Don" derives from Latin "Dominus", means "Lord", and designates high-ranking crime bosses.) Claude is unexpectedly rescued by Maria Latore, the Don's 27-year-old trophy wife. Claude is informed that in a recent dispute between husband and wife, Maria falsely claimed that she is having an affair with Claude (who has actually only met her once). Resulting in Don Salvatore wanting Claude dead. Maria is actually leaving her husband to move in with her friend Asuka Kasen, a Japanese woman.
Asuka serves as the co-leader of the local Yakuza (Japanise Mafia), and she eagerly recruits Claude for her organization. While serving in various missions, Claude has clandestine meetings with crooked businessman Donald Love (a parody version of Donald Trump), who has become a major player in both the real estate and media industries. Donald wants to orchestrate a gang war between the Yakuza and the Colombian cartel, in hopes of driving down the real estate prices in some areas and allowing him to purchase real estate at dirt-cheap prices. He wants Claude to help him.
Claude orchestrates the assassination of Yakuza co-leader Kenji Kasen (Asuka's brother), and incriminates the Colombian cartel for it. The gang war begins, and Claude continues to serve missions for both Asuka and Donald. Donald manages to take custody of the Cartel's mysterious elderly prisoner, and then flees the city with him. His further fate unknown.
Claude's series of successful missions ends when Catalina manages to assassinate Asuka and Miguel (Catalina's current lover and leader of the Columbian Cartel whom Asuka had captured and was torchering for information), and abduct the recently-widowed Maria Latore (who is Claude's current love interest). Catalina attempts to blackmail Claude for ransom, but their conflict leads to a gunfight between the two ex-lovers. Claude seemingly kills Catalina, rescues Maria, and starts walking with Maria away from the battlefield. Maria keeps chattering as she walks away. In a surprise ending, gunshots are heard, Maria's voice is silenced, and the game ends. It is left ambiguous whether Claude killed Maria, or whether they were both killed by other shooters.
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