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Grand Theft Auto III box art: a grid of stylised panels in red, green and blue — a police helicopter, a muscle car, and the faces of Liberty City.

3D Era

Grand Theft Auto III

22 October 2001DMA DesignLiberty City

The entry that moved the series into 3D and defined the open-world template that followed it — a silent protagonist, a city split across three islands, and a story unlocked by crossing bridges.

The record

Released
22 October 2001
Developer
DMA Design
Publisher
Rockstar Games
Setting
Liberty City
Era
3D Era (2001–2006)
Type
Main title

Platforms

  • PlayStation 2
  • Windows
  • Xbox
  • PlayStation 4
  • PlayStation 5
  • macOS
  • iOS
  • Android
  • Fire OS

Every platform the title has been released on. We record which, not when — a port’s own release date is a separate fact and we have not established one for each.

The story

Missions

67missions

The complete GTA III story catalogue — 67 missions. 27 are optional.

14 mission givers

In the order the campaign first meets them. Missions the catalogue records no giver for are not counted here.

Open the full campaign

Every mission in order, and 67 mission pages behind them.

On the dial

Radio

9stations

Every station you can pick up in GTA III — 8 music stations and 1 talk station.

  • Double Clef FM

    Opera

    Presented by

    • Morgan Merryweather

    Nineteenth-century Italian opera, presented by Morgan Merryweather — the only thing on the Liberty City dial that predates the twentieth century.

  • Flashback 95.6

    Soundtrack and disco

    Presented by

    • Toni

    Giorgio Moroder's score for Scarface, near enough in full, presented by Toni — a whole station given over to one 1983 soundtrack.

  • Game Radio FM

    Hip hop

    Presented by

    • Stretch Armstrongas themselves
    • Lord Searas themselves

    East Coast hip hop presented by Stretch Armstrong and Lord Sear, both of whom were doing very much this job on New York radio at the time.

  • Head Radio

    Pop rock

    Presented by

    • Michael Hunt

    Liberty City's mainstream pop and soft rock station, built entirely from music written for the game rather than licensed from anybody. Michael Hunt presents it with the strained cheer of a man reading advertisements he does not believe.

  • K-Jah

    Dub and reggae

    Presented by

    • Horace "Fingers" Walsh

    Dub, given over almost entirely to a single Scientist record and hosted by Horace "Fingers" Walsh. The slowest station in Liberty City, by some distance.

  • Lips 106

    Pop

    Presented by

    • Andee

    Manufactured pop presented by Andee, performed by acts the station's own fiction assembled for the purpose.

  • MSX FM

    Drum and bass

    Presented by

    • MC Codebreaker

    Drum and bass hosted by MC Codebreaker, and comfortably the fastest thing on the Liberty City dial.

  • Rise FM

    Trance

    Presented by

    • André

    Trance and progressive house, presented by André with the unbroken good mood the genre asks for.

  • Chatterbox FM

    Talk radio

    Presented by

    • Lazlowplayed by Lazlow Jones

    No music at all: Lazlow takes calls from a city that should not be given a microphone, and stays on the line with every one of them.

Every dial in the series

Enter the world

Liberty City

The places, the people, the vehicles and the weapons of Grand Theft Auto III. Follow any of them in.

Locations

The places

All 29 places
Portland at night, its industrial streets and blocks under the lights with the water beyond.

GTA III

District

Portland

The industrial island Grand Theft Auto III begins on, and the Leone family's ground: docks, a Chinatown, a red-light district and the Callahan Bridge out of it.

Characters

The cast

All 23 characters
Claude, as they appear in GTA III.

Protagonist

Claude

Left for dead by his partner during a bank job and freed from a prison transport by an explosion he had nothing to do with. Says nothing at all for the length of the story and works his way through every organisation in Liberty City regardless.

Vehicles

The garage

All 40 vehicles

Weapons

The armoury

All 12 weapons

In the series

Related Releases

How GTA III sits beside the rest of the franchise.

Provenance

Verified against research.

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