GTA IIIPortland
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Mission 21 of 67Story mission
The explosives cost a hundred thousand dollars and Claude has to find it before anything else happens, which makes this the only mission in GTA III that asks the player to have been paying attention to their own bank balance. Then 8-Ball has to be driven to the harbour and kept alive while he works.
It pays a hundred and fifty thousand, sinks the Cartel's factory, and ends Salvatore's usefulness to Claude — because the next thing Salvatore does with him is arrange his death.
The mission will not start until a hundred thousand dollars is in hand. Everything Joey, Toni and Luigi have paid across the first act is roughly what it takes.
His hands are bandaged, which is the reason he needs a driver and the reason the harbour section is entirely Claude's problem. His death fails the mission.
8-Ball supplies a sniper rifle and the mission marks a position above the dock. Working through the Cartel guards from there is the safe way to do it — the cover at ground level is thin and the opposition is heavy.
A machine gun and a willingness to take hits will also clear the dock, and is faster. It is the riskier of the two published approaches rather than the wrong one.
Who this mission brings together, and the ground it covers.
Playable
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.
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Gives the job
Liberty City's bomb maker, working through bandaged hands and supplying anybody who can pay. Freed from the same prison transport as Claude and the first friendly face in the story.
4 of 67 missions · 2 as giver
