GTA IIIPortland
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Mission 1 of 67Story mission
A prison convoy stops on the Callahan Bridge because the Colombian Cartel wants somebody else on it, and the man who will spend the rest of the game silently working his way up three criminal organisations walks out of the wreckage with a demolition expert he has never met. Claude says nothing here and says nothing later; 8-Ball does the talking for both of them, which is the arrangement for the first act.
As an opening it asks for one drive and teaches the two things the game runs on: a safehouse is where you save and where you keep a car, and Luigi's club is where the work is. Nothing in it is dangerous. Everything after it is.
The car waiting on the Callahan Bridge is a tuned Kuruma with 8-Ball in the passenger seat, and the drive across Portland doubles as the game's driving tutorial — the prompts arrive as they become relevant rather than all at once.
The destination is a marked halo outside the hideout, where both men change out of prison clothes. This is the first safehouse: the save point and the garage the first act works out of.
The last leg is a short drive to Luigi Goterelli's club. Getting Claude killed or arrested ends the mission, and so does losing 8-Ball or writing off the car.
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
