Playable
A veteran of the Balkan wars who arrives in Liberty City on his cousin's promise of a mansion and finds a cab office and a debt. He stays because the man who sold out his unit is somewhere in the city.
All 90 missions · 2 as giver
GTA IV
Three Leaf Clover
41of 90
Mission 41 of 90Story mission
Briefing
The bank job. Four men — Niko, Packie, Derrick and Michael Keane — walk into the Bank of Liberty on a Chinatown street corner, blow the vault, and walk out into the longest sustained fight in the game.
There are no preparation jobs and no choice of approach: it is one very long mission that starts as a robbery and becomes a fighting retreat down a street, through a subway station and along a live railway tunnel with the LCPD behind it.
The take is $250,000 and the mission opens Alderney, which makes it the structural centre of the campaign as well as its loudest hour.
Objectives
- Pick up your partners
- Go to the bank
- Go down to the vault and get the money
- Cover Packie and Derrick
- Follow Packie and Derrick
- There are too many cops — clear the path
- Get to street level
- Find a four door car and go to Packie's Ma's house
Walkthrough
Before you start
A suit with a tie and decent shoes is required, and the bank is only open between six in the morning and seven at night. Go in with full armour, grenades, a rocket launcher and an SMG — there is no opportunity to shop in the middle of this. A four-door car is needed at the start and another at the end.
The vault
The robbery itself runs on rails. The money is collected into bags, and the only thing worth noticing is the argument between Packie and Derrick, which is the strand's whole relationship in ninety seconds.
The bank doors
Take cover in the exit itself, between the two doors, rather than stepping into the street. From there the police outside can be worked through — grenades on the cars, or a round into a fuel tank, take out everybody clustered around them.
The alley
Follow the brothers into the alley and clear the officers and NOOSE agents blocking it. Destroying the police car there helps a great deal, and there is body armour beside it worth collecting.
Into the subway
Two officers wait at the second corner and a great many more beyond them, with NOOSE coming down the stairs behind. There is a health package on the concourse.
The tunnel
The tracks have to be crossed, and the trains are live — go over once one has passed rather than in front of one. More agents wait on the far side, and there is a first aid kit on the way up.
Out and home
The exit puts Niko on the street beside a Huntley Sport. Wait for the others to get in, then drive to Packie's mother's house in Meadows Park — the wanted level has to be gone by the time it arrives, and a Pay 'n' Spray will do it.
Unlocks
- Alderney
- The carbine rifle
- Packie as a friend, and his car bombs
- The "Full Exploration" achievement
Where this mission leads
Who this mission brings together, and the ground it covers.
Gives the job
The most capable of the McReary brothers and the least interested in admitting it. Plans robberies that work and drinks through the aftermath of the ones that do not.
10 of 90 missions · 5 as giver
