Give Me Liberty

Overview

Give Me Liberty is the opening mission of GTA III. The story begins with a bank robbery in Liberty City that goes wrong for Claude: as he runs from the bank, his girlfriend Catalina shoots him and leaves him for dead, deciding he is in the way of her ambitions. Claude survives, is arrested and sentenced to ten years.

While a police convoy is moving him across the Callahan Bridge to the penitentiary in Portland, the Colombian Cartel ambushes it to snatch an old man being transported with the prisoners. In the chaos the bridge is blown up, and Claude escapes together with a fellow prisoner, the explosives expert 8-Ball. With the bridge destroyed, they are stuck in Portland.

Walkthrough

1. After the cutscene, take control of Claude next to 8-Ball and the getaway car on the Portland side of the bridge.
2. Drive 8-Ball to the hideout marked on the radar; his hands were burned in the escape, so Claude has to drive.
3. Enter the hideout so Claude can change out of his prison clothes.
4. Get back in the car with 8-Ball and drive to the marked spot behind Luigi's Sex Club 7 in the Red Light District.
5. The mission ends as the two arrive, leading straight into Luigi's Girls.

Tips

• The mission has no time limit, so drive carefully and learn the layout of Portland on the way.
• Avoid hitting police cars; even a one-star wanted level can complicate the trip.
• Save at the hideout once the next mission has started to keep your progress.

Rewards and unlocks

Completing Give Me Liberty unlocks Luigi's Girls and introduces the Portland hideout, which becomes Claude's first safehouse. It also starts the story thread of the Cartel's kidnapped captive, the old man who later turns out to matter to Donald Love.