Claude begins to work for different factions in the crime-riddled Liberty City, including the Mafia, Yakuza and corrupted figures. The game's narrative follows the adventures of Claude, a silent criminal who was betrayed by his girlfriend Catalina during a bank heist. Set in the fictional Liberty City in 2001, Grand Theft Auto III begins a new continuity separated from its prede cessors. It was originally released for the PlayStation 2 console, but also saw ports for the PC and Xbox. Grand Theft Auto III (also shortened into GTA III or GTA 3) is a 2001 action-adventure videogame developed by Rockstar North (then known as DMA Design) and published by Rockstar Games. “ One of the most influential and successful games ever made.