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GTA 4’s Three Leaf Clover Heist Showed How Not to Rob a Bank – Art of the Level

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GTA 4’s Three Leaf Clover Heist Showed How Not to Rob a Bank – Art of the Level

Ask a dozen average punters what the best mission in GTA 5 is, and you’ll get several dozen answers. Ask the same box of eggs about Grand Theft Auto 4 and a consensus will emerge: it's Three Leaf Clover. A bickering bank-heist that starts on the border of outright slapstick but quickly turns into a masterclass of escalating tension, where the streets of Liberty City become a Pac-Man maze of hot flying lead in yet another glorious Grand Theft Homage to the works of filmmaker Michael Mann. It’s the crowning achievement of an otherwise very divisive game.

GTA 4 remains the most curious beast in Rockstar’s blockbuster menagerie: a brand new start in an era of unprecedented sophistication and visual fidelity, with the ever-capable hardware of the time leveraged into depicting the cold forever-autumn of Liberty City: a suitable backdrop for the grubby, boldly bleak tale of a man on the run from his past, a story chiefly about disillusionment, of treacheries within and without. A far cry from the endless summers of Vice City and San Andreas. If California knows how to party, New York City knows how to freeze your bollocks off on a park bench.

GTA 4 was in the same breath a huge step forward for Rockstar’s world-building and storytelling chops, while also being a deliberate back-to-basics reset for their flagship series. Structurally, it’s a lot closer to the original GTA and GTA 3 than its immediate predecessor, San Andreas , and it’s even less sophisticated than Vice City in key areas.


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