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2[[caption-width-right:350: "Three Leaf Clover": One of the most popular missions in the whole series, and for good reason.]]
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4It's a ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' game. If you weren't expecting some of these, then you're playing the wrong game.
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6* "You were the stupid one, Vladdy Boy. '''''Nobody'' fucks with my ''family''.'''"
7* If you can get your hands on one, the vehicles used by NOOSE and other law enforcement agencies in Liberty City are a valuable asset to any player's collection. Take the Enforcer (a souped-up version of the game's bank van, the Securicar) and try breaking through a roadblock made out of regular police cruisers. You'll send them all flying! The same goes for the FIB Buffalo, which combines sheer speed with impressive power, and the NOOSE Patriot, a beefier version of the already-strong civilian version.
8* The entire "Three Leaf Clover" mission. It's like playing the bank heist in ''Film/{{Heat}}''.
9** Extremely positive player feedback from this mission led Rockstar to build ''Grand Theft Auto V'''s storyline around a ''series'' of heists just like this one.
10* How about "Hostile Negotiation"? Now there's a mission that shows how much of a OneManArmy Niko is. And it'll just get better (or worse, depending on your point of view) from there.
11-->'''Niko''': (After receiving and reading a text message from Dimitri showing a photograph of Roman bloodied and kidnapped) "'''[[UnstoppableRage You've crossed the line]] Dimitri."'''
12** To add to "Hostile Negotiation", if you call Dimitri after getting his text, Niko furiously tells him that he'll ''cut off his face and hang it on his wall'' to remind himself of what a "lying, cheating, treacherous scumbag" looks like. Noticeably, Dimitri [[DirtyCoward doesn't say anything in return.]]
13** Though A Revenger's Tragedy/Out of Commission tops that with Niko going through a small army of Mooks then using a boat/dirtbike to chase down Dimitri/Pegorino in their vehicle, before Little Jacob (and Roman) arrive in an attack helicopter and the chase ends on Happiness Island, where you dodge the cops and shoot the bad guys before full on attacking the big bad in one awesome manner.
14* May double as a "Funny" Crowner, but when Niko is captured, bound, and being threatened by a gun-toting maniac, he keeps his cool and manages to make wise-cracks. This ENDEARS HIM to his captor's boss!
15--> '''Faustin''': So, Niko Bellic. You think it's okay to kill my employees?
16--> '''Niko''': If he is an asshole, yes.
17-->''[Faustin turns to Andrei and shoots him in the head; Roman tries to scream through the gag]''
18-->'''Faustin''': ''I agree!''
19* Introducing the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-P8NKFrw7g Swingset Glitch]]. Whilst driving around Liberty City, take a detour and locate one of the city's many playparks - the one at Firefly Projects is the largest and most easy to access with a vehicle. Drive into it, and ram the swings as hard as you can. In a glitch that's ''never been fixed'' (perhaps intentionally, given the hilarity that can result) in over a decade since the game's release as of 2020, these swings will send you on a one-way ticket across the city, to your death, or ''both!''
20* "Blow Your Cover" has Niko, [[BadassBiker Johnny]] and Playboy X fight their way out of a sting staged by the LCPD. After Niko [[BlastOut blasts his way through the decrepit apartment building]] and across the roof with X, the duo flee the police and head for Algonquin. Finally, the largest borough in the game - previously only viewable from a distance with the bridges shut - is now available for you to explore.
21* "Museum Piece," the one mission in the entire IV Trilogy that all three characters, Niko, Johnny and [[BadassSpaniard Luis]] get together to work against each other, yet ruin the fuck out of the Jewish Mafia, some Italian gangsters and an entire museum filled with antiques. And it is ''awesome.'' Playing as Johnny in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheLostAndDamned The Lost and Damned]]'' and reaching the stairs where Niko has killed an abnormally large amount of mobsters at the foot of the staircase, he states this gem, essentially summarizing Niko:
22--> '''Johnny''': Damn. That's one dangerous Slavic fucker!
23* "A Dish Served Cold", which is the mission you get if you pick the Revenge option in "One Last Thing". There's something ''immensely'' satisfying about staging a one-man assault on the very ship that Niko arrived at Liberty City in, and eventually killing Dimitri within its bowels. Niko states it best: "I should have put you out of your misery a ''long'' time ago. Goodbye, Dimitri."
24* While it's a little less over-the-top than most of these examples, "The Holland Play" proves to be a very fulfilling mission should you choose to kill Playboy X. The look of fear on his face as you [[OneManArmy tear through his mooks]], chase him [[RoofHopping across the rooftops]], and finally gun him down in an alley is just as satisfying a reward as getting Playboy's apartment and access to Dwayne as a friend.
25* Killing Eddie Lowe and probably saving many innocent lives.

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