Which Grand Theft Auto game features the protagonist Claude?

Grand Theft Auto III features Claude as its protagonist. The game follows him through Liberty City after his girlfriend Catalina betrays him during a bank robbery and leaves him for dead.

Claude is a silent protagonist, meaning he never speaks during the game. This was an intentional design choice that lets players project themselves onto him while contrasting him with the talkative criminals, gang leaders, and corrupt officials around him.

A common mix-up is Claude’s connection to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. That game reveals his name and shows him as Catalina’s boyfriend before the events of Grand Theft Auto III, but Claude is the playable protagonist of Grand Theft Auto III, not San Andreas. GTA III, released in 2001, was also the series’ first fully 3D entry.