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9. Three Leaf Clover - Grand Theft Auto IV

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When it comes to great Hollywood actions scenes you don’t get much more influential than the seminal bank heist from 1995’s crime drama Heat. As such it was always going to be given the gaming treatment, and when it was, could only ever appear in Grand Theft Auto.

Finding himself part of a heist gone wrong, protagonist Niko Bellic and crew emerge from the bank into a blue wall of police and only one choice – light everything up, or go to prison.

This is where Three Leaf Clover goes full Heat. With Niko and co dressed in suits and balaclavas with duffle bags slung over their shoulders and assault rifles in hand, the game winks in your direction and says: right, you’ve seen this movie; you know what to do next.

What follows is a masterclass in mayhem as you engage in a pitched running battle through streets, alleys, even subways, against a relentless storm of police reinforcements not the least of which includes a lead-spewing helicopter gunship.

Hugely entertaining and incredibly cinematic it would prove every bit as influential as the film, leading to a raft of heists in GTA V and fully earning its place in gaming history as the classic GTA mission.

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