Franklin's car is tossed about like an empty crisp packet in a hurricane, and it's only through a last minute leap from the driver's seat that he isn't blown up.Īrmageddon dies down as quickly as it had started, while Franklin commandeers another car. It looks like Franklin's career as a hitman will be short-lived, when the helicopter is obliterated by the next effect-doomsday. The Chaos Mod first uses its newfound power to deploy a helicopter to attack Franklin while he races to the first target. So I head into the Chaos Mod's settings and reduce the interval between effects from five minutes to thirty seconds. This seems like prime Chaos Mod territory, but on the current settings, I'll only see one or two effects within those eight minutes, while there's a good chance I'll have seen them before. In the mission, Franklin has to assassinate four jurors involved in a case with Redwood Cigarettes. While he waits around for Michael to put together another heist, Franklin has taken up a spot of hired murder for the group's fixer Lester. I'm beginning to fear the Chaos Mod is running out of steam. But it's an island of daftness in an ocean of either uninteresting effects or stuff I've seen before. Not only does the cutscene continue, with Franklin now arguing with three corpses, but both the fire-brigade and the ambulance service turn up, bumbling through the cutscene like stage technicians who forgot to wear black. It's still capable of delivering absurd scenarios, highlighted by a cutscene outside Franklin's home where the house suddenly explodes, instantly killing Franklin's Aunt, his friend Lamar, and his dog. There's still much of the Chaos Mod I haven't seen, but because the effects are random, with every new one I see, the chance of the next being a repeat increases. But it passes without incident, as do the next few missions. I look forward to seeing how the Chaos Mod is going to improve/ruin it. The Lollipop Guild tasks Michael with a mission to extract an informant from his interrogation by the IAA. But it transpires the Chaos Mod has shrunk all the NPCs in the game, demonstrated by a hilarious meeting between Michael, Dave Norton, and two other FIB agents, who trade insults and cutting remarks with one another in Munchkin voices. Initially I mistake it for part of the sequence, as Michael rides an inexplicably massive bicycle home. When Michael returns to Earth, not only has Jimmy stolen his car, but Michael is also half his normal size. Sampling their purchase together, the mandatory 'trip sequence' ensues, with Michael flying in his underwear over a rainbow-coloured Los Santos. "Eat my ass!" growls a woman as Michael assumes the plank, his calming exercises now accompanied by the sound of distant explosions.Īfter the world's least relaxing yoga session, Michael accompanies his son Jimmy to buy drugs. "Why don't you blow me?" spits a scarfed ginger fellow as Michael attempts the 'Dancer'. "You fucking shit!" a man yells as Michael's struggles with the 'Warrior II' pose. I'm not entirely sure what it does, but the result is that both Amanda and Fabien run off, while a bunch of random NPCs wander into Michael's back yard and begin hurling profanities at him. Luckily, the Chaos Mod comes to the rescue. But no, Michael failing at yoga also fails the mission, because GTA 5 is so obsessed with its own narrative grandeur it leaves no room for player agency. It would be entirely in-character for Michael to be rubbish at yoga because he's an overweight late-40s layabout. The yoga mission is one of the worst examples of GTA 5's restrictive attitude toward progression. But a confrontation with his wife leads him into an impromptu yoga session with Amanda and her guru Fabien. Returning home, Michael treats himself to some well-earned TV time.
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