Posted
by
Bob Mackey
Grand Theft Auto IV's DLC, the Lost and the Damned, is currently out on XBox Live, but I'm afraid that I don't plan on downloading it anytime soon. You see, the inevitable tedium that was included with the last third-or-so of GTA IV kind of put me off from spending any more time in this current gen's version of Liberty City--but that doesn't mean I still don't find high-speed chases, car crashes, and cartoonish, over-the-top violence to be entertaining. I am human, after all.
At one point I thought I was safe from these urges, but my own personal bloodlust for all things GTA-related was recently rekindled by the amazing Idle Thumbs Podcast with their brief promotion of a fan-made GTA IV video constructed using the editing tools of the PC version of the game. Titled "GTA IV Badassery," the compilation features a series of hilarious (and bloody) vignettes stitched together with some expert editing techniques pulled right from cinema itself. Watch it with someone you love.
Related Links:
Grand Theft Auto IV's Post-Game Purgatory
The 61FPS Review: Grand Theft Auto IV, Part 1
New GTA Game gets England's first 18 on the DS
About Bob Mackey
For a brief period of time I was Bull from TV's
Night Court, but some of you may know me from the humor column I wrote for Youngstown State University's
The Jambar, Kent State University's
The Stater, and Youngstown's alternative newspaper, The Walruss. I'm perhaps most well-known for my bi-weekly pieces on
Something Awful. I've also blogged for
Valley24.com and have written articles for EGM,
1UP,
GameSpite and
Cracked. For all of my writing over the years, I have made a total of twenty American dollars. It's also said that I draw cartoons, which people have described with words such as "legible." I kidnapped the Lindbergh Baby and am looking to do so again in the future.
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