Give this compilation video a few minutes to warm up and get past the credits. Or, if you’re impatient, skip to 1:21. From then on in, these guys aren’t even playing Grand Theft Auto any more. They’re playing something else.
Because, well, that’s what you do in Grand Theft Auto IV. You wreck cars.
During the mid-1990s, I spent my summers in L.A. I was still in high school and answering phones at a film agency on Wilshire. And in the mid-1990s, super producer Don Simpson ruled Hollywood. Everyone in the movie business had a Don Simpson story. Along with Jerry Bruckheimer, Simpson was the force behind high-concept hits like Top Gun and Bad Boys, was notorious for his excesses — the hookers, the drug use, and the outbursts. Brash and outspoken, he was a Hollywood rockstar. And, according to an unauthorised account about the makers of Grand Theft Auto, he was Sam Houser’s hero.
We’ve shown you how today’s 10th anniversary edition of Grand Theft Auto III runs on an iPad. But we haven’t been able to listen to all that much it. So we turned to Rockstar Games today and asked them if the iconic soundtrack of the original 2001 GTA III was in the new game.
Drawing on familiar media representations and cultural histories for the sake of building a female gangster actually seems pretty difficult.
There’s a theory, spun by Grand Theft Auto super-fans, that an actor named Ned Luke is the man behind the gravelly voice we heard in the debut trailer for Grand Theft Auto V.
Squint at the Grand Theft Auto V trailer closely and you might puck up some interesting details. We did. Flip through a gallery of stills from the trailer to see what we spotted.
So, the day is upon us where we’ll finally get the first glimpse of the next entry in the storied Grand Theft Auto series. It’s been more than four long years and, since then, the bittersweet saga of Niko Bellic has become a fond, distant memory for most gamers. Still, the trailer that introduced the immigrant hero hit like a lightning bolt in 2007 and, here at Kotaku, we thought it’d be worthwhile to look back at how Rockstar introduced the world to Niko Bellic.
There’s absolutely no way that the link that’s at the end of this post is safe for work unless you work at a pornography factory, but if you’d like to see what a XXX parody of Grand Theft Auto looks like, you’ll find it at Fleshbot [NSFW] .
