I feel like people who played the Ballad of Gay Tony DLC for GTA IVÂ know what is in store for them in GTA V. They tightened the targeting system. They improved the graphics. They have characters that are more flushed out and actually enjoyable to spend time with, and they even improved sky diving and figured out ways to implement it into missions more organically. Listen, sky diving in any form is fun, but it is a whole lot less pants-shitting when you do it in a game. So if they feel like they get the mechanic right, which they did with Gay Tony, it is a f**king blast. And with a name like Dropping In, you knew some key sky diving was set to happen in this mission, and it did.
This mission was great for three things. Three simple things, yet they were so epic that you never forget them. You sky dive from a chopper onto the roof the building of the person you need to kill. You kill him by tossing his ass out a window, 20 stories up. Then you jump out of a fu**ing window and parachute down to the flatbed of a truck. BAM, in and out, Bond-style. That scene is so exciting, you almost want to re-read that paragraph, 2 or 3 times, just to experience it again, and that is exactly what the level itself is like. Like I said before, Hollywood could learn from this shit.
It was SUCH a good mission, it actually made me sad that a good number of GTA fans missed out on this DLC thinking it was the same old thing, because it was pretty clear Gay Tony is them fine-tuning some ideas for GTA V, which has me even more pumped to play the game.
Published: Sep 19, 2013 01:33 pm