Pass It On: Someone Recreated ‘Grand Theft Auto 2’ As A Live-Action Short Film

I used to play Grand Theft Auto 2 as a kid. Fast cars, theft and violence weren’t really my beat, but it was the only game my big brother had on his PC that didn’t involve long-term city planning, micromanagement and high stakes international diplomacy. My brother was not the most fun?

But GTA 2 was where my involvement with the franchise started and stopped; I was shocked when all the outrage pieces began circulating after the 2013 release of GTA5, in all its sex-worker-killing glory. Most of that shock was directed at the blatant misogyny, but there was a small part of me a bit disappointed that the game had replaced its uncomplicated bird’s-eye-view in favour of 3D graphics.

I pine for the simpler days. As, apparently, do the group of people who made this live action version of GTA 2: almost an exact replica of the game I used to play, except the car goes heaps slower, and there are far fewer groups of hare krishnas being violently squashed just for fun. (It’s possible I played this game incorrectly.)