1. Kicking The Hornet's Nest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB6fk5MPkrk It just all comes together perfectly. Your character's decent into madness, his embracing of danger, his deepening into a world he can no longer escape from. You accept a mission to stir up trouble for rival factions which involves setting alight to a huge cannabis plantation with a flamethrower. You get tooled up and start the job, but the fumes start to trip you out. Enemies start flooding your position. Then, an immaculate interjection. A Damien Marley song starts to play. The perfect choice, placed in the perfect mission, designed to hype up the alpha male in you and relish in killing as much as your on-screen counterpart. A self aware critique of both itself and the clichés of modern gaming. And my God is it fun. Your move, Rockstar. Agree or disagree with this article? Let us know in the comments section.
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