Should you’ve performed Rockstar’s iconic PS2-era open-world crime simulator Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, you seemingly know concerning the infamously terrible practice mission. Hell, even should you haven’t performed the sport that mission has grow to be common on-line as a meme. And now somebody has created a video exhibiting it play out from the practice’s perspective, and offered it (oddly sufficient) as an episode of Thomas & Mates, full with that present’s official narrator.
Launched in 2004, GTA: San Andreas was some of the profitable PlayStation 2 video games of all time and continues to be common in the present day. Developed by Rockstar North, San Andreas expanded the burgeoning GTA system to a fuller state and added extra autos, weapons, missions, and aspect actions than in any earlier installment. Many followers cite it as the only finest entry within the collection. It’s additionally a mature sport, with plenty of swearing, killing, and drug use. GTA shouldn’t be the sort of collection you’ll count on to cross paths with Thomas & Mates, the long-running UK-made collection for youths. However that’s what occurred in a brand new, definitively not official parody of each the present and the favored sport.
The video was created by Hat-Loving Gamer and uploaded on March 21. In it, we see the practice’s perspective throughout the worst Grand Theft Auto mission ever created. It’s a brief however very well-made parody that appears to have flown beneath the radar. That’s a disgrace as a result of their creation isn’t simply humorous, but additionally actually top quality. Should you advised me this was some odd advertising and marketing factor between Rockstar and Thomas & Mates, I’d be confused, however I’d imagine it. This parody is that good!
What actually helps promote this factor is the narration, which is dealt with by actor Mark Moraghan, who’s finest referred to as the final narrator of the Thomas & Mates present from 2013 till its cancellation in 2019. (Ringo Starr used to relate the present when it first aired in 1984.)
Between that genuine narration and the toy-like look of the trains and folks, this parody feels just like the weirdest episode of Thomas & Mates ever made.
Hat-Loving Gamer advised Kotaku that it took about three to 4 months to create the parody, and that it was an “outdated concept” he’d been fascinated by for some time as a fan of Thomas & Mates. The notorious practice mission in GTA: San Andreas appeared like the proper match.
As for a way Moraghan acquired concerned, it’s fairly easy: Hat-Loving Gamer reached out to the actor by way of his private web site. He defined that the Thomas narrator was “nice” to work with and that Moraghan ended up recording extra audio with the content material creator after this preliminary video look. That audio will seem in future movies much like this GTA parody however based mostly on well-known film scenes that includes trains, with Moraghan narrating similarly. I love it when a plan comes collectively.
Replace 5/01/2023 6:02 p.m. ET: Added particulars about how the collaboration got here to be.
