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|Mod a car and race with Lawrence against other racers in the town.

|First race.

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|Coax out the farmer by blowing up his cows with dynamite. Knock out the farmer and take him back to the garage.

|The farmer is taken hostage.

|Gavin experiences life on a farm.

|'''Ollie 3'''

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'''Brain in a Vat'''

|Make your way through Peter's simulated reality tests.

|'''Phasma in Machina'''

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|meh

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=Radio Stations=

DJ: Murphy "Sixgun" Fonda

'''Eric Clapton - Cocaine''' (1977)<br>

'''ZZ Top - La Grange''' (1973)<br>

'''Blondie - Call Me''' (1980)<br>

'''Ram Jam - Black Betty''' (1977)<br>

'''Bad Company - Bad Company''' (1974)<br>

'''The Stone Roses - Love Spreads''' (1994)<br>

'''Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain Way''' (1973)<br>

'''Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky''' (1969)<br>

'''AC/DC - Highway to Hell''' (1979)<br>

'''The Allman Brothers Band - Midnight Rider''' (1970)<br>

'''Lynyrd Skynyrd - Call Me The Breeze''' (1974)<br>

The station plays in several locations in the game, notably in a few bars.

'''Sonique - It Feels So Good'''<br>

'''Madison Avenue - Don't Call Me Baby'''<br>

'''September - Cry For You'''<br>

==Black Hills Broadcasting==

'''Nirvana - Lounge Act''' (1992)<br>

'''Wasted Youth - Blind Nuns''' (1986)<br>

Acropolis Radio is a skater rock/punk station, broadcast from the middle-class neighborhoods of New Gaspard. The station is hosted/DJ'd by Matt Slumdog, a young white man that detests the city government and supports the rebellion. The setlist is mostly comprised of hardcore punk/skate punk songs, however high-energy alternative songs are also in the mix that give a similar vibe to the punk tracks.  

"Acropolis" is a Greek term that literally means "city on the extremity". In other words, "Extreme City Radio".

==Summit Records==

'''Yo-Yo - Ain't Nobody Better''' (1991)<br>

'''Naughty by Nature - Hip Hop Hooray'''(1993)<br>

'''House of Pain - Put Your Head Out''' (1992)<br>

'''The Brand New Heavies - Jump N' Move''' (1992)<br>

'''A Tribe Called Quest - Same Ol' Thing''' (1997)<br>

'''Gang Starr - Full Clip''' (1999)<br>

'''YZ - Thinking of a Master Plan''' (1990)<br>

'''Pete Rock & CL Smooth - They Reminisce Over You''' (1992)<br>

'''EPMD - So Wat Cha Sayin'''' (1989)<br>

'''Nas - It Ain't Hard to Tell''' (after listening to some more Nas tracks, I've realized this was a pretty random choice to choose from this amazing artist. I'll be trying to decide which Nas song to use while this song will remain as a filler)<br>

'''Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats''' (1997)<br>

'''Moby - Bodyrock''' (1999)<br>

Fluorescence Radio is an electronic radio station broadcast from the New Gaspard underbelly. You will notice that some songs were originally from Radio Looper, however were moved here since those songs are not industrial tracks, and as I came to that realization I toyed with the idea of making a separate station for them yet was afraid to make another electronic station. But hey I've got 3 rock stations so why the hell not.

DJ: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_Rodgers Nile Rodgers]

'''Parliament - Rumpofsteelskin''' (1978)<br>

'''KC & the Sunshine Band - Keep it Comin' Love''' (1977)<br>

'''Brick - Dazz''' (1976)<br>

'''Chic - Soup for One''' (1982)<br>

'''The S.O.S. Band - Take Your Time (Do It Right)''' (1980)<br>

'''D-Train - Keep On''' (1982)<br>

'''Edwin Starr - War''' (1970)<br>

The Mirror Ball is a funk and disco station. What else is there to say.

Sand Sounds is a station specializing in traditional Arabic music, whether vocal or instrumental. The songs evoke the feeling of being in an Arabic setting, and the station was started and DJ'd by Raviv Shajid.

Station HQ: Unknown<br>

DJs: '''Beehive Nebbsy''', a man that speaks in a faux accent to hide his identity on the air.

=Tool: The Unwritten Hitlist=

*Malcolm becomes involved with the NG skate punks, which are not very associated with the west-central gangs. Calvin sees Malcolm's involvement in a negative light.

=Vehicles=

A The Doors song<br>

A The Who song<br>

"Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits (LSRR)<br>

A Cheap Trick song (maybe Dream Police or Surrender... maybe...)<br>

[http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/rapidcityjournal.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/8/d1/8d15033d-cb16-597e-89cf-73b99a4d8d18/4fc58a7ca2137.preview-620.jpg 7]

==Random Info on the Game==

*[http://i1243.photobucket.com/albums/gg550/otteni521/Leray1_zps04646696.jpg Half of the game summed up in one photo]. Credit goes to Quartermaine of Cracked Forums.

==GTA Gripes==

*The physics have been severely toned down since IV, which is annoying as fuck. The funnest thing to do in IV was either run people over or bail out of vehicles, both of which are no longer fun in V due to the physics being nerfed. Characters just have their ass dragged across the ground in a very unsatisfying and hideous fashion. I don't give a damn if this was to appease all those whiny individuals that complained about the physics being too overwhelming, it was realistic as fuck (in a good way).  

*The open world: Oh god.. fuck... Let's go at this one problem at a time.

**Let me start off with this copy-paste from GTA V's Wikipedia page: "They [the development team] wanted to a create a large world without open, empty spaces. The team focused on condensing the countryside of Southern California into a diverse and detailed playing space." While they had partially succeeded, I was beyond shocked to see the dozen mountains in the game to be completely devoid of anything save a shrub or two a couple hundred feet apart. Mt. Josiah and Mt. Chiliad in particular are completely devoid of anything interesting at all, not even interesting natural scenery which I would love. Ironically the canyon that is formed by these two shit piles is beyond beautiful, it almost makes it seem like a level in a linear video game and that the mountains are just low-resolution scenery that were never meant to be accessed by the player. Mt. Gordo and the rest of the eastern mountains, along with a few parts of the central mountains dividing the counties and the southern part of the Tongva Hills are also not innocent of this crime.

**The wilderness in general was just plain awful, barren, mostly flat, and very grid-like (normally in an open world game the game world transitions from one area to another in a very smooth fashion, but no, hardly in this game) as well as not making sense most of the time (especially the desert, damn it felt so artificial).

**Now we go into the city... What makes me choose IV over V is that in V the streets are wider, which makes it have A) less roads and B) streets too wide to have fun running around on foot through. This also made the streets uninteresting and unappealing and made me simply zoom from one destination to the next without even stopping to looking at the city scenery (if there was any). I guess the wide streets made driving easier to do (ironically since the wide streets made there no reason to look around at the city).

**Concerning the decision to have the entire map available to the player from the get go... has many problems. First off, any sense of achievement that you would have gotten had the game world needed to be unlocked a piece at a time is nonexistent ("Hey, I just went through all this crap and being able to explore this new territory is a huge part of my reward"), not to mention the fact that having the whole game world to roam around is a tad bit overwhelming that I A) didn't know where to start and B) possibly missed out on a lot of little areas due to going back and forth across the map without taking time to stop and look around (it's like working on a huge puzzle only you find yourself trying to make as many "chunks" as possible without even considering building on [http://addhumorandfaith.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/p1140110.jpg chunks] you've already started). It was simply a lack of interest in it since it was just handed to me on a silver platter, especially considering it was so massive. RDR and IV did a great job on easing us into each territory, and they did a good job at creating barriers to prevent us from venturing too far from the initial playing field, I'm sure Rockstar could've done it again somehow with this world. Plus it really destroyed the narrative seeing that you could make Michael drive up to Trevor's trailer and just assume they would be oblivious of each other. And as to why Franklin would even drive into the open countryside is also boggling.  

**It may have been larger than previous Rockstar games (LA Noire does not count, as I don't consider it an open world game), however all of the above statements simply made it feel like the smallest.  

*And now for the 3 protagonists

**Rockstar decided to have 3 protagonists after the huge reception critics had to the 3 protagonists of the Liberty City era (GTA IV), however what they failed to realize (it's just mind-boggling, really) is that what made GTA IV/LAD/BoGT work is that the protagonists rarely interact with and hardly know each other, their actions hardly seem to be affecting other stories happening throughout the game, and the player feels more in tune with their current character due to the long loading time it would take to switch characters, preventing them from doing so and playing as Niko or Johnny or Luis for longer periods of time, actually associating with them more and actually feeling like you're playing an entirely different game. GTA V got rid of many of those "a-ha" moments that came from playing IV fully and then learning more about the story by playing the expansions.

More to come. I don't know whether to hope more does or doesn't come.

Every one of these gripes will be fixed/addressed in Tool, I'll write how later (or just use your imagination to figure out how).

=Development=

Update: Due to my uninspiring grades, I am no longer attending that university.

==Tool Development==

*How real life is not black and white (morally), and how things make sense when seen from someone else's point of view.

*How one must sacrifice their insecurities and mature in order to help another do the same. In this case, Gavin must conquer his timidness and inferiority in order to provide Izzy Tipton with a good role model he can look up to. Izzy's presence and his discontent with life is a great factor in Gavin's evolving personality throughout the story. Gavin sees parts of himself in Izzy, which makes Gavin sympathize with the kid and gives him a reason to change.

=Other Projects=

===Tool 2===

Taking place a month after Tool, this sequel is set in the central Kabinxa (Texas) area. The game world extends from the city of San Fernando (San Antonio) in the southwest to Phelps (Austin) in the northeast, with shitloads of locales in between. After the war, large dome networks were constructed around the majority of the cities (similar to the one around New Gaspard), which allowed people to continue living in both cities, and technical and cyberpunky advancements were made within the cities over the years (which means that the lower areas of the cities will be based on the modern buildings of the cities). The game protagonist lives in the small town of San Leon (San Marcos, Texas), situated halfway between both cities. The story unfolds as an alleged attack on San Fernando by Phelps destroys the dome protecting the city, causing the city to succumb to the outside atmosphere and sending the city into turmoil. San Fernando begins blaming Phelps for the attack and begins retaliating, sending troops towards the city. War broke out in 2086, with the small San Leon caught in the middle. Set 6 years after the break out, our protagonist ends up moving to the ever-increasing crowded city of Phelps to escape the shit going on outside, but obviously even more shit happens within the walls. I've toyed with this idea since probably a month after conceiving Tool.<br><br>