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The Back Page · August 22, 2025

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01:20:45 - 01:21:19

activities that you're doing you like the types of missions become a bit more high concept in it. It breaks form from GT from what you were doing in Los Santos a little bit more like the swimming mechanics come into it. You have some cool set pieces with like boats. I think there's a bit of air stuff in this. It's like you taking on aircraft in this section as well. And then yeah, there's like there's like some other use of stealth mechanics a little bit more as well. Yeah, and and then they bring in like the idea of you buying property and businesses a tiny bit more.

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... Matthew and unlock that. Did you do this mission? I did that and I bought Wang cars. Yeah, very good. Wonder wonder what sort of pun they were going for with that title very smart smart activities that you're doing you like the types of missions become a bit more high concept in it. It breaks form from GT from what you were doing in Los Santos a little bit more like the swimming mechanics come into it. You have some cool set pieces with like boats. I think there's a bit of air stuff in this. It's like you taking on aircraft in this section as well. And then yeah, there's like there's like some other use of stealth mechanics a little bit more as well. Yeah, and and then they bring in like the idea of you buying property and businesses a tiny bit more. I mentioned the zero stuffs here. That's quite undercooked as a mechanic like death. There are like three or four businesses. I think you get that earn you money if you've completed everything there, but like a hangover from Vice City, I ...

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01:20:52 - 01:22:26

of missions become a bit more high concept in it. It breaks form from GT from what you were doing in Los Santos a little bit more like the swimming mechanics come into it. You have some cool set pieces with like boats. I think there's a bit of air stuff in this. It's like you taking on aircraft in this section as well. And then yeah, there's like there's like some other use of stealth mechanics a little bit more as well. Yeah, and and then they bring in like the idea of you buying property and businesses a tiny…

01:42:35 - 01:43:09

parachute on but you you fly close enough to the plane to get into it and then you have a little gunfight and then you you suddenly have like a massive plane to control like a Boeing for the first time basically and you have to land that at the airport. This game does a lot of something outrageous happens in the air and you either get to land a cool plane afterwards or you get a very nice parachute descent over a pretty landscape. ...

01:37:08 - 01:38:11

that's there's even there's an even better version of it in Watch Dogs 2 as you might expect. I quite like that mission Matthew and then I think I have to just call out obviously the the mission vertical bird where you steal the jet off the aircraft carrier for Torino. I'm jumping ahead here if you have more. It's interesting. I I've got vertical bird in my did not like mission list. Oh, okay. Well, we okay. Interesting. So I guess we could talk about that. But what do you like about it? Well, I don't I think…

01:23:39 - 01:24:19

the Watch Dogs 2 map. So that's basically you should have done their own version of Skywalker Ranch is what I'm saying because that's where that's what that is. But then yeah, you go the desert I think is is that is very exciting because of the aircraft stuff like you say and also the fact that it's got its own slightly weird feel out there like this at abandoned film set area 69 is comically located between the airstrip and last century. So you'll inevitably end up flying over it by accident and getting shot at…

00:50:57 - 00:51:29

our very poor house. It's like is he's not interested in the fact that like you can have a better life. He just wants to have the life. He's got right there and meanwhile. Yeah, like yeah, I've just got I got Mike Torino said I could keep this jet that I stole from a aircraft carrier like if he had had a proper conversation about all the things that you've been up to it was it seems so preposterous, but his brothers is not interested. ...

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