Little by little the fiesta de Halloween has been gaining ground outside the United States. A celebration full of scares, small heart attacks and a great desire to explore the unknown. Of course, Rockstar is no stranger to the holiday and has prepared a feast of surprises for GTA Online.
So, this week it was time to take a walk around Los Santos to see exactly what the developer has prepared. Far from being an anecdote, the truth is that the company has rolled up its sleeves and has offered a good variety of tricks and treats around the city.
Welcome to Halloween
To the saga of GTA she can be known for being naughty, rude and the reason our parents were shocked to see us play, but she is also known for her countless amount of collectibles. In a riot of originality, every street and corner on the map is now decorated with a pumpkin.
Up to 200, which is a traumatic memory of the pigeons from GTA IV, but luckily here it comes with getting 10 for my purpose: to get a pumpkin mask. I won’t be in The Diamond Casino style, but it will be on my head until Halloween says goodbye.
The search began in Grove Street and the truth is that the cucurbits are considered very funny. Quiet, undaunted and with a malevolent smile that already anticipates what is going to happen. Sure enough, I go flying through the air, they catch me on fire or they make me drive absolutely drunk. But beware, it is a risk to heads or tails.
The other side of the coin is that he gets $2,750, 1,000 RP… you know, the typical trick-or-treat thing that kids say on doorsteps begging for candy. I don’t get a single treat, but the $50,000 reward is fine. The other 190? Let Lester go get them.
What I have gone for is to take photos, but with a really special purpose. And it is that the UFO sightings in GTA Online in recent days they have been constant and I have wanted to document them at all costs. Especially when for each of them I take 15,000 dollars to the sack.
I get a tip that I can find one of them at dawn in Blaine County, but the failure is maximum. I get cold on top of a hill at night and I am forced to leave, although on the way home I see something in the distance. Yes, an unidentified flying object is flying over the Palmer Tayfor power station with malicious intentions.
Creepy, creepy and irresistible at the same time, I manage to capture a snapshot that I immediately send to Omega. He is very happy to be able to prove the existence of these vehicles and I am very happy to meet him, because it doesn’t even ring a bell. I try to get a little closer with my GB 200, but the car suddenly shuts off and a flash in the sky causes the ufo to disappear. As she was, she left.
References, references everywhere
At this point I returned to my usual chores. You know, steal cars, extort money and be a complete asshole. I was picking the lock on a car that Moodyman needs when a force of nature ran over me hopelessly. A gigantic tanker truck, typical of Arena War, charging like a fighting bull in the middle of the square.
And he does it with rage, with a viciousness that I do not expect and that I am not sure where it comes from. How could it be otherwise, I respond with bombings, shots and throwing a keychain if necessary. Nothing, intact and without a scratch. Do you know the best of everything? That Steven Spielberg is the one driving such a monstrosityor at least he gave rise to such a mechanical monstrosity.
And it is that Rockstar has decided to populate by these dates GTA Online of references and this is one of the best. The truck is nothing more and nothing less than the one in the movie Duel (better known as The Devil on Wheels in Europe), directed by the American director. In fact, it is his second feature film, back in 1971 with Dennis Weaver trying to survive a crazy man on wheels who harasses him. In this case, the hit can be caused by stealing one of the cars for Moodyman that are on the map.
Do not go yet because there is still a good ration of references. And now it is the turn of the maestro del terror, Stephen King. The legendary writer of novels also has a small participation of him on wheels and those of you who are fans of him will surely know what I mean.
That’s right, the fearsome 1958 Plymouth Fury that goes by the name of Christine He also wants to go over our necks. In this case, in GTA Online A driverless Declasse Tornado will spawn and burst into flames before charging at us. This is how it happened in the 1983 movie and this is how we will suffer it in our flesh at night in any area of the game.
In this case we can anticipate misfortune, but what would you do against it? Jason Vorhees, Freddy Krueger o Pennywise? Frankly, I would take the ones from Villadiego. It is impossible to fight against three of the greatest murderers in the history of celluloid and the worst thing is that they appear without eating or drinking it.
It is enough that we are trying to park without scratching the car that one of them will take us by surprise to mercilessly skewer us. It is true that his appearance is not the same as what we have seen in the movies of Friday the 13th, Nightmare in Elm street o Itbut it’s pretty clear that these ghoulish NPCs are referencing the iconic villains.
Still missing the final chapter of Halloween in GTA Online and the worst thing is that it turns out that you are the main enemy. The Doppelgänger, that is, the evil twin that we have, will be the last obstacle to overcome, but the bad thing is that he knows all our movements.
There is a 50% chance that this being from hell will replace one of the movie killers and will repeat every step we take. Every time we move, he will get closer, so it will be inevitable to enter into battle against him. Be careful, he’s tough on the nose and won’t fall from a simple bullet to the head. What does all this remind us of? That is, to Usthe sinister film by Jordan Peele.
The truth is that it is these details that transform new content into something much more special. If Rockstar had only decided to place three bats, rotten pumpkins and joke ghosts for Los Santos, I would never have dared to see Duel once and for all.
