Fans of the Fast and Furious franchise will now be delighted to know that a scene from the seventh movie has been recreated in the realm of Grand Theft Auto 5. Crossovers are common among video games and other media, and this fan-made scene is no exception. GTA has reached its quarter-century anniversary, showing that the enjoyment of the franchise has only grown over the years. One fan has chosen to combine two worlds that revolve around speeding cars and adrenaline-fueled scenarios.
A Grand Theft Auto 5 fan, 7BucksGaming, has taken the plane drop from Fast and Furious 7 and brought it into the GTA universe using Rockstar Editor, which is a feature for GTA 5 on PC. It allows players to effectively set up, record, edit, and then share what they've created, as it's both an editing tool and Director's Mode rolled into one. In this case, it's the scene from Fast and Furious 7, where the crew is dropped--vehicles and all--to the ground below.
The video starts off cinematically, showing the lineup of vehicles in the aircraft along with the drivers. The voice-overs and scenes from the film are imposed over the GTA recreation, giving it a little bit more depth, since the player characters are little more than single-emotion sims. The appearance of the bulldozer used to push Roman out of the plane is even more hilarious, possibly given the graphics and non-moving mouth of the player. This one-dimensional style of reaction can lead to even funnier results, such as when NPCs are utilized in Director's Mode.
The descent of the vehicles, the timing of the clips used from the movie, and even the way that the vehicles landed on the ground were all expertly edited together to create a video that was smooth and enjoyable to watch. Even the cloud glitch, where they were moving much faster than they would be in real life, provided an almost cinematic element to the video game rendition of the scene from Fast and Furious 7.
GTA has been crossed with a wide variety of other games and media, including the much more mild and slice-of-life style game Animal Crossing, and half the fun of being a fan of a game comes from looking forward to what the franchise will influence next. The video by 7BucksGaming was a fun and clever render of an action-packed moment, and hopefully, with Grand Theft Auto 6 in the works for 2024, there will be many more opportunities for crossovers.
Grand Theft Auto 5 is available on PC, PS3, PS4, PS5, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.