With Rockstar Games supporting Grand Theft Auto Online with new content, fans have been finding more and more creative ways to play with what's available. The latest addition to the online mode is the Los Santos Tuners Update, featuring a brand new club for players to put the pedal to the metal, showing off their hot new rides. Some creative players of the online mode have used some of the additions from this update to recreate a race that is an homage to Mario Kart.
One of the new additions in the update was the LS Car Meet, a facility designed specially for all gearhead players of Grand Theft Auto Online. This allows for players to decorate their cars in a place that won't be attacked by others. This place also lets players purchase a brand new set of cars. Not only that, a brand new underground racetrack was added as well. This allows a set of players to race it out, Mario Kart style.
On the r/gtaonline subreddit, a Reddit user by the name of iosgamer2day uploaded a clip of them and a group of other players participating in a go-kart race that was inspired by Mario Kart. At the beginning of the clip, players were dressed up as various equivalents that could be compared to the playable roster of Mario Kart. This includes the original poster dressing up as Mario himself, another player dressed as Bowser, and one other dressed as Princess Peach. Much like some of the latest entries in the Mario Kart franchise, players were racing in either go-karts or motorbikes.
What ensued was a bit of chaos, as players have come to expect from Mario Kart and Grand Theft Auto Online. Players are frantically trying to overtake one another, though without the randomized item boxes like banana peels or green shells that are used to disrupt their competition. The usage of the Coconut Mall track from the Mario Kart series is also quite appropriate, considering the racetrack's underground nature and the sight of players flipping over.
This isn't the first time that creative Mario fans paid homage to the game within Grand Theft Auto. Players on the GTA roleplaying servers had to fight off an invading Wario whose antics caused chaos in Los Santos not too long ago.
Grand Theft Auto Online is out now for PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One, with PS5 and Xbox Series X versions also in development.