You know, one of my favorite Youtubers is Video Game Dunkey. His humor is a little crass, but absurd, sudden twists in tone. His comedy cannot be replicated. For example, in his Grand Theft Auto V video, he swerves onto the streets of the game's Free Play mode annoucing that "He is the real police ... stand still so I can shoot you in the face!" When one of the AI pedestrians reacts to that just as well as you'd think, Dunkey responds in a more serious tone "Suspect is fleeing.. I will pursue him in the Bumblebee car .. and run him over, cause that's funny." When he finally apprehends his quarry (using the weight of his car) he drawls cooly. Looks like crime does pay- with getting shot!" as a jazzy police theme plays.

Seeing videos like this reminded me how fun anarchic choas of sandbox games like GTA V can be, so I booted up my old copy of the game and gather my younger brothers ( I can't play video games I watch them instead) and we got ready to unleash hell upon Los Saintos once more.

There are three characters you can play as in the game (a former white collar criminal, a middle class everyman, and a meth addicted psychopath). We played as the later as neither the former criminal, who now owns a mansion in a gated community, nor the calm and collected man who cooly tries to escape the cylce of crime he's stumbled into have any movation to, say steal private jets and fly them into the ocean for laughs.

GTA has often been criticized for being too realistic in its violence, but I disagree. NPCs fall like a ton of bricks and flail around like rag dolls when they are hit. The whole affair looks more like a cartoon than a crime drama. It is this slapsticky violence that makes playing the game that my younger brothers made up: "Friend ", so much fun.

How do you play "Friend"? I'm glad you asked! You stroll around the pier and beach untill you find a pedestrian that looks like a friendly friend! You then chase your new friend agressively with shouts of "Friend! Hey friend!", untill you catch up with them. Finally, greet them with a hard left hook to the face, as new friends do!

There are other equally absurd shaningans we get into in GTA. Whether it be mowing fire hydradents, street lights and passersby down with a the speedy, but difficult to control, sports motorcyle or breaking into a milltary base with a fire truck and spraying incoming cars with high pressure hoses. Messing around in GTA V with my brothers is great fun, maybe even a bonding moment.