With Rockstar Games supportingGrand Theft Auto Onlinewith 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 theLos 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 toMario Kart.
One of the new additions in the update was the LS Car Meet, a facility designed specially for all gearhead players ofGrand 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 abrand 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 Kartstyle.
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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 byMario Kart. At the beginning of the clip, players were dressed up as various equivalents that could be compared to theplayable roster ofMario 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 theMario Kartfranchise, players were racing in either go-karts or motorbikes.
What ensued was a bit of chaos, as players have come to expect fromMario KartandGrand 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 theMario Kartseries is also quite appropriate, considering the racetrack’s underground nature and the sight of players flipping over.
This isn’t the first time that creativeMariofans paid homage to the game withinGrand Theft Auto. Players on theGTAroleplaying servers had to fight off an invadingWario whose antics caused chaos in Los Santosnot too long ago.
Grand Theft Auto Onlineis out now for PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One, with PS5 and Xbox Series X versions also in development.
