Meddling with GTA 5's underwater mod was a titanic challenge – and probably something you shouldn’t do
Grand Theft Auto 5 on PC isn’t short on water modsm so turning Los Santos into a sunken metropolis should have been easy. But what I got instead was an aquatic, corpse-heavy nightmare that even James Cameron couldn’t capitalise on.
At the risk of sounding like an old-school Bond villain, I’ve long had an interest in flooding Grand Theft Auto 5’s world. Back when the PlayStation 3 was jailbroken, a good 10 years or so ago, modders discovered they could meddle with its workings.
I watched a YouTube video of just such a mod in action, with the sea level raised so high that only the tops of buildings were visible. It was an impressive and unsettling sight, reminiscent of some big-budget disaster movie. But, since I didn’t want to risk being banned from PlayStation Network, I never got around to experiencing the joys of soggy Los Santos.
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