Interlocked

[Ostits]

Ostis Biggest Bigass Review on GTAstunting - Interlocked
Edited by Tackleberry
Stunts by: The GTAS community

Game: GTA Vice City

Edited in: Vegas

Before the review:
I would really like to say congratulations on all who have been working with this video, it is a real community effort. Just the fact that we have 39 stunters in this video makes it great. It is truly something that can be called "A Big One", and I hope that the community videos will continue in this way. Again, great work.

Ok, lets get started with the review. This video was started in the end of october and the beginning of november 2006. Urban Legend was the one who took intiative to start a new community vid, and the idea grew big, as these ideas tend to do. Tackleberry was voted to edit the video, which was a very smart move. Tackleberry is an editor who not only makes the video beautiful, he gives it the feeling. This video definetly had feeling, from the beginning of the intro. Everything was actually taken care of really nicely, even with some people using stunts for other videos, which allways harm a video a little. Finally, the video was released now in January, making it the first community video of 2007. This gives hope for stunting 2007, even if we have a long way to go still. I still hope that we can bring this kind of videos out during this year, and that many new stunters will come from it. Now, onto some more detailed toughts.

The Intro:
I must say, this intro is perhaps the best Ive ever seen. It is so much like a movie its scary. The music was taken from the soundtrack of "The Island", interestingly enough this soundtrack was also used in the intro of Connected. This gives a feeling of continuation from that, and perhaps it is. The scripting of the players to stand in line with the Interlocked symbol was just brilliant. This fine scripting was done by Neo Andersson, member of ATS. He definetly is one of the top scripters, and this was just brilliantly made. Props for both Tackleberry and Neo for making this beautiful intro.

The Main Part:
The thing I usually expect especially from a community video is the music. The music is something that the whole community have had a chance to search for, and give in, which often means that it is something truly special. This time I have to admit it got me down a little, but the song has started to grow on me after a few times of watching. It definetly had that building up feeling, meaning that it certainly was suitable for a community vid after all. The video color corrections made VC and LC look beautiful, and gave the whole thing a certain look which fit the whole video like a glove.

Graphics:
Well as I said I would go into detail about pretty much everything. The graphic masters of GTAS have been working on this video, and did very well indeed. The border wasn't that much special, but that is not a bad thing. If we compare this border with for example the border of Amped 2, we can see that Amped 2 had a much more detailed one, while this was pretty plain. But these videos also vary pretty much, and I think that Tac ultimately gave this video the right border if we think about the feeling of the video. I would have hated the Amped 2 border in this one, but the border here gave the right feeling together with the colors of the clips. Also the way of using the new logo of GTAS was a great kick in the right direction of showing the 2007 look of GTAS. The Interlocked logo was very cool, I love how it was used and in the intro it was just awesome. The logo of Interlocked was made by Misguided Angel, who hasn't been active but still making the community effort. Great work.

Stunts:
Here I usually list every stunter and my toughts on them, but thats not gonna happen now. I can't say anyone stood out either, I just have to say that everyone definetly had good stunts. It was not like the stunts were just thrown in, it was carefully picked out and everyone got their say. I can't really say that much more about them in general, so lets just take them 1 by 1, shall we?

Stunts in detail:
The beginning gave me a feeling of that it was gonna explode soon, and sure enough didn't it.
02:02 - Kaneda - A great way to start the video, lovely grind. Also, the 2nd view looks so smooth it made the whole stunt look better.
02:15 - Question - High faggio p2b, I liked it.
02:22 - Sweet - I have such a feeling Ive seen this before, but it's propably just imagination. Nicely going.
02:32 - Slim - A stylish busstoppie, those grinds get used pretty much these days.
02:41 - Iskanderrrr - This really left my mouth open. The way you flew up there was something I never would have expected, I didn't even think that roof was landable in the first place! And the cork was just eyecandy, really nice.
02:50 - Finallight - A stylish p2b, nothing more to say.
02:54 - Brulla - Ambulance stunting? You really are crazy my finnish friend.
03:00 - Haywire - I love these kind of stunts, really nice.
03:06 - PlethZorb - It was cool, I still can't believe the difference between Freeway stunting in VC and SA.
03:13 - Surfacing - Definetly something original, was a goodn.
03:21 - AD - A really nice tankbump, the buildings in LC are allways cool to see landed.
03:26 - NuclearDeath - Now this is also outside the box, I like how you did it.
03:33 - Nagual - A normal taxi slide is getting boring, but you just gotta love these flip2slides that are coming along. Great job!
03:40 - CDarmy - Really nice lenght and height, the cam angle made it look lovely to the max!
03:47 - Morbidxxx - Really nice angle, a good BSM indeed.
03:54 - Antisign - Maybe not the highest bsm in this, but it was still nice. Good going man.
04:00 - Daffy - Now here is where the music really kicks in and gives that building up feeling, the pan crop made the cinematic and normal clip transition look great and the stunt was cool indeed. Great.
04:15 - Dannye - Believe it or not, I had this idea back one time that I accidentally opened VC. You seem to take my stunts pretty often, got a cam here or what?
04:25 - Luky - High rhinobump, the landing made the stunt.
04:31 - BoxXx - Nice combo, really liked it. And again landing that ring, its getting raped!
04:42 - Kenny - Nice angle, high, what more can you ask for?
04:47 - Brainkiller - I liked the idea, tho you didn't land it as clean as you could have. The idea made up for it tho, and again you pull off something awesome.
04:57 - Docta Luv - Landing that angle was very impressive. Rhino stunts are the fruit of VC stunting.
05:04 - Ralleee - Very high, the landing was clean, everything was good.
05:12 - Makrame - A nice combo, using of the ledge was great.
05:18 - Aries - Bonking back like that was great, again the difference in physics.
05:24 - Xtramus - Never would I have tought of that, great natural stunt.
05:30 - Won't really comment this, the stunt was great tho.
05:37 - Feron - Just gotta love this car stunt, its high, the angle is great and very well executed.
05:44 - Storm Lexer - It was a good packerbump, nothing much to say.
05:51 - PlethZorb - These kind of stunts come 1 out of a 1000, I just love these things.
05:58 - Falcon - Normal p2b, was nice.
06:03 - Brainkiller - Well you used that tree very good, shame the whole grind wasn't possible.
06:11 - Tackleberry - Very cool way of putting together a cork and a wallride, I just love these technical things you keep pulling off, they are awesome in VC.
06:22 - Neo - Well I haven't even tought about those buildings from the bump, and I can't understand why. Great job.
06:27 - Sony - I loved this stunt, it was very cool to watch, was kind of a standout.
06:34 - ExPlosion - Great lenght and height, really liked it.
06:38 - Turtle Dick - Ive tought about this many times, didn't land it tho.
06:45 - Plumpegg - One of my favourite cabbie stunts ever, you really like taxis don't you.
06:58 - Bloodyhook - That sign hasn't been landed much, but it looks nice when its done.
07:02 - Kaneda - You crazy crazy australian. Actually, all Australians are crazy. Nevermind, this was just great. You didn't touch the ground at all, and it was one of the cleanest ones Ive seen. Great work man.
07:18 - Kingjad - I was wondering where you would come, and then you just walk in and land this. Totally awesome, your greatest stunt for sure.
07:36 - Daffy - I was thinking you'd get the last stunt, and you did a great one too. My favorite natural bump yet.

The Outro:
The putting together of the outro was very nice, the music suited a community vid greatly. There is nothing much to say about this outro, than it was a pleasure to watch, with some nice stunts. The black and white feeling made it look beautiful too.

Comparing With Other Projects:
This is Tackleberrys second community video, and he's done a great job on both of them. When thinking back tho on what we've been doing before, like XXL, Metro and Connected, they have all been similar in one thing. They have every time pushed the community even more together, by showing people what were doing. These videos often tend to be big things, but this time it was even bigger. Interlocked has more the way of showing good stunts without leaving anyone behind, which was a bit forgotten in Metro. Connected gave back that community feeling, and Samurai did a great job with it. My point is tho, that Interlocked brings together a community vid without having to show the best stunts ever, but by showing the best of what we all together can create. That is what makes this video special compared to the others.

Editing:
The editing was brilliant, it made the whole thing look more like a movie than a video, which worked great with the music. There were no effects that make you wonder how the hell you did them, but thats what tackleberrys style is pretty much. Its the usage of the normal effects that make tackleberrys editing seem so great, because they are used in a slightly different way which makes them great. Pretty much everything was great, I cannot find a single mistake. Great work.

Music Choices:
Even if have commented this as I went on, I can pretty much sum it up in that it flowed together great. You tend to choose great music for videos, and this was no exception. Great job.

Summing It Up
This is where I'd like to be quoted, if you ever would like to post a review comment: "As the first Community Project of 2007, Interlocked brings together the community of GTAstunting in a bigger way than ever before, showing not only the best but also the overall quality of GTA Vice City stunting at this time."

Thank you, Ostis.

[NuclearDeath]

Wow, very big review, thanks.

[Slim]

Awesome review Ostis

[Krow+]

I read that whole damn review. x.x My head hurts so bad. Great review ^^ I have to agree on most parts, especially the song. I swear that song came out like a year ago, I don't know how it hasn't been used, I had it before I started stunting -.o

[Tackleberry]

That's the best review I've read, another thing for us all to be proud of. Very well written and thanks, Östis.

[Daffy]

Fucking idiot

[Aries]

Simon, giving someone a rep and letting them use it as their own is about as stupid and twat-like as modding.

[sony]

 I didn't understand that what are you talking about but now
(BK gimme a stunt, I'll pay   )
J/K

[sony]

That was awesome
And I thought that Godson is an awesome stunter =/

[Rev]

I just thought that Godson owned because of that coach stunt... god damnit BK..

[Cdarmy]

Godson DOES own..

[Rev]

CDarmy, yeah his kinda cool

but what happened is just a bad thing.

[SuRFaCiNg]

This community is like a chocolate cake with some flies flying over it.

Lol. Funny as always.

[_Hiei_]

Simon you fuckin cerebroleso. You can give others HOW MANY FUCKIN REPS YOU WANT but dont fake anything... you cant let someone make a vid (even worse if it's a comm vid) with someone using someone else's stunt, because you cant fuckin fool us.

[godson]

don't ban BK it was wrong for me taking the stunt like barney told me "land your own fucking stunts"
and i will sorry for everyone who thought it was me once again sorry tack .final ok thats it let talk about
something else .I DID NOT STEAL BK STUNT. thx you and once again sorry