It's a day like any other in Anywhere City, the top-down, retrofuturistic setting of GTA 2. "And remember," booms the faceless narrator's voice as I start a new playthrough. "Respect is everything." In my mind, I know that heading left and then down leads me into the sandbox in earnest, past the church and the phonebox, to a parked Schmidt four-door sedan.
But, hang on. The phonebox is on the other side. And so is the church. And so is the sedan. And now my brain is in bits because everything is familiar—this is a game I've played on and off for over 25 years—but at the same time totally unrecognisable. Location flipping mods are nothing new in the grand pantheon of hobbyist video game modifications, but having just discovered Valps' Grand Theft Auto 2 project, GTA 2 Map Rotator, it's already my favourite by a distance.
