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Grand Theft Auto V Now Has Its Own Undersea Wildlife Documentary

And it’s Attenboroughriffic.

​When I play Grand Theft Auto V, most of my attention is either directed towards outrunning police squadrons, or to Trevor Phillips's ever-fraying mental state. But Youtube's 8-Bit Bastard has revealed that San Andreas hosts a diversity of ocean wildlife along its coasts, in a delightfully ridiculous "documentary" called "Into the Deep."

The 13-minute film follows GTA's submersible into the depths, where it encounters orcas, hammerhead sharks, kelp forests, and plane wreckage. The whole thing culminates in the discovery of "the skeletal remains of what can only be described as a prehistoric sea monster."

The narrator's uncanny impression of David Attenborough is stellar throughout, but he especially nailed the cadence of the phrase "the head is the size of a small family car" at minute 12:25. An Oscar-worthy performance.

As the makers of the film freely admit, the facts are often way off. "Some people have been saying our wildlife documentary isn't totally accurate," they wrote in the video's disclaimer. "Of course it isn't. We're not professional wildlife researchers, we're idiots who play computer games. Enjoy!"

Along those lines, the short film is an entertaining piece of scientific verisimilitude, with all the beats of a BBC documentary—including, of course, the heartrending fate of a baby animal at minute nine. It also hammers home just how absurdly complex the GTA V sandbox really is, packed to the brim with Easter Eggs both on and off land.

Now if only someone would do a Ken-Burns-style historical documentary of Red Dead Redemption, everything would be right with the world.