The first video made using GTA 5's editor is ridiculously good

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Wow. How good is this for someone's first try? "Running, Man," is the very first video created with the Grand Theft Auto 5 video editor. It was created by the YouTube gaming channel 8-Bit Bastard, which was commissioned by Rockstar to do the job.

There's not a whole lot to it in terms of story, character development, or hard-hitting action—"Trevor goes jogging" pretty well sums it up—but the angles, the cuts, the use of slo-mo and the glorious detail in all of it promises huge and crazy things to come. Grand Theft Auto 5 may be one of the biggest and best games to hit the PC in ages, but the video editor may well prove to be the part that's truly revolutionary. Grand Theft Auto 5 hits the PC later today.

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Andy has been gaming on PCs from the very beginning, starting as a youngster with text adventures and primitive action games on a cassette-based TRS80. From there he graduated to the glory days of Sierra Online adventures and Microprose sims, ran a local BBS, learned how to build PCs, and developed a longstanding love of RPGs, immersive sims, and shooters. He began writing videogame news in 2007 for The Escapist and somehow managed to avoid getting fired until 2014, when he joined the storied ranks of PC Gamer. He covers all aspects of the industry, from new game announcements and patch notes to legal disputes, Twitch beefs, esports, and Henry Cavill. Lots of Henry Cavill.