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- The sequels have another mode called Shrink, in which players change size based on their rank on the scoreboard: maintaining first place means retaining normal size, but any drop in position causes the player to shrink, with the last place competitor becoming very tiny and difficult to hit.
Source: Unstable Equilibrium -
Grand Theft Auto V takes place in a new Los Santos that, while retaining a few locations from the GTA: SA version as Mythology Gags, is otherwise completely different.
Source: Chaos Architecture -
Ed O'Brien has described it as retaining some of the "warmth" of In Rainbows, and in 2012 remarked that from OK Computer all the way through to Hail to the Thief the band had been in a dark place.
Source: Music / Radiohead
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