Swedish nonprofit Talita has released a mod to help raise awareness of sex trafficking, using the engine and mission structure of Grand Theft Auto 5.
The Grand Theft Auto franchise has been indulging in all sorts of madcap nonsense over almost three decades, from sophisticated criminal operations and heists at one end to sandbox shenanigans on the other, with the player running around, blowing stuff up, and attracting increasing amounts of police attention. However, Talita, a nonprofit agency based in Sweden, decided to use Grand Theft Auto 5 to tell a more important story, focused on saving women from the hands of traffickers rather than pursuing personal wealth and indulgence.
Mission Talita is a mod pack that contains four new missions, a custom-made radio, and the real stories of women who have worked with the organization to escape trafficking. It was built over the course of months by long-time Grand Theft Auto fans and modders FelixTheBlackCat, with support from Vxruz_Dans, and the team took pains to make sure it still felt like a Grand Theft Auto experience. That includes a radio station with music from Swedish House Mafia, Sting, Salvatore Ganacci, and more. The music is punctuated with facts about Talita’s work in a similar fashion as Rockstar’s in-game satirical commercials and talk shows.
Sure enough, giving Mission Talita a spin is very familiar for anyone who’s played Grand Theft Auto 5.
