I love the character development from sr1 to sr2 from a cocky psychopathy who not take anything serious to a mature psychopathy who is a sarcastic badass
Near the end of the prologue is kind of like a Spiderman or Batman Arkham game, grabbing on to the VTOL. The playa/boss would’ve done something such as drag someone around in a Porta-can like in Idol Threat. The Barracas van is a reference to BA’s van from the A-Team.
You forgot about the ages of Mayhem audio between him and claymore. Gat: "What's in this vehicle?" Claymore watching socor while briefing the mission: "I dunno...just some, ahhhhhh, "experimental chemical compound."" "I wouldn't worry. I'm sure it's--- FUCK!" Gat: "Yeah I'm sure it's fucked too."