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darthhawk82's Grand Theft Auto : San Andreas (XBX)
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| [February 15, 2009 04:54:36 PM]
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So I played for another thirty minutes and I decided to do a couple of the missions. I have played Grand Theft Auto games in the past and all of them are violent, but in San Andreas the violence has a gang banger theme to it. For instance one of my missions was to ride around the neighborhood and beat up crack dealers. We also invaded a crack house and beat up all the drug dealers inside of it. We then went and bought guns from some guys backyard that will of course be used to kill other gang bangers. Its funny cause now that I have played the game for a while I notice that if I ride by rival gang members I always run them over with my car or get and shoot them even though it isn't mission orientated.
Also another thing that I have noticed is how the woman in the gang infested neighborhoods are portrayed. Most of them barely have any clothes on and they walk around switching with there hands on there hips. Even the woman in the game that aren't prostitutes still kinda look like could be. The men also use profanity and are disrespectful when they talk to the woman. If you sit the controller down for about two minutes the games camera will change to a first person perspective and if one the woman walk by the game will actually zoom in and lock on to them and you kinda just stand there and watch them as they walk by. Portraying woman in such a negative way seems kinda pointless in game where beating and shooting people is the order of the day but they threw it in there anyway.
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| [February 15, 2009 02:24:01 PM]
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Started playing the game today and I immediately noticed the racial stereotypes that are protrayed in the game. CJ is a young black male and his pants are sagging even though he has on a belt and you can see his boxer shorts. He also is wearing a wife beater t-shirt. When he leaves the airport he is harrased by a black cop and his partner and they joke about framing him for a cops murder.
All of CJs friends are gang bangers fighting for turf. They all dress in a "street thug" style with there hats turned to one side and use slang and smoke weed. In one of the funnier moments I've played so far, CJ's friend Ryder (who looks amazingly like deceased rapper Eazy-E) tries to hold up a pizza place only to run after having a shot gun pointed at his face. Playing the game reminds of the movie Menace II Society. Its almost like a game based on that movie. I am sure the producers of the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas got a lot of inspiration from the movie.
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darthhawk82's Grand Theft Auto : San Andreas (XBX)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Sunday 15 February, 2009
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