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joel.guth's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PC)
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| [September 28, 2011 10:10:59 AM]
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For the third time playing this game, I got a little bored of doing all the missions, so I decided to take advantage of the open world and run around to explore. On my exploration, I found some pretty cool cars that I jacked from some people. I parked them in my garage to keep them if I liked them enough. But stealing cars was only exciting for a short while. I decided I should make my free roam worthwhile, and see how I could handle the police. At this point, I of course input some cheat codes for some awesome weapons since you don’t start off with weapons nearly good enough to fend off the police. At this point, I found a nice little pizza shop to hold up, and let loose my weaponry. Quickly my stars began increasing, which also meant the forces of officers began increasing also. Once the SWAT team came, I knew I was getting to the end of my run.
There are a couple things about this game that, after playing it for a while seem to bother me a little. The first is the amount of officers and SWAT you can kill off in a matter of seconds. When playing the game, you don’t even second guess if I should shoot this weapon and kill these officers. The other is the amount of pedestrians that are killed in just the exploration of the city. It’s so easy to run them over and not go back to check on them. But it’s fun, right? In the context of the game yes, it is fun. These things bother me less when I realize it is just that, a game. All of the killing and the shooting are okay, and most of the time necessary in the context of the game. Like I said previously, the game opens up a virtual world, where you as the player can do whatever you please without suffering consequences for most of your actions.
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| [September 27, 2011 09:21:43 PM]
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My second time around playing this game, I was much more successful. I passed the bike mission after several attempts. Finally learning the controls made it a breeze. It’s not much fun when you’re being chased by people with guns in a vehicle, and all you have is a bike to escape. After completing the mission, I answered the phone and started off on the next one. I quickly got sick of riding my bike, and peddling up hills. The obvious solution was to find some unsuspecting person, and steal their vehicle. Call me a criminal. Lucky for me a cop witnessed me stealing the vehicle, and I gained a star. Not wanting to be arrested, I hit the roads with the petal to the medal. Yeah I killed a couple pedestrians escaping the police, but I made it away without being arrested. I’d call that a win.
After getting confused and running around, I had several encounters with the police, and stole a bunch of vehicles to escape them. I also found you can kill them and steal their guns, giving me another upper hand. The one interesting aspect of this game is that it’s a free world, even though there are missions. I can explore any part of this island I would like, except for the areas that have to be unlocked later in the game.
So far it seems that most of the things happening in this game involve you breaking a law or killing a person at some point to succeed. There aren’t any points in the game where I’ve stopped and asked myself “would it be wrong for me to steal this person’s car?” or “Should I drive more carefully so I don’t kill pedestrians?” Obviously if this game wasn’t a game, I wouldn’t make half the choices I am. In real life there would be consequences. In the game, those consequences seem minimal and not really an issue.
This entry has been edited 1 time. It was last edited on Sep 27th, 2011 at 21:22:07.
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| [September 26, 2011 08:58:09 PM]
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I've only ever played parts of many of the Grand Theft Auto games, never a whole one all the way through, so this will be a new experience for me. First, you start the narrative off being captured by the police just after you left the airport. It sounds as though the officers are framing you for killing an officer with a gun they had for evidence. Sounds like a bad day if you ask me... I always figured you played the bad character through much of the Grand Theft Auto series, but it appears that's not the case, the officers are actually abusing their power and are in fact corrupt.
After grabbing a random bike i assume i stole... i headed towards my house. On the way i passed several shady looking individuals, and what seemed like at least 10 hookers, quickly discovering the loads of money you recieve when running them over.
Entering the house starts a cutscene, filled with an abundance of 'F bombs' and other crude words, which is the intro to the first misson. After visiting your mothers grave, you're attacked by a drive by shooting. This is where it gets exciting.
So far, much of this game is about survival and money. You have to make decisions that will help you along the game, such as killing the hookers for money. Most of the choices aren't ethical in the real world, but in the context of the game they may be necessary to aid in completing missions. For example, i stole a bike to start with... that doesn't seem right. But i needed the bike to get to my house faster. This is a small example, but as the game goes on i'm sure they'll become larger choices.
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