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Jan 23rd, 2012 at 15:51:10 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PC) |
For my second 30 minute session on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas I decided to do a little free roaming along with playing some of the main storyline. From past experience with these games I have noticed that more times than not, better times are had just running around doing whatever, rather than actually sticking to the missions.
While roaming around I noticed that you are given so many things in which you can do and many of which are a question of if this is right or wrong. Unfortunately most of the fun that is to be had with this game involves doing the wrong thing. I first experience with this came when a police officer crashed into me, launching me off my dirt bike a good distance. Upon getting back up and rubbing the dirt off I was faced with two choices, either continue on with my joyride and forget about that incident, or kill the cop. For the sake of having fun I chose to kill the cop. Having acquired an Uzi type gun in a mission I had just completed, I had the necessary firepower to take down this man that had just cut my joyride short. I casually strolled up to him and fired upon him until he was terminated. In real life I would have never even given this option a thought. Kill a cop? No way, but in GTA you can do anything and the basic ethical thought process is thrown out the window. After killing him I was faced with another choice, I could either submit myself to the authorities or I could try to escape them. I chose to try and escape. Like the killing of the police officer this is also a choice that would have never crossed my mind in real life. But with ethics thrown out the window I tore off into the Los Santos back country.
This experience made me realize how many choices you are faced with in the game, in terms of ethics. More times than not I have realized in the story mode that you are forced into making unethical decisions because that is the only way in which you can complete the missions.
For example the mission titled Og Loc, in which you pick up a friend from jail and right away you are given the task of killing a man. Ethically this is not right at all, but in order to complete the mission you have to do it. But in free roam you are presented with many choices, some of which don’t require you to do the unethical thing. You can follow the basic traffic laws of our world, or you can blow every red light in the city. You can just drive around listening to music, or you can conduct drive by after drive by if you so desire.
This game is whatever you make it out to be, and can be as violent as you want it to be. This is because the player is presented with many choices, it us up to him/her to make what they think is the right choice.
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Jan 22nd, 2012 at 17:22:30 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PC) |
This was the first time that I got to experience the gangster filled 1990’s world that is Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Prior to playing this however, I did play Grand Theft Auto IV a few times so I knew what to expect from a GTA game. The first thing I noticed when I played this game was the lack of white non-playable characters that were found walking around Los Santos. This might be because of the part of town in which you are allowed to roam in the beginning isn’t inhabited by whites, but I just found this interesting. As a result of this and some other observations I noticed some very clear racist elements that are at play with this game.
In addition to there not being many white characters roaming around I noticed that all your fellow gangsters were black and that nearly all of them could be found smoking what looked like marijuana, and they all talked in Ebonics. Rockstar may have used those little details in order to make the game more realistic but it seemed very stereotypical to me. Another thing that I noticed was that in one of the early missions you are sent to the Cluckin Bell to get food. I found this interesting and somewhat comical because there are many racist jokes about African Americans enjoying fried chicken and the comments Ryder and Smokey were making about the food made me laugh although it was very stereotypical at the same time.
Like the most recent GTA, this game always you to listen to the radio in the car and some of the commercials that are featured in the game are questionable at best. One ad is for a bank loan and the female voice says that she won’t have sex with her husband anymore if she doesn’t get a new fence. Another is for the glory hole theme park in the city which is an obvious sexual reference. Although many of these caused me to laugh out loud as I was exploring the world, I also found myself shaking my head as to how vulgar these were and how none of these would ever be allowed on real radio. Those were just some examples of the vulgarity that can be found in the game.
So far I have enjoyed the game and am positive that more issues will come up as I further progress into the game. The Grand Theft Auto series seems to be full of them.
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