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kylewilkin's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2)
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| [October 5, 2010 01:11:09 PM]
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For my third and final day of playing Grand theft auto San Andreas I choose to test out the police reaction to crime. The police of San Andreas do not seem to care about people because unless they see you or over ten people are killed they do not react to crimes. They do, however, react to explosions even if no one is killed. If even one grenade or Molotov cocktail is thrown the warrant level goes up to one star. To move beyond one star a major mass slaughter is needed or just the killing of one cop. The reaction from police does not increase much with two stars. With one star they barely chase you, if at all. With two stars the chase is noticeable but the amount of police is not significant. It is also notable that with either one or two stars if you run away long enough police interest will slowly wane and the stars will disappear. With three stars, which comes by killing a few cops (3-10), the police attention grows significantly in both rate of the chase and police officers involved in the chase. Helicopters with snipers also join the chase at three stars. With the amount of heath in the main character it is difficult to move above three stars. The only way I found possible is to find a spot where you are elevated with a roof over your head. This way it is difficult to be shot from the helicopters or the ground police force. Once the spot is found the helicopters can be taken out easily and the ground force is not much of a threat. Once four stars are reached the only noticeable difference is the number of police on the ground and helicopters in the sky. I was not able to achieve a criminal status above four stars. From the police reaction to crimes in San Andreas it is apparent that the only thing the police are programmed to care about are other police officers.
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| [October 4, 2010 04:04:47 PM]
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*did not put this in the correct spot. Should have been posted last Thursday but I put it under open gamelogs instead of a diary submission. To verify submission date you can check under my open gamelogs.
The beginning of the game seemed to be based on the "morality" implemented in the low income urban area. They value bravery and loyalty more than “doing the right thing” according to the game. The main character was looked down upon for leaving the “hood” when times got tough. It seems the main purpose of the game is to get his “street cred” back. I don’t know how accurately the game is displaying life in the hood, but it is interesting to see what life might be like with a different set of moral guidelines.
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| [October 4, 2010 03:50:08 PM]
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For my second day of playing I decided not to use the story mode. I choose to do this because I had to play in the gaming lab and had no saved data so I would have been playing the same missions. Instead I choose to test the “ethics” of the people in the game. I had the playable character stay in a semi limited area and punch specific non-playable characters to see whether they would run or fight back; and if they fought back if they had a weapon. The areas I stayed at were the beginning, around the hospital (as I found myself there a lot) and the beach. The most violent characters in the game were the young women dressed provocatively. The race did not seem to make a difference but clothing did. The young Latina woman in the red top and the young Caucasian woman in the plaid mini skirt did not run away once and had a weapon exactly fifty percent of the time. The male on the beach with green shorts also did not run away once, however, he never brandished a weapon. The only other people I was able to consistently find were the young male with a collared blue striped shirt and the female in a black pant suit. Both ran one third of the time and never had a weapon.
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