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Sep 24th, 2009 at 13:14:41 - Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas (PS2) |
For my third session I decided to start from the beginning with a new game to refresh myself on the overall story. I watched all of the cut scenes carefully and really tried to think hard about what I was having my character do as I played through the opening “missions” and got to know my character and his friends better.
I guess I was either naive when I was younger or just didn’t pay any attention, but I never realized how many racial stereotypes this game enforced in just the first 30 minutes that you play it. To begin with you are the stereotypical African American male, who lives in the ghetto and is deeply involved with gang violence. You also immediately meet a crooked African American cop who hunts down the main character and frames him with a crime he didn’t commit. Even the crooked cop’s partner is your stereotypical racist Italian policeman, who yells at a cabbie calling him a dirty Mexican.
It might just be the fact that the developers of the game were trying to be really edgy and sell copies of their product on shock factor and the reviews that played it out to be the most vulgar game ever, but I really don’t see the need to make a game this stereotypical. I would have really liked it if there was something unique within the story line that made me feel better about the characters, but besides the main character’s seemingly pure motives there is a whole lot of racist and criminal behavior and very little that you can take away from the game.
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Sep 24th, 2009 at 00:19:57 - Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas (PS2) |
I spent most of my time playing for this second session on foot running around the urban areas of San Andreas, and doing some of the missions that I could find. In almost all of the missions that you do, you are breaking the law in some way. Most require you to kill one or multiple people, and almost all of them require you to do something that would normally put you in jail. The question that I thought of though is, are you doing these missions solely for the monetary gain, or are you doing them to help out the people that you value? Also what is the threshold to how bad an action can be before it is deemed too much to do for one of your colleagues? It seemed like the main character had extremely low standards and would pretty much do anything that his bosses asked him to do. The next thought is that is the character the one with no morals, or is it the player? The player could easily say no and decide not to kill 15 gang members to gain reputation with their boss, but that would also inhibit your progress overall in the game. The game itself is really pushing the player to go out and murder and pillage at will, and in essence break their own moral codes.
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Sep 22nd, 2009 at 23:11:11 - Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas (PS2) |
I have owned this game ever since it came out and played it extensively, so the glaring violence and all around R rated content has lost a bit of its edge on me. I did however notice that after playing for all those hours back when the game was popular, I had been so desensitized to the actual events in game that I started to become annoyed by the in game characters when they acted justly and lawfully. Driving around I would get ticked off whenever there were cars stopped at a stop light that were blocking my path, or when cars changed lanes and made me swerve out of the way (when they were going way too slow to begin with).
I think this behavior was based on the compounding of all of the other bad behaviors that you take part in during the story line of the game. For someone who had just started playing, the situations I mentioned would seem completely normal and wouldn’t really pose any nuisance. However, after you have been arrested or “wasted” after crashing your car in a traffic jam those pesky slow drivers and law abiders become your worst enemy as you are trying to out run the police. After you have been accustomed to committing worse and worse crimes as the game progresses your standards go way down, and minor traffic violations such as speeding or crashing your car turn into every day occurrences, and your conscience when you are behind the wheel goes out the window.
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