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Sep 19th, 2010 at 15:49:27 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2) |
This is now the third time playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The issue I took on this time is Justice. The game does not support justice in any form. In fact, when CJ, the main character, just got off the plane, few minutes later he was arrested for no reason. The cops found money in CJ’s pocket and presumed it was drug money. Instead of detaining him, they released him by tossing him out of the moving police vehicle and did not even give him his money back. If there is someone who have played this game and think there was nothing wrong with this, they should pick up the dictionary and see the definition of justice. Here is the definition of justice from the Kernerman English Dictionary: fairness or rightness in the treatment of other people. The way the police treated CJ was not right or fair at all, since police are not supposed to go around arresting people just because you presumed that they have done something wrong. That is very unethical.
When I continued playing the game, I would kill, rob, and beat people. I could also hijack cars and get away with it. I noticed that if you know how to beat the law enforcement system in the game you can get away with anything, even killing cops. Can you imagine if we live in the society where there is no attempt to maintain justice whatsoever? What will happen to that society? Will anyone survive? Justice laws are in place to try and maintain order in our society. At some point in the game, when the gang members and I were shooting at each other, I saw police officers join the gang members and start shooting at me. When I killed a lot of gang members and got arrested, I did not stay in jail for too long. All I needed to do is corrupt the cops and I was free again. I guess sending me to prison was an attempt by the creator of this game to show some form of justice, of which they did not succeed. Can you imagine if it happened in reality? What will those family members who lost their loved ones think if they see me walking freely after killing their loved ones? In my opinion, they will probably take the law into their own hands and there will be chaos all over the place.
The picture the game GTA: San Andreas portrays, that we can survive in a society where there is no justice, is completely wrong. What the creators of this game did not realize was that they are sending a wrong message to the players that we can somehow live freely in a society where justice is completely out of the picture. I think living in a society with no justice to me is like going to the desert and trying to survive 30 days without drinking water. This lack of justice is one issue that I thought was important to bring up after playing this game.
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Sep 18th, 2010 at 21:28:32 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2) |
Today I went for the second round playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and noticed another issue in the game. The issue is that the women of San Andreas, California are misrepresented in the game. When you play the game, you will see that most women are only partially dressed and act like prostitutes; very few had their bodies fully covered with clothes. Even though some were fully covered with clothes, they behaved and acted like prostitutes when you approached them. Most women in this game are portrayed as prostitutes. That is according to the way the game represents women. This is just my opinion. Other people can make an argument by saying it is wrong to interpret the game in such a way, that it does not misrepresents all of the women of San Andreas. However, imagine you are from another country and you are playing this game. What would you think of the women of San Andreas from the message this game is sending you?
As a matter of fact, I could not go a block while playing this game without seeing a pimp, and I could hear women calling him “daddy,” which is the code for the man they work for. You can argue that this is just a simulation, that it is not reality. If this game were simulating a place on the universe where human beings have never been to, then this would not matter at all. No one will care about how lifestyles are of the people who are from an imaginary planet. But we are talking about a place on the planet Earth that most people know about, and that is a big deal. We have to be careful of the way we make these games. I am not saying that there is no prostitution in San Andreas, but to put the entire population of women of that particular area in that category is wrong. If the creators of the game wanted a player to experience that particular lifestyle in their game, they should have done it in a way that it does not offend the population of women in San Andreas as a whole.
This entry has been edited 1 time. It was last edited on Sep 18th, 2010 at 21:30:47.
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