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Sep 18th, 2010 at 23:57:52 - Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas (PS2) |
In my second play through I focused mainly on the violence the player encounters.
I loaded one of my saves that I completed the game on and just drove around the game world trying to create as much havoc as I could. First thing I did was go to a Friendly Fire and bought some tools of mass destruction to get my wanted level up to five stars. I shot any one that was in my line of fire and unloaded on them until I reached three stars. At this point I stole a SUV and drove to the airport where I hijacked a commercial airplane. I flew the plane for a few minutes and got shot down by military jets. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas does not really penalize you for doing all this but rather encourages you by supplying any destructive tool you want.
You can kill, steal, hire a prostitute, go on a rampage, and even hijack planes to use as a form of entertainment. The player starts a mission and is given the task of killing someone, stealing something, and even blowing up something as well as other form of violence. The game wants the player to commit violence and rewards you for doing so. The rewards are mostly monetary and with that you buy more weapons to create more havoc.
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Sep 17th, 2010 at 23:52:18 - Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas (PS2) |
In my entry I will be considering stereotyping that I have encountered in my hour of play time.
First off I have already completed GTA: SA at least two times and have witnessed, via the multiple missions in the game, many instances of African American "ghetto" stereotyping. Immediately in the first five minutes of game time three officers pull over the protagonist and accuse him of still being a gangster. CJ supposedly was indeed a hoodlum but cleaned up and came back to San Andreas to bury his mother, but the police still believe him to be a delinquent. CJ of course is an African American and throughout the game lives an over the top stereotyped thug life. All of CJ’s gang members are also African American and also live a stereotyped thug life in “the hood.” In addition all of the opposing gangs are African American, Mexican, or some kind of minority killing innocents or stealing from people.
What I think is odd in the game is that it focuses on CJ killing his way to the top of the game world and in the process kills many innocent people including police officers. As the game progresses it really doesn’t show the player that these are immoral things that you as the player are doing. Choosing an African American as the main character, in my opinion, isn’t the bad thing about this game it is the extremes it takes to include as much stereotyping as they possibly can into one game’s story. Of course I suppose the developers hope you have some kind of pre-existing moral beliefs and should understand that this is in fact a game about playing as a thug killing fake people.
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