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Oct 5th, 2010 at 22:17:08 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (XBX) |
I started my second play session by restarting the mission I failed before. It ended with me going to a crack den and killing its inhabitants without mercy. The next mission had CJ driving his friends to a fast food place and then killing rival gangsters in a drive-by. Following that, CJ procured some weapons for him and his fellow gangsters from a crazy old man who he knew to be reliable. After that, I went to the local gym and worked out for a while. Then I picked up a guy who was just released from prison; this guy is a total loser who thinks he's the baddest gangster ever. I then went with him to get the guy who apparently stole his “rhymes.” Said person then began a long and treacherous bike chase through the town that ended in a firefight which I lost quickly because I was already badly injured from all the missions I already did.
The character Jeffery, or “OG Loc” as he calls himself, may be a satire of a gangster archetype, quite exaggerated to make his character more pronounced in that. At one point I was able to hear a bit of a radio talk show that seemed to poke fun at American culture, a woman was saying how she had flashbacks of being a test-tube baby, and then she said “Do you know what it's like growing up in a test tube!?” Which of course makes me think of silly the real world really is.
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Oct 5th, 2010 at 21:14:16 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (XBX) |
For the first GameLog assignment I was to play Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for the purpose of analyzing ethical and moral issues within the game. At the start of the game, the main character, CJ, returns to his hometown, and is immediately harassed by the police. CJ is then thrown into a part of town which is the territory of a rival gang, putting CJ in great danger. Skipping ahead, CJ has just returned to San Andreas from Liberty City because of his mother's death, but much has changed since he left, so he and his old friends start to do what they think will help their gang and the neighborhood. In one of the first missions, CJ sprays his gang's mark over a rival gangs' to retake territory, and in another he hunts down crack dealers so that people in the area do no become users of the drug. At this point in the game, I died on a mission and spent the remaining time stealing cars and running over pedestrians.
The police officers are clearly corrupt, and abuse their power on CJ out of dislike of him, or possibly racial prejudice. The African Americans portrayed in the game seem to represent an exaggerated racial stereotype in their dialect and actions. When playing the game, it was hard for me to feel any remorse for the people I was murdering because of a lack of human qualities of the NPC's; they just don't seem real enough to warrant sympathy.
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