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Apr 18th, 2012 at 19:04:20 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PC) |
I have long been a fan of the Grand Theft Auto series, with my first experience with the franchise being the top-down Grand Theft Auto 2. My interest in the series peaked at the release of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and was immediately destroyed with the release of San Andreas. For my first post, I am going to explore my initial impression of the game.
I started up the game and immediately experienced my eyes bleeding due to the graphics (which I remember being incredibly horrible even when the game was released). After searching through the graphics settings I realized I just got scammed for $15 by steam. I can live with poor graphics as long as the gameplay is decent. Once I accepted the graphics, I went about trying to play the game. The narrative wanted me to go find some CJ or TJ guy, but I am not one to follow narratives so I got on a bike and instead went for a ride. To my dismay, the controls on PC were absolutely horrendous. I enjoy GTA: IV on the PC, and I can attribute this largely being due to the controls being much improved.
After accepting that I must play this game regardless of the aversion which I have towards it, I set about exploring. While exploring I became immediately bored, so I went up to a random person and beat them to the ground. Was this action ethically wrong? Well, apparently the game views this action as wrong only if a cop sees you. I was given one star on a scale of five. After being discovered by a cop, I knew the fun times were to ensue. I immediately started beating the cop frantically and then stole his car. Somewhere between beating down a cop and stealing his car I gained another star. With two stars, I drove around in the cop car looking for more excitement. Eventually due to being shot at by police and running into cars, my car blew up and I respawned at the hospital.
Overall this first experience with the game felt fairly shallow. I really didn't have much connection to my character so I did not personally relate to the violence I was committing. It is also hard for me to feel ethically responsible for pixels on a screen, especially when these pixels create horrendous graphics.
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