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edivito's Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas (PS2)
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| [July 24, 2009 09:54:43 AM]
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After playing the game today for about 45 minutes, along with all the previous times I have played San Andreas I can see where parents might deter their children from being exposed to such graphic violence. I think that the Mature game rating of San Andreas fits due to the violence, content, and language the game entails. After i entered the cheats for the three sets of weapons I searched for the sniper rifle, and as soon as I found it it was time to get graphic. I used the jetpack cheat to get to the top of a building and thenpulled out my sniper. I then proceeded to aim at pedestrian's heads, fired and watch their headless bodies fall to the ground. This type of imagery may not be suitable for a young child to view or do even though it is a video game. I am going to be a parent eventually one day and games such as San Andreas would worry me if my 8 year old way playing it. Another example of the violence I pursued while playing the game was punching in the Spawn Tanker cheat, in which a huge tank appears on screen. I then proceeded to get into it and run over people for no reason. Although at a mature age I know all the types of violence within San Andreas is wrong and unrealistic, I mean a tank just does not pop out of nowhere, I can see where parents get upset at the fact the San Andreas along with all the Grand Theft Autos can make a bad impression on a young mind.
I believe that San Andreas shows the extreme violence that occurs in reality only to an exaggerated degree. Of course there are shootings, hit and runs, and crime thug life going on in the United States, and San Andreas is a game that personifies that notion in an exaggerated manner. I know that San Andreas is an extremely violent game that should be out of reach of younger children, but I think that it is not the rot of all evil as some people would make you think. I have done all the damage I can while playing this game for these three sessions and yes sometimes it was fun to do, but I know the difference between video game and reality. This is why I think that parents get worried, they believe that games like San Andreas will have their children believe they can perform the acts going on in the game, which is definitely not the case.
One of my favorite aspects of the game is if for whatever reasons your killed, you have infinite lives. This is another reason why people should relax with criticisms of the game because I have not seen many come back to live after they are shot 15 times. San Andreas has a notion of invincibility which is not a realistic idea that i think people understand. In all, I love playing San Andreas because it gets me a chance to do thing I would never think of doing in real life, and it is entertaining to see what limits your character can push with regards to the law.
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| [July 23, 2009 08:29:18 AM]
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While playing San Andreas for the second half hour of time this morning I wanted to focus on gender and sexuality of the game. Obviously, I was playing with a male so I could relate to how he was acting in the game. I started off by just running around the blocks looking to start fights with pedestrians walking by. I feel that in San Andreas the male pedestrians are more likely to fight back with me than the females. Of course, there are those males that try to flee when I started to punch them. I feel like that is a direct relation to reality. There are those males who will stand up for themselves, while there are those who are more passive and try to avoid dangerous situations. The women in the game flee a lot more frequently than the males do. I even marked down ratios of when men would flee and when women would flee from me. Males were abut 1 in every 4 fights would try to run away from me, but obviously a mistake because I would just run after them and beat them silly. The females it was more like 1 out of every 2 would try to run. I think that is a pretty realistic quality to the game, because obviously a female has little chance of defending herself against a mean thug as my character is.
Sexuality also plays an important role in the game as I have noticed since I bought it a couple years ago. Women are liable to be prostitutes in the game which you can pick up with your sweet car, and then take them to a secluded area and watch your money slip away. They dress the prostitutes in a very particular way in San Andreas so it is easy to spot them when you are cruising around. Although this may make females angry with the game, it is the truth that some women have to live their lives like this for their own survival in life. San Andreas is a very realistic game in this sense. So of course, I have done the prostitution in this game before, but I thought I would get another laugh from it so I beeped at some girls and finally succeeded into getting one to take a ride with me.
Although I know it is silly for me to watch two video game characters pretending they are having sex, it does make you think about how people may actually live their lives like this and how I am not exposed to how harsh life can actually be for some.
Next time around I think I am going to use every cheat I have to just go crazy with destruction in San Andreas.
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| [July 22, 2009 07:40:09 PM]
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I own Grand Theft Auto-San Andreas so there were really no surprises while playing for an hour today. I am a big fan of all the Grand Theft Autos, and I seem to always get a thrill when I am either in a police chase in one of the cheat cars, such as the Spawn Hotring Racer car, or when I am ruthlessly beating a pedestrian on the street with a baseball bat. San Andreas is based off of thug life, and the missions are basically your character putting its life on the line for a higher power. San Andreas, along with all the other Grand Theft Autos, have a lot of violence they entail. I always like to use the wanted level down cheat on so I can do whatever I want to in the game. When i played for an hour today, I avoided missions because like I said I own the game and have beaten it before, so it would be repetitive for me to do them over again. So for the hour i just hi-jacked cars, stole bikes, and beat up pedestrians with various weapons ranging from a baseball bat to a bazooka. Of course these are all violent acts, but I know that there is a difference between this game and reality. I know that there are parents out there that seem to believe that this game causes their children to be violent, I would have to disagree because in reality you cant magically have a jetpack and fly around a city as I did in the game.
When I was playing I still received a thrill when I was continually beating up people on the street for their money even though I have done it millions of times. Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, along with the other Grand Theft games are good games for strategic thinking if you are going to do the missions. So in a way, this game can benefit the mind by making it strategically think although it may not be for the best cause. Every time I play San Andreas I try to get the most police wanted stars that I can, and did once again this time. Since I like to cheat in this game, when I reached four stars and was about to get "busted" I just used the Wanted level down cheat and went back to causing chaos within San Andreas.
I think it is a great game and cant wait to play tomorrow to do more outrageous crazy things that I know only exist in a game, and should only be attempted in a game.
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