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JGUZMA16's Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas (PS2)
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| [July 27, 2009 12:20:38 PM]
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This will probably be my last game log. After playing for a good while, I noticed just how much gang activity really is in the game. Wearing your streets colors, killing your enemy gang with out any remorse about who they really are, tagging up the streets, doing drive-by's, etc. Is it ok to put all this into a household game so everyone can see what gangs might be doing in real life? I can see it as being a good thing if you understand that it's just game, it's not trying to teach you anything about how to act in real life. I understand in some ways thing game can keep kids from joining gangs. They can see the dangers behind being in a gang. In the game, you are constantly being shot at, running from the cops, and you constantly take the lives of others. One must understand that in the game, these things can be redone or reset. These things in real life can change your life completely. Steal a car and run from the cops and you will pay serious consequences. If your friend dies in a mission in the game, he'll be alive again when you play the mission again. We all know that when someone is dead in real life, there is no way to bring them back. This game lets you play around with a lot of forbidden pleasures. The player can engage in such things and never has to really delve their actual selves in the game, and that's what makes it fun.
Another thing I found interesting about this game was the crack den mission. In my life, I could never condone drugs. What they do to people, what they make people do, and everything about drugs just seems wrong and useless to me. If I ever saw someone I really cared about in someone's house all drugged up like bear was, I wouldn't know what to do. That's why beating up those crack dealers and cracked up people gave me some forbidden pleasure. Those people couldn't even defend themselves. To me they represent what drugs do to people, life-drained slaves to drugs.
These missions at the beginning of the game I never really enjoyed because it deals a lot about bringing a gang back to power. When CJ goes off on his own into the rest of the world, he see's a lot more he can do with his life. He comes back as a more respectable guy with some cash to do something with. He has a better chance to use his strength for a better purpose than being the driver of a drive-by.
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| [July 26, 2009 01:41:22 PM]
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After playing for just a few minutes, I instantly got the feeling that this game was aimed towards a more black comunity. At the beginning cut scene, I also knew I was going to have many trouble with the authorities in the game. I've played this before, but as I was actually analizing all the little details in the game, I saw the issues this game brings up. Problems with corrupting, rasicm, and gangs. Officer Tenpenny easily abuses his authority to get the upper hand on CJ early on. His partner mouths of a rasist comment or two and I'm left wondering what if all officers of the law where like them. It's sad to say but I'm more than positive that many were like that once. Now it may be a little more hidden since it's illegal to discriminate, but who knows how many cops are biggots.
Racism is an obvious issue with this game. While CJ's family is at the cemetery, his brother Sweet says to his sister that he doesn't want to see her with a low life "esay". Sweet has a problem with his sister dating a hispanic guy and calls him a low life when his sister simply says that he's no better. Are they really the same? I'm sure Sweet doesn't think so, their skin color is different, so the answer early on is evident to him.
The first house I lived in was a very run down, ghetto neighborhood. I believe many of the people that were there are still there. People connect to their homes a lot but when gangs start taking over and people are dying all around you, is it very logical to stay in such a place even if you call it home? I know my dad didn't think so.
Other then these issues, the game starts off slow so I'm glad about that. The first time I played this game, I was glad i wasn't rushed into anything like driving a car to some unknown destination. I played the first couple missions and just messed around with people and ran around for a bit. It was fun for the short while that I played.
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