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Nightburst23's Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas (PS2)
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| [September 24, 2009 02:18:39 PM]
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All right so this was my third time playing San Andreas and I have come to a decision. I like this game. The reason I like this game so much is because of the free form and the ability to do so many illegal activities to so many random pedestrians. I feel that this game appeals to people because it allows them to do things that whey would never get away with in the real world, but the game makes it effortless to run away from the law. I feel like it gives a false sense of justice to the players. Honestly I wish that San Andreas were a little more realistic. After finishing up this assignment I cannot help but think of what Professor Zagal said during the first week of school; should we allow people to murder in games and get away with it in real life? Does visualizing these horrific events make us numb to pain in the real world, will us as human beings be more willing to commit illegal activities because we did it in a virtual world. Common sense says that playing a video game will not cause us to change who we are based on what we do in a game, but can it make us more open to the idea of it? Is it ethically wrong for people to enjoy and play this game often? Will the racial slurs be passed on to the player who is watching the cut scenes?
I cannot answer these questions, but I feel that the ESRB ratings at the bottom corner of the game box should be enforced heavily, no child, under the age of 16, should ever be able to play this game. They would learn negative things while playing San Andreas.
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| [September 22, 2009 11:03:41 PM]
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From the beginning of the game the player gets a brace of racial slurs and violence. The sense of the player are attack with curse words. The main character of the game, CJ, is a former hoodlum. we enter the game finding out that Cj's mother had just been murdered. CJ;s immediate response was to travel home and get revenge on the person who harmed his mother. when the cut scenes end you get the ability to take control of the character, which also allows him to attack other characters within the free universe of the game. As soon as i gained control of CJ, i ventured into the street and stole a car which i then used to hit an old man walking by. It was fairly easy to run away from the crime. its felt relatively easy to do criminal activities, and it was( for the poor graphics) gory.
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