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DEMON1CREAPER's Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas (PS2)
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| [September 21, 2010 10:02:05 PM]
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This is my third entry for GTA: SA and this being my third play through it has sparked the reason why l liked to play it. Basically it has to do with GTA’s controversial content, whether that is murder, stealing, or just simply driving around in a pimped out car.
I was free roaming in Los Santos and driving in a Remington. I ran some people over sadly it is wrong but in a game it is oddly fun. (On a side note I have played GTA 1 and 2, both of those games gave actual points for running people over with a car.) After I received a one star warrant level I started to evade the police but in the process ran more people over, resulting in a two star warrant level. I entered the expressway and noticed two squad cars trying to perform a pit maneuver on my Remington, I pulled out a pistol and shot their front tires out and laughed as they rammed into a delivery van. Continuing on the expressway to no particular destination I needed a new car as mine was emitting black smoke from the hood of the car. I noticed a taxi and hijacked the car and sped off. This resulted in a three star warrant level. I pulled of the expressway and shortly after I realized there was a road block on the street. All my tires were blown out and I shootout ensued resulting in the policemen’s death. I grabbed a S.W.A.T. van and continued on the street to a friendly fire for some ammunition. The cashier pulled a shotgun on me and barely killed him just as a customer shot me in the back with a pistol. Now I spawned at the Hospital and hijacked an Ambulance, driving off without anyone noticing I decided to complete a few side missions. Sadly I did not reach the destination in time, and decided to try to recover some gang turf instead. After I took back what was rightfully Grove Street’s turf, I decided to treat CJ’s girlfriend to some Cluckn’ Bell. Afterwards I headed back to her place for some “Coffee” and drove back to CJ’s house completing my play through for the day.
I really did not complete much except for some more mayhem but in my opinion that is what made the Grand Theft Auto series so successful. Sure there are many immoral things done in GTA, but that is what makes it so successful. Every controversial element in the game that is talked about in the media is more advertising for the game, no matter how gruesome or wrong it might be. For example, the Hot Coffee controversy was a gross MOD that was added to the game by some perverted hacker but it made people talk. Hot Coffee was not even Rockstar’s fault it did what every company does in the circumstance, it fixed it. No matter the immoral and unethical themes that are in the game it is still a cash producer and will be around until it doesn’t any more. Is it wrong that the main character is African American and is stereotyped such a great extent? Yes, and no. The stereotypes in this game are so severe and unbelievable that it shouldn’t be taken seriously. There is no way there are people who do not own a car and instead hijack one every time they see a flashy Corvette or Mercedes. GTA constantly uses themes that are wrong but in my opinion use those to show how wrong it is to do so. Drugs are shown but are done by hoodlums that won’t get an education because of those drugs, as well as murder, theft, and other illegal acts.
Sure GTA has bad, immoral themes but in the end it is just a game.
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| [September 18, 2010 11:57:52 PM]
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In my second play through I focused mainly on the violence the player encounters.
I loaded one of my saves that I completed the game on and just drove around the game world trying to create as much havoc as I could. First thing I did was go to a Friendly Fire and bought some tools of mass destruction to get my wanted level up to five stars. I shot any one that was in my line of fire and unloaded on them until I reached three stars. At this point I stole a SUV and drove to the airport where I hijacked a commercial airplane. I flew the plane for a few minutes and got shot down by military jets. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas does not really penalize you for doing all this but rather encourages you by supplying any destructive tool you want.
You can kill, steal, hire a prostitute, go on a rampage, and even hijack planes to use as a form of entertainment. The player starts a mission and is given the task of killing someone, stealing something, and even blowing up something as well as other form of violence. The game wants the player to commit violence and rewards you for doing so. The rewards are mostly monetary and with that you buy more weapons to create more havoc.
This entry has been edited 2 times. It was last edited on Sep 18th, 2010 at 23:58:58.
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| [September 17, 2010 11:52:18 PM]
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In my entry I will be considering stereotyping that I have encountered in my hour of play time.
First off I have already completed GTA: SA at least two times and have witnessed, via the multiple missions in the game, many instances of African American "ghetto" stereotyping. Immediately in the first five minutes of game time three officers pull over the protagonist and accuse him of still being a gangster. CJ supposedly was indeed a hoodlum but cleaned up and came back to San Andreas to bury his mother, but the police still believe him to be a delinquent. CJ of course is an African American and throughout the game lives an over the top stereotyped thug life. All of CJ’s gang members are also African American and also live a stereotyped thug life in “the hood.” In addition all of the opposing gangs are African American, Mexican, or some kind of minority killing innocents or stealing from people.
What I think is odd in the game is that it focuses on CJ killing his way to the top of the game world and in the process kills many innocent people including police officers. As the game progresses it really doesn’t show the player that these are immoral things that you as the player are doing. Choosing an African American as the main character, in my opinion, isn’t the bad thing about this game it is the extremes it takes to include as much stereotyping as they possibly can into one game’s story. Of course I suppose the developers hope you have some kind of pre-existing moral beliefs and should understand that this is in fact a game about playing as a thug killing fake people.
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