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gklingel's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (XBX)
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| [October 5, 2010 11:16:22 PM]
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For my third and final GTA: San Andreas GameLog, I decided to forget about that awful bike chase mission, and went for an alternative. Luckily, the game at this point gives the play multiple options for what mission they complete. This mission involved getting back at the Ballers for their drive-by at the fast food place. In the mission I drove while the three other guys in the car shot at the Ballers, in the end, an innumerable amount of crimes were committed during this mission, but then again, I think that applies for all of the missions in the game. I then saved CJ's brother in a shootout, and since I had no health left after that, I decided it would just be best to throw myself off a bridge to die, respawn, and then have health again. In the next mission, I was to do something about CJ's sister's “Cholo” boyfriend at some kind of vehicular competition. I then went to a man who modifies cars for such events and he hooked me up with a low-rider equipped with hydraulics. Unfortunately, I flipped the car which subsequently exploded, and failed the mission. After that, I headed for the gym to work out. For the remainder of the time I led the cops on a high speed chase through the city.
CJ's brother Sweet is very racist and when he is commenting on their sister's new boyfriend (who is Mexican) he uses some pretty harsh language, so I expected a reaction from CJ, but it didn't seem like he supported it or was opposed to it. Considering his closeness to the situation, his immediate family, CJ seems to be completely disconnected, as if he was only there to drive people around and do what they say. Even though CJ is supposed to controlled by the player, since the player has no way to interact with the cut scenes, he should have a well defined personality, but he doesn't and it really makes the player feel disconnected from the game.
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| [October 5, 2010 10:17:08 PM]
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I started my second play session by restarting the mission I failed before. It ended with me going to a crack den and killing its inhabitants without mercy. The next mission had CJ driving his friends to a fast food place and then killing rival gangsters in a drive-by. Following that, CJ procured some weapons for him and his fellow gangsters from a crazy old man who he knew to be reliable. After that, I went to the local gym and worked out for a while. Then I picked up a guy who was just released from prison; this guy is a total loser who thinks he's the baddest gangster ever. I then went with him to get the guy who apparently stole his “rhymes.” Said person then began a long and treacherous bike chase through the town that ended in a firefight which I lost quickly because I was already badly injured from all the missions I already did.
The character Jeffery, or “OG Loc” as he calls himself, may be a satire of a gangster archetype, quite exaggerated to make his character more pronounced in that. At one point I was able to hear a bit of a radio talk show that seemed to poke fun at American culture, a woman was saying how she had flashbacks of being a test-tube baby, and then she said “Do you know what it's like growing up in a test tube!?” Which of course makes me think of silly the real world really is.
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| [October 5, 2010 09:14:16 PM]
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For the first GameLog assignment I was to play Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for the purpose of analyzing ethical and moral issues within the game. At the start of the game, the main character, CJ, returns to his hometown, and is immediately harassed by the police. CJ is then thrown into a part of town which is the territory of a rival gang, putting CJ in great danger. Skipping ahead, CJ has just returned to San Andreas from Liberty City because of his mother's death, but much has changed since he left, so he and his old friends start to do what they think will help their gang and the neighborhood. In one of the first missions, CJ sprays his gang's mark over a rival gangs' to retake territory, and in another he hunts down crack dealers so that people in the area do no become users of the drug. At this point in the game, I died on a mission and spent the remaining time stealing cars and running over pedestrians.
The police officers are clearly corrupt, and abuse their power on CJ out of dislike of him, or possibly racial prejudice. The African Americans portrayed in the game seem to represent an exaggerated racial stereotype in their dialect and actions. When playing the game, it was hard for me to feel any remorse for the people I was murdering because of a lack of human qualities of the NPC's; they just don't seem real enough to warrant sympathy.
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