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Endless's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2)
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| [November 3, 2010 03:32:42 PM]
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The last and finally day of playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was probably the most entertaining. I said to myself prior to playing the game that I will successfully enter the cheat code unlike the earlier days. For some reason the second day I couldn’t activate the cheat code. So I tried it again today. I tried once again activating the all weapons and full health cheat code. This is the hardest cheat code for me. I can’t seem to activate it. It was getting really frustrating so I just when on to another cheat code. It was for a rhino tank. I entered this code one time and a tank magically appeared in front of me. Being the unethical person that I am, I hopped into the rhino tank and started to go on a joy ride. I realized that any car that basically touches my tank will instantly blow up. I also noticed that I can fire missiles out of the tank which was another tempting feature the creators of the game added. I decided to go on with it and just start firing some missile out of the tank. All of a sudden my wanted level started to go up and cops were all over me. The cops couldn’t stop me though. As soon as they touched my tank they just blew up. So I was just laughing as they tried to stop me on my joy ride. I was acting like a psychopath by basically running over everyone and everything in my path. Anyone that stood in front of me died. This continued for a good fifteen minutes until the army itself came after me. There were other tanks that started to come after me. They immediately blew up my tank and I ended up in the hospital. Ironically the game charges me money every time I go to the hospital. They took all my weapons and charged me for the healthcare bill. I thought that this was a sort of realistic part of the game despite the part that they just confiscate the weapons and let me go.
I then decided to ignore the missions once again. I felt like trying another cheat code. This time it was the jet pack. This was another easy cheat code to activate. I was able to activate the cheat code and start flying around all around the game. After a while I ended up in the Las Santos International Airport. I said to myself, is it possible to jack a plane? I went on the runaway looking for a plane. I noticed a private jet was just sitting there doing nothing. I took off my jet pack and hopped in the plane. I suddenly felt invincible. This game gave me the feeling that I can do anything I want that I probably can’t do in really life. I can be a pilot if I wanted, I can be a part of the military driving a tank, I can drive an ambulance and help people, and I can even be a taxi driver. When I started flying the private jet, I just began roaming around the city. I was flying everywhere looking at the scenery and just observing everything. For some weird reason, I have no idea why. In the middle of my plane joy ride, I noticed that my wanted stars just went from 0 to 5. I said to myself, so what. The cops are on the ground and I am flying in the sky. Something I didn’t realize was that the cops also had planes. They snuck up from behind me and without any warning just shot my plane. I lost control of the plane. But I wanted to go out with a bang. So I made sure that I steered the plane into the closest building and right before it hits I would jump out of the plane. Unfortunately I did not survive the fall from the plane and ended up getting “wasted”. Was it ethical of me to purposely steer the plane into a building? I would say no. But I know that it is just a game and the cops shot me down without a warning. So it was sort of a payback.
I also noticed that all the missions essentially require me to do something illegal. For example the first mission was to spray paint walls. The deeper you get into the game the more missions you would have to complete, and the more illegal activities you would have had to complete. I found it interesting how this game gives the character a lot of freedom. You can do a lot of things that are normally not available in other games. The dialogue is realistic with the characters cursing all the time. You can even eat food in the game to recover health or get fat if I want to. Despite all the freedom you get in the game, I came to the conclusion that it is all set up in a way that you are violent. Sure you can avoid killing people. But how long can you avoid doing that? Once you get in a car, you do not plan on following the rules of the road. You just want to drive non-stop even if that means driving on the sidewalk and running over the pedestrians.
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| [November 1, 2010 09:04:31 PM]
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The second day I played Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas I went on the internet to look for some cheats. I found a cheat that would give me a bunch of weapons. But no matter how I tried it, I never managed to successfully activate the cheat. I wanted to get every weapon and have all the money I needed in the game. But I just could not activate the cheat. Either I was too slow or I was just doing it wrong. It became a little frustrating after a while. Therefore, I ended up going back to the hood and beginning one of the missions.
I started the mission on tagging the gangs name over other gangs. I found it a little difficult finding all the areas needed to tag. I had to do this mission twice. The first time, I wrecked the car so bad that the game displayed in big red letters that I failed the mission. Therefore, I went back to the hood and restarted the mission taking extra care not to wreck the car before I completed the mission. I found it interesting that the first mission is to commit an illegal activity such as vandalizing private and public property by spray painting them. I am beginning to get the sense that all the missions will be similar to this in the requirement of illegal activities.
While on this mission, one thing I noticed where the cops fighting other gang members. I was walking and suddenly started hearing sirens and gun shots being fired. I turned around and saw the cops were shooting at a gang member and managed to kill him. His car and his body were left in the middle of the road and all the cops just drove off. I decided to take a closer look and as I walked over the dead gang members body I gained some money and a weapon. I was a little pleased that the cops did the dirty work for me. Later on, I approached some other gang members and a pop up message appeared telling me to basically kill all my enemies. Without hesitation I whipped out my pistol and aimed it at the gang members. CJ then starts talking in the game saying things like “what you gonna do now motherf!@3” It was a little bit humorous to me. But I just decided to shoot the gang members for the hell of it. The game set it up for the player to actually shoot the gang members. You were basically given instructions to do so. If you do not kill the gang members it will affect CJ's gang. So you are basically forced to kill the gang members in order to make your gang stronger and gain respect. Of course you could have ignored the prompt to kill the gang members but then you would not be advancing in the game. Leaving the gamer to walk around in a boring city. The whole fun in the game is presented in committing illegal activities with the chances of getting caught little to none.
Once I killed two of the gang members, I noticed a star was flashing on the upper right corner of my screen. I didn’t think much about it. But as I was tagging a wall, I cop approached me, cursed me out, and knocked me out. It took me by complete surprise. The cop apparently arrested me and took me to jail. This ended my second day of playing the game.
During this game play experience, I noticed how there are so many stereotypes present in the game. All the minorities live in the ghetto while the rest live in the city. When you travel to other sections of the game you can also see a whole different environment. For example, in the ghettos there are minorities wearing baggy clothes driving Cadillac's. The homes look like crap. When you go to another part you see people wearing business clothes driving luxury cars. The housing looks really good. This game does a good job stereotyping everyone.
This entry has been edited 2 times. It was last edited on Nov 10th, 2010 at 22:11:30.
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| [November 1, 2010 08:52:58 PM]
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The first day of my 3 day experience on playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was rather interesting. The game started off a little slowly playing a bunch of short clips to get the story going. I found myself constantly skipping these clips. For some reason I had little or no interest in waiting patiently and watching the clips. All I really cared about was playing the game. So once I had the opportunity to actually start playing the game I found it entertaining.
The very first opportunity I got to move around freely, I noticed the design of the characters. There are all sorts of different types of people in the hood where CJ lives. My first encounter was with a hooker. I was just learning the controls so as I approached the hooker I accidentally punched her. To my shock, the hooker pulled out a pistol and started shooting at me. I had absolutely no idea that the hooker is going to fight me with a gun. It was a hooker with a gun vs. me who barely even knew the controls. All I had were my fists. So immediately started running away in order to avoid getting shot and consequently killed. I realized that the game is very stereotypical when it comes to character designs. The hooker was dressed in "hooker" clothes. Additionally, as I approached the hooker, she started talking. the way she spoke made it seem like she was a lower class citizen living in the hood. The creators spent a great deal of time making everything seem realistic. Furthermore, as I was running away I thought about jacking a car to explore the game a little more. Ironically, the first ride I found was a police officer on a motorcycle. Without hesitation I jacked the police officers motorcycle and drove off. At this point I felt the need to just go wild and shoot random people. It was sort of an adrenaline run. I just escaped from a crazy hooker, and I just knocked a police officer of his motorcycle and drove off with it. This was probably a very unethical and unrealistic thing to do. But the game presented the opportunity for me to do crime. I took that opportunity and had fun doing it. I found it interesting that you can literally jack any vehicle you want, whether it is the cops or just some other person. The game is set up in a way to force the gamer to commit crimes. Of course you can just walk around and do nothing at all. But that is not fun. To have fun in the game you have to jack cars, you have to kill people, you have to complete missions that usually involve something illegal. Even if you try really hard not to commit anything illegal. Other gang members will eventually shoot you leaving you with no choice but to actually fight back and kill them. My first day on experiencing this game was great but disturbing and odd on how the game is set up.
This entry has been edited 3 times. It was last edited on Nov 10th, 2010 at 22:05:43.
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