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FALVINO1's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PC)
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| [September 27, 2011 09:38:46 AM]
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During my final time playing Grand Theft Auto, I decided to go big. Rather than just playing the game, I used cheat codes again. At first I unlocked all the weapons. After experimenting and playing around with them, I felt like they were mostly the same; similar guns basically felt the same when I was shooting them. I wanted to change my game play experience, so after shooting random people, I decided to use cheat codes to give me a tank. It took me a while to actually figure out how to get in the tank, but once I did I felt like I had unlimited power; perhaps too much power in the game. As i drove around and destroyed everything in my path, I was only able to acquire 4 wanted stars. So, I put in a cheat in order to give me 6 wanted stars, the most number of stars a player can be wanted in the game. Now, not only were petty police cars chasing me, but more SWAT suvs and other military trucks soon took pursuit after me. After a couple minutes of driving around and destroying all the police officials chasing me, 3 tanks, like the one I was driving around in came after me. I tried shooting the tanks, but they would not blow up like the other cars. Likewise, they tried shooting me and I would not blow up. How on earth could I be stopped. I was driving around in a vehicle that could not be stopped and destroyed anything that crossed its path. This almost seems not fair from the game designers perspective. Game designers make games which challenge gamers and keep them coming back for me. After this experience, I got bored after 10 minutes of being an all powerful killing machine. It almost doesn't seem right to give the player this much power during the game.
This entry has been edited 1 time. It was last edited on Sep 27th, 2011 at 20:31:49.
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| [September 25, 2011 09:44:37 PM]
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My second time playing Grand Theft Auto, I decided to look up cheat codes to have a more interesting game play experience. By doing this, I was able to use some pretty cool guns which I used to shoot people. Once the police came and I got wanted stars, I began shooting them. After killing about 6 or 7 policemen, I stole a police car and drove around for a good 15 minutes with only a couple police cars chasing me. Sometimes, there would be huge police SUVs chasing me, so I pulled over, got out of my dinky police car, killed the heavily armored SWAT guys, and stole their SUV. Again I drove around for another ten minutes until I got bored. So I then got out of the SUV and used my rocket launcher to destroy everything around me (including myself). In my experience of playing this game, I got the impression that police are basically worthless. I had 4 stars and I drove around for a total of 25 minutes before I gave myself up to the police. If this was a real life scenario, I think the police and SWAT teams would have stopped me by then, especially when I got out of my car to steal another one. As far as ethics, the violence and inaccurate depiction of police in the game are purposely altered from real life in order to make the game play better for the player. Shooting a cop in the game is totally different from shooting a cop in real life. Not to mention, after standing around in the same spot shooting cops as they ran up to me would not happen in real life. After playing the game, I can see how people who haven't played the game get offended by the violence. However, after playing the game, I totally understand how the violence in the game is nothing like violence in real life. I almost find it humorous that I drove around for 25 minutes with 4 wanted stars and the police chasing me could not stop me. This situation would have ended differently if it was in real life.
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| [September 24, 2011 12:57:53 PM]
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While I played Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas, the first thing I noticed was that the main character was African American. This would not strike me as odd if the character did not have baggie pants on and a white tank top. Before I even put a finger on the controls to actually start playing the game, I noticed how the game developers portrayed African Americans in a negative way.FINALLY when I started playing the game, I got on my bike and rode around. I couldn't help but notice why my character couldn't have given a car to drive in. Does giving this African American character a bike have a deeper meaning of that African Americans can't afford cars? I'm not trying to be extremely picky and jump to conclusions about the game developers being racist, but I've never really played any Grand Theft Auto game, so from a novice GTA player, I picked out those two things right away. Continuing on with the subject of race, I decided to try out the missions in the game. To no surprise, the characters used plenty of foul language while talking to each other. I suppose this is an accurate depiction of how "good friends" talk to each other, but from the perspective of a child, they would not understand this. Despite all the stereotypes, I did have fun following my friends in the game on my bike. It was kind of humorous to me how they would yell at me when I slowed down or I sped past them. Either way, did like how in order to pedal faster, I had to keep hitting the "w" button. To me, this was a more fun than just holding the "w" button, like if I was in a car. Speaking of driving a car, once I got bored of riding my bike, I stole a car. Surprisingly, there was no exchange of words between me and my victim which seemed odd because if the game was giving an accurate depiction, I think the character would be using some of the language he used with his buddies.
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