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Wednesday 20 February, 2008
Second Game Play:
My second time playing “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City” was much more fun. This time I was successfully able to steal cars, and I concentrated on that rather than working on my mission. If you drive around the city enough you can find ramps to jump your car off of, and if you complete your jumps then you get points. I concentrated on getting points that way, because I wasn’t good at getting them any other way.
I think that it is really fun to taunt cops in the hope that they will start chasing you. Playing grand theft auto allows you to break all the road rules you wouldn’t be able to break in real like. Especially because you have the option of running down hookers, or just beating people at random. I definitely understand the appeal of GTA because it allows the player freedom from the real world while being in their magic game circle.
Game Design:
I enjoyed playing “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City”. The makers did a really good job of creating a solid, and interesting game plot, filled with lots of character interactions. I was interested in the plot so I looked up a summary online. I found a very long and very detailed description of the game that I felt was really interesting, but hard to absorb while actually playing the game.
I only had a few complaints about the game, but mainly I feel that GTA would appeal to more gamers if there were the option of choosing your character. As a girl I think that the game would be just as fun, if not more fun, if there was a female character that could be badass and steal cars as well (the majority of the women in the game are hookers).
I read up on the game, and while it is violent there are other options of activities to do in the city. You can rush people to the hospital, fight fires, or be on the police’s side in tracking down crime. I think that if I were to play Grand Theft Auto again I would try one of these options, because I get a little sick of violent games.
All in all I think that GTA is a good game, the settings are diverse enough to keep the player interested, and the different music options, depending on what type of car you steal, keeps the sounds from getting boring. Aside from the violence I like “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City” and I would definitely play it again.
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