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Wednesday 23 September, 2009
After a little more playing, you can honestly start to feel for the character
as his mother just died. Suddenly he went from this guy who was already pasted
as this criminal in y mind to an actual human being who just lost his mother.
Admittedly, I took a little too long riding around on my bike than actually advancing the story. After a long time of just riding around, I finally got around to activating another cutscene in which you find out that many of your friends (or possibly family, they don't specify) have also died.
Then it lets you get on another bike (this may or may not be yours, going with the theme of the game it probably is not) and they explain you are in "enemy family territory."
This is especially scary since within the first 15 seconds of being here, you're getting shot at. They don't make as big a deal as they honestly should considering you're riding a bike and getting shot at from a passing car. In fact, your friends seem downright calm about the whole thing.
Even people on the sidewalk are a little more concerned about getting hit by your bike than hit by the bullets. This is simply something that came to mind while this was happening.
I'm not really opposed to cursing in video games, but when it doesn't really add anything to the character it bothers me. There are characters left and right yelling the "F" word and such, and I don't think it's really adding anything to the game. I guess one could see it as "adding to the realism" of the whole situation, but this whole blatant "being a criminal" thing just doesn't do it for me.
I mean, it's more than likely that the way it's looked at is that you are "Doing what is right by your family" or "Just trying to survive." It doesn't change the fact that the things you do in this game are illegal though, and while I've played villains before in video games this is much different perspective. This is way too close to my sense of reality (that is to say, living in the city and such) for me to feel comfortable doing the things the game is telling me to do.
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