Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

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In 2004, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was released by Rockstar North. The genre is action adventure with open world map. The game was the seventh of Grand Theft Auto sequel. When the game was launch in October 2004, it was for Playstation 2. Later on, in June 2005, the game was sold for Microsoft Windows and Xbox. Now the game is playable on Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Mac OS X, iOS, Fire OS, Windows phone, and Android. The player can explore the map. With Randerware Engline, some game objects feature real world items such as cars, houses, street, street lights, people, weapons, and air ports [1].

The minimum system requirements for PC is as follow [2]: CPU: Pentium III or Athlon equivalent CPU SPEED: 1 Ghz RAM: 256 MB OS: Windows 2000/XP only VIDEO CARD: 64 MB DirectX 8.1 compatible video card (NVIDIA GeForce 3 or better) TOTAL VIDEO RAM: 64 MB 3D: Yes PIXEL SHADER: 1.1 SOUND CARD: Yes FREE DISK SPACE: 3.6 GB for minimal install

While the recommended system requirements are as follow: CPU: Pentium 4 or Athlon XP CPU SPEED: 2 Ghz RAM: 384 MB (the more the better!) OS: Windows 2000/XP only VIDEO CARD: 128 MB DirectX 9.0c compliant video card (NVIDIA GeForce 6 series) TOTAL VIDEO RAM: 128 MB 3D: Yes HARDWARE T&L: Yes PIXEL SHADER: 2.0 VERTEX SHADER: 2.0 SOUND CARD: Yes FREE DISK SPACE: 4.7 GB for full install

Summary

After staying in Liberty City for 5 years, Carl Johshon “CJ” returned home to Los Santos to attend his mother funeral. CJ is black middle aged black man. At the early stage, CJ needs to bike home. After reaching home, he met his friends and family in chaotic. There was a debate among family members blaming CJ for his mother’s death. His brother, Sean Johnson “Sweet”, blamed CJ for leaving the gang, Grove Street Families. To fix their relationship, CJ decided to work together with Sweet with few others gang members such as OG Loc, Big Smoke, and Ryder. When Sweet was about to attack his gang enemy, Ballas, CJ got a call saying that Ryder and Big Smoke was involved in the murder of his mother. The fight between Ballas and CJ lasted for long. Tenpenny took CJ away to a countryside and Sweet was arrested in hospital prison in Los Santos. Moreover, Ballas took control Los Santos cocain market with Big Smoke and Ryder’s hand. During his escape, CJ thought that the only way to free himself and Sweet is Tenpenny’s assistance. Then, he plotted to coop with corrupt police and start annihilating anyone who may target Tenpenny. At that time, CJ made few alliances, one of them is with blind Tiongkok Triad, Wu Zi Mu “Woozie”. To wait for the good chance to come, CJ waits in a garage in San Fierro to return to Los Santos.[3]

Racial Discrimination

Although the game has won many awards, the game is labeled ‘adult only’ by ESRB due to the violence content. There are scenes that talk about gang activity like drug, crime, shooting, thievery, smuggling, gang war, and fighting. Due to the nature of the violence, the game has a lot of prejudice among black people live which tends to do gang activity. The association between criminal life and black people were clearly implied from the game. CJ is not a bad character. However, the freedom in the game created a stereotype with black people’s life. Eventually, the player will control CJ to do horrible stuffs like murdering woman with guns, robbing money, stealing cars [4]. The game is made in real life setting. Unlike game with dragon and aliens, the representation of the culture within the game is build based on real images on the street. The cities, buildings, streets were designed to imitate America. Thus, people may assume that black culture in the game is represented through the game content. The thing is there might be stereotype within the game about the image of black people in the game.

The game which was published by Rockstar North [5] was designed to created an experience of unusual activity. Playing as a gang member is something new at that time. The game also represents some dark side in USA which black people is still associated with crime and negative behavior.

However, there is a part where CJ killed white corrupt cop. At that time, the cop tried to kill CJ. The corrupt cop chased and shot CJ on the street. Unfortunately, he failed. That part delivers a message that evil does not display its nature through skin colour. That part gives a balance with the narration of the story.

References

  1. [1] GTA Fandom. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Retrieved on Feb 6, 2021.
  2. [2] Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas System Requirements. Retrieved on Feb 6, 2021.
  3. [3] Wikipedia. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Retrieve on Feb 6, 2021.
  4. DeVane, Ben; Squire, Kurt D. [4] The Meaning of Race and Violence in Grand Theft AutoSan Andreas. Game and Culture. Retrieved on Feb 6, 2021.
  5. [5] Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Retrieved on Feb 6, 2021.