Gta Vice City example essay topic

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The aim of the game is to complete criminal jobs for various underworld bosses. Some of the jobs include assassinating people, blowing up buildings and vehicles, stealing cars etc. The bonus level is called kill frenzy. This is where you kill X amount of people in a certain amount of time. When you have amassed particular amounts of money, you move onto the next city (next level). The cities get incrementally harder.

The weapons used are also a point of complaint for parental groups. They include machine guns, handguns, hand grenades, petrol bombs, uzi's, flame throwers and electric guns. The 2 weapons that people mainly complained about were the flame throwers (they leave people running around on fire) and the electric gun (this kills and makes the body flash between itself and a skeleton. In the original GTA, a car could skid on a body and leave red bloody skid-marks on the ground. This was changed for GTA 2 because of the complaints.

In GTA 2 you cannot leave blood trails. However, due to the increasing amount of violence in our media today people are not shocked as easily now. So when GTA 3 came out they re-introduced the blood scenes back into the game. Now when you peer through your sniper scope at someone's head, you can see it explode and watch blood spurting out when you shoot them. Also in GTA 3, the designers use sex a lot. For example you can pull up beside a prostitute and she will get in the car, the car then bounces up and down and from the outside you get the illusion of oral sex.

After GTA 3 was released, it was followed by GTA Vice City. This game was advertised using the image of sex more dominantly then they used it before. The makers advertise the using low angle camera shots, so that you can see the legs of the characters. It is basically the same game as the others except in another area. It is still a good game, but it just cashes in on the GTA image. The graphics are alot better for GTA 3 and Vive City, this is due to the advances in software since the first GTA.

There is a big element of satire and black humour running through the game. The crime gangs are all derived from actual cultures. i.e. there are religious criminals that closely resemble Buddhists. There is a gang called 'rednecks'. These closely resemble dim country people.

The main vehicle of the rednecks has a radio station playing with a show hosted by 'Tat Lips Calhoun'.