analysis of a video game

Analysis of Grand Theft Auto 

Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is an action-adventure video game created by David Jones and Mike Dailly;the later titles of which were created by brothers Dan and Sam Houser, Leslie Benzies and Aaron Garbut. It is primarily developed by Rockstar North, and published by Rockstar Games. The name of the series references the term used in the US for motor vehicle theft.

Rockstar used trailers to market GTA IV , the trailers were roughly around 1 minute where they reveal the next part in the storyline and occasional reveal new features for example, Rockstar has stated that all the trailer's footage is in high-definition 720p. Trailer one was called "Things Will Be Different “and features the main protagonist Niko Bellic, who has a brief monologue: "Life is complicated. I killed people, smuggled people, sold people. Perhaps here, things will be different." this reveals the storyline. Next, trailer 2 reveals the new features such as new gun and explosion effects and demonstrates the increased force of the police, this may interest the audience as it shows them there is a difference from this version to the one before. Trailer 3: "Move Up, Ladies" and Trailer 4: "Good Lord, What Are You Doing?" AKA "Everyone's a Rat"also reveals more about the storyline and hints at missions to come, this may leave the audience guessing therefore they may buy the game to find out what happens as they have been left on a cliff hanger.Rockstar also used a box are unveiling to promote their new game to their franchise and a series of teasers that revealed new characters and effects.

In GTA all of the "bad guys" are of a foreign ethnicity, such as Russian, Serbian and Albanians. This creates a problem as they use a stereotype all of the races above are gangsters. Rockstar may have done this because this is a less known stereotype then "all black people are criminals”, if GTA used this stereotype instead it would have caused major controversy. Furthermore, in the game Grand Theft Auto fails to give women a strong roll, they are normal seen as girlfriends or prostates and hardy ever feature in the game itself, to add to this you can sexually assault and abuse female characters in the game. This shows that the game itself has a lack of respect for women as they are only see when they are being abused or playing a tiny roll in the narrative.

Additionally, the goal of GTA is to have the best, cars, houses and the most amount of money, this is achieved by completing missions and playing with others online, the missions are made up of killing certain people and robbing certain places, by doing this you will level up .e game is the online multiplayer mode of Grand Theft Auto. Set within the fictional state, Grand Theft Auto Online allows up to 30 players to explore the open world and engage in cooperative or competitive game matches. The open world design lets players freely roam San Andreas, which includes open countryside and the fictional city of Los Santos.

Furthermore,GTA follows a postmodernism video game as it parodies new your for example the instead of the statue of liberty holding a flame its holding a Starbucks cup , suggesting that Starbucks is taking over the world, this is a obvious use of intertextuality.

Despite the fact that the game is set in the USA it is actually made by British video game developer DMA Design began the series in 1997. As of 2014, it has eleven stand-alone games and four expansion packs. The game its self was produced by using motion capture of face and body movements, also the team creating the game worked closely by sampling  and incorporating each others ideas. Therefore , when the game was re-release a first person view was added along side the third person view.

In conclusion, Grand theft auto is controversial game that allows its audience escape according to reviews.