Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is one of the best-selling video game series created in United Kingdom. It is developed and published by Rockstar Games. The game play has a mixture of adventure, action, driving, role-playing, racing elements, and others. Its name of the series, grand theft auto, is a term refers to motor vehicle theft. The content is categorized as “mature” that targets mostly for adults due to its extreme violent themes. However, many younger people such as teenagers have played the games. 70% of American teenage boys have played Grand Theft Auto video games.
Grand Theft Auto game series consist of many violent adventurous missions. Each game series allows players take on the role of criminal in a big city and also earn higher ranks with the organized crime. Missions throughout the game determine progress of the storyline. Crimes, assassinations, gun shooting, street racing, vehicles hijacking are the main actions along the way. GTA also set in fictional animated version of the United States in places such as New York City, Miami, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and San Francisco. Grand Theft Auto III brought the game to a whole new series compared to the previous two. Since then, the game series is played in a third-person view and a 3D graphics. Up till now, Grand theft Auto has around 15 game series.
Objective
Grand Theft Auto video games involve extreme violence since created. Take San Andreas for instance, this fifth series followed after the successful series of Vice City. Its gameplay features further expanded. It includes not only a city, but a whole state. Main character, CJ, returned home to Los Santos. He meets his families and friends while returning for mum’s funeral. In order to gain acceptance from his brother, CJ wants to bring back the prestige of family, gang, neighborhood and life. As usual the fighting, gun firing, gang fighting, illegal dealing, respect gaining and many others are part of the journey of the game.
As a gamer of this game, he or she is allowed to control main character. It does somehow allow the gamer to portray himself in the game to do whatever he pleases. To bully, to kill, to sexually harass, to steal vehicles, to detonate bomb, and all other highly classified crime acts. Those staying in the areas that are animated in the game may also psycho them to act violently. The gamers may imitate related actions at outside as if they were playing the Grand Theft Auto.
The objective of this research is mainly focus on the violence exposure from Grand Theft Auto game series towards the players. And we are talking more about the modern three dimensional graphics with third-person view play, less on the dull two dimensional of the earlier ones. We will see how the games influence the teenage gamers mostly from America. The violent behaviors such as fighting in school or even seen involved in crime incidents. All these in relate with the gamers that have played Grand Theft Auto especially the young ones, which they are suppose to be prohibited from playing these adult games.
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