"For the first time you can play three different characters, and yet it's like, couldn't one of them have been a female?" That's where Stark starts to feel frustration. One of the most innovative features of Grand Theft Auto V is that you can switch perspectives from Michael, the suburban bank robber, to Trevor, a meth dealer and gunrunner, or to Franklin, an aspiring crook.
I'm like, I still like this game a lot, I get why it's problematic because I'm a critic.
Stark admits she is ambivalent about those parts of the game. "It's like a gorilla with a cellphone."Īs in previous versions of Grand Theft Auto, there's a strip club you get points for groping the women while avoiding the bouncer's attention. "Look at the concentration on this face," she says mockingly. The couple gets private lessons by the pool, while Michael's wife releases her barely masked frustrations with him. This being a sendup of Hollywood, Michael gets introduced to yoga by his wife's personal teacher. The family lives in a mansion in Vinewood, clearly a fictional version of Hollywood. You can play golf and tennis, and one of the characters - Michael, a retired bank robber - lives in the suburbs with his wife, portrayed as a nag (as you'd imagine in this game), and his kids. It's just kind of this crazy immersive world," she says.Īmong the game's details are sendups of social media there's a fake Facebook called LifeInvader and a fake Twitter called Bleeter. "You can get in your car and you can drive for 40 minutes and the world around you changes from city to the country and you see like wild animals crossing your path.
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Stark says one of the big draws of Grand Theft Auto is that it is a really full and complicated world and between heists you can explore it. And it's almost like appreciating something like South Park, where you're like, this is just satire of what criminals are," she says. "Everything is clearly this satirical image of Los Angeles and Southern California.
You feel better.Ĭhelsea Stark, a gamer and critic for the website Mashable, says it's just as fun. You had a hard day at work, you go home and you run over some people and steal their money. But in Grand Theft Auto she can have a car, and if she doesn't like the one she's in, as the title of the game suggests, she just steals a new one. To her surprise, she says she found the writing to be "incredibly sly, intelligent and subversive." "Most of the press surrounding it was - Oh, it's a prostitute-killing game, you know," she says, "like this entire game is about murdering people and the worst things humanity can possibly do."īut, a few years back, with a bit of trepidation, Hills tried Version 4. Game developer Whitney Hills, 28, says initially she was nervous about even trying it. As with past versions, the game is generating controversy over its glorification of violence and drugs and its demeaning portrayal of women.īut around 15 percent of its fans are women, who find much to like about the game, even if they do have some ambivalence about it. Grand Theft Auto made video game history this week: The latest version of the game had a record $800 million in sales on its first day. This version continues to generate controversy over its glorification of violence, drugs and its demeaning portraits of women. It made history with a record $800 million in sales on its first day.
A close view of the packaging of Grand Theft Auto V at the midnight opening at the HMV music store in London on Tuesday.
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