I just read Adam Doree' s
article about GTA: San Andreas. Doree is the Editorial Director of Kikizo Games.
Am I the only excited about this title?
I mean, here we are, normal people on this earth, some of us vanquished forever to our cubicles, while at home (or at friends' houses), we are given the ability to be the most ridiculously evil people in video game form.
I have no idea what came over me when I was playing GTA: Vice City (on Xbox) when, baseball in hand, I proceeded to
whack the holy spit out of some pedestrian. Why? Because I didn' t the guy' s running shorts.
Seriously.
And you know what? I felt better afterwards. I can' t
whack people over the head in real life. I want to
whack them, but I just can' t. I guess I have morals. Or maybe I have seen too many episodes of
Oz and I' m afraid of jail.
The thing that is most interesting to me is that this GTA will feature three full cities with the ability to travel between them. How many possibilities are there in the in-transit routes? Do you get to mug people who are changing tires? Knock over gas stations? Find cults in the desert?
GTA' s biggest draw to me has always been the exploratory element. I like to look around and see what I can find. GTA San Andreas is going to let me do that to my heart' s content.
And maybe I will get to
whack a couple of people while I' m at it.