Video Games: GTA:San Andreas

I have not finished Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, but I must be getting close to finishing the main missions.  There are many side missions like truck driving, pimping, pizza delivery and tagging.  You can collect horseshoes and oysters.  The attention to detail is fantastic.  There are video games in convenience stores and a place to shoot pool.  There is a lot of homage to other games as well.  The driving school is like Gran Turismo.  The flight school reminds me of Pilot Wings.  There is a lot of RPG aspects as well.  You should work out, eat and you have to build experience in many things like shooting and driving.  It is good in most regards, although working out in a video game did make me question whether I should be playing video games or doing something else, like working out.  I played the Sims a couple of times and after about a half hour I wondered why anyone would play this game when you could simply live life.  San Andreas has given me similar moments but it offsets them with excitement and novelty.  Eugene Jarvis claims that a good video game has a frenzied aspect to it where things get chaotic and you barely make it.  He displayed this in numerous games, notably Robotron, where you constantly had to move and shoot to survive.  San Andreas has heaps of this.  It also has novel missions and, in spots, interesting plot and character. I enjoyed the Mike Toreno character played by James Woods.  A cynical and nasty intelligence operative, his dialog and missions are great.  Once again, the vastness of the terrain leaves so much to explore.  The variety of vehicles for air land and sea are great to use and master.  Rockstar has once again crafted a game that sets standards.  As my time to play video games becomes more scarce, GTA:San Andreas is time well wasted.

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