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Hip-Hop vs. High Art: Notes on Race as SpectacleArt Journal, 63
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Giving Voice to Video Games
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It’s Just a Game: Playing Grand Theft Auto III,
HIGH ART/LOW LIFE The Art of Playing Grand Theft Auto Soraya Murray I am not a thug . . . but I play one on my PlayStation. Armed with a cache of weapons that would make your garden-variety sociopath blush with envy, I slip into a simulated territory, in the hopes of conquering the underworld that is Grand Theft Auto. While on one level Rockstar Gamesâs Grand Theft Auto series (GTA) is all kitschy, gratuitous violence for entertainment purposes, it is also a masterpiece of interactive design. Arguably, it presents one of the most sophisticated developments in commercial video gaming to render a highly traversable urban space, one in which a player performs actions with a tremendous degree of freedom and unscripted spontaneity. This accounts for its wild popularity in the gaming market. The best-selling video game in America in 2001, GTA IIIâs success was usurped only by the release of the gameâs next evolution, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, which became the yearâs bestseller in 2002. With the October 2004 release of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, likely the most anticipated game of the year, Rockstar has once again set the gaming world on ï¬re with its
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art – MIT Press
Published: May 1, 2005
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