"San Andreas" is progress - with an asterisk.
But black gamers like me certainly are aware of it, just as female gamers notice that most video game heroes are male. It also could open a wider discussion of race in video games.ĬJ's skin color is not something that most people will even think about. Predicted to be a top seller, "San Andreas" could help cut through the notion that the white male gaming audience doesn't want to slip into the skin of a non-white character. Last year's "True Crime: Streets of L.A." had an Asian male lead other titles have included minority athletes, police officers, good guys and bad guys, but no game this big has featured a black male as the central figure. Like Hollywood, video games have few minority male dramatic leads. If you think he's black, you're right Rockstar Games, the makers of "San Andreas," takes the unusual step of making a video game with a black male as the lead character. In the new video game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas," you can help CJ find his mother's killer, resurrect his neighborhood and revive his gang. Many of his gangbanging friends have been killed his former gang has become a laughingstock and his neighborhood is infested with crack cocaine.
It's five years later: He learns that his mother has been killed, and he has to come home.ĬJ returns to a world he barely recognizes. In 1987, Carl Johnson fled West Coast gang life, moving to an East Coast metropolis to get a fresh start.
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