It was announced that November 11 will arrive in digital format Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition, a compilation that brings together three of the most important games in the gaming industry. It will be a delight for Rockstar Games fans to return to the streets of Vice City, Liberty City and San Andreas, but we must not forget that all these games were originally released in years where social media did not exist, much less the culture of cancellation. .
The GTA franchise is always surrounded by controversy. His particular and ironic black humor showed the excesses of American culture and GTA III, GTA Vice City and GTA San Andreas They were at the time the target of attacks by certain sectors of society that felt offended by everything that was portrayed in them.
It seems to think that GTA San Andreas it would be the most attacked in a context of a culture of cancellation. His argument is a loose interpretation of events that occurred in the 1990s, such as gang rivalries, the crack epidemic, the Rampart scandal, and the Los Angeles riots.
But beyond those references, in the game there are signs of racism and sexism, as an example of what happened in those years, and -I BELIEVE- is a situation that could make more than one user of social networks uncomfortable if GTA San Andreas was first released around this time.
Video games are a reflection of the context in which they were released, like all artistic works, and they can also portray behaviors that were normalized in other decades – if they are located in the past.
Disney has been canceled for displays of racism in their animated classics; Looney Tunes characters too, but for portraying bullying behavior. Do youGTA San Andreas could it be canceled in today’s social media eyes?