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11 – Galloway – Gaming

Game Studies Study Buddies

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State of Emergency - The RPG From Rockstar Games

State of emergency is one of those games I have not thought about in years. It's a glorified tech demo, right? Um, from rockstar. The game is rife with absurdities and excesses and in no way accurately depicts the brutal realities of urban violence. In that sense, it fails miserably at realism. That also retains a realist core. While the game is more or less realistically rendered, its connection to realism assumed primarily in the representation of marginalized communities,. disenfranchised youth, hackers, ethnic minorities and so on.

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