Rockstar Games: Time Travellers
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 3:02 pm
If art reflects culture, then Rockstar Games is one of the most substantial social commentators of our generation. For almost 20 years, the studio has picked to pieces real-world political, economic and social issues, satirising, mocking and parodying them in equal measure.
Each Rockstar game is as much a contemporary commentary as it is a recreation of a specific period. Though they hop between characters, cities and decades at will, many of the messages and themes within each Rockstar game remain solid - the dangers of patriotism, the corruption of influence, the greed and sensationalism of capitalism, and the cutting satirisation of the media, to name just a few.
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Each Rockstar game is as much a contemporary commentary as it is a recreation of a specific period. Though they hop between characters, cities and decades at will, many of the messages and themes within each Rockstar game remain solid - the dangers of patriotism, the corruption of influence, the greed and sensationalism of capitalism, and the cutting satirisation of the media, to name just a few.
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