Grove Street for Life! Those I ride with, I die with…

3. Fresh out tha Clink, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

As a person of color and a non-white ethnicity (take your pick), GTA: San Andreas was the first game, at that time in my life, I played where the protagonist wasn’t on the Wonder Bread spectrum. Sure other games tried to have some ethic characters but often those were RPGs which required you play as an Elf, Dwarf, or Goblin or some other “creature” to get the skin color to change. I like that you join the main character right out of jail and almost immediately are thrown back on the streets.

Why can’t you be my girlfriend? Please…?

I liked the realism of the cycle of poverty and jail. What happens to CJ in the game can happen to people in real life to extent. He’s a man who’s jailed for a crime he didn’t commit then when he goes back to his hood his friends and family have fallen apart and he must step in to be the leader.

 My Ranking: 4/5     Great story and  A- on execution.