{"id":297,"date":"2008-05-14T08:36:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T00:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=297"},"modified":"2008-05-14T08:36:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T00:36:56","slug":"gta-iv-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2008\/05\/14\/gta-iv-education\/","title":{"rendered":"GTA IV = education (!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, after completing a review of Civilization IV as an education game<\/a> alongside a colleague at work for the other blog<\/a> I write for, I was asked to consider writing another educational game review, but this time for GTA IV<\/a>. Yep, you read that right. No kidding.<\/p>\n

This is going to be, putting it mildly, challenging. I’m not new to having to write hard sell documents. I used to write six or seven 20-30 page examination moderation reports every year to examination syndicates at Oxford and Cambridge explaining and then persuading them why students below a certain mark range should pass in a subject. But GTA IV<\/a> as a learning device…! That’s going to take a lot of creativity and persuasion i.e. spin.<\/p>\n

For those of us who’re playing GTA IV<\/a>, you’d know the game is vulgar, violent, crass, full of morally corrupt characters, and very adult plot devices. Yep, all the things that make a game fun, but really not the sort of thing you’ll want your 12 year old kid to play.<\/p>\n

Funnily, Ling has been watching me play the game one hour or so on selected evenings. She’s gotten used to the foul language, but she still sniffles whenever I (accidentally) run over a pedestrian. Or when I have to jack, whoops, ‘acquire’ someone’s car in the game to get going.<\/p>\n

Maybe I should get one or two or my gaming students to help me in this. After all, they’re no doubt far ahead of me in GTA IV<\/a>; I’m only at 52% game completion. But either way this goes, writing this review is going to be a lot of fun.:)<\/p>\n

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The game’s hero, Niko Bellic, likely before he offs some unlucky dude. Picture from Gamespot.
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Well, after completing a review of Civilization IV as an education game alongside a colleague at work for the other blog I write for, I was asked to consider writing another educational game review, but this time for GTA IV.<\/p>\n

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