Tomb Raider has changed its attitude over the years but some men have not (pic: Square Enix) You play GTA through the heterosexual male gaze, ignorant to the lack of impactful female characters in such a world.ĭo we not deserve the fantasy of shooting up male strip clubs or robbing banks? Are we really just side quests and objects in a man’s world? Developer Rockstar Games has effectively excluded us from the GTA universe when we deserved a female protagonist that is capable of the same chaos as our male counterparts. Instead, women in bikinis feature on the loading screen even though none of them are proper characters in the game. In the game’s single-player story mode, the only notable female characters are Michael’s daughter starring in a porno and his wife being caught having an affair with her tennis coach (classy). GTA 5 is particularly guilty of this, with women either being cast as strippers and prostitutes, or otherwise involved in storylines that are primarily concerned with sex. The lack of official information has meant talk of the next game has been limited to conspiracies, until a recent report suggesting that GTA 6 would include a female, Latina character as one of the game’s two Bonnie and Clyde style protagonists.Ĭonsidering the increase in female engagement with video games, current depictions of female characters are sadly nothing less than misogynistic and bleak. Fans have been impatiently awaiting its successor for almost a decade, but current rumours suggest it won’t be out until 2024 at the very earliest. Unsurprisingly, not everyone was too delighted at the news.įollowing its debut in 2013, GTA 5 has gone on to sell a staggering 169 million copies, making it by far the best-selling traditional video game of all time (beaten only by Minecraft). It’s arguably a world dominated by male fantasy, so reports of the franchise’s first female protagonist sparked heated reactions amongst the online gaming community.
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Grand Theft Auto – a universe free from the constraints of your moral compass, where you’re encouraged to steal cars, assault civilians, and celebrate your crimes by having sex with strippers. The rumour that GTA 6 will have the series’ first female protagonist has been applauded in most circles but not amongst some male gamers. Up till now female characters in GTA have just been window dressing (pic: Rockstar Games)
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