AbstractsBiology & Animal Science

Driving Around Los Santos: Space, Place, and Place-making in Grand Theft Auto V

by Alyssa Marie Neuner




Institution: University of Maryland
Department: American Studies
Year: 2014
Record ID: 2045401
Full text PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/15761


Abstract

With the emergence of videogames came an exodus to the digital worlds created within them. To understand this shift is to understand the human needs they have come to fulfill. One of these basic human necessities is having a sense of place. Here Grand Theft Auto V becomes one game in a slew of game titles to foster this need.