Urban Environments
In the video game Watch Dogs, the city of Chicago is the main environment the players inhabit. The complex history of racial segregation and crime in the city is simplified and reduced to something trivial. According to writer Arthur Gies, “the city of Chicago has an incredibly complicated, difficult history with race, discrimination and segregation. This is a difficult subject to explore in any kind of entertainment. But Watch Dogs’ portrayal of Chicago’s racial divide seems potentially tone-deaf.”
The environments of games should be as developed as the players themselves, but in most cases characters are not that developed either. This can be seen in many urban crime games.
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