The hugely popular Tomb Raider, portrays Lara Croft as a physically strong yet vulnerable character that all players are able to relate to. What GTA lacks in strong females, other recent games make up for. Instead, we’re presented with three strong male protagonists, a bank robbing ‘family man’, a town drunk and a man rebelling away from everyday life. This is no wonder, since it gives you the freedom to explore a huge map in any way that you like, doing anything from riding a motorbike off the top of a cliff to killing provocatively dressed females with an RPG. The one thing that GTA lacks, however, is a female lead. It’s not surprising that the currently recorded sales for GTA V in the UK is over 2.6 million. With growing options to play as a female protagonist, male orientated games may be a thing of the past. Face it, when you think about video games, you also share the same stereotypical view that they have a male-orientated target market however, in a recent poll, it was recorded that 45% of video gamers are female. The recent release of Grand Theft Auto V has placed the spotlight, yet again, on sexism and how females are portrayed in video games.
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