GTA : Grand Tour of Algonquin (and other Liberty City Districts).
Computer games often thrust players into environments and situations that allow us, indeed they compel us, to perform feats otherwise impossible in our normal lives: from bending the laws of physics at will to creating and conquering empires in the space of hours.
Upon installing Grand Theft Auto 4 graphics enhancement modification: iCEnhancer 1.25, I was compelled to do something many have never done before. In this virtual city analogous to the epic metropolis that is New York City, where the player is a free agent, unbound by social, moral or ethical constraints and totally free to wreak havoc; in this urban playground where I may do as I wish, I…
…went for a walk and took some pictures.
Yes, oddly enough having installed iCEnhancer, the usual acts one would associate with a bout of GTA 4 were far from my mind. Running gun battles with rival crime syndicates, evading local law enforcement and purloining pilot commanded petroleum propelled mechanised transportation pods (also known as cars) had suddenly been displaced by this far more benign activity.
Liberty City’s substantial aesthetic overhaul imbued the already impressive scale of New York’s evil twin with the capacity to showcase vistas that, for me at least, cultivated a desire to see familiar locales visited long ago (now quite literally rendered) in a new light and capture them in pictorial form for the sake of posterity.
Enjoy! Or the reverse, whichever suits you (preferably the former).
