Where can I find a better place to talk about the most stunning crime game ever if not GangsterBB?
Being an OC researcher like most of you, I've been quite impressed over the years by the keen and serious research that Rockstar Game has put into its multimedia creations. Perhaps a little too cartoonish in the beginning, but by GTA IV, R* created a realistic underworld that couldn't fit better in fictional Liberty City.
With the new (and some already dare saying best) game of the series - GTA V - I'v been thinking about the variety of criminal organizations that we'll be dealing (and messing) with starting spring 2013.
Some of the most common SoCal criminal groups like African-American, Central/Southern American, Russian and Chinese organizations as well as 1% MCs will obviously play a major role in Los Santos underworld.
BUT...I truly hope that R* will also include less visible but yet active criminal organizations in real-life Southern California.
Eurasian Groups:
Despite being often associated with Russian OC, several criminal organizations from Easter Europe are originally from regions in Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan), the Caucasus (Georgia, Azerbaijan, Chechnya, and Dagestan), and Ukraine.
Eurasian OC groups are closely aligned with both the Armenian Mob as well as the losangelino criminal street gang know as Armenian Power (AP). AP members are primarily LA-born criminals born in immigrant families from Armenia or the former Soviet republics. AP began in Hollywood in the 1980s. Today it exists in a section of Hollywood known as “Little Armenia,” including North Hollywood, Van Nuys, Burbank, and Glendale. AP is also present in Fresno. It differs from most street gangs because its members support organized crime, and the gang is primarily interested in making money rather than competing for territory like most street gangs. Its members occasionally leave the AP (which can be seen as a recruiting period) to become full-fledged EOC members.
Asian Groups:
Chinese and Koreans aside there are several gangs made of criminals of Asian heritage from countries such as Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
Members of these cultures began forming gangs to protect themselves against threats and discrimination by other gangs when they first arrived in CA and became commonly referred to as Southeast Asian street gangs.
Home-grown OC:
I personally enjoyed the hillbilly feel in some rural counties in GTA San Andreas and I hope that Good-Ole boys clans get a larger role in V. Perhaps in the outskirts of LS, in the mountain or desert regions.
Let's be honest...someone has to provide Oxy and Meth to Los Santosians.
Having already mentioned the sure presence of Outlaw MCs, many of today’s white criminal organizations or gangs active in Southern California can be categorized into prison gangs, white supremacist/hate groups, or criminal street organizations.
White prison gangs, like the Aryan Brotherhood (AB) and Nazi Low Riders (NLR), control the white prison population, and the California prison inmates will segregate themselves by race in the institutions. White power skinheads like American Front, Volksfront, Hammerskins, Public Enemy Number One (PENI), Sacramaniacs, and Peckerwoods also emerged from hate ideology.
White criminal street organizations such as the Family Affiliated Irish Mafia (FAIM), Contra Costa County Boyz, Fresnecks, Highly Insane Criminals, Humboldt County Gangsters, Crazy White Boyz as well as several blood-releted drug and gun-trafficking clans (based in the more rural counties of the State) are loosely organized and do not all have supremacist ideologies.
Italians:
I personaly do not think that Italians will play a big role due to GTA V exotic location, but I hope that they'll make some hints to it. Let's not forget that Las Vegas, oops sorry, Las Venturas isn't that far after all.
It could be fun to include a bunch of Alderney wannabes who come to LS to impress their bosses back East...just to realize that being connected doesn't mean that much on this side of the Mississippi.
Middle-Easterns:
Israeli OC figures have been reported to be huge in ecstasy trafficking. Based in LA as well as Vegas, Israeli crime families operate out of clubs that have been previously purchased with dirty money made from the drug trade in Israel and Europe.
This is as far as I can go.
What do you guys think? Any thoughts?
