Her avatar finds friendship and even a kind of love, but it becomes increasingly disenchanted with the rampant consumerism in the game's parallel universe.
With no chairman, no chief executive and a joke Wembley pitch the FA are losing this historic struggle between a suffocating committee culture and the rampant consumerism of the game's alternative parliament.
Keeping in touch with the news from home by Blackberry, I saw the disorder and looting variously blamed on gangs, bad parenting, rap music, computer games, consumerism, moral breakdown, softy police chiefs, coalition cuts, unemployment, racism, anti-racism and the bad examples set by bankers and expense-fiddling MPs.
Americans are pawns in the game of consumerism.
Wright has said that he intended the game as a parody of consumerism, because "if you sit there and build a big mansion that's all full of stuff, without cheating, you realize that all these objects end up sucking up all your time, when they had been promising to save you time".
Social satire and the theme of consumerism are frequent sources of humor in the plot of Crash: Mind over Mutant, with the game featuring jokes about SUVs and the skyrocketing prices of gas at the time.
Like World of Warcraft, when you peel back the metaphor, the game offers a bleak (if unintended) critique of consumerism: once you reach the endgame, you become a character that has everything in world.
"Gay sex is the only thing that's hot and dirty enough to subvert the video game industry's lazy reliance on graphic violence and consumerism," Yang continued.
They'll find instead a burgeoning capital of consumerism and culture, capable of pulling off prestige events like the Games and November's MTV EMAs with aplomb.
