Thursday, July 21, 2005

More GTA: San Andreas Fallout

Now they are slapping an A (Adult) rating on the game. This is the stupid part that I keep reading in these hit pieces against the game:

Walker's explanation did little to mollify critics, who point to the "Grand Theft Auto" series to highlight the issue of violence and sexuality in video games. The games celebrate nihilistic killing, and Take-Two has reveled in its image as the bad boy of a $25-billion global game industry that's trying to gain respectability to match its profits.

Um, the game doesn't celebrate nihilistic killing. You really aren't forced to kill people to score points like in a game like 25 to Life. And the funny thing about all this is they slapped the game with this A rating only after the sex scenes were revealed. The nihilistic killing only gave the game a M-rating.

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