Saturday, March 31st 2007

New York City's politicians not amused about GTA IV

Its clear as crystal which city Take-Two is imitating in Grand Theft Auto IV - New York. The trailers and screenshots of the upcoming sequel don't leave another choice for the setting. There is the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Cyclone in Coney Island, where else could this game take place then?
This preliminary information made it's way to New York's politicians who were, to put it mildly, not very pleased with the whole situation. I quoted some of their sentences out of an article from the New York Daily News:
"Setting Grand Theft Auto in the safest big city in America would be like setting Halo in Disneyland," said City Councilman Peter Vallone, chairman of the Council's Public Safety Committee. ...
"The mayor does not support any video game where you earn points for injuring or killing police officers," said Jason Post, a spokesman for Mayor Bloomberg. ...
Quite a fuss around a video game if you ask me.
Source: New York Daily News
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26 Comments on New York City's politicians not amused about GTA IV

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ChaoticBlankness
russianboyI thought America was a free country.

If you don't like it, don't play it. I should be able to play as many games as I want.

Pfft, looozzzerzzzz
I am an American. I love my country, I love the "concept" of our government... but I hate the people who run the gov. Both sides do nothing but take turn upsetting me.

This "War on Video Games" thing is just the current way to pi$$ me off....
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