Rockstar Censors GTA After Haitian Outcry

Posted by simoniker on Tuesday December 9, 2003 @03:26PM from the ulala-and-morolians-next dept.

Thanks to VE3D for carrying a statement from Take Two/Rockstar announcing the removal of alleged anti-Haitian content from future copies of Grand Theft Auto:Vice City, after a furore which started last month following a CBS TV segment on the game. The controversy, which even had New York's Mayor Bloomberg weighing in on the game's rival gang-related urgings to "Kill all the Haitians", has ended with Rockstar's press release indicating: "We believe that recent media coverage has taken certain statements made in the game out of context... nevertheless, we are aware of the hurt and anger in the Haitian community... we will remove the objectionable statements from future copies of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City."

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Haitians??? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-09 15:30 · Score: 5, Funny

What about the Orcs? Nobody ever backs the Orcs. They get dissed in more games than anyone. How many other enemies explode on eye contact?
Remember kids.. by Stray7Xi · 2003-12-09 15:50 · Score: 5, Funny

Don't kill haitians.. thats racist
Kill cops.. thats politically correct
/sarcasm off
Wasn't the point of the game to be crude and offensive?? That's what makes it fun. If they're going to censor themselves they have a lot of work ahead of them
Re:What about BF1942?! by Micro$will · 2003-12-09 16:54 · Score: 5, Funny

With all the WW2 games out nowadays, I wouldn't be surprised if thats what they'll replace the Haitians with in the censored version. Hell, if they did that, I'd buy the game again just so I could hear German ghetto talk.

Ja sind jene Weinerschnitzel die Bombe!

Oh yeah, a Mercedes S class with hydraulics would be better than those slow Voodoos.