Rockstar's Family-Friendly Shocker

kleptonin writes "IGN is running an article about a new game being developed by Rockstar San Diego. Unlike their previous releases, the game will feature no guns, no violence, and no swearing. The game, Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis, will be exclusive to the Xbox 360, and will cost $39.99." Chris Morris, over at the CNN Game Over column, has some commentary on Grand Theft Ping Pong.

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Electric ping pong?

[BecomingLumberg]

Electric ping-pong? How the hell did they come up with that?

Seriously though, do we need (another) electric ping pong? Forest Gump and the Chinese players aside, I thought ping-pong was lazy enough already.

About time

[schapman]

Rockstar is one of the game developers out there that is at the height of whoring a franchise. It's the big developers like this that continue re-releasing the same game over and over that is leading to the stagnating gaming industry. As far as I'm concerned, they should have stopped after GTA3. Nintendo on the other hand, has it's franchise characters (Mario and such) but each time they release a game they make it a different one. Every Mario release might fall under the platformer genre, but they all play/look different. Transfering the franchise characters to other genres is also a positive. Kart, Smash Brothers, Tennis, and Strikers are all very different games with similar characters. This makes for good brand awareness while giving the diversity in gameplay that I wish more people would demand. So I give props to Rockstar on this one, but please don't make anymore GTAs... it's as tired and played out as WW2 based FPS games.