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GTA IV Trailer Inflames Big Apple Politicians
GP writes "The GTA4 trailer isn't 48 hours old yet, but NYC politicians are up in arms because the game's setting, Liberty City, is a virtual version of the Big Apple." Obviously these guys never played GTA3, since it was also set in the "fictional" Liberty City, that also felt a lot like NYC.
MOD THE TROLL DOWN!!!
Setting Grand Theft Auto in the safest big city in America would be like setting Halo in Disneyland.
I think I speak for all gamers when I say this would, indeed, be awesome.
This city is a completely unrealistic setting for a story about petty crime, gang violence and ethnicity-oriented organized crime. This is an affront to the citizens, and an insult to its elected officials who work hard to keep it clean. Liberty City is a finest city you will ever find, and for Rockstar to continue smearing it is abhorrent. Why can't they pick a genuine crime-infested hell hole, like New York?
Er, really? You think that huh?
Exactly what would lead you to write a sentence where you'd seriously think it's in question whether politicians who have no understanding whatsoever of video games would have played a particular one in the first place?
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Hey, if you're going to have your game take place in a huge, crime-infested, urine-soaked hellhole, it just makes sense to model it after a real-life, crime-infested, urine-soaked hellhole!
I'd like to complain too since it will give me some karma.
New GTA missions include smoking in public, rampant ingestion of trans fats, distribution of black market foie gras, and preemptive spying on puppet people.
What kind of message does this send to the kids?
That Peter Vallone not only knows of, but has apparently played Halo!
Seriously, this is a gigantic non-story. The two best pull quotes they could manage say nothing directly negative about the game at all.
Thanks for the advertisement, we sure appreciate it.
*laugh all the way to the bank*
In Soviet Russia, I ruled you
Chicago is a much nicer, safer, cleaner and just better city than New York.
...with apparently a massive inferiority complex.
Set it in the Greater Toronto Area next time! GTA: GTA. ... anyone?
This is why I never RTFA until after I post a comment.
If Rockstar had set IV in a virtual Boston, there's no telling /what/ the city government might have done. Detonate game boxes because they might be bombs, probably.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
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10% offtopic and 90% funny? Looks like you LOST karma!
that's washington, dc.