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GTA IV Trailer Inflames Big Apple Politicians

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-on-our-watch dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Up in arms? by EveryNickIsTaken · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just realized.. The submitter created this story in order to generate traffic to his site. Good work, assclown.

  2. Re:Up in arms? by tomstdenis · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yup. Could the /. editors stop these nonsense advertisement ploys? Good lord...

    Tom

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  3. Re:Politicians. by The+PS3+Will+Fail · · Score: 5, Informative
    No one was outraged.

    "Setting Grand Theft Auto in the safest big city in America would be like setting Halo in Disneyland."
    No outrage there - just a politician answering a question asked by a reporter. He was spinning the question to point out how safe NYC is. There was no outrage.

    "The mayor does not support any video game where you earn points for injuring or killing police officers."
    This quip shows no signs of outrage either.
  4. Re:Up in arms? by gorbachev · · Score: 2, Informative

    Uh, no.

    GamePolitics.com is a site that covers video game stories that touch on politics. This is a story that was created elsewhere (like the first poster mentioned) and is exactly the sort of a story GamePolitics.com covers.

    They don't need the /. traffic, they get plenty without.

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  5. Re:Safest? by Pink+Tinkletini · · Score: 4, Informative

    Chicago's a much nicer place than New York in a lot of ways, and even more forward-thinking—the greenroofs movement in private development, for example—but New York is still the safest big city in the country according to the FBI's comprehensive crime statistics, as it has been for many years. It's safer than most suburbs too, for that matter, thanks to its population density.

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  6. Re:Wait. . . by PipOC · · Score: 4, Informative

    GTA 3, VC, and SA used the same engine, and are thus from the same generation, kind of like episodic content, while still being full length games. GTA 4 has a new game engine so it's a different generation. Though this distinction wasn't really maintained in GTA 1 and 2, as they used the same engine, as well as there being another game London 1969 between them.

  7. Re:The news poster hasn't played GTA3 either... by bobstevens_took_my_n · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, it's somewhat obvious that the news poster hasn't played GTA3 either, because if he had he'd have known it wasn't based in Liberty City.

    Maybe you haven't either? (See http://www.ebgames.com/product.asp?product_id=9382 42)

    There is one game GTA3, it is set in Liberty City. It has two offshoots... GTA:Vice City and GTA:San Andreas, which I have not played, but gather from the titles that they are not set in Liberty City.