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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.