Not to nitpick an obvious troll who's never played the game, but its not a first person shooter. It's a third person shooter with a cover system that, for better or worse, does not have you "shoot things the same way you have for only 300 or so other games".
Its also f-ing gorgeous. I have impressed my non-gaming friends and relatives by showing them it for 5 minutes.
All that being said, its obvious you don't like any shooter games since they all play the same to you. Enjoy your RTS (wait, they play all the same too)... er, Zelda (wait, that one has the same plot every time)... bah, just go read a book... just no fantasy since by your justification its all just Tolkien redone over and over.
Why isn't the sex still in the game.
Let's look at this logically. Here's what's in the game:
Street Racing, Drug Dealing, Gang Wars, Burglery, Pimping, and lots and lots of killing... and that's just part of what you do.
So, basically, according to our screwed up values system, it's okay for me to shoot my girlfriend in the head watching her blood gush out her now headless body, but having sex with her onscreen is somehow worse...
Honestly, what this shows is that the ESRB is working in the way it was designed (and it was designed stupidly). You have the HACK the game in order to get it to work. They stripped the feature BECAUSE of the ESRB. The only reason it wasn't included is that no retailer will currently list an AO (Adults Only) game, and boobies=AO.
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Not to nitpick an obvious troll who's never played the game, but its not a first person shooter. It's a third person shooter with a cover system that, for better or worse, does not have you "shoot things the same way you have for only 300 or so other games".
Its also f-ing gorgeous. I have impressed my non-gaming friends and relatives by showing them it for 5 minutes.
All that being said, its obvious you don't like any shooter games since they all play the same to you. Enjoy your RTS (wait, they play all the same too)... er, Zelda (wait, that one has the same plot every time)... bah, just go read a book... just no fantasy since by your justification its all just Tolkien redone over and over.
Why isn't the sex still in the game. Let's look at this logically. Here's what's in the game: Street Racing, Drug Dealing, Gang Wars, Burglery, Pimping, and lots and lots of killing... and that's just part of what you do. So, basically, according to our screwed up values system, it's okay for me to shoot my girlfriend in the head watching her blood gush out her now headless body, but having sex with her onscreen is somehow worse... Honestly, what this shows is that the ESRB is working in the way it was designed (and it was designed stupidly). You have the HACK the game in order to get it to work. They stripped the feature BECAUSE of the ESRB. The only reason it wasn't included is that no retailer will currently list an AO (Adults Only) game, and boobies=AO.