This articles lacks a little bit of perspective, relating GTA3 to child pornography, cock fighting and dwarf throwing.
You can "You can kill a cop, steal his gun, and then use it to shoot someone else" and "whatever you want." but you will soon find the consequences are a few stars and a lot of police chasing you... obviously things go on that people dont see - the odd roller skater knocked down on the street, a few cars trashed etc... but its not the end of the world.
And its retailers responsibility to not sell to over 18s, and if a few nutters in the USA get a car or some guns and do some bad things and happen to like GTA3 or CS or whatever does that mean it is the games fault? I dont remember any snipers doing the rounds in the UK, but thats down to gun laws not that these games arent available.
This is a lazy journalist covering old ground, get ready to buy some cheap stocks.
Sounds like a good thing for us cheapskates, just wish they could make iTunes available in europe ("you must enter a USA billing address to use the iTunes service") so we could have something legitimate to play on our iPodJnrs.
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This articles lacks a little bit of perspective, relating GTA3 to child pornography, cock fighting and dwarf throwing. You can "You can kill a cop, steal his gun, and then use it to shoot someone else" and "whatever you want." but you will soon find the consequences are a few stars and a lot of police chasing you... obviously things go on that people dont see - the odd roller skater knocked down on the street, a few cars trashed etc... but its not the end of the world. And its retailers responsibility to not sell to over 18s, and if a few nutters in the USA get a car or some guns and do some bad things and happen to like GTA3 or CS or whatever does that mean it is the games fault? I dont remember any snipers doing the rounds in the UK, but thats down to gun laws not that these games arent available. This is a lazy journalist covering old ground, get ready to buy some cheap stocks.
Sounds like a good thing for us cheapskates, just wish they could make iTunes available in europe ("you must enter a USA billing address to use the iTunes service") so we could have something legitimate to play on our iPodJnrs.