The evilest game ever...

[Jonster]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/12292003/business/14640.htm

I'm not gonna post it all, but take the time to read it, it's so ****ing stupid.
The language used makes it out to be the worst thing ever made.
I'll give some highlights and comments on the bits I find stupidest...

In fact, "whatever you want" is what the game is all about. Thanks to its artful and complex programming and its incredibly realistic graphics, the game creates the impression of being inside a totally unscripted, live-action drama in which you can manufacture your mayhem as you go along.

People, this is insane. This is 10,000 times worse than the worst thing anybody thinks Michael Jackson ever did to a little boy - or than any lie the feds think Martha Stewart ever told them, or any line in any song that Bruce Springsteen ever sang that rankled a cop in the Meadowlands.

Very evil see, 10,000 times worse than anything MJ may have done... hmm

FOR one thing, the age cutoff is totally unenforceable, and everyone knows it. And cases surface constantly in which "Grand Theft Auto" has been linked to violence and killing. In Tennessee last summer a motorist was killed and his passenger wounded when two boys - aged 14 and 16 - played "Grand Theft Auto" and then decided to go out and take sniper shots at cars, just like in the game.

Well I say make it law then if it's unenforceable.
Why didn't the parent skeep an eye on what they were playing?
How did the get the game in the first place? (oh wait, unenforceable age cutoffs)
How did they get the gun!?

Besides: By what preposterous reasoning can one argue that once someone turns 17 years of age it magically becomes OK to glorify mass murder? Are we saying that it would have been OK for that Beltway Sniper guy - who was apparently in his 40s - to have been allowed to play "Grand Theft Auto" before going on his killing spree, but it wouldn't have been OK for that young teenager who went along with him to have done the same?

Did either of them play the game I wonder?
Probably not, else they'd have made a big deal out of it.
But wait, they went on a killing spree, but didn't play the game.

Meantime, Take-Two is milking this product for all it is worth: Next year the company will even be introducing a Gameboy version of the thing, so that kids can carry it around with them wherever they go. This way they'll be able to get re-stimulated, whenever necessary, with some of the most menacing messages known to civilized man.

"The thing", see it doesn't even deserve a name now.
Wait a sec, kids aren't even supposed to have the game!
If they get the game, surely it's the store's and parent's faults, but no, it's the actual video game that's marketed and aged for adults.

WHAT would be left of an outfit like Take- Two Interactive if its bizarre version of digital snuff porn were outlawed?

Not much, because for the majority, they make games for adults.

Not gonna quote anymore, but it does also get called ghastly.

This is worse than "killographic"

Basically I think if sotres got their act together, and parent's got off their asses and actually took notice of what their child were doing, then maybe, just maybe we wouldn't be in this situation.
I know game stores over in England enforce age restrictions, I've seen it happen, and I've been asked for ID when I was younger too (before the staff got to know me anyway - yes I buy a lot!), but I can't say about America or elsewhere. Is the age restriction really unenforceable, cause if it is, it's not really a restriction is it?

Sorry I needed a rant.
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