I never really agreed with the politicians that claim games like GTA are bad, but I do draw the line at games like "25 to life" in which the player can apparently also take drugs in order to enhance certain factors. Now you know that I'm not the person to censor things, but this is going a bit too far.
I'm not sure where this opposition comes from. I think a person won't easily murder others because of a videogame, but with drugs becoming more and more popular and available, promoting the use of it in videogames would just encourage people to use it even more (even if they do just stick to so-called 'soft'-drugs)
As for GTA, I don't mind games like that, in fact I've played every GTA game. I concider it as your basic shoot-em-up dressed in a slightly more realistic storyline.
Mafia, for example, never drew any criticism... while it was actually just GTA set in the 1920's-30's. The game was equaly violent and controversial (robbing banks, forcing people to pay their protection money)
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