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Grand Theft Auto IV - a side overlooked
By Carl Hoover
| Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 11:41 AM
The reviews for Grand Theft Auto IV are coming in and they’re gushing. Not about the content, storyline or level of violence - the usual stuff that tends to get hashed and rehashed and rehashed some more in the media, I’m afraid - but the technical end of things: the attention to detail in constructing a virtual world of Liberty City, complete with radio stations, operable cell phones, television shows, Internet Web sites and a wickedly satirical look at American culture.
It seems to me the sheer gee-whizzery of GTA’s world, humor and game construction is what draws in fans rather than the violence, language and sex.
Adult gamers, not just parents, do need to be aware that exposure to violent content, be it videogames, television or film, can rub off the more you watch it, particularly when there’s no counterbalancing influences of people or real-world interactions. Still, I wonder if GTA’s critics would reshape their criticism after a (non-violent) test drive through Liberty City’s environments …
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