The Grand Theft Auto series gets allot of bad press, do you think it deserves it? Do you believe that it has a bad influence on children/society?
My opinion is no, it doesn't deserve the press it gets, also children shouldn't be playing it and society is a bad inluence on society. THere are so many sources of feeding violence back to society which are readily accepted, why pick on something just because you don't like it? Shakespeare, Chaucer and many other such authors are taught to our children in schools, their writings can be very violent and sex orientated, and , in my opinion much more descriptive than tongue in cheek cartoon violence such as GTA.
I'll be buying GTA 4, i'll play it and then return to work as a civil servant without stamping someone to death for no reason whatsoever.
I am looking very forward to the release of this game as i have played all of the games in this series from the start. I have read a preview about the AI on the pedestrians in the game and how lifelike they actually are also the AI of the Police in the game this seems like a promising title to be and i reckon it is worthy of all of the hype it has been giving. Although i bet some parents will start blaming their kids actions on the game YET again but what they don't understand is that that the game has an age rating of 18 for a reason and that is so their kids don't play this game.