The second, more obvious and more personal problem I have with this is the complete and utter disrespect toward women. Granted, they aren’t the first company to use sex and violence to plug a product, but where does it stop? They know it’s too much, they did it anyway and now they are lining their pockets with the results. The public outcry from concerned parents and equal rights organisations only intensifies the frenzied need to buy, buy, buy! Essentially, Rockstar Games is taking a fundamentally immoral situation, plugging it into a video game already loaded with gruesome violence and crime, then riding the wave of backlash all the way to the bank. The first is because the makers of GTA, Rockstar Games, are well aware of the controversy that will inevitably rise with the inclusion of this particular feature of the game. And the reason is twofold.Ĭan we really say this won’t influence attitude toward women? No no, let’s just murder her.Īs weird and embarrassing as it is to admit, I cried after I watched the clip. You’ve gotten your jollies, but don’t think to pay this down-on-her-luck hooker (who I doubt very much is working the streets for kicks). Not only that, once you have been sexually satisfied, you can kick her out of the car, stab her with a hatchet and run her over. The video showed a sequence played in “first person view”, where you can actually invite a prostitute into your car, select the amount of money you wish to offer for her services and then watch the chosen acts performed. I put up a vague protest, but eventually forgot all about it.įast forward to a few days ago when I watched a preview clip circulating the internet of the new Grand Theft Auto game. I was never a fan of this video game when the first version came out after hearing that players could (virtually) murder prostitutes.
0 kommentar(er)
