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I hope the store that I pre-ordered from gets sells this shit a day early for those who pre-ordered like they usually do.
Grand Theft Auto is no stranger to controversy; typically, however, the controversy doesn’t start up until the game is on store shelves. That being said, it seems that GTA IV is breaking new ground in more ways than one.
In a recent news broadcast, the evangelists of Anti-Everything-Gaming — otherwise known as “Fox News” — somehow managed to tie the recent surge in Chicago violence to the newly launched outdoor Grand Theft Auto IV campaign taking place in (of course) Chicago. Although the reference wasn’t as blatant as “GRAND THEFT AUTO IS KILLING CHICAGO, ZOMG”, the suggestion was relatively obvious.
From Kotaku:
“Fox News Chicago noticed—in a moment of divine correlation—that Grand Theft Auto advertisements appear on CTA buses and train stations.
The remainder of Fox’s report becomes muddled. In the intro, we cannot tell if they are blaming the shootings on the ads or just claiming that the ads are in poor taste. (They never, in fact, mention when the ads actually went up.) We’d say Fox buried the lead, but we’re not so certain there was any lead to bury.
The piece continues grasping for a story, this time through the political hypocrisy of IL governor Rod Blagojevich, who had once spoken against Grand Theft Auto San Andreas advertisements publicly. And then, to demonstrate how we should/could feel about this story (other than confusion?), the viewer is treated to a series of man on the street interviews. Finally, we find that CTA has made no comment on the situation but will be pulling the ads (we can assume only because Fox was doing the story).”
This isn’t the first time that Fox News has made a game the centerpiece of controversy for absolutely no reason. Earlier this year, Fox got on the case of Mass Effect for including “full nudity and explicit sex scenes” (which, of course, was yet another sensationalist pile of donkey doo, much like this latest GTA IV debacle).
If GTA IV is already stirring up this much of a controversy with roughly a week left before launch, it’ll be interesting to see what happens when the game finally hits at the end of the month.
War.
War never changes.
DJ Victory wrote:This is my first time pre-ordering…that’s all we need though, like a license and receipt (is this what you print offline from like the confirmation email?)Damn, where at?
Here in Chicago I pre-ordered Vice City and San Andreas from EB Games and Gamestop respectively when they came out and I was always able to pick them up after 6:00 PM the day before they were suppose to go on sale, that was also before the midnight sale events became such a big deal so I might be getting that shit on the real release date.
For those who can’t wait to get the game and see for themselves cable channel G4 is suppose to have an exclusive hands-on demo of the game this Sunday. I provided the link if you want to read for yourself
http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/684796/Exclusive_GTA_IV_Gameplay_This_Sunday.html#comments
Just saw a 7:36 leaked vid of the intro and some gameplay on one of the gtaforums man I need this shit.
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