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Guardian: 'Games are really quite an art form'
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Wed May 07, 2008 6:11 am Reply and quote this post
In an article written by Catherine Bennett entitled, 'I'm game for Grand Theft Auto. You should be too,'Bennett criticises politicians for condemning games withoutexperiencing them and suggests that British PM Gordon Brown mightbenefit from a session on the game.

"Had Hillary Clinton, forinstance, subjected herself to Grand Theft Auto before she fingered it,in 2005, as a 'major' moral threat to Americans?" writes Bennett. "Had[Obama] ever played a video game [after his comments last week]?No, gamers suspect, given his obsolete references, any more than DavidCameron had last year, when his party attacked their 'extreme, casualand callous violence in a context of social indifference and socialambiguity'."

Bennett continues her pro-gaming tirade throughoutthe article and highlights one of the main problems with both parentsand politicians getting first-hand experience for themselves.


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"With a violent and nasty movie, or corrupting literature, the thing issimple," she writes. "You merely have to buy a ticket for, say, NoCountry for Old Men, or There Will be Blood, and watch it, with a keeneye for anything that might be violent or nasty.

"How differentfor the mature student of Grand Theft Auto IV, who discovers thatacquisition of the game, an Xbox 360 and a working television will notbe nearly enough to expose the sickening extent of its moralbankruptcy. For that, you need time, skill, dedication and, I suspect,youth."


We concur. To get even close to the extent of thedepravity GTA allegedly contains, you've got to be playing it fromstart to end with a 6-star wanted rating.

More revealing isher final comment though. She writes, "Gamers beware. If there is onething worse than the middle-aged gaming ignoramus, it will shortly bethe middle-aged gaming know-it-all, who's discovered that, misogynyaside, they're really quite an art form."

Has GTA finallybroken games out of the specialist arena? We'll have to see if TheGuardian continues it's gaming coverage in a couple of months, when thegame of the week isn't GTA and all that's out is some Wii Shovelware.

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Mon May 19, 2008 6:34 am Reply and quote this post
If ANYONE bans any game or movie in this country, I'm moving out.  Just because its beyond vulgar it doesn't mean you have the right to ban it, not like the constitution grants that right no matter what it is.
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