CrunchArcade: Calling out the Parents Television Council for saying you get ‘drunk driving’ points in GTA IV
- May 9th, 2008
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Two reasons why this article, “You get points for driving drunk in this game,” merits your attention. One, the author, Phil Villarreal, totally calls out a director of the Parents Television Council, the no-fun group that, for whatever reason, doesn’t want children playing violent video games like Grand Theft Auto IV. Two, his name is Villarreal, the name of the subcampéon of La Liga this year.
After a bit of this and that, Villarreal plainly asks the director, one Dan Isett, if he’s even played the game.
Did he?
Technically, yes, though his knowledge of the game is suspect. He says you get “points” for drink-driving, which doesn’t even make sense. Not that he “got that far,” you know, to the part of the game when Niko gets behind the wheel after having one too many; he’s going on assumptions and things he’s heard.
Isett “enjoy[s] video games,” much in the same way that I enjoy riding the 7 train. Which is to say I don’t.
So good luck to parents taking their cues from the PTC. They seem like they’re on the straight-and-narrow.
This has been going on forever…people and/or groups in an uproar about video game because it does ‘certain things’, except they never play the game to make sure it does those ‘things’, resulting in a complete flame war and overall pwnage against said persons and/or groups
I agree with Mark. Mass Effect had the same sort of uproar with it’s ’sex scenes’. People who never played the game were completely against it, because they heard how bad it was from their friends who never played it either.
As regarding to the whole points thing, I havn’t noticed any such thing. If you drive drunk in-game, and a cop sees you, he will try to pull you over. Just like in real life. This is more of a lesson rather then a reward.
GTA doesn’t even have a point system, wtf?