My feeling is that any reviewer, movie, book, game, whatever, should give some form of plot synopsis or at least a feel for what the piece is about. I hate reviews that give away the ending and secrets, but I do like to know "this is a game where you play fluffy bunnies", versus "this is a game where you play skateboarding teens".
That said, I may be the only female in existence who finds GTA just fine and actually kind of amusing. Perhaps because it's so amazingly over the top and tongue in cheek that I find it very hard to believe that anyone could take it seriously.
Would I let my child play it? No. Do I think it deserves an M rating if only because the sarcasm and sillyness of it require maturity to detect? Hell yes. But I guess I've never understood the fuss.
The attention people play to GTA and other violent games, is a little like a game of telephone. With each person who repeats the violent aspects, you get further removed from the sarcasm, and closer to taking the damn thing seriously, which I think was never the creators' intent.
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That said, I may be the only female in existence who finds GTA just fine and actually kind of amusing. Perhaps because it's so amazingly over the top and tongue in cheek that I find it very hard to believe that anyone could take it seriously.
Would I let my child play it? No. Do I think it deserves an M rating if only because the sarcasm and sillyness of it require maturity to detect? Hell yes. But I guess I've never understood the fuss.
The attention people play to GTA and other violent games, is a little like a game of telephone. With each person who repeats the violent aspects, you get further removed from the sarcasm, and closer to taking the damn thing seriously, which I think was never the creators' intent.