1-800-kill-a-cop
May 19, 2008
Dude…if they make the GTA video games any more realistic we are going to have huge problems on our hands.
I picked mine up 2 weekends ago but I had only just now gotten around to devoting any free time to it and having played long enough to form a decent opinion on it I can say that it’s fucking amazing…however, I don’t think young kids should go anywhere near it. Where all the other games up till this point were sort of cartoony…this shit is damn near reality. It’s really scary how life-like it is.
I found myself abandoning actually playing the storyline of the game and just devoted as much time as possible to shooting up the hospital in the first city. I Blockaded the enterance with cars so noone could easily get in or out. I eagerly killed everyone inside and held off the cops for damn near two full human hours before I realized it was getting late in the day and turned it off…I then started to think about the shit over and over again about how realistic it all felt…the interior of the hospital was sprayed with blood, there was literally piles of bodies laying around, so many dead cops that the automatic doors on the hospital couldn’t close.
As a stark contrast to the violence on the screen I got up and walked into my 4 month old sons room and looked at him as he slept ( I know this sounds heavy handed but I really did this…), I found the comparison of my son sleeping peacefully while Im in the next room killing innocents in the “virtual world” sort of puzzling and humerous in a very tragic black comedy sort of way. Ha.
I’m pretty desensitized to EVERYTHING, have been for many years now but this paticular game has gotten me thinking for the first time that media and entertainment can acutally shape how you think. If it is impacting me like this…how is it effecting the bullied 11 year old with no friends down the street?
I can defenitely see some “Columbine-esque” crime in the works using some sort of ”GTA IV trained me to kill” defense. Write that down cause it’s gonna happen.
Check this vid…this isnt even footage from my game so apparently I’m not alone in my homicidal hospital fetish:
