digitalbump.com | Grand Theft Auto 4 = “X” Rating?
I disagree with all this talk of explicit content.
Sure, you can kill people, but it's not explicit. You don't see gibs flying everywhere. Shoot someone in the head and you see a little misty cloud of blood, and when they fall down, a pool of blood forms on the ground. You're not watch half his head get removed with chunks flying and sticking to the wall or anything.
Explicit sex scenes? What? If you get with a girl and take her to her room, it shows an outside view of the house with some hilarious talk that only lasts about 5 seconds. If you pick up a hooker, sure you see the car bounce up and down, but you don't see any nudity or anything.
I don't understand what all this censorship of nudity is about, really. We have no problem showing all kinds of violence on regular cable TV. We see everything from people dying, guns being shot, to even gory scenes. They had Species 3 playing on TV the other day, and there's a scene towards the end where one of the aliens kills a guy in a restroom. When his buddy goes to check on him, it shows the guy sitting down with a giant hole in his head with the camera looking through the hole. Murder and violence are both quite illegal. However, with all this violence going on, we can't even see a pair of tits on TV. Tits and sex are legal with certain stipulations. They are also very natural and a part of everyones' lives. So why do we censor the natural, legal stuff, but show all the violence and illegal stuff?
Anyway, sure this game has violence and girls, but there's nothing
explicit. I think the M+ rating is perfectly fine for it.
I bet the guy who wrote that article hasn't even played the game. All he did was watch that video.
