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chautemoc | September 25, 2008 | News | DS

Yesterday it was predicted the drug dealing minigame announced for Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars would cause something of a media frenzy, and it came true, though maybe a little sooner than expected.

Tabloid journalism outlet The Sun has posted something on their website which features charities blasting the game, and cites "experts" (editors?) who say the final version will be less explicit than stated (despite Rockstar saying Nintendo is fine with it, and they will not be softening the game).

The Chinatown Wars adventure for the family-friendly Nintendo DS console lets players earn cash by learning where to sell six types of drug.

The plans for the game were blasted by charities.

Darren Gold of charity Drugsline said: Anything using drug-dealing as entertainment is sending out the wrong message.

Glamorisation doesnt help our work trying to educate kids of the dangers of substance misuse.

The game has not yet got a release date or been put before censors.

Experts predict the final edition is unlikely to feature explicit criminality.

But Dan Houser, chief of game developer Rockstar, told the new issue of Edge magazine: It cant be softened to make it family-friendly thats not the game were making.

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Final Blade | September 25, 2008

_{Well its GTA, its always fast for that game.}
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Daigoji_Gai | September 25, 2008

Even with Thompson gone, the madness remains... *sigh* lol.
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Kanon_fan | September 25, 2008

Oh for the love of.

The game has 18+ or M or whatever on the box. If kids who shouldn't be allowed to play it technically get 'influenced' by this, I'll eat my foot.

Bunch of *bleep*ing *bleep*s all of them
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  Daigoji_Gai | September 25, 2008
  
  Probably rude for me to say, but it is amazing what we must suffer as gamers because people don't read, don't know about store policies against selling M games to minors, AND that want our entertainment compromised because there are people out there that don't know how to raise their children...
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Sphinx | September 25, 2008

Haha, The Sun cracks me up, that article is so pitifully poorly written, and so obviously an ignorant and uneducated attempt at rousing a bit of Daily Mail-esque moral outrage (somewhat ironic coming from The Sun which is hardly the moral compass of Great Britain). I don't see why they are kicking up such a fuss particularly because it is on the DS which is a "family friendly" console. All consoles have bucketloads of shit kiddie games, that doesn't mean that developers shouldn't be allowed to created games with more mature content. Besides, its a stupid argument.