Posted on 09/05/08
An antidote to GTA's driving and shooting
And now for something completely different. Grand Theft Auto IV set records this week - more than $500-million in sales in seven days - and generated a haze of talk, hype and, I admit, enjoyment for me. But most of the people who chatted with me about it, from salespeople at video-game stores to bus drivers and family members, detailed the reasons they would never play it: the time it swallows up, the complexity of the controls, the violence and, among the dedicated gamers, ennui after a decade in the same gang-infested sandbox.
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