So GTA4 Comes Out Tomorrow
…and the big press embargo lifted yesterday, meaning there’s tons of GTA4 reviews and movies and nonsense and shenanigans now available all over the World Wide Tubes. I was trying to decide which of GameTrailers’ many videos to show?the lapdance “gameplay” was both sad and funny, while the “Choice Cuts” montage involved a great deal of shooting random women?so I ended up with this chase sequence. It allows me to say two good things, namely 1) the location-based car damage is gorgeous, and 2) the city is absolutely amazing; hell, the bridge is phenomenal.
You know what’s crazy? GTA4 is rated “M” for Mature, which allows you to shoot women, run over pedestrians, shoot cops, go on killing sprees, all the regular ultraviolence. And yet the only difference between an “M” and an “AO” for Adults Only is the fact the virtual strippers have their nipples covered. That’s the line. Digital nipples.
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