Tuesday, April 29, 2008

First Blockbuster of the Summer

comes out quite early this year, today, and its not even available in theatres. I'm talking about Grand Theft Auto 4 of course which is expected to pull in 400 million dollars this week alone. Pretty eyebrow raising, you know what else is? The marketing campagin being used. The following video is a trailer put out by the company Rockstar itself highlighting the more salacious [misogynistic] aspects of the game.

All I could think of is, ummmmm where's Yoshi? Needless to say gaming has come a long way from the days of Mario and Sonic. Now to be fair to the game, it is not a goal or objective that you have to say go to strip clubs, hire hookers and then kill them, but it is a possibility as a player. What makes it trashy is that they market these aspects in hopes to drive up sales [it will]

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