Intelligent & Profane Theft

You ain’t a net denizen if you don’t know about the hoopla surrounding the release of Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV.

The last game I played with any real compulsion was hide in a bale of straw from the farmer with the gun and the rabid dog. I was 9 and my Sinclair 48k Spectrum had over heated after a zealous neighbour denied its simple pixelated pleasures, played Jet-Pac Willie until steam rose from the memory board.

So instead of reviewing Grand Theft myself, I’ll simply link to the New York Times who see it as ‘…a violent, intelligent, profane, endearing, obnoxious, sly, richly textured and thoroughly compelling work of cultural satire disguised as fun.’ Which pretty much sums up my life to date.

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